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Rachel Whetstone / Google Europe Blog:
Google responds to News Corp's claim that it is a platform for piracy — Dear Rupert — Last week, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp sent an open letter to the European Commission complaining about Google. We wanted to share our perspective so you can judge the arguments on their merits. — News Corp:
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Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
Obama's media diet: heavy on print/online news, light on TV — Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director-turned assistant to the president, shed some light on his boss' media habits during a Q&A session at Buzzfeed headquarters Thursday morning.
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@tmcgev, @huffpostmedia, @raju, @joelcifer, @mattyglesias and The Huffington Post
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer: media relations are trickier now due to fast news cycle and social media that competes with legacy outlets to set agenda — Top Obama Adviser Dan Pfeiffer Dismisses ‘Fake’ Media Uproar Over ‘Latte Salute’ — NEW YORK — Dan Pfeiffer said Thursday that the president's …
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@buzzfeedben and ABC News
Richard Verrier / Los Angeles Times:
FAA gives drone exemption to Hollywood production firms — Hollywood will soon have a new angle on capturing aerial footage. — The Federal Aviation Administration announced Thursday that it has approved exemptions that would allow filmmakers to use “unmanned aircraft systems,” otherwise known as drones.
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Aaron Couch / Hollywood Reporter:
Twitter to serve targeted ads for movies, beta testing will begin in the next few months — Twitter to Launch Targeted Ads for Movies (Exclusive) — Studios wanting to advertise an upcoming space epic could target users tweeting about ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ and Groot
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Los Angeles Times, @tperzyk, @twitterads, Variety and TIME
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Netflix subscribers stream more than 90 minutes a day globally, 45 GB of data every month — Binge alert: Subscribers now watch more than 90 minutes of Netflix every single day — Just one more episode: All of your binge watching is adding up, to an average of 93 minutes of Netflix viewing per day …
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Variety, TDG Research and Consumerist
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
New York Times Magazine prepares for 2015 redesign, replacing One-Page Magazine and Who Made That features — ‘Cleaning up’ at The New York Times Magazine — The New York Times Magazine is gearing up for a big redesign in early 2015. But editor-in-chief Jake Silverstein tells Capital …
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FishbowlNY, MediaWire Daily and @gregorydjohnsen
John McDermott / Digiday:
How Facebook is courting publishers — Over the past year, Facebook has for many publishers supplanted Google as the most important driver of referral traffic. — Much of that is due to the various changes Facebook has made to its news feed to more prominently feature publishers' stories.
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@jayrosen_nyu, @raju and @digiday
James Ball / Guardian:
The global news agenda is now regularly held hostage by small bands of loud but tech-savvy idiots. We can do better than this — The global news agenda is now regularly held hostage by small bands of loud but tech-savvy idiots. We can do better than this — The internet is eating itself.
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@marklittlenews, NME News, @willmcavoyacn, AndyDickinson.net, @mathewi, @dabeard, New York Magazine, BuzzFeed, Business Insider and SocialTimes
Cory Blair / American Journalism Review:
A profile of the Aging Newspapermen's Club and how the newsroom has changed over the years — What a Bunch of ‘Geezers’ Taught Me About What Journalism Used To Be — I stand outside a hole-in-the-wall bar in Baltimore, clenching my notebook. In just a few minutes …
Jim Romenesko:
Times of London quietly pulls the plug on typewriter sounds in the newsroom — Message from an American Journalism Review intern — into its newsroom to generate some excitement. I sent an email to Times spokesperson Jessica Carsen and she wrote back: “Ah - the lovely sound of typewriters.
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
TV Networks Offering More On Demand to Reduce Ad-Skipping — CBS, Fox (FOXA) and the other TV broadcasters are delivering more shows on demand through pay-TV services to wean audiences off digital video recorders, which let viewers skip through commercials. — More ads mean more revenue for the TV industry.
Tony Manfred / Business Insider:
Bill Simmons Got Suspended For Going After ESPN, Not The NFL — The only thing Bill Simmons has ever been suspended for is criticizing ESPN. — In 2013 he got suspended from Twitter for calling a “First Take” segment “awful and embarrassing to everyone involved.”
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Richard Deitsch / Sports Illustrated:
Top ESPN executives were involved in Simmons suspension from all platforms, including podcast, Facebook and Twitter
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