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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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PRNewser and Journalism.org
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Amy Mitchell / Pew Research Journalism Project:
State of the News Media 2015
State of the News Media 2015
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TVNewser, Journalism.org, E&, Adweek, Washington Post, Politico, Nieman Lab, @pewinternet, Capital New York, The Atlantic, Radio and TV Talk, Politico, Talking Biz News, @gfgao, Pew Research Center, The Newspaper Guild, TVSpy, @thefix, The Hill, Digiday, @dangillmor, @s_m_i, @pewresearch, FishbowlNY, @pewjournalism and @emilybell
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
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
Time Warner execs: TV has to adapt to an on-demand world — TV, both traditional linear television and streaming services like Netflix and HBO Now, are moving to an on-demand world, Time Warner C.E.O. Jeff Bewkes told analysts this morning on the company's earnings call. “All TV will be going on-demand,” Bewkes said.
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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, timewarner.com, Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap and Variety
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, Pitchfork, Billboard, EW.com, Engadget, TechRadar.com, Vulture, Cult of Mac, Music Week, Music Ally, Ubergizmo, SocialTimes, TIME, SPIN, The A.V. Club, Reuters, hypebot, Business Insider, The Next Web, The Verge and TechCrunch
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
Jon Erlichman / The Wrap:
Lionsgate Considered Starz Acquisition Before Stock Swap With John Malone — During a February earnings call and at a Deutsche Bank media conference in March, Starz CEO Chris Albrecht described the pay-TV service and Lionsgate Entertainment as “kissing cousins.”
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
HBO and Showtime sue two streaming sites for piracy in advance of Saturday boxing match, ask for injunction and for ISPs to block sites during match — Showtime and HBO Sue Over ‘Pre-Piracy’ — HBO and Showtime are no stranger to online piracy. Their TV-shows are pirated millions of times each month.
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Deadline and Bloomberg Business
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Al Jazeera America Management in Turmoil Amid Pressure From Parent Company — On the heels of an explosive wrongful termination lawsuit, sources report that a major shakeup of operations and programming has been in the works for months at the Al Jazeera America cable news channel.
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TVNewser, International Business Times and TVNewser
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
David Letterman Reflects on 33 Years in Late-Night Television … Credit: Damon Winter/The New York Times — In a single bound, David Letterman seemed to leap the full length of the stage at the Ed Sullivan Theater, racing from backstage as if he'd been thrust forward by the fanfare played …
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Rolling Stone, Variety, ABC News, Splitsider, The Wrap, Mediaite, TVLine, Hollywood Life, Refinery29, UPROXX, Mashable, kottke.org, Pitchfork and The Week
Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
Clifford Levy promoted to New York Times masthead — The New York Times has promoted Clifford Levy to a “masthead role” as assistant editor, executive editor Dean Baquet announced in a Wednesday afternoon memo provided to Capital. — In this role, Levy, an associate masthead editor …
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@liamstack, @davidclinchnews, @dansaltzstein, @edmundlee, The New York Times Company and Talking Biz News
Jack Goldsmith / Lawfare:
Q&A with New York Times Managing Editor Dean Baquet on publishing CIA intelligence, accountability, and more — Interview With Dean Baquet, Executive Editor of New York Times, on Publication Decisions About Intelligence Secrets, and More — On April 25, two days after President Obama announced …
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Techdirt
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
FCC offers largest telecom providers $1.7B in subsidies to expand rural broadband — FCC Makes $1.7B Available for Rural Broadband — Price cap carriers have 120 days to commit — The FCC is offering the largest telecom providers $1.7 billion in subsidies to expand broadband …
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Business Wire and Radio & Television …