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Scripps, Journal Communications Complete Merger And Spinoff — The E.W. Scripps Company has completed its merger of broadcast assets with Journal Communications and the two companies have spun off their respective newspaper properties, Scripps announced on Wednesday.
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Broadcasting & Cable, JSOnline and TVSpy
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Apple wants TV networks to handle infrastructure and costs of streaming for its video service — Apple Asks TV Programmers to Supply Their Own Streams for Apple's TV Service — Apple wants the TV guys to provide their shows for its proposed streaming video service.
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AppleInsider, @stevekovach, @jyarow, @paulgreenberg, The Verge, MacRumors and 9to5Mac
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Sling TV will offer HBO for $15/month by April 12 as part of Dish and Turner distribution deal — Sling TV's Service For Cord Cutters Will Offer HBO Starting Next Month — Sling TV, Dish's new over-the-top service designed for cord cutters, announced today that it will become …
Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:
The Guardian targets oil companies with ‘unprecedented’ climate-change campaign — Climate change is one of those large, sweeping stories in which history has not made a dent in more than 30 years. Alan Rusbridger, the editor in chief of the Guardian, decided to tackle it in a six-month, all-hands blitz
Discussion:
Guardian, Guardian and @jayrosen_nyu
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Rubicon Project acquires Canadian ad intent marketing firm Chango for $122M in stock and cash — In Advertising Technology Deal, Rubicon Buys Chango — The advertising company Rubicon Project said on Tuesday that it had agreed to buy the Canadian start-up Chango for about $122 million …
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investor.rubiconproject.com, VentureBeat, AdExchanger and Marketing Land
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
68% of smart phone users occasionally and 33% frequently follow breaking news via mobile — Pew Report: News consumers are increasingly using smartphones — A report from the Pew Research Center released Wednesday shows that smartphone ownership has nearly doubled in recent years …
Discussion:
Multichannel News, Quartz, @pewinternet, Pew Research Center and Pew Internet
Julie Posetti / WAN-IFRA:
Three months after the Charlie Hebdo killings, Paris newsrooms remain under armed guard — Three months after ‘Charlie’, Paris newsrooms are still under armed guard — There has been a significant increase in threats to Paris newsrooms in the past two months in the aftermath …
Nataliya Vasilyeva / Associated Press:
Independent Crimean station ATR ceased broadcasting after repeated Russian broadcasting license refusals — Crimea's only Tatar TV station goes off air — MOSCOW (AP) — Crimea's independent television station ATR went off air at midnight on Tuesday after Russian authorities repeatedly refused to give it a broadcasting license.
Discussion:
Guardian
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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SocialTimes, The Awl, The Whip, dna, @ssstrom, @jayrosen_nyu, @pierrefitter, @earcos, @mathewi, American Press Institute and @mikeisaac
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
News website partly funded by EU launches in UK ahead of possible in-out referendum — European Union news and policy website EurActiv has today launched a new website specifically for the UK. — The site, which is part-funded by the EU and also relies on company sponsorship …
Discussion:
@rebel_rock_on and @gazthejourno
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Toronto Star drops paywall, joins Snapchat — The Toronto Star announced Wednesday the retirement of its digital subscription program, formalizing a move that was projected months ago. — The Star also launched a Snapchat account and enabled readers to share its articles with WhatsApp.
Discussion:
Toronto Star and @meg_wagner
Associated Press:
Berkshire Hathaway buys 2 small Virginia newspapers, The Martinsville Bulletin and the Franklin News-Post, from Haskell Newspapers — Berkshire Hathaway buys 2 small Virginia newspapers — OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett's company has added two small Virginia newspapers to its collection …
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