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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, MinOnline, New York Magazine, FishbowlNY, Fashionista, @alizalicht, Talking New Media, Refinery29 and Media Wire Daily
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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@niemanlab, @yashalevine, The Next Web, PRNewser, SlashGear, VentureBeat and @jbenton
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
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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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Facebook teams with Turner sports to stream “bracket lounge” NCAA March Madness fan event
Facebook teams with Turner sports to stream “bracket lounge” NCAA March Madness fan event
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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, Media & Entertainment, Reuters, FishbowlNY, investors.nytco.com and DutchNews.nl
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, The Huffington Post, Politico, Variety, Daily Mail, UPROXX and NBC News
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 …
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.”
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Bloomberg Business, @amandacosco, @shanedingman and @emilymkeeler
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
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, Multichannel News, Reuters and FierceCable
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.
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@mkonnikova, Poynter, @chartbeat, bookforum.com, @niemanlab, @valoni, @carlazanoni and @vauhinivara
Rebecca R. Ruiz / New York Times:
FCC releases full net neutrality rules confirming it will treat Internet as telecommunications and decide what is acceptable on a case-by-case basis — F.C.C. Releases Net Neutrality Rules — WASHINGTON — Two weeks after voting to regulate broadband Internet service as a public utility …
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, TechCrunch, bbc.co.uk, The Verge, Guardian and Pocket-lint
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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@grok_, KFOR-TV, @jason_koebler, @jason_koebler, @jason_koebler and @mattwaite