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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Harvard Business Review hopes to grow subscriptions by offering new products at a higher price of of $109/year — Added value: How Harvard Business Review thinks it can add subscribers while getting more expensive — Harvard Business Review is trying to walk a fine line …
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Talking Biz News
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
CNN Politics made traffic gains by hiring print reporters, publishing online first, and repackaging for broadcast — How CNN took a startup approach to politics — CNN gets its share of flak from media elites, but it has been on something of an innovation tear lately, taking a bit of inspiration from an unlikely source: print.
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@nowthised
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Released State Department email says Pulitzer winner Leslie Gelb promised Hillary Clinton a “veto” over profile of her — Leslie Gelb admits to giving Hillary Clinton advance read on 2009 profile — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Leslie Gelb says he did not give Hillary Clinton …
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Mother Jones, Washington Post, @kerpen, @dylanbyers, @jrubinblogger, @jpodhoretz and Bloomberg Business
Michael Rondon / Folio:
MediaFinder report: in first half of 2015, 60 magazine titles were launched and 23 closed — Magazine Industry Growth Slows — While first-half magazine launches outpaced title shutdowns for the sixth year in a row, the bottom line isn't great: net growth is dwindling. — First, the good news.
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Press can't see Hulk Hogan sex tape at trial, judge orders — Hulk Hogan is used to performing for a crowd. In his decades-long career as a professional wrestler, his matches drew thousands of spectators. But thanks to a ruling from a Florida judge, the raciest part of his latest contest will receive less public scrutiny.
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Re/code and The Intercept
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Facebook to begin sharing revenue with video creators like the NBA, Fox Sports, and Hearst from ads in Suggested Videos section; Facebook takes 45% — Facebook Unveils First Way for Video Partners to Earn Ad Revenue — Social giant testing ‘suggested videos’ with video ads; partners include NBA …
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Ad Age, VentureBeat, Re/code, The Next Web, Marketing Land and Business Insider
Jane Martinson / Guardian:
New round of BBC job cuts expected as declining license fee revenue creates budget shortfall of £150m — BBC aims to become ‘leaner and simpler’ with new round of job cuts — Drop in the number of licence fee payers leaves broadcaster with a £150m hole in its finances
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Press Gazette, The Independent, @tvnewslab and Daily Mail
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Interview with Greg Barber, director of digital news projects at The Washington Post and head of strategy and partnerships at The Coral Project — ‘Ego is a liability in the newsroom’ - Q&A with Greg Barber — Curiosity, flexibility, tenacity - three things the director of digital news projects …
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allmediascotland
Steve Friess / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at podcasting as it celebrates its tenth anniversary — The media milestone the media (fittingly?) forgot — One decade ago this weekend, millions of iPod owners woke up to a quiet change to the iTunes software they probably didn't even notice. The really revolutionary updates usually …
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
What's the view from Europe on where news is headed? Check out these videos from Newsgeist — Newsgeist — formerly known, just as idiosyncratically, as Newsfoo — is an annual-or-so unconference/gathering of journalists, technologists, media execs, and other future-of-news types for discussion, mingling, and pretty good food.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Pluto TV, An Online Video Service Targeting Cord Cutters, Will Soon Stream Hulu — Up-and-coming video streaming service aimed at cord cutters, Pluto.TV, will now be distributing Hulu's free content, thanks to a new distribution agreement between the two companies.
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
CBS and AT&T reach carriage deal to keep CBS local stations, Showtime, Smithsonian Channel, and CBS Sports Network on U-Verse — CBS, AT&T Reach New Distribution Deal — Both sides negotiate through the night to avoid a blackout — CBS Corp. and AT&T 's U-Verse have reached …
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Multichannel News, Deadline, Consumerist, Hollywood Reporter, Broadcasting & Cable, FierceCable and CBS Corporation