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Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Facebook Launches a Mobile Ad Exchange on Top of LiveRail — Facebook announced a number of expected updates to its ad product LiveRail at its F8 developer conference Wednesday. The updates include the use of Facebook user data, instead of just Web cookies, to help advertisers target users outside of Facebook.
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Facebook, LiveRail and @seanethompson
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Napier Lopez / The Next Web:
Facebook introduces an embedded video player
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Facebook Media, @s_m_i, @ethanklapper and TechCrunch
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Facebook Opens Messenger App to Media Partners Including ESPN, JJ Abrams
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Forbes, SocialTimes, Fast Company, BuzzFeed, VentureBeat, Adweek, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Reuters, PR Newswire and The Wrap
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 …
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@shondarhimes, @jamilsmith, Salon, @kateaurthur, National Hispanic Media …, Variety, @shondarhimes, Awesomely Luvvie, @bendreyfuss, @nakisnakis, Slate and @hitfixdaniel
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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VatorNews, @mgsiegler, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, @jherskowitz, The Verge, VentureBeat and FACT Magazine
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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BBC, Mirror.co.uk, Reuters, @joeltaylormetro and LBC
Scott Roxborough / Hollywood Reporter:
Brian Sullivan to step down as CEO of Sky Deutschland in June, will be replaced by sports, Internet and advertising head, Carsten Schmidt — Brian Sullivan Exits Sky Deutschland — Brian Sullivan is stepping down as CEO of Sky Deutschland, the pay-TV group controlled by U.K. pay-TV giant BSkyB, and will return to the United States.
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Bloomberg Business, Reuters, Rapid TV News, Broadband TV News and C21Media
Michelle Castillo / Adweek:
Firechat partners with Storyful to create Open Live Newsroom, a live news gathering off-grid chat app — How a Chat App for Burning Man Turned Into a Tool for Revolution — Open Garden's messaging app Firechat was initially launched as a way for people at festivals like Burning Man …
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PR Newswire and Medium
Roger Williams / Florida Weekly:
NewsByMe citizen journalism app uses geolocation to broadcast real-time local events — A New Age of NEWS — NewsByMe poised to usher in a new era of citizen reporting — When it came online in the Apple store last week, few knew the pedigree of NewsByMe, a new free app for smart-phones and other devices.
Richard Lewis / The Daily Dot:
Sources: YouTube plans to relaunch live streaming service this year with a focus on gaming, taking on Twitch — YouTube to relaunch livestreaming service with focus on esports and gaming — YouTube is preparing to relaunch its livestreaming platform with a renewed focus on live gaming …
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Wired, @mgrooves, @sapna, @charlesrandall, Electronista, Pocket-lint, The Verge, Engadget, Business Insider, WebProNews, Eurogamer.net and Digital Spy
Tiffany M. Davis / Medium:
The rise of sports blogging brings challenges for teams and leagues, especially the NBA — All-Access Pass: Bloggers Vs. The World … Once upon a time, locker-room media access was limited to a select few reporters from local newspapers, television and radio stations.
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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 …
Wikimedia blog:
Wikimedia Foundation adopts Open Access Policy to support free knowledge — Open access scholarship is central to Wikimedia's mission to empower people around the world to participate in knowledge creation. This image was used by the London School of Economics in its 1973 appeal for funds for its library.
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@jimmy_wales and @lisarnorberg
Kevin Roose / Fusion:
A newspaper for Boston taxi drivers is shutting down, and blaming Uber — For 45 years, taxi drivers in Boston have relied on Carriage News, a private trade newspaper, to read about all of the goings-on in the local taxi industry. Now, the paper's owner has announced that Carriage News will cease printing …
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@kevinroose and @mathewi
Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Trinity Mirror and Media Trust team for community reporting — Sixty young reporters offered training and mentoring to tell their stories and bring more diverse voices in the newsroom — Trinity Mirror and the Media Trust have partnered up on a project to offer journalism training …
Darwin G. Amojelar / Manila Standard Today:
Bloomberg TV will launch in Philippines this year, teaming up with Cignal TV — PLDT, Bloomberg team up to launch television channel — The pay television unit of the PLDT Group is set to air the country's first 24-hour business news channel in June this year.
Discussion:
InterAksyon.com, Bloomberg L.P. and RAPPLER
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Johnston Press launches website to reach Belfast's ‘millennials’ — Publisher expands its presence in Northern Ireland with a digital title — Johnston Press is expanding its presence in Northern Ireland by launching a digital title, BelfastVibe, aimed at a young audience, the so-called millennials, aged from 18 to 35.
Discussion:
Belfast Newsletter
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Johnston Press posts pre-tax loss of £23.9m
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@marksweney, Press Gazette, allmediascotland, Insider Media Ltd and RTTNews
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