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Amy Mitchell / Pew Research Journalism Project:
State of the News Media 2015 — Call it a mobile majority. At the start of 2015, 39 of the top 50 digital news websites have more traffic to their sites and associated applications coming from mobile devices than from desktop computers, according to Pew Research Center's analysis of comScore data.
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Nieman Lab, Journalism.org, E&, TVNewser, Adweek, Politico, Capital New York, Digiday, TVSpy, The Atlantic, Radio and TV Talk, FishbowlNY, @gfgao, The Hill, Politico, @pewresearch, @pewinternet, @thefix, Pew Research Center, @s_m_i, @dangillmor, Variety, @pewjournalism and @emilybell
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Pew annual report on news ranks top online-only sites, finds small audience increases for local and network TV news, struggling cable news, digital ad strength — State of the News Media 2015 — A new ranking of digital sites — The Pew Research Center's 12th annual State …
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Journalism.org, @ezraklein, @jayrosen_nyu, @pewresearch, @thefix and @emilybell
Dylan Byers / Politico:
91% of Americans over 12 listen to AM/FM radio, more than half to online radio; podcast listeners have doubled since 2008 — Online radio, podcasts on the rise — Traditional AM/FM radio continues to reach the majority of the country while online radio and podcasts are …
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Journalism.org
Roger Yu / USA Today:
Pew Study: more readers come to news sites from mobile than desktop but spend less time
Pew Study: more readers come to news sites from mobile than desktop but spend less time
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ABC News, CNNMoney, Quartz, @pewresearch and Multichannel News
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Hulu Sets Mammoth ‘Seinfeld’ Licensing Deal Worth Nearly $180 Million — In another sign that Hulu is stepping up its game, the digital video giant has landed the SVOD rights to “Seinfeld,” cutting a deal with Sony Pictures TV for all 180 episodes of the enduring NBC comedy.
Benjamin Freed / Washingtonian:
More than 800K NPR clips now available for embedding on any website — NPR Clips Can Now Be Embedded on Other Websites — The network is making 800,000 clips available to post inside other websites. — Ever hear a memorable public-radio story segment that you've wanted to share …
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NPR.org
Reggie Ugwu / BuzzFeed:
Instagram's @music account, its first official content vertical, will showcase popular and emerging artists — Instagram Launches Dedicated Music Channel @Music — The Facebook-owned social network's first category-specific vertical will showcase popular and emerging artists. — Jared Eberhardt / Instagram
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Pitchfork, Billboard, TechRadar.com, Reuters, EW.com, TechCrunch, Music Ally, Ubergizmo, Music Week, Vulture, Cult of Mac, The A.V. Club, SPIN, TIME, Instagram Blog, hypebot, Business Insider, Engadget, The Next Web and The Verge
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
A&E's History Channel expansion H2 expected to be turned over to Vice for 2016 channel launch — A&E's H2 Channel to Become Vice — A&E Television Networks's H2 is history. — The Hearst and Disney-owned media company has pulled the plug on the historical and science-skewing channel and will be rebranding it as Vice.
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New York Post, Hollywood Reporter, AdAge, Politico, Mashable, VideoInk, UPROXX, TBI Vision, The Inquisitr News, The Wrap, C21Media and Deadline
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Yahoo Introduces 18 Digital Series at NewFronts — Internet companies and publishers are playing up their original programming and trotting out celebrities this week in an attempt to stoke advertiser interest in digital video. — Yahoo unveiled 18 new series on Monday night …
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Business Wire, Bloomberg Business, Hollywood Reporter, Fast Company, StreamDaily, The Drum and Deadline
Alexander Klöpping / Medium:
Blendle CEO Alexander Klöpping: pay-per-article works for journalism but not news, and other lessons from the startup's first year in business — A radical experiment with micropayments in journalism, 365 days later — One year of journalism without subscriptions, without ads and without clickbait
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PublishingLab and @dryfe, Thanks:@alexandernl
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
The New Yorker teams up with WNYC on national radio show and podcast — The New Yorker and WNYC are working together to produce a new national radio show and podcast set to premiere this fall. — The one-hour weekly program, which does not yet have a name or launch date …
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FishbowlNY and @gregorydjohnsen
Vanessa Gera / Associated Press:
Polish authorities say Russian reporter a danger to Poland — 3 photos — WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish authorities accused a Russian journalist working for a pro-Kremlin news agency of posing a threat to Poland's security, saying Wednesday that he should be deported.
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ABC News
Bryan Bishop / The Verge:
Lucasfilm alums join Jaunt as it launches VR movie studio in LA — VR company Jaunt is starting a virtual reality movie studio — As virtual reality steadily moves closer to mainstream reality, one of the biggest outstanding questions is content: how popular can VR devices get if there's nothing …
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@mgsiegler, VRFocus, USA Today, Road to VR, bizjournals, Los Angeles Times, VentureBeat, Re/code and Variety
Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat:
Apple's iTunes Store woes continue as sales of books, music, and videos fell 4 percent in Q2 — Apple today reported that sales of digital media fell 4 percent in the second quarter of 2015 and by 5 percent for the first six months of its fiscal year 2015. — The disclosure came …
CNBC:
Twitter shares close down 18% on Q1 revenue of $436M that missed expectations, and weak forecast — Twitter closes 18% lower on disappointing report — Twitter's earnings came out early, and the stock halted for trading. CNBC's Mary Thompson reports on the first trade as the stock resumed trading.
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@selerity, SocialTimes, The Wrap, New York Times, Bloomberg Business, Business Insider, Multichannel News, Forbes, BBC, @martinbeck, @jguynn, Boing Boing, The Verge, USA Today, Mashable, CNET, Globe and Mail, Washington Post, Re/code, VentureBeat and @cnbc
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Twitter Improves Ads By Acquiring TellApart, Selling Them Through Google's DoubleClick
Twitter Improves Ads By Acquiring TellApart, Selling Them Through Google's DoubleClick
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DoubleClick Advertiser, Music Ally, The Twitter Blog, ClickZ and The Twitter Blog