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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
BBC future report: collaborate with regional newspaper publishers — re we about to see the BBC and the regional press, to use my colleague John Plunkett's endearing phrase, “getting into bed with each other”? — Clearly, the MPs want to see the public service broadcaster and commercial publishers settle their differences.
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Guardian, Hollywood Reporter, The Conversation, RadioTimes, broadcastnow.co.uk, RadioTimes, Broadband TV News, UK Parliament and The Next Web
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Steven Swinford / Telegraph:
BBC's licence fee should be decriminalised then scrapped, MPs say
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Daily Mail, birminghampost, BBC, Guardian and The Independent
Chris Johanesen / BuzzFeed:
BuzzFeed uses apps to focus on richer experiences with different types of stories with varying reader interest — What The Hell Are We Doing With Apps? — You might have heard we are working on a news app. You might have heard that we've recently acquired not one, but two app companies.
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Nieman Lab, Fast Company, @niemanlab, VatorNews, @s_m_i, @cap, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Business Insider Australia, Engadget and TechCrunch
Neal Ungerleider / Fast Company:
Mobile news app Circa launches responsive website to tap Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter traffic — WHY CIRCA'S BRINGING NEWS FROM SMARTPHONES TO... YOUR WORK COMPUTER? — Mobile news app Circa is gearing up for a big change: They're jumping to the web. A new responsive web homepage …
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Medium, @kimbhasin, The Next Web and @harrymccracken
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Bloomberg's Justin Smith: ‘Platforms have done a better job at media.’ — It has been a year and a half since Justin Smith became the global CEO of the Bloomberg Media Group with the mandate of making the Bloomberg LP media arm a household name with business executives around the world.
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Media Wire Daily, @niemanlab, AdExchanger and Capital New York, Thanks:@amandabcowie
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Ex-Times editor Jill Abramson inks $1M book deal — Simon & Schuster has won the bidding for the first book by former New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson since she was booted from her job last May, The Post has learned. — The winning price was not disclosed but is believed …
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Politico, Guardian, TVNewser, GalleyCat, Gawker, Poynter, New York Times, Washington Times, FishbowlNY, @jembradshaw, New York Magazine, @rcallimachi and @mlcalderone
Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed:
New York Daily News Owner Is Considering Selling The Paper — The owner told employees in a memo. — I want to share with you a new development regarding the company. — A few weeks ago, we were approached about our potential interest in — selling the Daily News. Although there were no immediate plans to
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Politico, Capital New York and @dylanbyers
Umberto Bacchi / International Business Times:
Autopsy says Reuters bureau chief Maria Golovnina died of asphyxiation but marks on her neck not directly linked to death — Pakistan: Reuters bureau chief Maria Golovnina died of asphyxiation says Islamabad post-mortem — Maria Golovnina, the late Reuters news agency bureau chief …
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Hindustan Times, New York Times, The Nation and DAWN.COM
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Scripps Washington bureau to lay off 4 long-form journalists — The Scripps Washington Bureau will lay off four journalists in preparation for the upcoming newspaper spinoff of The E. W. Scripps Company, the company confirmed Thursday. — The journalists, who of whom focus on long-form text …
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC enforces net neutrality, voting to regulate broadband providers as common carriers under Title II and ban paid fast lanes — FCC votes for net neutrality, a ban on paid fast lanes, and Title II — Internet providers are now common carriers, and they're ready to sue.
Carmel DeAmicis / Gigaom:
Snapchat Our Story viewership is comparable to popular television shows with tens of millions of views — Snapchat's “Our Stories” are generating tens of millions of views — Screenshots of Twitter users whose snaps saw tens of millions of views in a Snapchat “Our Story”
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@khanoisseur, @lionpubs, @rod3000, @carmeldea and @mikebornstein
CNN:
Al Jazeera journalists Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy try to return to routine life pending next hearing March 8 — Freed Al Jazeera journalist: I can't get back my baby's first 6 months — Jailed journalists back in court 03:30 — Story highlights — Cairo (CNN)Everyone is on a mission to make up for lost time.
Reuters:
Bloomberg to launch Canada TV channel by mid-2015 — Financial news and data company Bloomberg LLP will launch a Canadian television channel by mid-2015 that will highlight domestic news makers and detail the impact of global news on Canadian business, the company said on Thursday.
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TVNewser, Globe and Mail, News and Financial Post
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Neil Young's N3twork pivots from video social network to mobile games — A couple of years ago, game creators Neil Young and Bob Stevenson launched N3twork, a new social network based on interests rather than friends. It hasn't taken off like they expected, so they're pivoting back into mobile gaming.
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Gamasutra
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Bill O'Reilly now scrutinized for story of murdered nuns — The questions keep piling up for Bill O'Reilly, and increasingly those questions are being raised by a liberal media watchdog that has long feuded with the conservative Fox News host. — For the second time in as many days …
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New York Times:
Bill O'Reilly's role as professional provocateur, not news anchor, feeds the Fox brand and wallet; his show brought in over $100M in ad revenue in 2014
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