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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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TVNewser, @umairh, @simonhardwick, @jayrosen_nyu, @alixkroeger and @justinnxt
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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.
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New York Times, Media Wire Daily, @joepompeo and @tmcgev
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Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:
Bruce Headlam, New York Times' managing editor for video, moving to another senior newsroom role — Bruce Headlam out, too, in Times video shake-up — In a restrucuring of The New York Times' video operations, Bruce Headlam, managing editor for video, will leave that role for another …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Roll Call editor-in-chief Christina Bellantoni joins LA Times as assistant managing editor for politics — Los Angeles Times nabs Roll Call editor-in-chief Christina Bellantoni — The Los Angeles Times has hired Roll Call editor-in-chief Christina Bellantoni to serve as Assistant Managing Editor …
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LA Observed, @igorbobic, @susanpage, @dylanbyers and @singernews
Leo Barraclough / Variety:
German Media Titans ProSiebenSat.1, Axel Springer in $16 Billion Merger Talks — German broadcast group ProSiebenSat.1 and publishing giant Axel Springer are in merger talks that could lead to the creation of a business worth around Euros 14.4 billion ($15.9 billion).
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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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@carlquintanilla, @brianstelter and @deggans
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Showtime officially launches streaming service for the web, Apple TV, iOS, Roku, and Playstation Vue, does not require a cable subscription — You can now subscribe to Showtime online — Showtime is now offering an online subscription, allowing customers to watch its shows and movies without also getting cable.
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Multichannel News, Adweek, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Deadline, USA Today, TVbytheNumbers, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Re/code and 9to5Mac
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Whipclip Raises Over $40 Million For Its TV Show And Music Video Clipping App — Whipclip, the makers of a mobile application that lets you quickly - and legally - share clips from favorite TV shows and music videos, has closed on $40 million-plus in Series C financing, the company is announcing today.
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Re/code, Los Angeles Times and Variety
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Scratch Magazine cofounder Manjula Martin on the lessons learned as the 1K member site shutters: not everything can be monetized, not everything will scale — Scratch Magazine was profitable, but it's still shutting down — here's what its founder learned — Scratch Magazine …
Alexis Sobel Fitts / Columbia Journalism Review:
Social listening tools like Dataminr, CrowdTangle, and Spike are helping newsrooms find stories, but they have limits that still require added human judgment — The new importance of ‘social listening’ tools — The tipoff came in a tweet. — In an April meeting of the Senate Finance Committee …
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@grdodgemedia, @dw_innovation, @ctonk144, @tedbailey and @kdombsadof, Thanks:@steverubel
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
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
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