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Facebook Partners With 50 Publishers To Launch Instant Articles In Asia — Facebook is bringing its Instant Article media format to Asia after more than twenty media from eleven countries in the region — including China, India and Indonesia — went live on the platform.
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Facebook expanding Live Video to all users starting with small selection of US iOS users, rolls out photo and video collages on iPhone, Android coming in 2016 — Facebook begins testing live video streaming for all users — Four months after introducing live video streaming for celebrities …
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Authors Guild, American Booksellers Association, Barnes & Noble, and others file amicus brief asking Supreme Court to overturn Apple ebook price fixing decision — Authors Guild Files Brief Affirming Benefits of Competitive E-book Economy — The Authors Guild, the nation's largest …


Snapchat positions itself as breaking news platform with San Bernardino coverage — Snapchat is not typically a place you'd go to for information about a breaking news story. But the messaging app ran a story on the San Bernardino mass shooting Wednesday, providing its 100+ million users …
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Sources: YouTube seeks streaming rights for TV shows and movies to support its new subscription service Red — YouTube Seeks Streaming Rights to TV Shows, Movies — Efforts come as YouTube looks to bolster $9.99-a-month subscription service called Red — YouTube is seeking streaming rights …
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Gannett brings its papers under new USA Today Network banner — Dec 3 Gannett Co Inc, the publisher of USA Today, said on Thursday it would bring its local and national publications under the USA Today Network. — Gannett was separated from its broadcasting and digital arm, Tegna Inc …
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Washington Press Corps now has more reporters from digital and specialized outlets and fewer from local, daily newspapers — Today's Washington Press Corps More Digital, Specialized — D.C.-based newspaper staff focus on Congress, but wire services account for most of what readers see
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What publishers around the world learned by sharing their climate change coverage with each other — As many as 3,000 journalists from around the world are convening in Paris over the next two weeks to cover the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Summit. It will probably result …
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Fusion Partners with VR Startup Littlstar to Create Virtual Reality Content — Millennial-focused cable network Fusion is partnering with New York-based virtual reality (VR) startup Littlstar to create and distribute content for a variety of VR platforms, both companies announced Thursday.


StreamRoot, which helps broadcasters deliver faster video streams, raises $2.1 million — Video streaming startup StreamRoot raises $2.1 million — New York-based video streaming startup StreamRoot announced today through a public filing that it raised just over $2.1 million for its most recent round.


India's The Hindu newspaper not printed Wednesday for the first time since 1878 due to heavy floods in Chennai, making the press inaccessible to workers — Chennai floods: The Hindu not published for first time since 1878 — One of India's oldest newspapers has not been printed …


New Ofcom rules take into account total turnover when deciding penalties, meaning larger media organizations face bigger fines — Large broadcasters face bigger fines from Ofcom — Regulator to take company's total turnover into account before deciding on penalties so they act as more of a deterrent