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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon and HarperCollins reach multiyear agreement for both print and digital, allowing HarperCollins to set prices for its ebooks — Amazon, HarperCollins Reach Multiyear Publishing Deal — New agreement expected to go into effect this week — Amazon.com Inc. and HarperCollins Publishers …
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Digital Book World, Engadget, New York Times, Publishers Weekly, @raju, The Drum, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Bookseller News and Financial Times
Kaya Burgess / The Times:
Warning to BBC over ‘suffocating local papers’ … The BBC risks suffocating local newspapers by being a “monopoly broadcaster”, the chancellor has said in a warning shot in advance of negotiations on its charter renewal. — The corporation has been criticised for threatening the existence …
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@editoryp_yep and HoldTheFrontPage
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Gerald Lynch / Gizmodo UK:
Chancellor George Osborne Wants BBC to be Regulated by Ofcom — Chancellor George Osborne is looking to make sweeping changes to the way the BBC is run, should a Conservative government retain pole position in Parliament following the May 7th general election.
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Press Association, BizAsia UK and broadcastnow.co.uk
Jane Martinson / Guardian:
Conservatives give BBC warning of licence fee freeze
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Press Gazette
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Vox Editor-In-Chief Ezra Klein apologizes to FiveThirtyEight for using graphic without link, blames carelessness, explains aggregation approach to words, images — How Vox aggregates — I started as a blogger in the pre-social web, when the only way to build an audience was to have other sites quote or link to your work.
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@jackschofield, @natesilver538, CNNMoney, @heminator, @albertocairo, @natesilver538, @burkeo, @jburnmurdoch, @ahmadmzaghal, @aschweig, @ezraklein, @derektmead, Mediaite, @reckless, @maxcroser, @jonathanchait, @sfiegerman, Poynter, @robneyer, @felixsalmon, @ylichterman, @mattboggie, @jessicakroy, @justinnxt, @chadmurphyumw and The Wrap
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
General Electric Planning Television Series Covering Science and Tech — In an age when viewers increasingly fast-forward past television commercials on their DVRs or bypass most advertisements altogether by streaming the programs, companies are constantly looking for new ways to reach consumers.
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@peterlauria3
J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
BuzzFeed staffer Arabelle Sicardi resigns after her post critical of advertiser Dove was deleted and then restored after criticism — Arabelle Sicardi, Author of Deleted Dove Post, Resigns From BuzzFeed — Arabelle Sicardi, who wrote a BuzzFeed post criticizing Dove that was later deleted …
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@arabellesicardi, Poynter, @dynamofire, @doriean, @henryctaylor, @jayrosen_nyu, @hadas_gold, The Wrap, @jktrotter, @rossneumann and @leahfinnegan
Tanya Sichynsky / Nieman Lab:
What USA Today Sports learned covering the Final Four on Periscope and Snapchat — There's no shortage of ways to reach new audiences — the challenge is figuring out which are worth investing time in and what to do with them. At USA Today Sports, where I work, two platforms we're trying …
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Mediashift, @peard33, @tanyasic, @niemanlab, @dannysullivan and TechCrunch
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Snapchat Is No Longer Selling Its Original Ad Unit, Brand Stories — Snapchat is making a few tweaks to its six-month-old ad business. — The company has stopped selling Brand Stories, the first type of ad released by the company last fall, according to multiple people familiar with the move.
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Reynolds Center and Adweek
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Reader's Digest signs multi-million dollar deal with Taboola to provide sponsored content — Reader's Digest Signs Multi-Million Dollar Deal with Taboola — Reader's Digest Association (RDA) is going all in on sponsored links. The company has signed a multi-million dollar deal with Taboola …
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AdExchanger
Ben Wolford / Medium:
Journalism curator Longform picks up an article from fledgling Latterly magazine, giving the founder a moment of journalistic validation — Sometimes the internet cuts indie journalism a break — This morning, a Latterly story was picked by Longform.org. — It's a small thing, I know.
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@benwolford, @alexckaufman, @sonyaellenmann and Medium
Libby Brooks / Guardian:
Andy Coulson perjury trial delayed until after general election — The case was due to start at the high court in Edinburgh on 21 April but will now begin on 11 May — The trial of Andy Coulson, the former News of the World editor who is facing a perjury charge, has been pushed back until after the general election.
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BBC, @b12simon, STV News, @andrewspoooner and allmediascotland
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