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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
Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
Yelp and ProPublica partner to offer patients information on hospitals, nursing homes, and dialysis clinics — Coming to Yelp: A bigger dose of data on health-care facilities — Yelp is adding a ton of health-care data to its review pages for medical businesses to give consumers more access …
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Yelp Official Blog
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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The Laurel, Intakemusic and Knight Foundation
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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Chelsey Dulaney / Wall Street Journal:
Time Warner Q2 beats estimates, revenue up 8.2% to $7.35B, also up at Turner, HBO and Warner Bros — Time Warner Earnings Tops Views — Media company helped by higher revenue from videogames, licensing, HBO Now — Time Warner Inc. 's profit easily topped Wall Street expectations in the second quarter …
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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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@publisherswkly, @maorthofer, @deepvellum and Publishing Perspectives
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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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
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 …
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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@nicknotned
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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