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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 and Appsoko-Trending News
Alex Sherman / Bloomberg Business:
Streaming's quick adoption may force cable companies to compete with each other, which they've avoided in the past — Why the Cable Companies You Hate May Be Forced to Compete Online — (Bloomberg) — The largest U.S. cable companies may be approaching a cliff they've long tried to avoid — competition with each other.
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@richbtig
Al Jazeera English:
Nigeria releases detained Al Jazeera journalists — Ahmed Idris and Ali Mustapha leave Maiduguri, where they were detained and are now at the network's office in Abuja. — Ahmed Idris and Ali Mustapha have now completed the journey back to Al Jazeera's bureau in Abuja [Al Jazeera]
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allAfrica.com and Premium Times Nigeria
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Writer of Rolling Stone UVA rape story, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, expected to release apologetic statement Sunday night — Whatever came of the author of the botched Rolling Stone rape article? — Her tweet from late November reads likes it's in suspended animation, written in the calm before the storm.
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Mediaite, @brianstelter, @jayrosen_nyu, Poynter, Washington Post and The New York Observer
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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@jayrosen_nyu, @marklittlenews and @patomahony1
Shannon Bond / Financial Times:
A look at the Newhouse family's media empire as it prepares to sell Brighthouse and get part of Charter — Newhouse family enters cable's top tier — The Newhouse family's media empire spans the glossy magazines of Condé Nast, a clutch of local US newspapers and a controlling stake …
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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The Wrap, @danprimack, @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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@mathewi, The Wrap, Mashable, The FADER and Globe and Mail
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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@thelincoln, @theferocity, @clmporg, @bimadew, @jamilsmith, @theferocity, @lisalibrarian, bookforum.com, FishbowlNY and BuzzFeed
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, @jasonleopold, @billgertz and Politico
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.
Discussion:
@zunarkartunis
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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@mathewi, @jbenton and @timmcdougall13
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