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David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
Politico fights for talent and attention as it expands into state gov reporting and Europe while feeding its high-priced paywalled version, Politico Pro — Can Politico rise again? — The new era began as new eras typically do at Politico, with a memo. The email flashed into staffers' inboxes …
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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Writers at Vice Media vote to unionize by joining Writers Guild of America East — Writers at Vice Media Vote to Unionize … Writers at Vice Media have voted to unionize, said people familiar with the matter, giving organized labor its biggest foothold yet in digital media newsrooms.
Maria Thomas / Quartz:
India's smartphone boom is triggering a wave of podcast experiments — Although selling air conditioners kept Abhishek Kumar busy enough, he was still looking for a hobby. A decade ago, a friend from college came up with the idea of bantering with Kumar and then uploading the recorded conversation …
Glenn Peoples / Billboard:
How Spotify used home page takeovers and playlists to help certain tracks top its global chart — What Happens When Spotify Gets Behind an Artist? A Case Study of Hozier and Major Lazer — Streaming has quickly become the way much of the world listens — and its also becoming a path to the stratosphere for artists.
Todd C. Frankel / Washington Post:
Lawyers for detained Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian say a hearing Monday could be last one before a verdict — Trial of Post reporter detained in Iran may be nearing end — The drawn-out, closed-door trial of a Washington Post journalist detained in Iran on charges that include espionage could be nearing an end.
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Alex Byers / Politico:
Cable firms and broadcasters face off as FCC prepares to review retransmission consent rules — Reckoning nears in TV's fraught relations with providers — If the explosion in cable cord-cutting and on-demand video has turned the steady television business into the Wild West …
Jordan Valinsky / Digiday:
The final ‘Daily Show’ garners 185,000 tweets; the GOP debate 1.7 million — Sixteen years and nearly 2,700 episodes later, Jon Stewart signed off from the ‘Daily Show’ one final time last night. — Comedy Central has been promoting his last week of show with the hashtag #JonVoyage (get it? …
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Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
Jon Stewart's finale had its second highest ratings ever, 3.5M viewers, behind a 2008 show with Obama
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Ed Sherman / Poynter:
Two-year-old app SportsManias expands the reach of print with team-centric aggregation — SportsManias believes it can expand reach of newspaper sports team coverage — Tim Stephens doesn't think newspapers are dying. Quite the contrary, especially when it comes to sports.
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
GOP debate was watched by 24M viewers, highest-rated primary debate in TV history — Fox's GOP debate had record 24 million viewers — Fox's GOP debate was watched by 24 million viewers on Thursday night, according to Nielsen data, making it the highest-rated primary debate in television history.
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Report establishes new formula for evaluating quality of local news — How do you measure the health of a local news market? Is it the quality and size of the local daily? The number of reporters in attendance at weekly city council meetings? The size of the audience each outlet has?
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Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code:
Sources: European Commission failed to find evidence of collusion between Apple and major music labels to quash free music streaming services — EU Finds No Evidence of Apple and Music Labels Colluding to Kill Free Music — The European Commission failed to find evidence of collusion among …
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Sahil Patel / Digiday:
The New Yorker has expanded its video team from 2 to 4 as views are up 294% year-to-date — The New Yorker is ambitious about video, but has a long way to go — In the past year, The New Yorker has grown its internal video team from two to four employees, most recently with the addition …
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
New York Times used a Chrome plug-in to publish a liveblog of GOP debate from posts written and edited in Slack — The New York Times liveblogged last night's GOP debate directly from Slack — If you weren't satisfied simply watching the spectacle that was the first Republican presidential debate …
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