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Dylan Byers / Politico:
CNN political reporter Peter Hamby is joining Snapchat as Head of News — Peter Hamby leaving CNN for Snapchat — Peter Hamby, widely recognized by Beltway insiders as one of CNN's best political reporters, is leaving the network to join Snapchat as Head of News, the On Media blog has learned.
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Jane Martinson / Guardian:
Google and eight European publishers plan Digital News Initiative to develop news business models, with $163M Google innovation fund — Google admits mistakes with news outlets as it announces new partnership — The Digital News Initiative is likely to be seen as an attempt for Google …
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
At NewFronts, BuzzFeed unveils a system for tracking how stories and videos travel via social shares and one-to-one communication platforms like Gchat and email — BuzzFeed's answer to measuring social sharing? Pounds — BuzzFeed wants to find a better way to weigh its viral success, and it wants to convert clicks to Pounds.
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Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times:
Six writers withdraw as literary hosts of PEN gala after it gives freedom of expression award to Charlie Hebdo — Six PEN Members Decline Gala After Award for Charlie Hebdo — The decision by PEN American Center to give its annual Freedom of Expression Courage award to the French satirical …
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
New York Times airs its first virtual reality film at NewFront presentation to advertisers — Times pushes virtual reality, video series at its ‘NewFront’ — The New York Times is adding virtual reality to its growing roster of video content as it races to scale digital revenues.
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@joepompeo, AdAge, Adweek and Broadcasting & Cable
Tricia Duryee / GeekWire:
Amazon tests third-party editorial content, starting with travel gear reviews from The Wirecutter … Amazon has started using third-party editorial content on its homepage to provide a deeper level of recommendations for some of the products it sells. — The company has partnered with The Wirecutter …
Eric Blattberg / Digiday:
PopSugar unveiling daily show PopSugar Rush at NewFronts on April 30, will run on Facebook for 24 hours before hitting YouTube, PopSugar site — How PopSugar went from zero to 14 mil. Facebook video views a month — Six months ago, women's lifestyle publisher PopSugar had a simple video strategy …
Kathryn Bachman / Katy on the Hill:
ESPN files lawsuit against Verizon over skinny TV packages — ESPN filed suit against Verizon over its Custom TV packages, which allows FiOS customers to pick and choose between ESPN and ESPN2. The suit was filed Monday morning in the New York State Court.
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Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
Bloomberg pitches to advertisers with international expansion to Europe later this week and to Asia in a few months, plus new video tech, Responsive.TV — Bloomberg touts ‘very wealthy’ subscriber audience in inaugural NewFront pitch — Bloomberg Media delivered its first NewFront presentation …
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Adweek, AdAge and Talking Biz News
Christiane Amanpour / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Committee to Protect Journalists releases Attacks on the Press, documenting dangers globally — Foreword — In Pakistan, an unknown gunman shoots a news anchor multiple times. No one is arrested for the crime, though the journalist is—for his reporting.
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Committee to Protect …, Poynter and New York Times
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Huffington Post to launch Highline, weekly installments of longform journalism, under ex-TNR editors Greg Veis and Rachel Morris — HuffPost readies to launch longform initiative — The Huffington Post will soon publish the first article of a new longform venture captained by two former editors …
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Ayman al-Warfalli / Reuters:
Islamic State kills five journalists working for Libyan TV station-army official — (Reuters) - Islamic State militants have slit the throats of five journalists working for a Libyan TV station in the eastern part of the country, an army commander said on Monday.
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