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Jonah Peretti / BuzzFeed:
Memo from BuzzFeed's CEO: we are building “a global, cross-platform network for news and entertainment”, will slow hiring over the next year — A Cross-Platform, Global Network — I shared this note with BuzzFeeders this week. — BuzzFeed, Founder and CEO — Hello BuzzFeeders,
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
In six months, Quartz's 130 videos had 43.4M views on Facebook and 1.6M views on YouTube — In six months, Quartz videos rack up 45 million views on platforms — With the launch of CNN's Great Big Story and publishers like BuzzFeed and Business Insider before it, the distributed approach …
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Bloomberg Business:
Yahoo's $17 Million Bet on NFL Streaming Gets Tested Sunday — More than 30 advertisers to target viewers during, after game — Yahoo is likely to lose money to promote live video prowess — When the Jacksonville Jaguars and Buffalo Bills face off this Sunday, perhaps only their loyal fans will care about the score.
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
German publishers are creating new sites and apps to target younger readers without alienating older ones — Young money: How German legacy publishers are chasing millennial audiences — BERLIN — The efforts of venture-backed new media startups jostling for the attention of millennial audiences …
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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Digital Natives Like BuzzFeed and Business Insider Rule Facebook Video Early On — Few traditional media companies dot the list of top creators, according to analytics firm Tubular Labs — CNN is using Facebook to launch an entirely new digital media brand—Great Big Story.
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Andy Kaufman and Redd Foxx to Tour, Years After Death, as Holograms — As comedians, Redd Foxx and Andy Kaufman could hardly be more different. Foxx, the pioneering nightclub performer and star of “Sanford & Son,” who died in 1991, was candid, socially conscious and unapologetically obscene.
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Susan Burton / New York Times:
Profile of Terry Gross, who marks the 40th anniversary of her interview show Fresh Air — Terry Gross and the Art of Opening Up … On a late-summer morning, Terry Gross sat before a computer in her office — a boxy, glass-fronted room at WHYY in Philadelphia — composing interview questions.
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@benmullin, Fast Company and Cision
Mark Joyella / TVNewser:
Univision Crew Turned Away from Trump Campaign Event — Journalists from Univision say they were turned away from a Donald Trump campaign event in Doral, Florida today. — Lourdes Del Rio, a Univision anchor, said no reason was given by the campaign when they were refused permission to cover the event.
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Startup L. Jackson / Startups and S**t:
Why distribution deals with unsigned artists are a good path to profitability for music platforms like Pandora and Spotify — Thinking Outside of Pandora's Box — “And you ain't get a coin, [Nas], you was getting f**ked then — I know who I paid, God - Serchlite publishing
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
FBI Doesn't Allow Huffington Post Reporter Into Director's Talk After Critical Article — NEW YORK — The FBI on Friday did not permit a Huffington Post reporter to attend director James Comey's speech to members of the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG), which was the subject …
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ACLU:
District court dismisses Wikimedia v. NSA internet surveillance case brought by ACLU for broad coalition, says plaintiffs failed to show they were monitored — CASE WAS BROUGHT ON BEHALF OF WIKIMEDIA, HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS, OTHERS — ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal district court granted …
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Elsa Keslassy / Variety:
Vivendi Increases Stakes In Telecom Italia To 20 Percent — DIJON, France- Aiming to expand its activities in Southern Europe, Paris-based Vivendi has upped its stakes in Telecom Italia to 19.9 percent. — Vivendi became Telecom Italia's biggest shareholder in June after buying 14.9 percent of the leading European telecom.
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