Mediagazer: Television must mine bigger data or risk being Netflixed (Aki Tsuchiya/Guardian)

11:50 AM ET, August 4, 2014

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Aki Tsuchiya / Guardian:

Television must mine bigger data or risk being Netflixed — Figures relating to consumer habit fuels decisions across a growing range of industries - and it's time for TV to catch up — In retail, Amazon and Tesco have blazed trails, mining insight from millions of consumers at scale …

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Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / Foreign Policy:

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Craig Silverman:

After years of cuts, big Canadian media companies start strategizing in more sustainable ways — No more waffling, big Canadian media — This has in many ways been a horrible summer for big Canadian media. — CBC announced massive cuts. TorStar killed The Grid.

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Daniel Frankel / FierceCable:

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Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:

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Emilie Friedlander / The FADER:

Social Anxiety: Should Artists Be Paying Journalists to Listen to Their Music? — In her bi-weekly column, Social Anxiety, Emilie Friedlander peeks underneath the artifacts of contemporary culture to question what it all really means. — A couple weeks ago, a music journalist friend …

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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:

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Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

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David Cohn / Medium:

There's no need to defend “entrepreneurial journalism” because it doesn't exist — There's no need to defend “entrepreneurial journalism” because it doesn't exist — Is anyone else tired of pointless journalist on journalist attacks? They persist because of the labels/divisions we create amongst ourselves.

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