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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
NBC insiders expect others to lose their jobs in the fallout after Brian Williams incident — INSIDE THE NBC DEBACLE: There's a much bigger story here than the Brian Williams scandal — In the end, it took only about a month for the old-timers at NBC News to get what they wanted: heads on a platter.
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Suhasini Raj / New York Times:
Indians Find Ways to Watch Rape Documentary Despite Ban — NEW DELHI — A British-made documentary about a grisly gang rape in India spread throughout social media on Thursday, gaining a wide audience despite a government ban and thwarting official efforts to block it.
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Martin Beck / Marketing Land:
Twitter Ads gets “partner audiences”, allowing advertisers to target users showing purchase intent off Twitter using data from Acxiom and Datalogix — Twitter Gives Advertisers Access To More Than 1,000 Big Data Target Audiences — With “partner audiences” provided by Acxiom and Datalogix …
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The Twitter Blog, VatorNews, AdAge, The Next Web, TechCrunch and VentureBeat
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Who retweets whom: a snapshot of the Twitter habits of selected journalists at the New York Times, Buzzfeed, and Politico — Journalists flock together on Twitter, report finds — Tow Center for Digital Journalism — When it comes to the popular social network Twitter …
Rem Rieder / USA Today:
Gregory Favre, a distinguished figure in print journalism, prepares to launch CALMatters this summer to cover California government — Rieder: At 79, launching a digital news start-up — Gregory Favre learned early that transformational change in journalism was a fact of life.
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@tsar
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CNN Tests New Ways To Mix Ads With News — Do ads belong in the ubiquitous news ticker that scrolls along during so many TV-news broadcasts? CNN is willing to find out. — The Time Warner-owned cable-news outlet is open to the idea of running an advertiser's logo in its bottom-of-the-screen zipper …
Lockhart Steele / Lucky Peach:
How Eater drew in an audience through obsessive reporting and experimentation — Flooding the Zone — Lockhart Steele is the founder of Eater.com (with Ben Leventhal), Curbed.com, and Racked.com—and, after selling the group of sites to Vox Media in 2013, is now Vox's editorial director.
Natalie Jomini Stroud / American Press Institute:
Study finds readers are more likely to appreciate and pay for copy-edited news — Study shows the value of copy editing — Consider the following sentence: Their may be some mistakes, but we are the ones to place you're trust with. — No news organization would print this sentence …
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@purplepenning, @snoozeinbrief and @raju
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Former CEO and COO of Glenn Beck's TheBlaze are working on their own digital media startup — Glenn Beck's top execs quit to form digital media startup — Glenn Beck's top two lieutenants have left Beck's Internet and television channel, TheBlaze, and are starting a new venture together.
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FTVLive, @brianstelter, TheBlaze.com and Business Insider
C. Custer / Tech in Asia:
China orders WeChat, Weibo, and news sites to crack down on coverage of pollution documentary “Under the Dome”, but some discussion continues — WeChat, Weibo ordered to crack down on viral pollution film ‘Under the Dome,’ but discussion continues — Over the past week, China has been going gaga over pollution.
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Guardian, Foreign Policy, China Digital Times, China Digital Times, @tomphillipsin and Quartz
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Layoffs Hit Viacom's TV Land; Esquire, E! Consolidate Marketing Posts — Layoffs have been implemented at TV Land Thursday, a cost-cutting move that is part of the recent restructuring of the cable network management of parent Viacom Inc. — Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman warned last month …
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The Wrap
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple to relaunch Beats streaming music service in June; Apple TV changes likely later in 2015 — Apple plans relaunched Beats streaming music service for WWDC, skipping March event; Apple TV still coming — Apple won't take the wraps off of its upcoming Beats-based music streaming service at its March 9 …
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Pocket-lint, SlashGear, TechCrunch, The Verge, Business Insider, App Advice, Engadget, Gigaom, Digital Spy and International Business Times