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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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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
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
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
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 and @felixsalmon
Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
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
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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