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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BuzzFeed to cover more local news as it expands UK editorial team — Fourteen new staff to include regional reporters increasing competition with local newspapers — BuzzFeed will make its first foray into more localised news coverage by beefing up its UK editorial team …
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Politico, @jayrosen_nyu, Press Gazette and Digiday
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
E-book sales fell 10% in first five months of 2015, while print books and bookstores are showing resilience — The Plot Twist: E-Book Sales Slip, and Print Is Far From Dead — Five years ago, the book world was seized by collective panic over the uncertain future of print.
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Jane Martinson / Guardian:
Al-Jazeera to cut 800-1,000 jobs worldwide as oil prices fall; Al-Jazeera America expected to be protected — Al-Jazeera expected to cut hundreds of jobs — Surprise move could mark a reduction in state commitment to Qatari-owned media group amid falling oil prices
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Buzzfeed, denied credentials for pope visit, calls it ‘retaliation’ for previous coverage — Buzzfeed has been blocked from covering the Pope's visit to the United States, Buzzfeed claims in a letter to officials in the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. The letter, addressed to Don Clemmer …
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
“Happy Birthday” Ruled To Be In the Public Domain — A judge grants summary judgment to a filmmaker challenging Warner Chappel's copyright to a song more than a century old. — The world's most popular English language song is now free from copyright after a federal judge ruled on Tuesday …
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Matthew Farwell / Maxim:
Sources: Serial podcast to cover Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the US soldier who mysteriously disappeared from his post in Afghanistan in 2009 — Exclusive: Serial Podcast Eyes Bowe Bergdahl for Upcoming Season — Soldiers who served with the ex-POW in Afghanistan tell Maxim they have been interviewed by Serial host Sarah Koenig.
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Los Angeles Times memo fails to ease layoff fears — If the editor of The Los Angeles Times was hoping to temper his staff's fears about impending layoffs, the memo he sent on Tuesday didn't do the trick. — “We need to accelerate our evolution,” Davan Maharaj wrote — a promising message …
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Tribune Publishing pleads its case with investors; share price falls further
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New York Times, Politico and @rickedmonds
BBC:
Egypt pardons Al Jazeera journalists Fahmy and Mohamed — Egypt's president has pardoned one of the three Al Jazeera TV journalists convicted of broadcasting false news. — Mohamed Fahmy, a Canadian citizen, is included on a list of 100 prisoners given pardons by Abdul Fattah al-Sisi.
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Facebook ramps up its Instant Articles as Washington Post says it will publish all of its articles on Facebook and over a dozen new publishers join — Facebook Ramps Up Its Instant Articles, and the Washington Post Is All In — Last spring Facebook started hosting stories from the New York Times …
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Robert Cookson / Financial Times:
Study finds that Google charges for YouTube ads when fraud-detection systems identify viewer as a robot — Google charges for YouTube ads even when viewed by robots — Google has been charging marketers for advertisements it places on YouTube even when the video platform's fraud-detection systems identify …
Discussion:
Business Insider and Guardian
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Source: Google acquired Oyster's tech, discovery tools, and editorial content, including literary magazine The Oyster Review, but not its publisher contracts — Google's grab of Oyster suggests ebooks, like news, are becoming “content” read on big platforms
Jason Burke / Guardian:
Militant Bangladeshi group publishes global hit list of bloggers, activists, and writers: 9 in UK, 7 in Germany, 2 in US, 1 in Canada, 1 in Sweden — Militant group publishes hit list of bloggers, activists and writers — An Islamic militant group in Bangladesh has issued a hit list of secular bloggers …
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