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Dean Baquet: NYT will retire 'system of pitching stories for the print Page 1′ — This memo just went out to staffers from New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet:
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The new New York Times Magazine launches Sunday with 220 pages, up 33 pages over previous year; eBay bought all digital ad inventory
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Telegraph defends coverage of HSBC, will write guidelines for how editorial and commercial staffs cooperate — The Telegraph's promise to our readers — Telegraph View: We are proud to combine journalistic excellence with commercial success and we will continue to do so
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Telegraph owners' £250m HSBC loan raises fresh questions over coverage — Barclay brothers secured loan for loss-making company shortly before Telegraph reporters were allegedly discouraged from running articles critical of HSBC — The owners of the Daily Telegraph secured …

More Telegraph writers voice concern
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YouTube prohibits sponsored overlays to keep creators from cutting Google out of ad revenues — YouTube makes a move against brand-sponsored videos — YouTube is putting down the clamps on video creators who work directly with brands, nudging them instead to rely on Google's sales team for deals.
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Beyond Devices, @tbskyen, Tubefilter, @brandonminiman, The Overspill and Marketing Land
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YouTube sees 50% annual growth in views for the last three years, despite Facebook's focus on video — YouTube Says Growth Is Still Strong Despite Push From Facebook — YouTube's head of content says the video giant has seen 50% annual growth in views for the last three years …


Australia's Greste urges help for other jailed reporters — Journalists still detained in Egypt should not be forgotten, freed Australian Al-Jazeera reporter Peter Greste said in an address in London on Thursday. Greste was deported from Egypt this month after over 400 days in jail …
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Out on Bail, Al Jazeera Journalist Mohammed Fahmy Speaks from Cairo
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Exclusive: ABC News Launches on Xbox One — First U.S. news app on the gaming platform — ABC News has launched on the Xbox One, becoming the first U.S. news app to take residence on the gaming console. — The launch is tied to ABC's coverage of the 87th Academy Awards that will air live on Sunday night.
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Ashton Kutcher's A+ is now one of 50 biggest US sites, with editorial staff of 10, Bacardi and Lenovo as sponsors, and a plan to add celebrity-controlled pages — Inside Ashton Kutcher's celebrity-powered viral media empire, which no one knows exists — Ashton Kutcher owns …
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Politico's Rachel Van Dongen leaves for The Washington Post — Politico deputy managing editor Rachel Van Dongen is leaving for The Washington Post, where she'll “lead a new initiative for the National desk,” The Washington Post announced Thursday. — Van Dongen left the Post to join Politico …
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Axel Springer-owned French firm Aufeminin buys Livingly, US publisher of Zimbio, StyleBistro, and Lonny, for $25M with earnout up to $50M — Aufeminin.com to Buy Livingly Media — DIGITAL DUO: European Web site Aufeminin.com, owned by Axel Springer AG, said it has agreed to buy Livingly Media Inc. …
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U.K. on Track to Become First Country Where Half of Ad Spending Goes to Digital — Half of all U.K. advertising spending in 2015, or nearly $12.27 billion (£8.0 billion), will go to digital media, according to research firm Strategy Analytics. That would make the country …


Five news sites that are seeing growth in Facebook engagement: NPR, Time, NatGeo, The Verge, and Manchester Evening News — News Sites Are Seeing Growth In Facebook Engagements Too — We look at the performance of five sites that don't feature in our monthly rankings …
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@reckless and @sarahllester


Secret Media Makes Ad Blockers Useless To Display Those Sweet, Sweet Pre-Roll Video Ads — Chances are that you installed an ad blocking software to skip YouTube's pre-roll video ads. But now, many media companies suffer from these ad blockers and have no choice but to switch to a freemium model …
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