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Jeremiah Patterson / Online News Association:
The Wall Street Journal, reported.ly, Baltimore Sun and BBC News take home 2015 Online Journalism Awards — LOS ANGELES — Coverage of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, the Baltimore riots in the wake of Freddy Gray's death and the shootings in Canadian Parliament took top honors Saturday night …
Discussion:
FishbowlNY and ONA15
Isaac Salier-Hellendag / Facebook:
Facebook rolling out redesigned Notes with options for images, captions, other formatting — Updates for Facebook Notes — We're rolling out an update to make notes on Facebook more beautiful and customizable. Notes are now an even better way to write a longer post and share with anyone …
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Digital Trends, BetaNews, @chrismessina, @mikeisaac, @davewiner, @film_girl, @codeblue87, @antderosa, @benmullin, @lavrusik, The Next Web, The Verge, VentureBeat, Mashable, Engadget and Fortune
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Sources: YouTube finalizing plans to bundle Music Key and ad-free videos for $10/month, could launch at end of October — YouTube Is Prepping Its Subscription Launch: Two Services, One Price — YouTube, which spent the first 10 years of its life as a free service, is getting ready to start selling tickets.
Discussion:
Engadget, Android Police, Digital Trends, @pkafka, @xpangler, The Next Web and BetaBoston
Brendan O'Connor / Gawker:
Israeli Soldiers To Be Disciplined After Assaulting Journalists — While covering a protest in the West Bank on Friday, a pair of Agence France-Presse journalists were beaten by Israeli troops, the Associated Press reports. The “unprovoked attack” was caught on video.
Discussion:
Associated Press, The Wrap, Guardian, BelfastTelegraph.co.uk, The Times of Israel, Telegraph and Mediaite
Bob Lefsetz / The Lefsetz Letter:
Apple Music broke Clayton Christensen's rules for disruptive innovation, trying to please old customers as well as new ones — Apple Music's Functionality Failure — They broke Clayton Christensen's rule. The other night, I decided to play some MP3s. Retro, I know.
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@benthompson, @dasan, @vajrang, @felixsalmon and Business Insider
Jo Ellison / Financial Times:
Since Vogue's online relaunch in August 2014, it has grown audience figures by 80 percent, with 4M uniques in the last two weeks — Vogue goes viral — What happens when the world's glossiest magazine goes digital? Jo Ellison reports from inside Vogue.com
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg Business:
Netflix plans to serve as its own studio for more shows, strengthening its control over distribution rights — Netflix to Make More Shows of Its Own — Streaming service wants to produce and own more programs — Shift would help company offer same lineup of shows worldwide
Discussion:
Forbes, FierceOnlineVideo News, The Verge and Business Insider
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Amazon's Twitch to add video uploads, playlists in 2016 to more directly compete with YouTube — Amazon's Twitch to add video uploads in new battle with YouTube — SAN FRANCISCO — Twitch just strayed into direct competition with YouTube. — Emmett Shear, chief executive of Amazon's Twitch division …
Robert Rosso / VICE:
A federal inmate details his efforts to work as as a journalist from inside prision — America Incarcerated: My Struggle to Work as a Journalist Inside Prison — VICE is exploring America's prison system in the week leading up to our special report with President Obama for HBO.
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Study of millennials' news reading habits shows majority don't pay for news and many use a subscription service paid for by someone else — Guess what: Millennials aren't all the same when it comes to news consumption — Millennials tend to get lumped into a big group when it comes …
Discussion:
American Press Institute, Poynter, Associated Press, MediaPost, @mathewi and @nathanjurgenson
Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News:
Fusion Joins Sling TV Lineup — Part of $5/Month ‘World News Extra’ Add-On Pack — Fusion, a network focused on millennials, said it has launched on Sling TV, Dish Network's OTT-TV service for cord-cutters and cord-never. — Fusion is offered on Sling TV's “World News Extra” add-on pack …
Discussion:
Broadcasting & Cable
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with SF Chronicle editor-in-chief Audrey Cooper on experimentation, crowdfunding, incubators, and offline events to attract new readers — The San Francisco Chronicle looks to crowdfunding, incubators, and offline events to attract new readers — The Hearst-owned San Francisco Chronicle sits in a hub of tech and innovation.
Discussion:
TechCrunch and VentureBeat