Mediagazer: BuzzFeed's latest traffic trick: The ‘social URL’ (Lucia Moses/Digiday)

5:40 PM ET, November 22, 2014

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Issie Lapowsky / Wired:

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Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
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Lane Wood / Medium:

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Kristen Hare / Poynter:

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Discussion: @abeaujon, @davidfolkenflik, @hadas_gold and @poynter

Lucia Moses / Digiday:

BuzzFeed's latest traffic trick: The ‘social URL’ — BuzzFeed may already be king when it comes to getting people to share its posts, but that's not stopping it from continually trying new things. Now, BuzFeed has even tapped the humble URL to work harder.

Discussion: @owenthomas, @ksablan and @raju

Evan Radford / J-source:

The failed ebook experiment at Canadian newspapers — By Evan Radford — Ebooks have failed to live up to their promise as a new revenue stream for newspapers. That's the lesson from experiments at at least three dailies across the country. — The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail …

Parmy Olson / Forbes:

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Jim Romenesko:

Tribune Publishing rescinds its Discretionary Time Off policy — The Discretionary Time Off policy that Tribune Publishing unveiled last Thursday has been rescinded, “based on valuable input from employees.” — A Los Angeles Times employee says in an email that “a group of Times employees …

Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:

Viacom Draws Lawmaker's Rebuke for Blocking TV Streaming … Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va.), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, expressed concern that media giant Viacom Inc. is blocking cable operator Suddenlink Communications's customers from streaming TV shows on Viacom websites …

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Nate Raymond / Reuters:

Apple $450 million e-book settlement gets final court approval — (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday gave final approval to Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) agreement to pay $450 million to resolve claims it harmed consumers by conspiring with five publishers to raise e-book prices.

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Associated Press:

Judge: Missouri police can't stop media recordings — ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal judge has issued court orders that prevent Missouri police from stopping media and others from recording officers. — The court order follows a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union that said police tried …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable

Bloomberg:

FCC Barred From Disclosing TV Contracts in Comcast Review — A federal appeals court blocked the Federal Communications Commission from ordering the disclosure of programming contracts as part of the U.S. government's review of Comcast Corp. (CMCSA)'s takeover of Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC)