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Tara Conlan / Guardian:
BBC considering move to make news channel online only — Corporation understood to be looking into future of £66.2m TV channel and how live news is covered, with final decision yet to be made — The BBC is considering making its news channel online only following a similar cost-cutting move …
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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
National newspapers back Culture Secretary John Whittingdale as he says the BBC's online presence will be scrutinised in upcoming charter review — BBC news website under attack ahead of charter review as newspapers call for ‘behemoth’ to be ‘tamed’ — The BBC's online news presence …
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Guardian, Guardian, @aahaworth and Telegraph
Madeline Welsh / Nieman Lab:
The New York Times is publishing on WhatsApp for the first time, covering Pope Francis — That unique confluence of New York Times readers, pope watchers, and WhatsApp users must have been excited on a recent June morning when The New York Times announced it would be experimenting …
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@giner and Business Insider
Ellen Pao / Redddit:
Ellen Pao apologizes again, announces new role of Moderator Advocate to be moderators' contact with Reddit, pledges improvements to mod tools — We apologize — We screwed up. Not just on July 2, but also over the past several years. We haven't communicated well …
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Video chief Rebecca Howard to leave New York Times — Rebecca Howard, general manager of video at The New York Times, is set to leave the company later this month after less than two-and-a-half years on the job, sources familiar with the matter told Capital.
Max Willens / International Business Times:
Rdio launches range of specialty radio stations curated by record labels, blogs, and sites — Rdio To Battle Apple Inc.'s Beats 1 With Local Radio Stations Backed By Indie Labels — Apple Music may have Zane Lowe and Drake, but Rdio announced Tuesday it's launching specialty radio stations of its own …
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VentureBeat, MobileSyrup.com, The Next Web and Music Week
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Dmgi, The Daily Mail's VC Arm, Invests $5M In Indian Property Analytics Firm Liases Foras — Dmgi, the venture capital arm of the company behind the British tabloid newspaper — yes, even the Daily Mail does tech investing!! — has continued its spree in data-centric startups in India …
Hollywood Reporter:
Ex-New York Times TV reporter Bill Carter to launch weekly interview show on SiriusXM — Bill Carter to Launch SiriusXM Interview Show — Bill Carter will launch a weekly interview program on SiriusXM. Launching later this summer, The Bill Carter Interview will be broadcast Mondays …
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@brianstelter and @carlquintanilla
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
YouTube up to 240bn monthly video views, with top 100 MCNs worth $10bn — Report claims that more than 22 multi-channel networks reaching 1bn monthly views, as top star PewDiePie's earnings are revealed — The 100 largest multi-channel networks (MCNs) on YouTube may have a collective valuation …
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@ampereanalysis and Engadget
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Verge turns off comments for a bit because tone was getting a little too aggressive and negative — We're turning comments off for a bit — From the very start, community has been at the heart of The Verge — we are unique among almost every major media brand of our size in having a vocal …
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@christophkappes, @mgsiegler, @cshbell, @saramorrison, @thefoodlab and Poynter
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Facebook and YouTube both offer 55/45 revenue split to content creators, but YouTube splits revenue with one creator, Facebook with many — How Facebook's New Video Business Stacks Up Against YouTube — Facebook is stepping on YouTube's turf. — On Wednesday the social network announced …
Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
AJ Daulerio to relaunch Ratter as tabloid site with focus on commentaries and essays, aims to build new Gawker — A.J. Daulerio readies Ratter 2.0 — When he was launching the digital media enterprise Ratter last year, former Gawker editor A.J. Daulerio envisioned a network of local tabloid blogs …
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@nicknotned, bookforum.com, FishbowlNY, Poynter and @felixsalmon