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Bloomberg Business:
Behind the fake traffic schemes using bots for fraudulent ad clicks that will cost advertisers $6.3B this year — The Fake Traffic Schemes That Are Rotting the Internet — Marketers thought the Web would allow perfectly targeted ads. Hasn't worked out that way.
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Financial Times, @digiphile, Fortune, @kfury, @clarajeffery, @dannysullivan, Boing Boing, @felixgillette, @joshuatopolsky, @johngapper, @mathewi, broadstuff, @bradstone, Marketing Land, @year2, @ranimolla, @rafat, @deptstorespook, @jonseff, @baconmeteor, @jayrosen_nyu, @aawayne, @tyrangiel, @armstrongdrew, @harmancipants, @jimaley, Daring Fireball and Financial Times
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
iOS ad blocker Crystal will get a flat monthly fee to let through ads that are on Adblock Plus owner Eyeo's paid whitelist — Propelled By Apple, Ad Blocking Cottage Industry Emerges — Software promises to block ads, and in some cases allow “acceptable” ones
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Forbes, The Awl, AppleInsider, @eringriffith, @moral_hazard and @eringriffith
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
ONA receives $800K Knight Foundation grant to expand programs for local journalists — ONA will expand its programs for local journalists with Knight funding — The Online News Association plans to make a push into local with new funding from Knight Foundation.
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Journalism.co.uk and Poynter
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Mail Online reports digital ad revenue growth of 16% in 11 months to end of August, compared to 49% for same period last year — Mail Online digital advertising slows down to 16% annual growth — Mail Online has reported digital advertising growth of 16% in the 11 months to the end of August …
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Financial Times, Express & Star, ITProPortal, The Drum, @jayrosen_nyu, Telegraph and @marksweney
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
An insiders take on the partial relaunch of Gigaom, six months after the original shut down — How Gigaom died and then came back to life again, kind of — On a Monday night in March, Gigaom, the site where I'd worked for four years, abruptly shut down.
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@tomkrazit and @laurahazardowen
David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
Trump's understanding of political media is better than his competitors, and the outsized attention he gets creates political momentum — The media's Trump conundrum — Donald Trump was telling the truth. “It's a simple formula in entertainment and television,” he explained before a crowd of thousands in Dallas last week.
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New York Times, New York Magazine, @ron_fournier, @deechteooms, The Huffington Post, @shannonpareil and @daviduberti
Arunabh Saikia / Newslaundry:
Times Group codifies how journalists are to create and use Twitter accounts, source says part of salary will be linked to Twitter performance — The Times Group now says journalists' salaries will be linked to their Twitter activity — Last year in August, the Times Group asked its employees …
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@susannealthoff, @abdullah_0mar, MediaNama, @dabeard and @raju
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Politico introduces paid-for ‘professional’ subscription services to Europe five months after launch — Politico has launched a paid subscriptions for Europe five months after moving to the continent. — The title, which launched a Europe edition in Brussels early this year in collaboration …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix studies viewing data to determine when subscribers commit to TV shows, finds contrary to conventional wisdom, none get hooked on pilot — Netflix Data Reveals Exactly When TV Shows Hook Viewers — And It's Not the Pilot — Netflix crunched cold, hard viewing data …
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The Verge, Netflix, Gizmodo, Sydney Morning Herald, The A.V. Club, TIME, New York Daily News, TechRadar.com, Tubefilter, The Next Web, Engadget, Tech Insider, Wall Street Journal, Wired.co.uk, Fast Company, Washington Post, Multichannel News, Exstreamist, BGR, WebProNews, Business Insider, moviepilot.com and UPROXX
Tamara Lush / Associated Press:
AP, other media outlets ask Florida judge to unseal records in Hulk Hogan suit against Gawker — Media companies want Hulk Hogan records unsealed — ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A group of media outlets is asking a Florida judge to make records in the Hulk Hogan sex video case public.
Discussion:
@benmullin
Tyler Falk / Current.org:
WGBH to acquire international news website GlobalPost — WGBH in Boston announced Thursday that it has finalized plans to acquire the international news website GlobalPost. — The acquisition of the Boston-based outlet is intended to bolster the international reporting of WGBH's Public Radio International.
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PRI, USA Today, PR Newswire, GlobalPost, Poynter and @rafat
Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
Literary magazine The American Reader to shutter — The American Reader, the three-year old literary magazine that prompted excited buzz at its 2012 launch and seemed to buck expectations for the prospects for publishing highbrow journals in print, is shutting down after its October issue, POLITICO has learned.
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FishbowlNY, bookforum.com and The American Reader
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