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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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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


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 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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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 …


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


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


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


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 …


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 and @felixsalmon


Relativity Strikes $320 Million Deal With Catalyst Capital Group — Kavanaugh retains control of Relativity and will remain CEO and chairman of the board, a source familiar with the negotiations said. — In a move that many in Hollywood have been betting against, Relativity Media CEO Ryan Kavanaugh …
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Los Angeles Times, Variety, Deadline and SSN Insider

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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@kdombsadof, @dw_innovation, @ctonk144 and @tedbailey, Thanks:@steverubel