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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
MLB Advanced Media to spin out streaming video unit valued at over $3B, signs deal giving NHL up to 10% equity in the new company named BAM Tech — Pro Baseball's Streaming Video Unit Gets Ready for a $3 Billion Spinoff by Adding Pro Hockey — MLB Advanced Media, the company that streams video …
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Ben Popper / The Verge:
How MLB Advanced Media got a head start online, navigated partnerships, and emerged as the most reliable name in streaming, on pace to earn $900M in 2015 — How baseball's tech team built the future of television — It was the first week of April, 2015, and New York's Chelsea Market …
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Fast Company
Ellen Emmerentze Jervell / Wall Street Journal:
Axel Springer Q2 revenue up 7%, continues to pursue digital expansion — Axel Springer Posts Drop in Second-Quarter Earnings — Publisher continues to pursue digital expansion after losing out on buying the Financial Times — FRANKFURT— Axel Springer SE said its second-quarter earnings …
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Anastasia Bazenkova / The Moscow Times:
Russia's bookshops struggling against expensive shop rates, decreasing customer interest, and only 10-12 authors country-wide earning a living writing books — Russia's Book Industry Shrinks as Russians Stop Reading — More Russian bookshops are facing closure every year …
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Micah Singleton / The Verge:
Sources: Apple's licensing deals include permission to create up to five additional radio stations like Beats 1 — Apple's music deals allow for new Beats stations at any time — While Apple Music may have gotten off to a less than stellar start, Apple's 24/7 radio station Beats 1 has lived …
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Business Insider, The Next Web and 9to5Mac
Davey Alba / Wired:
Inside Jukin Media, which finds, licenses, and sells potentially viral videos and is aiming for $15M-20M in revenue this year — Inside the Company That's Made Viral Videos Big Business — Nate Granzow settles into his chair and taps a few keys on his keyboard. Two large computer screens blink to life.
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Boing Boing
Dan Kennedy / Nieman Lab:
New Haven Independent launching a low-power FM radio station, WNHH, seeking to build community and sustainability — In New Haven, a low-power FM experiment seeks local conversation — and financial sustainability — John Dankosky stood before the 20 or so fledgling radio hosts who had crowded …
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Intakemusic and Knight Foundation
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Journalist Chayan Sarkar who reported on corruption is missing in India, West Bengal chief minister orders investigation — West Bengal journalist who covered corruption reported missing in India — New York, August 3, 2015—A correspondent who wrote about corruption for a Bengali-language daily …
Anton Troianovski / Wall Street Journal:
Justice minister fires Germany's top prosecutor, Harald Range, over his treason probe targeting Netzpolitik journalists — German Justice Minister Fires Top Prosecutor for Treason Probe of Bloggers — Dismissal of federal prosecutor general marks crescendo in debate over press freedom
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Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
Gawker's lawyer is proud of Hulk Hogan fight, regrets outing exec — It's been a hell of a month for Heather Dietrick, even by the standards of the mud-slinging, gossip-soaked world of Gawker Media. I caught up with Dietrick, who is the company's general counsel and president …
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Ruth Reader / VentureBeat:
Genius launches on Android, debuts redesign across iOS and Web — Annotation site Genius just refreshed its homepage, updated its iOS app, and rolled out a brand new Android app. — The launch of an Android app may mark an official truce between Genius and Google.
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The Verge and TechCrunch
Jessica Pressler / Vulture:
Nikki Finke's Hollywood Dementia site launches using pay-per-story model, with nine fiction stories from various authors including Finke — Nikki Finke Is Now Making Up Her Stories (Sort Of) — “All of fiction is derived from truth.” — For Nikki Finke, fiction was always the enemy.
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Deadline, Page Six and Thompson on Hollywood
Andy / TorrentFreak:
RIAA Asks BitTorrent Inc. to Block Infringing Content — Through no real fault of its own, uTorrent creator BitTorrent Inc. has become associated with the massive piracy carried out every day by its users. Due to the company sharing its name with the successful protocol …
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