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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Flipboard's Apple Watch app integrates with iPhone for handoff of stories summarized on watch — Sneak Peek At Flipboard's Apple Watch App — Among the many new applications designed for Apple Watch, there are still a few big names who had yet to reveal how their apps will look and operate.
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Pocket-lint, Thai Tech and ReadWrite
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Helene Sears / Guardian:
Guardian Apple Watch app tailors news to time of day and week and features handoff to iPhone app — Introducing Moments from the Guardian App, built for Apple Watch — We're excited that soon the Guardian app will be updated with a brand-new experience created specially for Apple Watch …
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The Drum and Press Gazette
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 …
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New York Post, FishbowlNY, MinOnline, Talking New Media, New York Magazine, Refinery29, Fashionista, @alizalicht and Media Wire Daily
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Snapchat Discover ad prices: $0.10/view, split 70/30 or 50/50 between publishers and Snapchat, depending on who sells ads — Snapchat's Discover Publishers Are Asking for Big Ad Rates — And They're Getting Them — Snapchat's Discover platform is one of the hottest properties in media.
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Business Insider and @kurtwagner8, Thanks:@steverubel
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 …
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@yashalevine, SlashGear, VentureBeat, The Next Web, PRNewser, @niemanlab and @jbenton
Chris Thompson / Poynter:
Univision host Rodner Figueroa fired for racist Michelle Obama remark — In this June 22, 2014 file photo, Rodner Figueroa accepts the award for outstanding daytime talent in Spanish for “El Gordo y la Flaca” at the 41st annual Daytime Emmy Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
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CNNMoney, TVNewser, PRNewser, The Huffington Post, The Wrap, Politico, Variety, UPROXX, Daily Mail and NBC News
Elena Milashina / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Russia files charges against Sergei Dorovskoi, accused of masterminding 2000 murder of journalist Igor Domnikov — In landmark case, Russia charges alleged mastermind in Domnikov murder — In an unprecedented move, investigators in Moscow officially filed charges today against Sergei Dorovskoi …
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Committee to Protect …
CB Insights:
Online media companies raised $813M in VC in 2014, a 145% increase over 2013, led by Vice with a pair of $250M investments in Q3 — Venture Capitalists are Bullish on News: Funding to Media / Fat Content Startups Jumps 145% YoY — Venture capital investors continue to invade the media industry …
Bloomberg Business:
Charter in talks to buy Advance Publication's Bright House cable network in an all-stock deal worth about $12B — Charter Said in Talks to Buy Newhouse's Bright House Networks — (Bloomberg) — Charter Communications Inc., the U.S. cable company that was outbid in an effort to buy …
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Deadline, Reuters, FierceCable and Multichannel News
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 …
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@ktzhu, @waxpancake, The Next Web, @destraynor, @anildash, @majelbstoat, @danielpunkass, @stirman, @janegreenway and VentureBeat
Jason Koebler / Motherboard:
Drone hobbyist gets letter from regional FAA office in Tampa claiming his YouTube videos constitute restricted “commercial use” — The FAA Says You Can't Post Drone Videos on YouTube — If you fly a drone and post footage on YouTube, you could end up with a letter from the Federal Aviation Administration.
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@jason_koebler, @jason_koebler, @jason_koebler, @mattwaite, @grok_ and KFOR-TV
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” …
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Business Insider, Business Insider, Reuters, FishbowlNY, Media & Entertainment, investors.nytco.com and DutchNews.nl
Natalie Mortimer / The Drum:
BBC to give out 1m coding devices to kids as part of new Make it Digital initiative — The BBC has launched a new digital initiative which will see 1 million coding devices distributed to to every child in year 7 across the UK. — The Make it Digital programme, which launched today …
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bbc.co.uk, CNET, The Verge, TechCrunch, Guardian, bbc.co.uk and Pocket-lint
John Consoli / Broadcasting & Cable:
CBS and Turner say NCAA tournament ads have brought in 10% more revenue than last year — MBPT Spotlight: CBS, Turner Say They've Taken In Record Amount Of Ad Dollars For NCAA Men's Championship Tournament — The start of the 2015 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship tournament is less …
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Forbes
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Facebook teams with Turner sports to stream “bracket lounge” NCAA March Madness fan event
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