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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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Re/code, New York Times, Adweek, @markmilian, MediaPost, SBD Articles, Reuters, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Digiday, Fortune, GeekWire, Multichannel News and DSLreports
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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@pkafka, @stevesi, @gaberivera, @joshconstine, @edmundlee, @peretti and @jayrosen_nyu
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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@meena_thiru
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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@jorgeramosnews, CNNMoney, @sopandeb, WPLG-TV, @matthewkeyslive, Fusion, @brianstelter, Variety, The Hill, Naked Politics, @lourdes_delrio, @patriciamazzei and Inside Cable News
Jeannine Baker / Guardian:
The trials of reporting from war zones through the eyes of female Australian journalists — ‘She turned up to work with debris in her hair’: the women war reporters you've never heard of — In her new book, Australian Women War Reporters, Jeannine Baker tells the stories of the women …
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg Business:
Twitter's first Promoted Moments native advertising campaign rolls out this weekend — Twitter Rolls Out Advertising on New ‘Moments’ Feature — First Promoted Moment to run this weekend for movie ‘Creed’ — Twitter Inc. isn't wasting any time making money from its newest feature, called Moments.
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The Twitter Blog, Variety, Fast Company, Marketing Land, Engadget, Digiday, VentureBeat, @sdkstl and @adambain
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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@niemanlab
Todd Spangler / Variety:
ESPN videos unavailable on YouTube because of rights issues related to YouTube Red launch — ESPN Videos Go Dark on YouTube — Nearly all of ESPN's video content on YouTube has become unavailable, because of unresolved rights issues related to the upcoming launch of the YouTube Red subscription service.
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Gizmodo, Mashable, FierceCable, The Verge, TechCrunch and Digiday
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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@mgsiegler, Gizmodo, Guardian, Variety, The Wrap, Vulture, Rolling Stone, Splitsider, NBC News and Consequence of Sound
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
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@anshublog, @startupljackson, @trengriffin, @mdudas, @mathewi and @mmasnick
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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