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New York Times:
Aggressive defence of Bill O'Reilly by Fox News shows the networks broader strategy to strike back against rival media outlets — Bill O'Reilly and Fox News Redouble Defense of His Falklands Reporting — The Fox News host Bill O'Reilly on Monday stepped up his defense against reports …
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Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Journalist Amanda Terkel says she was tailed and confronted on vacation by Bill O'Reilly producer after critical blog post — Bill O'Reilly Has A Long Record Of Threatening And Ambushing Journalists — WASHINGTON — There are few people in the media more thin-skinned than Fox News host Bill O'Reilly.
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Salaries and staff poaching rise as US news outlets prepare for 2016 presidential race — 2016 campaigns are beefing up staffs. So are the media who will cover them. — And more politics. — Forget about 2016. With the presidential campaign just getting started …
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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg Business:
Comcast Q4 revenue up 4.8% to $17.7B, but struggles to add TV subscribers amidst competition from Amazon, Netflix — Comcast's Earnings Trail Estimates as Subscriber Increases Slow — Don't Miss Out — (Bloomberg) — Comcast Corp., the U.S. cable company awaiting approval to acquire …
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Comcast CEO Optimistic on Time Warner Cable Deal Review
Comcast CEO Optimistic on Time Warner Cable Deal Review
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Los Angeles Times
Google:
Google's Blogger bans public sharing of images or video that are sexually explicit or show graphic nudity after March 23 — Adult content policy on Blogger — Starting March 23, 2015, you won't be able to publicly share images and video that are sexually explicit or show graphic nudity on Blogger.
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John Plunkett / Guardian:
Press regulator to look at Daily Telegraph and HSBC allegations — Ipso chair says he wants to hear from ex-columnist Peter Oborne, staff and bosses over claims paper allowed commercial pressures to dictate editorial decisions — The press regulator is to look at allegations …
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BBC, Economist, ValueWalk, UK - The Huffington Post and The Drum
Jake Silverstein / New York Times:
Behind the Relaunch of The New York Times Magazine — Welcome to the new New York Times Magazine. For the past four months, as we've been putting out the magazine you read every weekend, we've also been busying ourselves behind the scenes, crafting something new and different.
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Marc Graser / Variety:
Lionsgate Invests in Videogame Publisher Telltale Games as Company Expands Beyond Films, TV — As it looks to expand beyond its core business of making movies and television shows, Lionsgate has invested in Telltale Games, the developer of games based on AMC's “The Walking Dead” and HBO's “Game of Thrones.”
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
The First Books From Amazon's Crowdsourced Publishing Platform Arrive March 3 — Amazon has been using reader feedback to find and publish new titles via Kindle Press, using the Kindle Scout program it introduced back in October of last year. The Scout platform uses votes from readers …
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Publishers Weekly, GalleyCat, Consumerist and GeekWire
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
How The Huffington Post, Fusion, Mashable, NPR, Philly.com, and The Verge are using Snapchat — Snapchat stories: Here's how 6 news orgs are thinking about the chat app — When Sam Sheffer, The Verge's social media editor, launched the site's Snapchat account at the end of July last year, he meant it to be a small-scale experiment.
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Jennifer Faull / The Drum:
MTV partners with international mobile operators to launch apps targeting millennials — Viacom-owned MTV has partnered with a number of global mobile network operators for the launch of two new video and digital music apps; MTV Play and MTV Trax. — The apps have been offered to operators …
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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Cox Media partners with TubeMogul, allows ad buyers to buy linear TV and web ads via same digital interface — Cox Media Partners With TubeMogul For Web Video Ad Sales — Little by little, the TV ad business is adopting principles from digital media. — Case in point: Cox Media …
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