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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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Scribd found that paying publishers based on how much readers read is too expensive in genres like romance — What Scribd's growing pains mean for the future of digital content subscription models — Netflix earned more than $5 billion in 2014. No wonder companies want to be …
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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, Re/code, Digiday, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Business Insider and Marketing Land


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


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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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


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.


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, @tvnewslab, The Independent and Daily Mail

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, FierceCable, Deadline, Hollywood Reporter, Consumerist, CBS Corporation and Broadcasting & Cable


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.


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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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.