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Twitter implies to publishers using Meerkat that it may cut off access to Amplify service, if they do not use Periscope exclusively — Twitter Is Pushing Celebrities And Publishers To Stop Using Meerkat — Twitter is doing whatever it can to help its live video streaming acquisition Periscope beat independent competitor Meerkat.
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Nieman Lab, App Advice, @johnlegere, SlashGear, @henryctaylor and Adweek
Jack Shepherd / Journalism.co.uk:
University of Florida partners with Yik Yak to let journalism students post geolocated news to the app, only readable on or near campus — University of Florida explores geolocation news feeds — The university has teamed up with social media app Yik Yak to bring its students the latest local news
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streetfightmag.com
Trevor Timm / Columbia Journalism Review:
Times, BuzzFeed, other news organizations deals with Facebook give the social network power to censor the news — The most concerning element of Facebook's potential new power — “Facebook has more power in determining who can speak and who can be heard around the globe than any Supreme Court justice, any king or any president.”
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@vindugoel, @cjr and @trevortimm
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
How publishers are using Facebook interest targeting to reach niche audiences
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@simonowens and @lheron
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Nate Silver and Circa editor-in-chief Anthony De Rosa accuse Vox of stealing charts without attribution — Nate Silver to Vox: Stop stealing our charts! … FiveThirtyEight founder and statistics guru Nate Silver has accused Ezra Klein's Vox.com of stealing other people's charts without attribution.
Matthew Belloni / Hollywood Reporter:
How Much Time Do the Morning Shows Spend Promoting Company Projects? — In 2011, New NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke famously implemented Project Symphony, an effort to synergize better the various corners of the empire to help promote one another. Nowhere has the strategy been more evident …
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@thrmattbelloni, @tvnewslab, @brianstelter and @donlday
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Winners for the Pulitzer Prizes will be announced next Monday — The winners of the 99th Pulitzer Prizes will be announced Monday, April 20, at 3 p.m. eastern, Columbia University announced in a press release. The winners will be announced on the prize's site, Twitter feed and YouTube channel.
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Amazon launches X-Ray on Fire TV to bring IMDb movie and TV data to the big screen — Amazon is bringing its “X-Ray for Movies and TV” service to the big screen for the first time, with the news that the contextual information offering is rolling out for Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick.
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LostRemote, Fast Company, BuzzFeed, TheStreet.com, Wired, TechCrunch, GeekWire, SlashGear, The Next Web and Engadget
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Behind Time Warner's struggle to launch HBO Now without alienating pay-TV providers — Behind Time Warner Chief's ‘Cord-Cutter’ Pitch — CEO Jeff Bewkes wants to sell HBO online but must win over pay-TV providers — Just before 2 a.m. at his waterfront home in Greenwich, Conn. …
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New York Times
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Labour manifesto pledge to change media ownership rules and implement Leveson recommendations — The Labour Party has today pledged “implementation of the recommendations of the Leveson Inquiry” in its 2015 election manifesto. (Labour leader Ed Miliband pictured, Reuters)
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Former NBC correspondent Chris Hansen will launch a Kickstarter campaign to revive “To Catch a Predator” series on Wednesday, called Hansen vs. Predator — Chris Hansen using crowd funding to get back to catching predators — Chris Hansen is going back into the predator-catching business …
Discussion:
TVNewser, @securityconcern and @countkwokula
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Watchup Streaming-News Startup Expands Local TV Reach in Deals with Meredith, E.W. Scripps and Others — Watchup, a Tribune Media-backed startup with a service that personalized newscasts to Internet-video devices, has expanded its reach to about 80% of the local markets in the U.S. through deals …
Discussion:
LostRemote and TVSpy
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Wall Street Journal brings designers and coders into the newsroom to work alongside journalists — Designers, coders and developers to join WSJ newsroom — Wall Street Journal managing editor Gerard Baker sent out the following announcement to the staff on Friday:
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FishbowlNY and @chris_ciaccia
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