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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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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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Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Independent Musicians Find Unexpected Rewards in Streaming — Early last year, Perrin Lamb, a singer-songwriter in Nashville who is not signed to a record label, started to receive all kinds of strange Twitter messages. Fans he never knew he had, writing sometimes in languages he couldn't understand …
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
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 …
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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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Researchers at Columbia and Stanford are developing Science Surveyor, a tool to help journalists contextualize scientific papers — A group of researchers is trying to help science journalists parse academic articles on deadline — About 1.8 million new scientific papers are published each year …
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@stanfordnlp
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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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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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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