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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
NFL signs two-year deal with Twitter to bring game highlights to the social network — More Football is Coming to Your Twitter Feed, Courtesy of a New Deal with the NFL — Twitter has a whole lot to figure out right now, starting with basic questions like: Who should be Twitter's CEO?
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Crain's New York, Multichannel News, Variety and Digital Spy
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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@mathewi, @rafat, @flashgordondc, @ianwalthew, @daviduberti and @jayrosen_nyu
Dan Frommer / Quartz:
Vine is a sleeping giant (while everyone is focused on Snapchat) — A funny thing happened to Vine, Twitter's short-form video app, after its initial buzz wore off: It kept going. — If you haven't checked lately, Vine, launched in early 2013, is still a thing.
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@gregfromparis, @roter and @mattrhodes
Geir Moulson / Associated Press:
German prosecutors drop treason probe against journalists — 3 photos — BERLIN (AP) — German federal prosecutors on Monday dropped a much-criticized treason investigation of two journalists who had reported on secret plans to expand online surveillance in Germany.
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New York Times, UPI, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Reuters, The Local and @richardwellings
Mark Scott / New York Times:
Ad-blocking regularly used by 200M people worldwide, will lead to $22B of lost ad revenue this year — Study of Ad-Blocking Software Suggests Wide Use — Guillermo Beltrà spends a lot of time surfing the web. — Yet like many avid Internet users, Mr. Beltrà hates …
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Inside PageFair, @gbeltra, The Drum and Business Insider
Brian Murphy / Washington Post:
Detained Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian's final hearing held in Iran, verdict could come within a week — Lawyer: Iran court holds final hearing for detained Post journalist — An Iranian court held its final hearing Monday in the trial of a Washington Post journalist facing …
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New York Times, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal and DW.COM
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
A profile of the New York Times conference business, a potential $20M enterprise — As Print Fades, Part 1: ‘Live Journalism’ at The Times — With its announcement last week that one million digital-only subscribers now pay for its journalism, The Times hit a major milestone, and one worth celebrating.
Financial Times:
Pearson expected to announce sale of its stake in The Economist for £400M as early as this week, previously held unsuccessful talks with Hearst Corp — Pearson set to offload Economist stake for £400m — Pearson is expected to announce the sale of its stake in the publisher …
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Press Gazette and Seeking Alpha
Callum Borchers / BostonGlobe.com:
Boston magazine unveils Chinese-language edition — The bosses at Boston magazine have clearly been reading their own headlines. — Ten months after a cover story declared that Boston is “China's Town,” citing a massive influx of money from the Far East, the magazine's first Chinese-language edition is about to hit newsstands.
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David Barstow / New York Times:
India accused three TV networks of violating broadcasting regulations by showing interviews critical of a hanging — India Warns TV Stations Over Criticism of Hanging — NEW DELHI — India's government on Friday accused three television networks of violating broadcasting regulations …
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The Hindu, Times of India and The New Indian Express
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.
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 …
Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
Jon Stewart's finale had its second highest ratings ever, 3.5M viewers, behind a 2008 show with Obama — TV Ratings: Jon Stewart Signs Off With 3.5 Million Viewers — The episode is only eclipsed by his Election Eve visit from President Obama in 2008. — Jon Stewart capped off …
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@brianstelter, Variety, Mediaite, POLITICO New York, Deadline and TVbytheNumbers
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Jordan Valinsky / Digiday:
The final ‘Daily Show’ garners 185,000 tweets; the GOP debate 1.7 million
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Mediaite, @googletrends, The Wrap, Broadcasting & Cable and Business Insider
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