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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Christopher Miller and Phil Lord to develop a cable series for Fox 21 TVS that documents the making of Serial as it follows a case — ‘Serial’ TV Series Based On Podcast Set At Fox 21 With Chris Miller & Phil Lord — Serial is headed to television. Writer/producer/directors Chris Miller …
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LAist, Hollywood Reporter, The Verge, Variety, Digital Trends, The Huffington Post, /Film, UPROXX, Polygon, Comicbook.com, Forbes, all, TVLine and Engadget
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
A growing number of new media companies like Vice Media, BuzzFeed, and Vox Media are avoiding automated ad sales from third-party firms — Publishers That Say No to Automated Ad Sales — Some websites believe they can make more money on their own and reduce annoyance
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Brian X. Chen / New York Times:
Tests of top 50 news sites with three ad-blockers on iPhone show significant decrease in load times for many sites, modest increase in battery life — Putting Mobile Ad Blockers to the Test — To block ads or not to block ads on your mobile device? That's the philosophical dilemma …
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New York Times, The Week and Digital Marketing Blog
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Independent board to determine which ads are “acceptable” for Adblock Plus whitelist in first half of 2016
Independent board to determine which ads are “acceptable” for Adblock Plus whitelist in first half of 2016
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Sources: Jack Dorsey to be named permanent Twitter CEO, continue at Square, as soon as Thursday after board settles status of Adam Bain and Anthony Noto — Sources: Jack Dorsey to Be Named Permanent Twitter CEO — Jack is back — for good this time. — Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey …
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Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
News Corp offers Times and WSJ digital bundle for corporate users — Push for City readers follows relaunch of the Wall Street Journal's European and Asian editions last week — News Corp is bundling together digital access to the Times and Wall Street Journal for corporate customers …
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Talking New Media and GlobeNewswire News Room
Mark Bergen / Re/code:
Google to host event next Wednesday in New York, likely to unveil its open-source project similar to Instant Articles — Google Plans to Unveil Its Version of ‘Instant Articles’ Next Week — Three weeks ago, we told you about plans Google was hatching to launch a publishing tool to serve up articles on mobile devices.
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Poynter, NDTV Gadgets360.com, Ubergizmo, AndroidHeadlines.com and @jbenton
Sam Sanders / NPR:
Twitter Has A 136-Page Handbook For Politicians' 140-Character Tweets — Twitter seems simple — just type in 140 characters and hit enter, right? But Twitter can be tough. Building an audience. Keeping that audience. Finding a voice. Cutting through all the chatter.
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The Verge, @hannahkurtz34, Digital Trends and all
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Bloomberg Businessweek editor Josh Tyrangiel resigns, to be replaced by Ellen Pollock — Ellen Pollock to lead Bloomberg Businessweek — On Thursday, Bloomberg Businessweek announced that deputy editor Ellen Pollock will become editor. Josh Tyrangiel was previously in the role.
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Politico, Mashable, CNNMoney, @jackshafer and @raju
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
SiriusXM, Fox News To Launch Breaking-News Channel October 5 — Fox News Channel is readying its entrance into the world of breaking-news radio. — “Fox News Headlines 24/7” will offer SiriusXM subscribers real-time headlines on breaking news, national stories, politics, business …
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TVNewser, Associated Press, Yahoo! Finance, Hollywood Reporter and Mediaite
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Reporta, an app from the International Women's Media Foundation, allows reporters to check in to locations and send SOS alerts during a crisis — Reporta, a new app, offers journalists a lifeline in hazardous situations … Journalism, never the safest profession to begin with, has only gotten more hazardous in recent years.
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Mark Bergen / Re/code:
Google Ads SVP Sridhar Ramaswamy: we need to deal with ad blocking as an industry by defining what an acceptable ad is and improving the user experience — Google Ads Boss: ‘We Need to Deal With’ Ad Blocking as an Industry — Sridhar Ramaswamy, Google's top advertising executive …
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Wall Street Journal, Marketing Land and Adweek
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Interview with Nuzzel CEO Jonathan Abrams on new media investors and firm's intent to work with publishers — Nuzzel, with a new batch of news-savvy investors, wants to bring social curation to publishers — If you live in certain media and technology circles, there's a very good chance you're already using Nuzzel.
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Business Insider, American Press Institute, @jbenton, @coreyford, @niemanlab and TechCrunch