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Mark Lobel / BBC:
BBC team reporting on 2022 FIFA World Cup workers in Qatar was held for two days in prison — Arrested for reporting on Qatar's World Cup labourers — Improved housing is being built for labourers — We were invited to Qatar by the prime minister's office to see new flagship accommodation …
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The Huffington Post, NPR, @alexgoldmark, Al Jazeera English, @ruskin147, The Huffington Post, @themediatweets, @bendwalsh, @tomwarren, @ncgeehan, Gulf Business, Channel NewsAsia, @colvinius, @susborne, @ibnlarry, @ruskin147, @andrroy, @andrewmleber, @orlaguerin, @ruadhanit, @msintervention, @mattgarrahan, International Business Times, @anupkaphle, Arabian Business, @monstris and @kayburley
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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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The Independent, @alauraschneider, Press Gazette, @andrewfeinstein and Mashable
Financial Times:
Financial Times rolls out ‘cost per hour’ advertising metric — 18 May 2015: The Financial Times today announces the launch of a new digital advertising metric, ‘cost per hour’ (CPH). Working closely with Chartbeat on the new time-based system, the FT is able to increase marketing effectiveness …
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@wblau, AdAge, @devindigital, The Next Web and @henrymance
Lisa de Moraes / Deadline:
Stephanopoulos apologises again, says he donated to Clinton Foundation to support its charitable work, like stopping the spread of AIDS — Stephanopoulos Apologizes Again For Clinton Foundation Donations — George Stephanopoulos apologized on air for a second time …
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Alessandra Stanley / New York Times:
George Stephanopoulos and the Line Between News and Entertainment
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American Press Institute
Nikki Finke:
Nikki Finke launches Hollywood Dementia, a new paywalled site publishing fiction by Hollywood insiders, will charge readers $1 per post — Nikki Finke Announces New Site HollywoodDementia.com — Not since F. Scott Fitzgerald, John O'Hara and more recently Michael Tolkin and Bruce Wagner …
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Business Insider, LA Observed, Gawker, @nikkifinke, @cschweitz, Publishers Lunch, @alexweprin, @hwooddementia and Poynter
Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
Broadcast, cable networks unite to form new trade body, Video Advertising Bureau, to promote TV advertising as digital video takes up more ad budgets — Broadcast, Cable Nets Unite Vs. Online Content — Video Advertising Bureau formed to support ‘multiplatform TV’
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Adweek, Variety and Digital Media Wire
Daniel Popper / American Journalism Review:
Billy Penn CEO Jim Brady talks about the news startup, plans to expand to other cities — Inside Billy Penn with CEO Jim Brady — Editor's Note: This Q&A is part of “Newsroom Spotlight,” a series of conversations with journalists about what's going on in their newsrooms and the media industry.
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@raju and @jayrosen_nyu
Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch:
Videopixie, A Video Production Startup That Connects Buyers And Creators, Raises $1.1M — Videopixie, a Y Combinator alumnus that handles video creation and production (like filming and post-production editing), has raised $1.1 million in seed funding. — The startup connects clients …
Washpostpr / Washington Post:
Washington Post designer used Periscope to live-stream the drawing of the paper's Sports section front — Sports Editor Matt Vita, Designer Dan Worthington on Periscoping last night's Sports section — Last night, Washington Post designer Dan Worthington live-streamed the drawing …
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@natashatynes
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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@stittr
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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@tiniv
Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Tech and media groups draw battle lines for mobile superiority — Verizon-AOL deal and Facebook's news tie-up reveal industry shift — Tracking the technology world's upheavals is like studying the shifting of tectonic plates: the direction of movement may be obvious …
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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@hannah_suppa, @wblau, @lousypennies, @chrismoranuk and @jeffjarvis, Thanks:@steverubel
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