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Florida judge rules Hulk Hogan's legal team can search Gawker computers, servers, emails, text messages for terms: “racist”, “Hulk Hogan”, “DVD details” — Judge: Hulk Hogan can investigate leak of racist rant — ST. PETERSBURG — Hulk Hogan's legal team …
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BuzzFeed, Hollywood Reporter and Wrestlezone


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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YouTube Red Subscription Will Include Original Series From PewDiePie, CollegeHumor, And More
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Google launches €150m fund for publishers' digital news projects — Internet giant says funding will have ‘no strings attached’, with larger grants needing approval from a council including the Telegraph's Murdoch MacLennan — Google has launched its €150m (£109m) …
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The Next Web, Press Gazette, TechCrunch, EconoTimes, Financial Times and 9to5Google

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, @kellydomara, Cyclingnews.com, @ourand_sbj, @jmarthaler, @jasongay, Deadline and Awful Announcing


IAB: Digital advertising revenue reaches record high of $27.5B during first half of 2015, with mobile accounting for 30% of all digital ad spend — IAB: Digital Advertising Hits Record High of $27.5 Billion — Mobile Leads the Pack, Accounting for 30% of All Digital Advertising Spend
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MediaPost, Ad Age, Radio & Television …, Search Engine Land, warc.com, Business Wire, The Drum, AdExchanger, Wall Street Journal and Marketing Land

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.


Business Insider plan more subscription offerings as more outlets turn to paywall strategies — Content paywalls on the agenda for digital news sites — There was a time not long ago when the news business was a roaring economic success. Newspapers sold millions of copies …
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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


Fusion Partners with African-American News Site The Root to Develop TV Content (EXCLUSIVE) — Fusion has made a TV development deal with The Root, the number one African-American news and commentary site, Variety has learned exclusively. The Root will make its debut on the cable net in 2016.
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Multichannel News and The Huffington Post


Ahead of December launch, Nielsen unveils its total audience measurement tool that counts viewers across all TVs, DVRs, VODs, PCs, and mobile devices — A First Look at Nielsen's Total Audience Measurement and How It Will Change the Industry — It's been two years since Nielsen …


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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@sgcarney, @ben_a_goldfarb, @wordrates, @wordrates and WordRates


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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Bloomberg Business, Reuters, Sky News, Advanced Television, City A.M., Telegraph and Deadline