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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&, Politico, Adweek, TVNewser, Digiday, Capital New York, TVSpy, Radio and TV Talk, The Atlantic, The Newspaper Guild, The Hill, @pewinternet, @gfgao, @thefix, Politico, Pew Research Center, @s_m_i, @dangillmor, @pewresearch, FishbowlNY, @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, Variety, @ezraklein, @thefix, @jayrosen_nyu, @pewresearch and @emilybell
Roger Yu / USA Today:
Pew Study: more readers come to news sites from mobile than desktop but spend less time — Mobile news on the rise as print decline continues — For news publishers, it's a mobile world. — More readers are coming from mobile devices than computers for 39 of the top 50 digital news sites …
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ABC News, CNNMoney, @pewresearch, Quartz and Multichannel News
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:
Time Warner Q1 net income fell 25% year over year to $970M as costs rose; revenue reaches $7.1B, beating expectations, led by Turner and NCAA basketball revenue — Time Warner revenue jumps on Turner, HBO performance — Time Warner, the media company that owns HBO and TNT …
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Broadcasting & Cable, Financial Times, Bloomberg Business, Hollywood Reporter, timewarner.com, The Wrap and Variety
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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.
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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Instagram Blog, SocialTimes, Pitchfork, Billboard, TechRadar.com, Reuters, EW.com, Music Ally, Ubergizmo, Music Week, Vulture, Cult of Mac, The A.V. Club, SPIN, TIME, Business Insider, TechCrunch, The Verge, The Next Web, hypebot and Engadget
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
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, Mashable, Politico, UPROXX, TBI Vision, The Inquisitr News, AdAge, C21Media, The Wrap, VideoInk and Deadline
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 …
Alan Yuhas / Guardian:
Two dozen writers join Charlie Hebdo PEN award protest — Authors including Junot Díaz and Joyce Carol Oates sign letter protest PEN America's freedom of expression award for French magazine — More than two dozen writers including Junot Díaz, Joyce Carol Oates and Lorrie Moore …
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CNNMoney and bookforum.com
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, Fast Company, StreamDaily, Hollywood Reporter, 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