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Rex Sorgatz / Medium:
Imagining TV listings in a future steered by recent investments from old media, with channels for Vice, YouTube, Vox, BuzzFeed, and more — TV Channel Guide from the Future — What Television Will Look Like in Five Years — Why Will This Happen? — NBCUniversal announced this week …
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Netflix stock falls about 8% on Thursday amid broader media stock retreat — Netflix is crashing hard as tech and media stocks plunge — Netflix shares are crashing today — down almost 8% as of this writing. — The entire stock market's having a bad day, with tech stocks slumping across the board …
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CNNMoney, Multichannel News, Forbes, Bloomberg Business, @brianstelter, The Huffington Post, @kelseymsutton, Variety and Bloomberg Business
Daniel Kopf / Priceonomics Blog:
Popularity of New York Times' posts, sections, writers, and tech writers by Facebook shares and likes — What New York Times Content Is Popular on Facebook? — Every day, the New York Times chooses to post a number of their articles to their Facebook page.
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@peterd_adams, @sulliview and @mattdpearce
Marin Cogan / New York Magazine:
Q&A with Mike Elk on trying to unionize Politico, his unsettled job status, and workers' rights — Mike Elk Tried to Unionize Politico's Staff — and Now Has Apparently Been Fired. What Happened? — “Unfortunately, the anti-union forces in the newsroom have tried to make the union drive all about me.”
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The Huffington Post, Talking Biz News, Poynter, The Huffington Post, Poynter, FishbowlDC, @mikeelk, The Daily Caller and Washingtonian
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Uncertainty Looms Over The Undefeated, ESPN's Site on Sports and Race — More than two years into the gestation of The Undefeated, ESPN's website about sports and race, the site exists in digital limbo. — It has no start date. It has no permanent leader.
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@jayrosen_nyu, @richarddeitsch, @margaretvm and @jasongay
Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes:
New Spotify privacy policy says it can collect data on location, sensors, and photos from your phone — Location, Sensors, Voice, Photos?! Spotify Just Got Real Creepy With The Data It Collects On You — Spotify has updated its privacy policy, and users should be careful about what they agree to.
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Wired, Macworld, @dangillmor, Business Insider, Digital Trends and RAIN News
Tom Cheredar / Gigaom:
Flipboard update brings personalization to news feed with voting options using Zite technology — Ahead of Apple News launch, Flipboard adds voting to its news feed — Digital magazine app Flipboard is getting an update that will allow users to fine-tune the news feed that appears …
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Flipboard, The Next Web and VentureBeat
Robert Cookson / Financial Times:
Spotify bans record labels from paying people who control playlists to promote songs — Spotify bans ‘payola’ on playlists — Spotify is cracking down on a controversial practice known as “payola”, in which record labels pay people who control influential playlists on the music streaming service to promote certain songs.
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
After several negotiations, New York Daily News owner Zuckerman tells staff he's not selling — Zuckerman Decides Against Selling The Daily News — After months of exploring a sale, Mortimer B. Zuckerman, the owner of The New York Daily News, has decided to keep the newspaper after all …
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Reuters, New York Daily News, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, The New York Observer, FishbowlNY and New York Times
Samuel Gibbs / Guardian:
UK data protection watchdog gives Google 35 days to remove links to news stories about right to be forgotten link removals — Google ordered to remove links to ‘right to be forgotten’ removal stories — UK data protection watchdog orders search engine to remove search result links …
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Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Twitter Is Selling Video Ads on Apps That Aren't Twitter — You no longer need to be on Twitter to see a Twitter-style video ad. — Twitter announced Thursday that it's now selling autoplay video ads inside of other apps through its MoPub ad network. That means that an advertiser buying video ads …
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Digiday, VentureBeat, AdExchanger and Ad Age
Kevin Dugan / New York Post:
Bloomberg to lay off about 100 editorial staffers, primarily covering politics and government in New York and Washington bureaus — Bloomberg to lay off about 100 editorial employees — Bloomberg is planning to slim its ranks, sources said on Wednesday.
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Politico, The Wrap, @mlcalderone, @dylanbyers, @mlcalderone, Financial Times, The Huffington Post, USA Today, Media Wire Daily, Reuters, FishbowlDC, Poynter and FishbowlNY
Tobias Buck / Financial Times:
Soon-to-be-launched news site El Español has 9K subscribers and several high-profile Spanish investigative reporters — Spain news site sends defiant signal over press freedom fears — For his latest journalistic venture, Pedro J Ramírez has rented office space up the road from Spain's Academy of Naval Warfare.