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Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
ESPN's new mobile strategy: fewer apps on more screens — Take a first look at ESPN's upcoming mobile app, and the responsive website the sportscaster plans to launch in a few months. — ESPN's new mobile strategy: fewer apps on more screens originally published by Gigaom, © copyright 2014.
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Los Angeles Times, MediaPost, New York Times and @jank0
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Vevo CEO Rio Caraeff to leave at the end of the year, CFO will take over during CEO search — Vevo CEO Rio Caraeff Heads for the Door. (Memo) — Rio Caraeff, who has run the Vevo music video service since its creation in 2009, is leaving at the end of the year.
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New York Post, New York Times, @pkafka and Variety
Sarah Marshall / Medium:
Why social is key to creating habit-forming news products — Social media editors such as myself may often be judged on the traffic they drive to a news site rather than on reader engagement. — Here is a theory for demonstrating the importance of social engagement and how community is key …
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@isabeluemmel, @newswhip, @pennyriordan1, @jenwilsonto and @rubinafillion
Bill Keller / The Marshall Project:
Nonprofit news site The Marshall Project, edited by Bill Keller, launches to cover America's criminal justice system — A Letter from Our Editor — In March I left The New York Times after 30 years there as a reporter, editor and columnist to help launch something new …
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@nxthompson, @marshallproj, @lilianasegura, @danagoldstein and @lexinyt
Michael Rondon / Folio:
How magazines like Scientific American, The Atlantic, and Vogue are monetizing their archives — How America's Oldest Magazines Are Modernizing (And Monetizing) Their Archives — Iconic magazines have different strategies for surfacing their pasts. — TIME launched its digital archive …
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John Herrman / The Awl:
A comparison of the number of social interactions on web sites embedding John Oliver videos — The John Oliver Video Sweepstakes: Finale — Each week, the industry observes a sacred ritual: Together, but not quite in sync, dozens of websites embed and then post the longest segment from John Oliver's HBO show, Last Week Tonight.
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
With theBomb, The Makers Of theChive Aim To Create A Viral Video Hub — Resignation Media, the startup behind the popular photo site theChive, is moving into the viral video business with the launch of a new property, theBomb. — Even if you're not a regular Chive visitor (or …
TechCrunch:
Uber Integrates With Spotify To Let Passengers Become Backseat DJs — Uber is adding a new feature to its mobile app that could allow passengers to play DJ while they take a ride with one of its drivers. Thanks to an integration with Spotify, Uber will soon make music a central part of its ride-hailing service.
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Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Why Is Investor Shervin Pishevar Amassing a Stake in Demand Media? He Likes the CEO. — Shervin Pishevar, the Silicon Valley investor who has put early money in hot startups like Uber, is making an unusual play of late by buying up shares of much beleaguered content and e-commerce company Demand Media.
David Lieberman / Deadline:
CBS Warns That Its Stations Might Go Dark On Dish Network — Here we go: CBS introduced a web site today warning Dish Network customers that when its carriage deal expires this month the No. 2 satellite company “may drop” the network-owned stations in 14 cities including Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Detroit.
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Deadline, @tv_agent, Variety and Los Angeles Times
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
President Barack Obama seems to oppose James Risen jailing — YANGON, Myanmar—President Barack Obama Friday reinforced the perception that a New York Times journalist won't be thrown in jail for refusing to identify his confidential sources for a book that allegedly contained highly classified …
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The Huffington Post, @hunt_collin and USA Today
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
SiriusXM Slammed Yet Again As New York Judge Rules in Turtles Lawsuit — The use of pre-1972 sound recordings keeps getting more and more hot — For the third time in as many months, SiriusXM has been rocked with a court ruling over the issue of pre-1972 sound recordings.
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