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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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Committee to Protect …, The Huffington Post, @ruskin147, @themediatweets, Al Jazeera English, @bendwalsh, @tomwarren, @alexgoldmark, @susborne, @ibnlarry, @ruskin147, @andrroy, @andrewmleber, @mattgarrahan, NPR, Gulf Business, International Business Times, Channel NewsAsia, The Huffington Post, @msintervention, @ncgeehan, @orlaguerin, @colvinius, @ruadhanit, @anupkaphle, Arabian Business, @monstris and @kayburley
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Matthew Weaver / Guardian:
Fifa to investigate arrest of BBC news team in Qatar
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Mashable, The Independent, Press Gazette, @andrewfeinstein and @alauraschneider
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Survey: News orgs are prioritizing mobile development and placing less emphasis on paywalls — Anyone running a news organization — particularly one born in print, still struggling to adapt to the Internet — knows there are too many things to do: too many moves to make, too many innovations to chase …
Discussion:
@emersongreg and Trends in the Living Networks
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, The Next Web, AdAge, @devindigital and @henrymance
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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Radio & Television …, TVSpy, AdAge, Variety and Digital Media Wire
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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Washington Post, Gawker, USA Today and Poynter
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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, Publishers Lunch, @nikkifinke, @cschweitz, Gawker, @hwooddementia, @alexweprin and Poynter
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Starbucks Teams Up With Spotify For In-Store Music, Loyalty Program — Starbucks is partnering with Spotify to bring the music service's playlists to all of its U.S. retail locations this fall, the two companies announced Monday afternoon. — All 150,000 U.S.-based Starbucks retail employees …
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Bloomberg Business, New York Times, TechCrunch, USA Today, The Seattle Times, Billboard, The Next Web and Spotify Blog
Emily Bell / Guardian:
UsVsTh3m's demise shows challenge of making news for Facebook — As news organisations sign up to publish straight to Facebook with Instant Articles, Trinity Mirror's decision to cull new formats teams shows how social media is changing publishers' priorities
Discussion:
@brianboyer, @blakehounshell and @digiphile
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.
Discussion:
@jayrosen_nyu and @raju
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Appeals court reverses its earlier decision, allows Google to keep “Innocence of Muslims” on YouTube — Controversial ‘Innocence of Muslims’ Ruling Reversed By Appeals Court — The 9th Circuit now rules against an actress who attempted to get YouTube to remove the film.
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The Wrap, The Hill, USA Today, Ars Technica, Mercury News, Reuters, Variety, The Verge and NPR
David Lieberman / Deadline:
In open letter to Tim Cook, Icahn trumpets big market for Apple in television, for hardware and streaming — Carl Icahn: Apple's TV Plans Will Help To Create A “Mega-Ecosystem” — Apple is tight-lipped about whether, let alone how, it might sell TV sets and an online video service that would compete with cable and satellite.
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 …
Discussion:
@natashatynes
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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