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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Trinity Mirror in early stage talks to buy Richard Desmond's Express Newspapers — Mirror owner in talks to buy Richard Desmond's Express — It is not known if negotiations between Trinity Mirror and Express Newspapers include the Sunday Express and Star titles
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Press Gazette, The Times, Press Association, The Drum, @marksweney and Featured Articles
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Apple aiming to launch online TV service in September with about 25 channels, anchored by ABC, CBS, Fox — Apple in Talks to Launch Online TV Service — Service would have about 25 channels, anchored by broadcasters such as ABC, CBS and Fox — Shalini Ramachandran and Daisuke Wakabayashi
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CNNMoney, Reuters, Business Insider, The Wrap, Featured Articles, Digital Trends, SlashGear and Digital Spy
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
BuzzFeed UK hit 18.8M unique visitors in February and is expanding editorial staff from 35 to 50 in 2015 — London calling: A look at BuzzFeed's British invasion — LONDON — BuzzFeed is, of course, known for mixing news with lists and quizzes, so it was inevitable that when British Prime …
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BuzzFeed and @niemanlab
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Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
Politico Europe to launch April 21, with weekly print edition starting April 23; joint venture with Axel Springer includes main newsroom in Brussels — Staffed-up POLITICO Europe to launch April 21 — POLITICO Europe, the Arlington-based company's foray into the European media market …
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The Huffington Post, Press Gazette, Guardian, @ronpatz, Media Wire Daily and @exen
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
BuzzFeed's New Strategy: Fishing for Eyeballs in Other People's Streams — BuzzFeed doesn't have any problem attracting Web traffic — the people who brought you The Dress say they're getting 200 million visitors a month, even when they don't have an astonishing viral phenomenon on their hands.
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@rafat, @jbenton, @mccollumashley, @karaswisher, @joshconstine, TechCrunch and AdAge
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
The Sun launches political website SunNation as a stand-alone site beyond its paywall — Sun launches Buzzfeed-style political website beyond the paywall with exclusive Cameron-cam look at Downing Street — The Sun today launched a fun Buzzfeed-style political website beyond its paywall.
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@sunnation and Business Insider
Gregory Korte / USA Today:
White House exempts from FOIA its Office of Administration, which keeps visitor logs — White House office to delete its FOIA regulations — WASHINGTON — The White House is removing a federal regulation that subjects its Office of Administration to the Freedom of Information Act …
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@chrispycruiser, @xor, @adambaldwin, The Hill, @jkelly3rd, RedState, @bartongellman, @blakehounshell and Boing Boing
Chris Mooney / Washington Post:
Google studying ways to assess the quality of websites based on their accuracy — Why some people are so terrified by the idea of a Google truth machine — Almost exactly three years ago, I attended a conference at Harvard and MIT that brought together two groups not very used to talking to each other …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube To Replace Annotations With Smarter, Mobile-Optimized “Cards” — For years, YouTube has offered annotations as a way for video creators to add clickable text overlays to their videos as a way to boost engagement with viewers, provide more information, or help in navigation.
Nicole Levy / Capital New York:
TLDR, podcast spinoff of WNYC's “On the Media”, drops host Meredith Haggerty, continues in “exploratory mode” — WNYC says ‘TLDR’ to live on — Media writers and journalists on Twitter were abuzz this morning with the rumor that “TLDR,” a spinoff of the WNYC radio show …
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@manymanywords
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix Stock ‘Unattractive’ with Growing Pressure From HBO, Amazon, Hulu: Analysts — Netflix shares were down more than 4% in mid-day trading Monday after Wall Street firm Evercore ISI downgraded the stock to “sell” based on growing competition from HBO, Amazon, Hulu and others in the over-the-top video segment.
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CNNMoney and Wall Street Journal
Multichannel News:
NewBay Media reorganizes TV division, changing editors at Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel News, Next TV — NewBay Media Reorganizes TV Sector — Robichaux Named Editorial Director Across Brands, Grego Transitions to Consulting Editor — NewBay Media's Television Sector brands …
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Broadcasting & Cable
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Tribune to Stream Local TV News Reports to Watchup Internet Apps — Tribune Broadcasting will deliver online video reports from 30 of its TV stations to users of Watchup, a startup whose service delivers personalized newscasts to Internet-video devices. — Tribune Media last fall led a $2.75 million round of funding in Watchup.
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The Wrap, LostRemote and TVSpy
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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Watchup app woos millennials with custom-curated news streaming
Watchup app woos millennials with custom-curated news streaming
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@watchup, @tvnewslab and @kevglobal