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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.
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:
VentureBeat and @jbenton
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, @vauhinivara, @carlazanoni, @valoni and @niemanlab
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.
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Guardian, TechCrunch, Press Gazette, Gizmodo, Mashable, @joshuachavers, @lisafleisher, @benpopper, Re/code, @dansinker, @djbentley, Silicon Republic, @bgrueskin, @davidclinchnews, Ars Technica, Business Insider, RT, Poynter, The New York Observer, The Next Web, @no_such_zone, @willoremus, @sriramk, @daweiner, @moneyries and @neetzan
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 …
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Washington Post, Broadcasting & Cable, Wall Street Journal, Variety, Deadline, LostRemote, USA Today, TIME, The Huffington Post, Bloomberg Business, TBI Vision, The Seattle Times, Rapid TV News, Consumerist, Latin Post, WorldScreen.com, RTTNews, Netflix Life, DSLreports, Gizmodo, VideoInk, Tubefilter, The Drum, Quartz, The Drum, Digital TV Europe, BizReport and GantDaily.com
Celeste LeCompte / Nieman Lab:
In media companies, the editorial staff shouldn't be kept in the dark about finances — When a tiny post appeared on Gigaom Monday night, noting that the company had ceased operations and was now controlled by its creditors, every push notification I allow on my phone started buzzing, flashing, and beeping.
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Slate, Howdy Y'all, PandoDaily, The Technology Chronicles, Medium, BBC, Forbes, MediaNama, The Week, @justinnxt and TechSpot
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 …
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.
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Multichannel News, PR Newswire, TechnologyTell, WorldScreen.com, Dread Central and Cinema Blaze
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
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
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
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Paramount hit with 20-24 layoffs Wednesday in Viacom restructuring; Nickelodeon also affected — Paramount & Nickelodeon Latest Hit With Layoffs In Viacom Restructuring — EXCLUSIVE: At least 20 to 40 rank and file employees across all divisions of Paramount Pictures have been laid off, we've learned.
Discussion:
Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap and Variety
Rich Kirchen / Milwaukee Business Journal:
Journal, Scripps shareholders OK transaction; closing expected by early April — Journal Communications Inc. shareholders voted overwhelmingly in favor of shifting the company's television and radio stations to E.W. Scripps Co. and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel to a new newspaper-led independent company called Journal Media Group.
Discussion:
Variety, Columbia Journalism Review and bizjournals
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Jay Rosen's NYU class releases trailer and website from Future of New York Times course — The Future of The Times, as Seen by an N.Y.U. Class — Jay Rosen, who does lots of innovative things in his role as journalism professor at New York University, came up with a new wrinkle for the current semester …
Discussion:
Poynter and @jmcunning
Jonathan Peters / Columbia Journalism Review:
Inside The Blade's settlement with the US government — The US government and The Blade of Toledo, OH, agree on at least one thing: The government owes the newspaper $18,000. — That's the result of a settlement agreement announced last week that arises from a March 2014 incident …
Discussion:
@jonathanwpeters
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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