Top News:
Tom Bergin / Reuters:
Google change allows company statements to top news searches — (Reuters) - A little-noticed change in the way Google selects search results has allowed company statements to top the list of news links shown when users search for information on businesses. — The measure may cost news …
Discussion:
PRNewser, VentureBeat, @niemanlab, SlashGear, The Next Web and @jbenton
Ian Hardy / BetaKit:
BuzzFeed to open Toronto newsroom — Popular top-10 list generator and cat-loving site BuzzFeed announced today its plans to open shop in Canada. At the annual DX3 conference, Keith Hernandez, BuzzFeed's VP of Global Revenue, stated its first editorial newsroom will arrive in Toronto sometime “this spring.”
WWD:
WWD to change print frequency from daily to weekly beginning April 29 — From the Editors: WWD Launching Weekly Format — The reader comes first. That's the bedrock on which the best journalism is built and a core value of WWD for the past 105 years. To better serve the global fashion …
Discussion:
FishbowlNY and @alizalicht
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
ABC, Yahoo Expand Partnership with ‘GMA’ Segment, Katie Couric Reports — ABC and Yahoo are expanding their partnership to include a daily segment on “Good Morning America” built around personalities from Yahoo, broader distribution of clips from ABC shows and special programming contributed by Yahoo global news anchor Katie Couric.
Discussion:
Hollywood Reporter, CNNMoney, TVNewser, Yahoo, Deadline, TVWeek.com, Politico, Broadcasting & Cable, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, ABC News, The Wrap, Los Angeles Times, ABC News and ABC News
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
After the archive came down: The New Yorker's revamped paywall is driving new readers and subscribers — The trick to turning readers into a group of frothing hoarders: Tell them they can dive into The New Yorker's archive and leave with as many stories as their arms can bear.
Discussion:
bookforum.com, @carlazanoni, @valoni, @niemanlab and @vauhinivara
Jamie Talbot / Medium:
Medium lets select publications host Medium stories at their own domain in limited beta — Custom domains for publications — Everyone's stories and ideas, in more places. — Everyone who posts on Medium already owns the rights to the original content they publish …
Discussion:
VentureBeat, The Next Web, @destraynor, @anildash, @waxpancake, @majelbstoat, @danielpunkass, @stirman and @janegreenway
Emily Steel / New York Times:
Nielsen: 36% of US households subscribe to Netflix, 13% to Amazon Prime, 6.5% to Hulu Plus; traditional TV time falls almost 10% in second half of 2014 — Nielsen Charts Reach of Video Streaming — About two in five American households now subscribe to a video streaming service like Netflix …
Discussion:
Washington Post, Nielsen, Broadcasting & Cable, Variety, Wall Street Journal, BetaNews, Mashable, Deadline, LostRemote, The Huffington Post, TIME, Bloomberg Business, USA Today, The Seattle Times, Consumerist, Gizmodo, Netflix Life, Rapid TV News, RTTNews, WorldScreen.com, Latin Post, TBI Vision, DSLreports, Quartz, VideoInk, Tubefilter, The Drum, Digital TV Europe, The Drum, BizReport and GantDaily.com
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Amazon's ‘Write On’ Crowd-Publishing Platform Opens To All — Amazon has a new crowd-publishing platform called Write On, which is a direct competitor to Wattpad, the social network with self-publishing authors offering up their content for free, and working together with the community to incorporate feedback into their ongoing work.
Discussion:
Good E-Reader and GeekWire
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Wall Street Journal:
Guardian corrects, clarifies articles on Whisper app privacy, takes down commentary post — Guardian Backpedals on Whisper App Privacy Violations — The Guardian on Tuesday clarified and corrected a series of controversial articles it published late last year about Whisper, a mobile app designed to transmit messages anonymously.
Discussion:
Guardian, TechCrunch, Poynter, @joshuachavers, Mashable, Gizmodo, Press Gazette, Silicon Republic, @bgrueskin, Ars Technica, Re/code, @lisafleisher, @benpopper, @dansinker, @davidclinchnews, @djbentley, Business Insider, RT, Poynter, The New York Observer, The Next Web, @no_such_zone, @willoremus, @sriramk, @daweiner, @neetzan and @moneyries
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Nuzzel Adds Custom Feeds To Help You Follow News About Tech, Beer, And Other Topics — News app Nuzzel is giving users a more topic-based approach to reading the news, through a new feature called Custom Feeds. — Created by Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams, Nuzzel's big selling point is simplicity …
Discussion:
The Next Web
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal sign with Dutch ‘iTunes for news’ — A picture of Blendle's laptop reader. — Business Insider | Gigaom | Nieman Lab — A trio of major American newspapers have signed up for Blendle, a so-called “iTunes for news” …
Discussion:
Business Insider, Business Insider, Reuters, investors.nytco.com and DutchNews.nl
Rebecca R. Ruiz / New York Times:
FCC releases full net neutrality rules in 313-page document — F.C.C. Releases Net Neutrality Rules — WASHINGTON — Two weeks after voting to regulate broadband Internet service as a public utility, the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday released 313 pages of rules detailing what would be allowed.
Discussion:
Washington Post, Bloomberg Business, Gizmodo and TmoNews
L.A. Biz:
Ad-supported video streaming service Tubi TV to stream more than 50 Paramount films for free — Tubi TV to stream Paramount films for free … Tubi TV, an ad-supported video streaming service, has entered into a licensing agreement with Paramount Pictures Corp. to stream more than 50 feature films for free to users.
Discussion:
Multichannel News, PR Newswire, Dread Central, TechnologyTell, WorldScreen.com and Cinema Blaze
Guardian:
Egyptian newspaper censored over report state institutions fail to pay tax — Al-Watan newspaper, normally pro-regime in its views, forced to scrap edition with front-page banner decrying ‘tax avoiders’ in government — Censors have forced a regime-friendly Egyptian newspaper to rewrite …
Discussion:
@glcarlstrom and english.ahram.org.eg
The New York Observer:
How the AP Botched Its Investigation of Civilian Deaths in the Israel-Hamas War — On February 13, 2015, the Associated Press published and distributed an article that stirred the conscience of the world. It gave its many readers—"AP news content is seen by half the world's population," …
Discussion:
@bhweingarten, @sobendito and @anthonylfisher
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Facebook teams with Turner sports to stream “bracket lounge” NCAA March Madness fan event — Facebook Dives Into March Madness with Turner Live-Streaming Deal — Social-media giant Facebook is teaming with Turner Sports to livestream coverage of the NCAA's March Madness college basketball bracket announcement Sunday.
Discussion:
Broadcasting & Cable and Tubefilter
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Ex-soccer player Paul Gascoigne says Mirror Group phone hacking drove him to severe paranoia and alcoholism — Paul Gascoigne says Mirror phone hacking drove him to severe paranoia — Ex-footballer tells court he changed his mobile five times a month and says: 'I'd like to trade in my phone …
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Associated Press
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