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NBC News alters account of correspondent Richard Engel's kidnapping in Syria in 2012, blames Sunni gang — NBC News Alters Account of Correspondent's Kidnapping in Syria — NBC News on Wednesday revised its account of the 2012 kidnapping of its chief foreign correspondent, Richard Engel …
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
New ASME guidelines remove barriers to editors creating ad content and publishers selling magazine cover ads — Magazine Trade Group Overhauls Advertising Guidelines — Now OK for Editors Make Ads — The American Society of Magazine Editors has overhauled its guidelines …
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Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:
Netflix stock up over 10% after beating estimates for new subscribers: 2.3M in US, and 2.6M non-US; Q1 revenue of $1.57B — Netflix Adds 4.9M New Members In Q1, Sending Shares Up More Than 10% — Following the bell today, Netflix reported its first quarter financial performance …
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Wall Street Journal, Home Media Magazine, Re/code, @richbtig, BuzzFeed, Bloomberg Business, Quartz, Business Insider, Forbes, The Verge, Pocket-lint and USA Today
Jessi Hempel / Wired:
Medium's Ev Williams talks about metrics, comments, and getting people to talk with each other — EV WILLIAMS' RULES FOR QUALITY CONTENT IN THE CLICKBAIT AGE — When Medium launched in 2012, the BuzzFeed-ification of content and content business models hadn't quite hit.
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@sarahcuda, Thanks:@steverubel
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg Business:
NYT Digital Leader ‘Optimistic’ About Role in Social-Media World — When New York Times Co. hired Kinsey Wilson in November to lead the newsroom's digital strategy, it looked for someone to work with him on the business side. Last month, the Times decided that Wilson should do both.
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Bloomberg Business and E&, Thanks:@gerryfsmith
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
NYT Now relaunching as free app on May 11
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FishbowlNY, Poynter, The Next Web, @bydanielvictor, @jasonabbruzzese and @the_fjp
Sriram Sharma / India - The Huffington Post:
Indian companies Cleartrip, NDTV, and Newshunt pulling out of Internet.org, citing commitment to net neutrality — Blow To Internet.org As Indian Internet Companies Begin To Withdraw — A day after Flipkart exited from the Airtel Zero platform, Cleartrip, NDTV, Newshunt and the Times Group announced …
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Cleartrip Blog, BetaNews, Business Insider, PandoDaily, The Next Web, @superglaze, The Verge, Business Standard, YourStory.com and ZDNet
Kaitlin Ugolik / Columbia Journalism Review:
Month-old Bit + Grain's stories are sponsored by local businesses, in a blend of public media funding and native ads, and it hopes to branch into print — How Bit + Grain covers North Carolina's culture — To look at its reader engagement on social media — particularly on image-sharing app Instagram …
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@cjr
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Univision Names Google's Mark Lopez Head of Digital — Univision Communications has hired Mark Lopez, formerly Google's head of U.S. Hispanic audience sales, as executive VP and general manager of Univision Digital. — Lopez, who officially starts May 1, will be based in Miami.
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Radio & Television …, Multichannel News, @isaacleep and TVNewsCheck.com
Ron Nixon / New York Times:
The recent loss of two top execs demonstrate the Voice of America's recent decline — Signs of Turmoil Seen for Voice of America — WASHINGTON — When David Ensor announced last week that he was stepping down as the director of the Voice of America, critics saw the move as the latest sign …
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Washington Free Beacon
The Atlantic Online:
What BuzzFeed can learn from Time, USA Today, and MTV — The Eternal Return of BuzzFeed — What the online juggernaut can learn from Time, USA Today, and MTV — Before Nyan Cat, before “Imma let you finish,” even before rickrolling, there was a small startup in New York dedicated to finding pre-viral content online.
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@moorehn, @cdixon, @brianmanzullo, @rubinafillion, @ylichterman, @megangarber, @amandablair, @id4ro, @yayitsrob and FishbowlNY
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Capital to become POLITICO New York as parent company sets expansion plans — Capital will be rebranded and relaunched as POLITICO New York as part of an expansion at its Beltway-based parent company, which is gearing up to roll out new satellite publications across the U.S. and Europe.
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James Warren / Poynter:
Congress hears testimony on Russian pseudo journalism; ex-RT anchor Elizabeth Wahl cites misleading coverage of Ukraine and Crimea — Congressional hearing: Russia's use of pseudo journalism against U.S. — Russia is essentially “weaponizing” information through the effective …
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@osfjustice and Voice of America
Luke Bailey / BuzzFeed:
Social Chain is a British viral content company making money through dubious advertising models — Meet The Company Secretly Running All Your Favourite Social Media Accounts — A group of twentysomethings in Manchester are taking over Twitter in Britain, and making hundreds of thousands of pounds in the process.
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