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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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Matthew Gilley / Press Gazette:
Londoners quizzed by Press Gazette disagree with Labour on need for tougher press regulation — Most members of the public quizzed by Press Gazette in a vox pop today did not appear to agree with Labour's manifesto plan for tougher press regulation. — The Labour Party's general election …
Gerald Lynch / Gizmodo UK:
Chancellor George Osborne Wants BBC to be Regulated by Ofcom
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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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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
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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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, TechCrunch, @peard33, @tanyasic, @niemanlab and @dannysullivan
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, @dynamofire, @doriean, Poynter, @henryctaylor, @jayrosen_nyu, The Wrap, @hadas_gold, @jktrotter, @rossneumann and @leahfinnegan
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, @petersontee and Adweek
Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
Facebook-Times partnership affirmed by magazine editor Jake Silverstein — The New York Times has kept mum about a March 23 report in its pages that suggested that the Times, among other news organizations, was in talks with Facebook about hosting some of its journalism on the social media platform.
Discussion:
@sfiegerman
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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