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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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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 …
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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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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@rktweets, @noahchestnut, @digitalshields, Gigaom, @joesteel, @btrpkc and @ylichterman
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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The Wrap, Reuters and Hollywood Reporter
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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@elisewho, @samanthatoy and Creative Bloq
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Swiss journalists who used covert filming win press freedom judgment — ECHR judges rule that TV documentary makers were right use hidden cameras — A judgment in favour of press freedom delivered today by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) could not be more timely in view …
Isabell Hülsen / Spiegel Online:
Washington Post becoming a Silicon Valley laboratory for newspapers under Jeff Bezos leadership — Jeff Bezos Takes Washington Post into Digital Future — A spirit of enthusiasm has infused the office of the once troubled Washington Post following its purchase in August by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
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@kevinloker, @kevinloker, @maurowhiteman, @krystlekopacz, @dankennedy_nu, @niemanlab and Media Nation
Steve Cohn / MinOnline:
Paul Jowdy Elevated to Women's Wear Daily VP and Group Publisher — Paul Jowdy, publisher of Women's Wear Daily since Nov.. 2011, was given the added responsibilities of overseeing the business management of all Fairchild Fashion Media (FFM) properties—WWD, Footwear News, Fairchild Summits & Events …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Internal Guardian editor candidates release vision statements as news org. talks with outside talent like Buzzfeed's Ben Smith and ex-NYT editor Jill Abramson — Guardian headhunters reach out to New York for ideas, candidates — The four insiders publicly vying to be The Guardian's next editor …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Nielsen: TV Oscar audience dropped by 16% this year, but Twitter's numbers dropped only by 6.5% — Twitter Oscar Numbers Drop, but TV Ratings Sink Much Lower — You're going to see a few sets of numbers about Twitter's performance during the 2015 Oscars.
Chris Welch / The Verge:
MLB considers spinning off its powerful streaming business — MLB Advanced Media, the baseball league's booming technology division, is quickly growing into one of the most crucial companies in all of streaming. It powers MLB.TV. It powers WWE Network. It powers Sony's PlayStation Vue internet TV service.
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Wall Street Journal and Quartz