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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Twitter launches Periscope: replays are its killer feature, push notifications are noisy — Periscope, Twitter's answer to Meerkat-style live streaming, is now available — Live-streaming apps are the thirstiest of all media. A Facebook post wants a like, a tweet begs for favs, and a snap means little without a response.
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Josh Stearns / Medium:
Apps like Periscope and Meerkat could help people understand their right to record — Periscope, Meerkat and the Right to Record — I've been playing with Periscope this morning and thinking a lot about how it has simplified the the process of livestreaming but also how it has perfected …
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Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
Meerkat's Series B investors includes an array of Hollywood names along with lead Greylock — Meerkat Confirms It Raised A Round Led By Greylock, Josh Elman Joins Meerkat's Board — Late last week, our own Jordan Crook reported that Meerkat, the trendy, Twitter-centric livestreaming app …
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Guardian:
Supreme court clears way for release of secret Prince Charles letters — Ruling overturns government attempt to block release of ‘black spider memos’ to ministers after decade-long battle between the Guardian and Whitehall — The supreme court has cleared the way for the publication …
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Julia Boorstin / CNBC:
Vice to produce half-hour weekday newscasts for HBO and HBO Now — Vice and HBO announce content partnership — In a partnership that elevates upstart Vice Media, and brings HBO into the daily news business for the first time, the firms are announcing the most expansive content deal for either company.
The Wrap:
Advocacy groups call Deadline column about Hollywood's ethnic hiring “patently offensive” — Deadline Backlash: Black, Latino, Asian, Native American Advocacy Groups Slam Site for ‘Offensive’ Article — A controversial Deadline article by co-editor-in-chief Nellie Andreeva …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
The New York Times, ‘PBS Newshour’ strike video-sharing agreement — The New York Times and “PBS NewsHour” have entered into an agreement to share video journalism, including news reports and longer documentaries, on a regular basis, the outlets announced Thursday.
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Washington Post, @benmullin, TVSpy and Capital New York
Chris Thompson / Poynter:
Reddit rolls out embeddable comments in countermove to BuzzFeed — On Monday, Reddit announced the unveiling of a new feature that could make life for BuzzFeed and Gawker a little more awkward: embeddable comment threads. From now on, if media outlets want to use content from Reddit …
Julia Payne / Reuters:
Nigeria's military detains two Al Jazeera reporters — (Reuters) - Nigeria's military has detained two Al Jazeera journalists in the northeast city of Maiduguri since Tuesday, the television broadcaster said on Thursday, days ahead of the country's general elections.
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Abigail Edge / Journalism.co.uk:
Washington Post partners with Flipboard — WaPo announces it will be adding all editorial content to the magazine-style aggregation app - and does not rule out hosting content on Facebook — Credit: Image courtesy of Washington Post press office — The Washington Post is producing …
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Nieman Lab, Washington Post and FishbowlDC
Wall Street Journal:
Bleak outlook for TV upfronts as industry continues to push ad dollars into digital platforms — Changing TV Landscape Colors ‘Upfront’ Sales Outlook — With U.S. consumer confidence up, an improving employment picture and low gas prices, television executives should have a little spring …
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@baekdal, @digitalshields and @asharma
Warren Strobel / Reuters:
New report calls for strengthening US counter-propaganda efforts and an overhaul of the government's international broadcasting arm — U.S. losing ‘information war’ to Russia, other rivals: study — (Reuters) - The United States is losing an information war to Russia, Islamic State and other rivals …
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New York Times:
Apple unable to persuade record labels to lower licensing costs for Beats streaming music service; will be priced similarly to rivals at around $10 — Apple and Beats Developing Streaming Music Service to Rival Spotify — In what would be the biggest change to its music strategy in years …
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