Mediagazer: The Daily Show hires Baratunde Thurston to expand production of original content for digital platforms as viral content becomes crucial to late-night success (Dave Itzkoff/New York Times)

8:20 PM ET, August 27, 2015

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Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:

The Daily Show hires Baratunde Thurston to expand production of original content for digital platforms as viral content becomes crucial to late-night success — ‘The Daily Show’ Gets Ready to Go Viral — Though “The Daily Show” is generally consumed as a once-a-day experience …

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Janko Roettgers / Variety:

Facebook tests a video matching tool with partners including Fullscreen, ZEFR, and Jukin Media to find clips uploaded without owner's permission — Facebook to Test New Video Filters With Fullscreen, ZEFR to Prevent Freebooting — Facebook will soon begin to beta-test a new content management technology …

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Miranda Ward / mUmBRELLA:

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Magdi Abdelhadi / Nieman Reports:

As US media outlets expand into India, cheap smartphones are changing the way people access news in local languages — Why News Outlets Are Watching India's Next Billion Internet Users — As Quartz, BuzzFeed, and The Huffington Post look for footholds in India, the bigger opportunity …

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Biz Carson / Business Insider:

Co-founder Garrett Camp buying back majority share in StumbleUpon, which has downsized as it struggled to compete with other social sharing sites — Uber cofounder is taking over stumbling social media company StumbleUpon — Content discovery site StumbleUpon is ready for a change, according to the site's cofounder Garrett Camp.

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Ryan Nakashima / Associated Press:

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