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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, E&, Journalism.org, TVSpy, The Atlantic, TVNewser, Digiday, FishbowlNY, Politico, Politico, The Hill, Pew Research Center, @pewresearch, @pewinternet, Variety 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, @jayrosen_nyu, @pewresearch and @emilybell
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.
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Deadline, TechCrunch, /Film, Business Insider, Hulu Blog, VentureBeat, Hollywood Reporter, Wall Street Journal, Home Media Magazine, The Verge, Consumerist, WebProNews, @tcarmody, Mashable, @chriswelch, UPROXX and Engadget
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
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Q&A with Vox CEO Jim Bankoff on the VC money deluge, social networks as friend or foe, branded content, competition with clickbait, and more — Vox CEO Speaks to the Third Phase of Web Media — Strong brands with authority will outlast ‘clickbait’ as ad spending shifts online
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Bloomberg View, Poynter, @whatthebit and Digiday
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
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, Politico, AdAge, The Inquisitr News, TBI Vision, UPROXX, Deadline, The Wrap and C21Media
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Two AJAM Executives Resign Following Ex-Employee Lawsuit — Breaking: Following the filing of a lawsuit by a former employee today, Al Jazeera America's executive vice president of human resources Diana Lee and the executive vice president of communications, Dawn Bridges, have both resigned.
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TVNewser, Washington Post, New York Times, NY Daily News, International Business Times, New York Post, @mlcalderone, @erikwemple and Variety
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
BBC Worldwide Takes 25 Percent Stake in U.K. TV Production Firm Curve Media — BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the U.K. public broadcaster, said Wednesday that it has acquired a 25 percent stake in British factual entertainment producer Curve Media. — It cited the conversion …
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Guardian
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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VRFocus, USA Today, Road to VR, bizjournals, Los Angeles Times, VentureBeat, Re/code and Variety
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Piracy App Popcorn Time Ordered Blocked by U.K. Court — Popcorn Time — the piracy app that's as easy to use as Netflix — has been dealt a blow, although it's surely not fatal. — On Tuesday, a United Kingdom chancery court approved an order requiring major U.K. Internet service providers …
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Engadget, Deadline, The Next Web, Wired.co.uk, TorrentFreak and Hollywood Reporter
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
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 …
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Sky targets 70 redundancies in production services arm — Broadcaster starts consultation with camera, sound and lighting crew, as well as changing work patterns for remaining staff — About 70 Sky staff in areas such as camera work, sound production and lighting are set to be made redundant …
Jack Smith IV / The New York Observer:
Daily Dot confirms funding round; sources say it raised about $10M from another media company — The Daily Dot's Island of Misfit Reporters Raises Over $10 Million — The Internet's own hometown newspaper has grown rapidly to become NYC media's best-kept secret
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@rbbrenner, @hugh_w_forrest, @adampopescu, @nero, @hakantee, @vikram_nz, @lemonsand, @marisakabas, @digiphile, @_austinpowell, @robaeprice, @novaspivack, @joelcifer, @film_girl, @moneyries, @jayrosen_nyu, @_cooper, @sfiegerman, @selenalarson, @antderosa, @ejdickson, @jacksmithiv, @kevinroose, @williamturton, @lainnafader, @summeranne and @adariostrange
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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, New York Times, Bloomberg Business, Business Insider, Multichannel News, Forbes, BBC, TechCrunch, Boing Boing, @martinbeck, @jguynn, USA Today, The Verge, Mashable, @cnbc, CNET, Globe and Mail, Washington Post, Re/code and VentureBeat
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Twitter Improves Ads By Acquiring TellApart, Selling Them Through Google's DoubleClick
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DoubleClick Advertiser, ClickZ, The Twitter Blog, The Twitter Blog and TellApart
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