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Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Google partners with Barnes & Noble for same-day book deliveries from stores in West LA, SF Bay Area, and Manhattan — Google and Barnes & Noble Unite to Take On Amazon — Google and Barnes & Noble are joining forces to tackle their mutual rival Amazon, zeroing in on a service …
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Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
Netflix now has more subscription revenue than HBO — Netflix CEO Reed Hastings humble-bragged on Facebook today: + Reed Hastings on Facebook He's right. (About the financials, at least—Silicon Valley, an HBO sitcom about tech startups, was really bad.) Here's how HBO's subscription revenue compares …
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Adweek, Business Insider and Reed Hastings
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Thomas Erdbrink / New York Times:
Jason Rezaian of Washington Post and Wife Still Held — Jason Rezaian of Washington Post and Wife Still Held — TEHRAN — Jason Rezaian knew he was being watched. A man on a motorcycle had been following him and his wife for weeks, his colleagues said.
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CNN, The Huffington Post, @mlcalderone, @p_zalewski, Media Law Prof Blog, Washington Post and Al-Monitor
Eric Johnson / Re/code:
Twitch CEO: “We screwed up” with short notice on policy changes affecting archives and audio — Under Fire, Twitch CEO Says “We Screwed Up” Policy Announcement — When Twitch announced yesterday that it would start muting copyrighted music in on-demand videos, the Internet freaked out.
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Electronista and Engadget
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
The New York Times explores cheaper digital subscriptions — The New York Times is considering a cheaper version of its digital subscription as it continues to look for ways to get more revenue out of consumers. — According to a survey sent to readers this week, the new offering …
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Nieman Journalism Lab, New York Times and @raju
Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
CNN Politics eliminates more than a dozen positions in shift to video — More than a dozen employees in CNN's Digital Politics division learned yesterday that their positions will be eliminated at the end of the month, Capital has learned. — The employees were told that they would have to re-apply …
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Washington Post, MediaWire Daily, @alexweprin and FishbowlDC
David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
How a new Washington stifles a new political press — As political PR machines become more sophisticated and aggressive, journalists need to rethink how they cover government — The video featured all the trappings of a heartwarming human interest piece: uplifting piano music, a hometown angle, and a main character named Earnest.
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Latest News & Headlines and Mediaite
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Bloomberg to cancel ‘Political Capital with Al Hunt,’ lay off TV and print staff — Bloomberg Media has decided to cancel its weekly political talk show, “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” and will lay off several television and print employees in its Washington, D.C., bureau, POLITICO has learned.
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New York Times, The Wrap, @dylanbyers, @alexweprin and FishbowlDC
Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
Gannett's changes bring excitement, some pain, and a full-time beer beat — A conversation with Joshua Awtry, the chain's top editor in the Carolinas — Yesterday was a busy one for Joshua Awtry. He was one of a handful of editors at Gannett-owned papers around the country who spent …
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Common Sense Journalism, @jawtry, @coreyhutchins, @ldncalling, @jimclarkeap, @brianstelter, @1brianmagee, Greenville News, app.com and JIMROMENESKO.COM
John Plunkett / Guardian:
Ex-BBC Chief Technology Officer John Linwood wins unfair dismissal case against corporation — Sacked BBC technology chief wins unfair dismissal case — John Linwood claimed he was made the ‘fall guy’ for the £100m Digital Media Initiative fiasco — The BBC's former chief …
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The Courier and BBC
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Crowdfunding bid to acquire Rupert Murdoch's Times and Sunday Times — Idealists of the world unite! An organisation calling itself Let's Own The News has launched a crowdfunding campaign with the aim of acquiring the Times and Sunday Times. — It believes £100m would do the job …
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Let's Own The News and Press Gazette
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Police Arrest Operator of Torrent Site Proxies — Earlier today news broke that the proxy service Immunicity had been taken offline by the UK Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU). Several reverse proxies offering access to blocked sites such as The Pirate Bay and KickassTorrents suffered the same fate.
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Gigaom, Techie News, Softpedia News, Techdirt and Wired.co.uk
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
Longform templates for web content are outdated, yet publishers still opt for oversized photos — Why article pages are going big on photos — There's a paradox in digital media: Users are bouncing around from site to site, faster than ever, but more publishers are choosing …
Bloomberg:
China Tightens Message App Rules for Public Information — China's government issued rules that restrict the dissemination of politically related news on instant-messaging applications to only authorized media outlets, the official Xinhua News Agency said. — Rules tightening management …
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New York Times, BBC, Reuters and The Next Web
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