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Adrian Chen / New York Times:
Former employee on Russia's government-backed troll farm the Internet Research Agency; wreaking havoc on the Internet and now targeting the US — The Agency … Around 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 11 last year, Duval Arthur, director of the Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness for St. Mary Parish …
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Yahoo to livestream web's first NFL game on Oct. 25, pays reported $20M for free broadcast — Yahoo Will Stream the NFL's First Web Game, for Free — A couple of months ago, when the NFL announced that for the first time ever, it would show a regular season game (almost) …
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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
Twitter revokes API access for Sunlight Foundation's Politwhoops site, which showed politicians' deleted tweets, cites violation of developer agreement — Twitter Just Killed Politwoops — A Twitter spokesperson just provided the following statement to Gawker regarding the apparent suspension …
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Reporters complain about officials speaking off-the-record and on background but do the same when interviewed themselves — Why journalists need to practice what they preach — The next time a journalist gripes about some newsmaker's unwillingness to play ball with journalists …
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Lynne Marek / Crain's Chicago Business:
Chicago Tribune cuts about 10 newsroom positions in sports, photo, and editing, and about two dozen across company — Chicago Tribune cuts jobs … The Chicago Tribune, the biggest metropolitan newspaper in the Midwest, is cutting its newsroom staff and shedding other workers as it seeks …
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Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, Robert Feder and Poynter
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Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Snapchat hires Sean Mills, former president of NowThis and The Onion, as Head of Original Content — Snapchat has hired Sean Mills to be its Head of Original content based in New York City, Business Insider has learned. This is Mills' first week on the job. — The company confirmed the hire to Business Insider.
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The Wrap
Sajith Pai / INMA:
How the blockchain could affect media: micro-payments, programming content, advertising — Beyond bitcoin to the blockchain: What it means for news publishers — Blockchains could cause major disruption in many industries. In media, this means an opportunity for securing micro-payments …
Natasha Vargas-Cooper / Jezebel:
The Toast Publisher Nicholas Pavlich has left the company; The Toast is working with third-party publishing firm Hashtag Labs for now — Publisher of The Toast Nick Pavich Is Out for Murky Reasons — Jezebel has learned that Nicholas Pavich has left The Toast, a popular lady site frequented …
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Amina Elahi / Chicago Tribune:
Rivet Radio raised $1.9M since last summer for total of $3.6M from Belo, AP, others to expand audio news on devices and in-car platforms — Rivet Radio using $1.9 million in recent funding on expansion
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VentureBeat, Chicago Business and Built In Chicago
Brian X. Chen / New York Times:
Sources: new Apple TV hardware will not be announced at WWDC — Apple to Unveil Tool Kit for Watch App Developers — SAN FRANCISCO — When Apple began selling the Apple Watch in April, Phillip Ryu did not rush to create an app for the gadget. Because the device has limited animation …
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Michael E. Miller / Washington Post:
Profile of Andrew Jennings, the UK investigative reporter who exposed FIFA corruption — How a curmudgeonly old reporter exposed the FIFA scandal that toppled Sepp Blatter — The biggest news story of the year was breaking, but the journalist responsible was fast asleep.
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89.3 KPCC, @seattlerams, SBNation.com, @nickbilton, @laurbits, @rowandavies, @andreachalupa, @sam_baker, @miamiradiobeast, @kmattio and @proteautype
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Why the Cloud Is Key to Charter's Big Deal for Time Warner Cable — Anyone looking to understand the reasons behind the $78.7 billion deal that Charter Communications struck with TW Cable last week need look no further than their own set-top box. — Cable boxes, and more broadly the platforms …
Erin Griffith / Fortune:
How Facebook quadrupled its video traffic in one year to 4B video streams per day, and is reshaping advertising — How Facebook's video-traffic explosion is shaking up the advertising world — Cenk Uygur can pinpoint the day he realized that Facebook FB video was going to rewrite his business model.
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SocialTimes, Tubefilter and Business Insider
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Interview with Robert Kyncl, YouTube's head of content and business operations, about mobile focus, future growth — YouTube trains its sights on traditional TV: 'It's a no-growth business' — Head of content and business operations, Robert Kyncl says the future for online video is small screens: 'It's all mobile, mobile, mobile'
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American Press Institute, TheMediaBriefing and RAIN News
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Tablet magazine charges for access to its comments, which has moved conversation to its Facebook page, says comment quality has increased and traffic is steady — After deciding to charge for comments, Tablet's conversation moves...to Facebook — After its publication on May 19 …
Allison Schiff / AdExchanger:
Yahoo brings third-party verification tags from comScore, Moat, DoubleVerify, and others to its ads in order to independently verify viewability rates — Yahoo Says Welcome To Third-Party Fraud And Viewability Tags — Brands need to feel confident that their ads are being seen - and “because we said so” is not an acceptable answer.
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