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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Medium now has four branded-content partnerships, is looking to fund more content creators; comScore measures about 3M monthly uniques — Medium is courting writers and advertisers. But will the dollars follow? — Medium was created by Twitter's founders, gets contributions from notables …
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FishbowlNY
Wall Street Journal:
Disney to invest $250M in fantasy sports site DraftKings, valuing company at $900M; DraftKings commits to spending over $500M on ESPN ads — Disney to Invest $250 Million in Fantasy Site DraftKings — Walt Disney Co. is investing $250 million in online fantasy sports business DraftKings Inc. …
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@danprimack, The Wrap, @ourand_sbj, @shaliniwsj, @pkafka, @joebrennanjr, PandoDaily, VentureBeat, SportsBusiness Daily and Forbes
Walt Hickey / FiveThirtyEight:
Tidal is selling itself on high-fidelity sound, but exclusive access to artists may provide its success or failure — Tidal May Live Or Die On One Thing, And It's Not High-Fidelity Sound — Jay Z launched a new music streaming service, Tidal, this week with a somewhat bizarre press conference.
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The Wrap, Mashable, @mathewi, The FADER and Globe and Mail
Winston Ross / Newsweek:
Confessions of a vulture journalist seeking a story at the Germanwings crash site — Confessions of a Vulture Journalist — By the time I arrived at the staging area in the French Alps last week, I was a day late to the biggest story in the world. German Chancellor Angela Merkel …
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@marklittlenews and @jayrosen_nyu
Jared Malsin / Columbia Journalism Review:
Seymour Hersh on My Lai and the state of investigative journalism — In 1968, a group of American soldiers massacred more than 500 unarmed Vietnamese civilians in a village known in the Army as “Pinkville.” The following year, a young American reporter exposed the massacre in what became …
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@alicesperi, @dancow, @cheeky_geeky, @billgertz, @jasonleopold and Politico
Lincoln Michel / Electric Literature:
Q&A with BuzzFeed Literary Editor Saeed Jones, who will lead literary magazine launching 2016 — BuzzFeed Launches Emerging Writers Fellowship: An Interview with Literary Editor Saeed Jones — BuzzFeed is going literary. The ever-growing media company launched BuzzFeed Books in December of 2013 …
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@theferocity, @bimadew, @jamilsmith, @theferocity, @thelincoln, @lisalibrarian, BuzzFeed, bookforum.com and FishbowlNY
Adam Epstein / Quartz:
The FCC is considering regulation to treat internet TV services more like traditional pay ones — The really important policy affecting the future of TV that no one is talking about — The future of television in the United States may hinge, oddly enough, on the government's interpretation of an 80-year-old law.
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Pocket-lint
Associated Press:
Malaysian cartoonist charged with 9 counts of sedition — KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A Malaysian cartoonist known for lampooning the ruling coalition was charged Friday with nine counts of sedition over a series of tweets criticizing the country's judiciary.
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@zunarkartunis
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Dish rebrands DishWorld as Sling International, offering 200 channels in 18 languages to US customers, starting at $15 per month — Dish Rebrands DishWorld as ‘Sling International’ Over-the-Top Service — Dish Network, the No. 2 satellite TV service in the U.S., announced that DishWorld …
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Wall Street Journal, Business Wire, The Next Web, Home Media Magazine and Deadline
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
To reach bigger audience, California community college paper moves to Medium, stops printing — In a bid for modern coverage, student paper tries a new Medium — Last year, in the wake of a shooting spree in the California town of Isla Vista that left seven people dead …
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@harrymccracken, @jayrosen_nyu, @mtsac and Medium
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Winnipeg Free Press to roll out paywall charging C$0.27 per article or C$17 unlimited per month — The Winnipeg Free Press is launching a paywall that lets readers pay by the article — It's an idea that's been discussed around the news business for years: an iTunes for news.
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@jbenton, @mathewi and @timmcdougall13
Andy / TorrentFreak:
EMI granted summary judgement in Grooveshark copyright case, forcing proactive anti-piracy policy — Grooveshark Publishes Proactive Anti-Piracy Policy — Throughout Grooveshark's history the company has come to rely on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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Grooveshark Blog, Billboard, Plagiarism Today and hypebot
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