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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Source: Owner of Gristedes grocery chain, John Catsimatidis, made a bid larger than Cablevision's $1 for The Daily News — Daily News Said to Get Bids From Cablevision and Billionaire Grocer — The billionaire owner of the grocery chain Gristedes, and the owner of Newsday …
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NYT's Apple Watch app features custom one-sentence stories with images and bullet points; readers can use Handoff to continue reading on iPhone or iPad — The Times Rolls Out One-Sentence Stories on Apple Watch — The New York Times has developed a new form of storytelling to help readers catch up in seconds on Apple Watch.
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Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
New Daily Show host Trevor Noah comes under fire for misogynistic, anti-Semitic tweets — Comedy Central Stands Behind Trevor Noah, New ‘Daily Show’ Host, Amid Scrutiny — Within hours of the announcement that he had been named the new host of “The Daily Show,” the comedian Trevor Noah …
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Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:
Facebook says a dip in reach numbers for publishers in February was due to a data glitch, not a real decline in delivery of posts — Facebook claims Newsfeed dip for news sites was a mere ‘bug’ — Facebook giveth traffic. Hath Facebook taken it away? — The social network …
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Angela Chen / Wall Street Journal:
Charter Communications to acquire cable operator Bright House in $10.4B stock-and-cash deal, will control 73.7%, partnering with Advance/Newhouse and Liberty — Charter Communications to Buy Cable Operator Bright House Networks — The deal, valued at $10.4 billion, comes as the pay-TV industry rapidly consolidates
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
The Indianapolis Star took a bold stand in print but forced the editorial into a standard Gannett template online — When your newspaper wants to make a big statement, make sure you're making it online too — Indiana's passed a bill that many say allows state-sanctioned discrimination …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitter Publicly Launches Curator, Its Real-Time Search And Filtering Tool For Media Outlets — Twitter this morning is launching Curator, its new product that lets media organizations, publishers, and broadcasters identify, filter and display tweets and Vine videos on any screen in real-time.
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Brand marketing now makes up 10% of Storyful's business, says chief revenue officer Michael Sadicario — Why Storyful is expanding its business to work with brands — DUBLIN — During halftime of a February 2013 basketball game at Mississippi's William Carey University …
Hollywood Reporter:
Hollywood Reporter Inks Content Partnership With China's Tencent — The Hollywood Reporter has entered into a multi-year content deal with Tencent. The partnership will see THR's news, features and videos syndicated across platforms of the China-based web giant.
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
How NPR doubled its podcasting revenue in 2014 by pruning offerings and using cross-promotion, and how it expects to double revenue again in 2015 — Inside NPR's podcasting strategy — In January, months after “Serial” rocketed to the top of the iTunes podcasting charts and ignited …
Amy Schatz / Re/code:
Comcast CFO to Step Down and Run $4 Billion Investment Arm for Comcast — Comcast Chief Financial Officer Michael Angelakis is leaving the cable giant to launch a new Comcast-funded investment company that will focus on investing and operating “growth-oriented” companies, the company said Tuesday.
David Corbin / Tech in Asia:
Japanese news app SmartNews nabs $10M bridge round, at pre-money valuation of $320M — The back-and-forth between SmartNews and Gunosy, Japan's premier news apps that are taking their domestic war global, added a new chapter today. Only a week after Gunosy filed for a US$263 million IPO …
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