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New York Times shutters City Room blog — The New York Times on Monday announced it will close its City Room blog, which for years has been a clearinghouse for the paper's metro news: … The announcement, which appeared in a City Room post under Andy Newman's byline …
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New York Times, The New York Observer, @moorehn, @bendreyfuss, @bydanielvictor, @mikeisaac, @jayrosen_nyu, @jeffjarvis and NYConvergence.com
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Netflix, SoundCloud, Vimeo and more join tech firms and activists objecting to EU's net neutrality law to be voted on Tuesday — Tech Giants Sign Letter Against EU Laws To Hand Huge New Powers To ISPs — New European legislation which threatens net neutrality is set to go before the EU Parliament Tuesday.
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CBS News Partners With Twitter For Nov. 14 Democratic Debate — Twitter is looking to capitalize on the traction that presidential debates are having on TV, partnering with CBS News for coverage of the Nov. 14 Democratic face-off in Des Moines, Iowa. — Twitter will serve up data …
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Sources place most of the blame for ESPN layoffs on rising costs of NFL, MLB, and NBA rights deals, and deep distribution cuts — The moves that forced ESPN's cuts — Media executives point to rights fees, loss of subscribers … As the names of the roughly 300 laid-off ESPN employees leaked though …
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The NFL's First Live-Streamed Game On Yahoo Attracted Over 15 Million Viewers — Yahoo and the NFL this morning said that over 15 million people tuned into the first-ever global live stream of a regular season NFL game, hosted by Yahoo on Sunday, which featured a match-up Buffalo Bills and Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Bloomberg Media rolls out ad tech tools to boost revenues in Europe, Middle East, and Asia — How Bloomberg plans to monetize trending news and social traffic across EMEA — Bloomberg Media wants to further monetize trending news stories as well as readers who arrive on its sites from social media …
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Media Wire Daily and Talking Biz News
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Sources: Time Inc. acquires women's sites xoJane and xoVain, operated by Say Media and founder and editor Jane Pratt; Pratt and staff to join Time — Time Inc. Acquires Websites Aimed at Women — Publisher aims to bolster digital reach with xoJane.com and xoVain.com
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Media Wire Daily
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Business Insider founder Henry Blodget talks about rivals, the media industry “bubble”, and Axel Springer's purchase — The 60-second interview: Henry Blodget, editor in chief and CEO, Business Insider — POLITICO: Not surprisingly, Business Insider in 2015 looks a lot different than early iterations.
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FishbowlNY
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AT&T U-verse and Tribune Broadcasting reach retransmission deal that includes carrying WGN — AT&T U-verse, Tribune Get Retrans Deal Done — Includes Carriage of WGN America on U-verse, DirecTV — WASHINGTON — AT&T's U-verse TV and Tribune Broadcasting have resolved …
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JSOnline, Variety, Deadline, Broadcasting & Cable and The Wrap
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Eliza Borné named new editor of Oxford American magazine — ELIZA BORNÉ NAMED EDITOR — We are pleased to announce that Eliza Borné is the new editor of the Oxford American, succeeding Roger D. Hodge, who left the magazine in June. Borné joined the magazine …
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FishbowlNY
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Siri is not providing answers to music chart related queries from people who are not subscribed to Apple Music — Siri is refusing to answer certain questions from people who aren't Apple Music subscribers — Apple Music listeners are starting to end their three-month free trials — and Siri has begun to play hardball.
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NBC News, AppleInsider and The Verge
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Why TV partners with social media to cover debates — and how it falls short — Remember the post-debate spin room? Once upon a time, viewers turned exclusively to news channels to watch network-appointed experts on the left and right serve up soundbites after the candidates quit their lecterns.