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Mat Honan / BuzzFeed:
Sources: Legal wrangling between Whisper and the Guardian is over, but some accusations about location data remain — The Whisper Campaign That Torched A Guardian Story — The Guardian went too far in its claims of what Whisper could do and was doing. But so too, it seems, did Whisper.
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Lance Ulanoff / Mashable:
Twitter's TV Timelines experiment collects show conversations and features related photos, videos, and more — Twitter experiments with ‘TV Timelines’ — Twitter is launching a bold TV experiment and if it takes, it could change the face of second-screen viewing — at least as far as Twitter is concerned.
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Saba Hamedy / Los Angeles Times:
BuzzFeed Motion Pictures videos reach 1 billion monthly views — Buzzfeed Motion Pictures, a division of the Buzzfeed media company, announced in an internal memo Thursday that its videos have accumulated 1 billion monthly views. — The news comes just six months after the Motion Pictures division …
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Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Publishers using Snapchat Discover set high ad rates that command $50,000 to $100,000 per day for 500K to 1M views — 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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Silicon Republic, Business Insider and @kurtwagner8, Thanks:@steverubel
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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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Flipboard's Apple Watch app integrates with iPhone for handoff of stories summarized on watch
Flipboard's Apple Watch app integrates with iPhone for handoff of stories summarized on watch
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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 …
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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The Moscow Times:
CNN Set to Get New Russian Broadcasting License — CNN will receive a license for broadcasts in Russia within “days or weeks,” the country's media watchdog chief said, allowing the U.S. network to return to a market it left last year over the introduction of a tough new media advertising law.
BBC:
Reporters Without Borders has set up mirrors for nine banned news websites, allowing them to be seen in 11 countries — Access to blocked sites restored by Reporters Without Borders — Websites banned in China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and other countries, are being made available to their citizens.
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Felix Gillette / Bloomberg Business:
Howard Stern's $80M SiriusXM deal ends in December; he says no podcast, but future of SiriusXM without him unclear — Can SiriusXM Survive Without Howard Stern? — The satellite radio service wants to keep Stern, but faces a possible future without its top talent behind the mic
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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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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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Jennie Punter / Variety:
New rules will require Canadian video-on-demand services to offer exclusive content without subscription over the Internet — Canadian TV Regulators Shake Up System With New Content Rules — Canada's broadcast regulator today announced sweeping regulatory changes and several initiatives …
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