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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 …
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
The 2016 Election Will Be Live-Streamed: 'We're All C-SPAN Now' — NEW YORK — Mark Halperin just bought a tripod. — The flexible Joby Gorillapod isn't for the crew on “With All Due Respect,” his Bloomberg TV show with John Heilemann. He purchased the iPhone 6 mount, which can wind around a tree …
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 Internet and Pew Research Center
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
Lawyer for failed buyer of Maxim charged with wire fraud in bid to raise $8M for magazine — N.Y. lawyer charged for alleged role in scheme over Maxim magazine — (Reuters) - A New York lawyer was charged on Wednesday over his alleged role in a scheme by a former United Parcel Service Inc executive's son …
Discussion:
Bloomberg Business
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 …
Discussion:
investor.rubiconproject.com, VentureBeat, AdExchanger and Marketing Land
Rob Gillies / Associated Press:
Al-Jazeera journalist says Canada not issuing him passport — TORONTO (AP) — Al-Jazeera English journalist Mohamed Fahmy, who remains in Egypt on bail while awaiting trial on terror charges, said Wednesday Canada is refusing to issue him a new passport. — Fahmy, who was born in Egypt …
Discussion:
@mffahmy11 and @clairetrevena
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 …
Ed Christman / Billboard:
Concord Music Group and Bicycle Music merge, form Concord Bicycle Music, raise $100M, and acquire Vanguard and Sugar Hill Records — Concord and Bicycle Merge to Form Concord Bicycle Music, Acquires Vanguard and Sugar Hill Records — Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails performs on stage
Discussion:
New York Times and AllAccess.com
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.
Discussion:
AppleInsider, @paulgreenberg, @stevekovach, The Verge, @jyarow, MacRumors and 9to5Mac
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
NetNewsCheck:
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.
Discussion:
JSOnline, Broadcasting & Cable and TVSpy
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
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