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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
YouTube confirms any partner creator who earns cut of ad revenue but does not agree to YouTube Red revenue share deal will have videos hidden — YouTube Will Completely Remove Videos Of Creators Who Don't Sign Its Red Subscription Deal — YouTube made its top video creators an offer …
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Guardian, New York Times, CNNMoney, @limbclock, The Next Web, MobileSyrup.com, Stereogum, Rolling Stone, The Wrap and MacStories
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
YouTube Red Subscription Will Include Original Series From PewDiePie, CollegeHumor, And More
YouTube Red Subscription Will Include Original Series From PewDiePie, CollegeHumor, And More
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YouTube Blog, Pocket-lint, Good E-Reader, @brianstelter, @brianstelter, Home Media Magazine, Ad Age, Forbes, YouTube Blog, Adweek, Polygon, The Wrap, Fast Company, Fortune, WWD, Android Police and VentureBeat
Ben Popper / The Verge:
Inside YouTube's new $10 per month subscription service YouTube Red, which removes ads, adds offline viewing, more, available October 28 in US, soon globally
Inside YouTube's new $10 per month subscription service YouTube Red, which removes ads, adds offline viewing, more, available October 28 in US, soon globally
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Variety, Guardian, TechCrunch, NPR, Engadget, Complete Music Update, The Next Web, Music Business Worldwide, AdExchanger, @lucas_shaw, Gizmodo, @jank0, Android Police, Fusion, ITProPortal, TIME, Tech Times, GeekWire, Kotaku, CNBC, The Huffington Post, BBC, 9to5Google, Ubergizmo, Billboard, Wired.co.uk, Droid Life, Hollywood Reporter, MacRumors, hypebot, @pierce and @deliciousbees
SportsBusiness Daily:
Universal Sports TV Channel Slated To Shut Down Next Month … The Universal Sports TV channel is shutting down next month after nearly a decade in operation. NBC execs told the channel's approximately 75 employees during an early morning meeting in L.A. today.
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VeloNews.com, @ourand_sbj, Cyclingnews.com, @jmarthaler, Deadline, @kellydomara, @jasongay and Awful Announcing
Matthew Belloni / Hollywood Reporter:
James and Lachlan Murdoch in First Interview Atop Fox: Politics, Roger Ailes, Dad and Plans for the Future (Exclusive) — The brothers, who took over the 21st Century Fox empire July 1, sit down together and open up about who's in charge, sister Liz, the new age of television and whether …
Ian Allison / International Business Times:
Sky trumpets 10% earnings hike to £375m — Sky, the home entertainment and media company, reported a 10% rise in quarterly operating profit to £375m (€510m, $579m) for the three months to the end of September. Sky said it was its strongest first quarter growth in four years, with revenue up by 6% to £2.8bn.
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Reuters, City A.M., Advanced Television, Sky News, Bloomberg Business, Telegraph and Deadline
Dianna Dilworth / GalleyCat:
Yelp-like site WordRates launches to let freelancers rate editors and share pay information about magazines — WordRates: A Yelp-Like Site for Freelance Writers — WordRates.com, a site that aims to be “Yelp for journalists,” is now live. Writer Scott Carney founded the site …
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WordRates, @sgcarney, @ben_a_goldfarb, @wordrates and @wordrates
James Bradshaw / Globe and Mail:
Canada's Postmedia scraps evening tablet editions 17 months after launch — Postmedia scraps evening tablet editions — Postmedia Network Canada Corp. is pulling the plug on its ambitious evening tablet editions, ending an experiment with daily digital news that launched less than a year and a half ago.
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@jbenton, @lpolgreen, @ivortossell, @tomhawthorn and @mathewi
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Behind the royalty dispute between indie label Victory Records and Spotify that led to Victory's removal from the streaming service — Spotify in Dispute Over Royalty Payments — On Monday, fans of the punk and metal bands on Victory Records, an independent label in Chicago …
Aaron Sharockman / Tampa Bay Times:
Scripps partners with PolitiFact in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and Ohio; political fact-checking now covers 14 states ahead of 2016 presidential election — PolitiFact and Scripps launch partnerships in Arizona, Nevada, Colorado and Ohio — PolitiFact's Truth-O-Meter is coming to Arizona, Nevada, Colorado and Ohio.
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Broadcasting & Cable, @politifact and TVNewsCheck.com
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
ABC News grew monthly video views from 20M to 100M in 8 months, mostly with repackaged TV content — ABC News' secret to YouTube success: TV content — ABC News has more than 1.5 billion views on YouTube — most of which are happening on TV content that the publisher has repackaged for the online video site.
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Twitter CEO suggests Politwoops might return — Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey hinted at the return of the Sunlight Foundation's well-regarded Politwoops service on Thursday at the Twitter Flight developer conference in San Francisco. In his speech, Dorsey apologized to developers …
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Washington Post, Wired, CNNMoney, @antderosa, Access Blog, Wall Street Journal, Mashable, @anildash, @boblannon, @sunfoundation, Guardian, The Huffington Post, @openstateeu, BuzzFeed and @mmasnick
Marissa Evans / Poynter:
Interview with Mark Luckie on how and why he created Today in #BlackTwitter, a news digest on Medium — Mark Luckie on keeping up with Black Twitter and covering it … It's been a busy few months for Mark Luckie. — In May he announced that he was leaving his post as Twitter's manager …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Study shows 71% of national UK newspaper market owned by News UK, Daily Mail & General Trust, and Trinity Mirror, which threatens news plurality — UK media plurality threatened by dominant group of large firms - report — Media Reform Coalition claims News UK, Daily Mail & General Trust …
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presstv.ir and allmediascotland