Mediagazer: Nielsen Explains How It's Adapting to the Rise of Online Video (Keach Hagey/Wall Street Journal)

12:35 PM ET, May 18, 2015

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Matthew Weaver / Guardian:

Fifa to investigate arrest of BBC news team in Qatar — Team was on official visit to inspect migrant workers' accommodation after outcry over conditions for those building 2022 World Cup stadiums — Football's governing body, Fifa, has launched an investigation after a BBC news team …

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Financial Times:

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Daniel Popper / American Journalism Review:

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Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:

Nielsen Explains How It's Adapting to the Rise of Online Video — Nielsen has been a controversial character on this year's upfront stages. — At ratings-challenged MTV's upfront last month, it was the villain, decried as “that old measuring system that the industry uses” which …

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Danny Funt / Columbia Journalism Review:

How journalism schools are integrating digital media skills into their curricula to keep pace with industry changes — How journalism schools are adjusting to the digital age — When the digital revolution swept across the media industry, the nation's journalism schools rushed to keep pace.

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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

As Facebook and Google push for control of distribution, publishers must collaborate with these platforms and educate them about journalism — Playing leapfrog and werewolf with Google and Facebook — First Google made its friendship pact with eight old, European publishers, vowing to innovate together.

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Orr Hirschauge / Wall Street Journal:

China's Baidu invests in content recommendation platform Taboola, sources say around $20-30M — Baidu Invests in Content-Recommendation Company Taboola — Chinese Internet giant Baidu Inc. said it is partnering with Taboola Inc. to bring Taboola's content-recommendation platform to China.

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Valentina I. Valentini / Fast Company:

Refinery29 Already Has 25 Million Fans, Now It Wants To Win At Sundance — The lower Manhattan Refinery29 office in spring is the real-life equivalent of the lifestyle company's website. It's all whites and pastels, women everywhere in fashion-forward looks, a buzz in the air that makes a visitor want to be part of this world.

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