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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Dutch pay-per-article startup Blendle plans beta launch in US in early 2016, will announce publishers later, will hire editor in chief and journalist curators — Blendle, the Dutch ‘iTunes for news,’ will launch in the U.S. early next year — Blendle, a Dutch “digital newsstand” …
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Nieman Lab, Journalism.co.uk, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times and Politico
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Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook changes advertising policies for Instant Articles to allow publishers to include more advertising in each article and to sell Facebook-only campaigns — Facebook Bends to Publishers, Tweaks Instant Articles Advertising — Publishers said restrictions made it too hard for them to generate revenue
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The Whip, @jackmarshall and FishbowlNY
Max Mason / Sydney Morning Herald:
Facebook and Fairfax Media team up on Instant Articles — Facebook is partnering with Fairfax Media as the social media giant continues the global rollout of Instant Articles. — The service hosts news articles on Facebook's News Feed so readers don't have to click through to another website.
Discussion:
National Business Review and mUmBRELLA
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Profile of Martha Nelson, chief of Yahoo media and ex-Time Inc. editor in chief, who faces challenges as Yahoo plans to spin off core assets — As Yahoo roils, Martha Nelson stays focused on media — When Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer hired former Time Inc. bigwig Martha Nelson over the summer …
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@moorehn, Business Insider, @dangillmor, The Wrap, New York Times, @mccarthyryanj, @joepompeo, Ad Age and Forbes
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Vindu Goel / New York Times:
Yahoo scraps Alibaba spinoff plan, will spin off core assets including stake in Yahoo Japan; Max Levchin resigns from board — Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses — SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo said on Wednesday that it had dropped a plan to spin off its $31 billion stake in Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company.
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Elias Groll / Foreign Policy:
ISIS creates propaganda app with news reader functions to spread its message — Welcome to the Future of War: ISIS Has a Smartphone App — In YouTube videos depicting its rule, in Twitter messages spreading its ideology, and in chat rooms winning new recruits, the Islamic State …
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New York Times, @mike_giglio, @michaelssmithii, Metro.co.uk, NEWS.com.au, Tech Times, The Times, Stuff.co.nz and Mirror.co.uk
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Negotiations between Apple and TV programmers stalled over Apple TV because of disagreements on the mix of channels to be included in bundles — Why Apple Walked Away From TV (For Now) — Yes, Apple has walked away from the negotiating table with the TV guys, which means you won't be getting …
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SiliconANGLE, 9to5Mac, Concurrent Media, Forbes, @waltmossberg, MacRumors, Mashable, @jessicalessin, @pkafka, Neowin, AppleInsider, TechHive, DSLreports and Fortune
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Richard Gingras / Accelerated Mobile Pages Project:
Google to start sending search traffic to AMP pages as early as February 2016, announces new partners including LINE, Viber, and Tango — Continued Momentum For The AMP Project — The AMP effort is building both momentum and speed. There has been significant progress not only since …
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Pinterest Engineering Blog, ZDNet, The Next Web, WebProNews, Fortune, Adweek, Search Engine Land, Medium and VentureBeat
Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
One month after the Wall Street Journal's launch of its WSJ City app in London, Editor Phillipa Leighton-Jones talks about lessons learned — ‘A delicate balancing act’: The WSJ City approach to mobile news — WSJ City launched at the beginning of November as a “whole new concept” …
Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Airbnb in talks with Hearst to launch new travel magazine, after its quarterly magazine Pineapple, launched in November 2014, ended after one issue — Here's What Happened to Pineapple, Airbnb's One-Off Print Magazine — Home-rental company is now in talks with Hearst for a joint venture
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WWD and Fast Company
Duncan Robinson / Financial Times:
European Commission to examine whether aggregators should have to pay for displaying snippets of news articles — Google faces Brussels move on ‘snippet tax’ for news — Google faces another regulatory confrontation with Brussels after the European Commission said it will examine whether services …
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Reuters, Boing Boing and @retiario
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Mark Scott / New York Times:
Europe to create a digital single market in which digital content can be temporarily viewed throughout the EU regardless of European country of purchase
Europe to create a digital single market in which digital content can be temporarily viewed throughout the EU regardless of European country of purchase
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Plagiarism Today, Out-Law News, Pocket-lint, Wired.co.uk, Guardian, BBC, @footballlaw, @jamie_love, Out-Law News, DW.COM, The Register, IT PRO, Hollywood Reporter, Digitallook.com, Politico, @theresamep, Bookseller News, EU Press Room, Variety, Computer Business Review, International Business Times, VentureBeat, The Irish Times, Broadband TV News, newstalk.com, Total Telecom, Politico, V3.co.uk, Channel NewsAsia, Phys.org, Ars Technica, EU Press Room, TBI Vision, CNBC, Telegraph, @kostasrossoglou, EU Press Room, Hollywood Reporter, Advanced Television, TorrentFreak, Finextra Research news, Forbes, Reuters, Bloomberg Business and Daily Mail
Mike McPhate / New York Times:
GunTV, a shopping network for firearms, to launch in January on cable and satellite — Selling Guns on a 24-Hour TV Network — Two television entrepreneurs in California think they have just what America needs: a 24-hour shopping channel for guns. — Using the tag line “Live Shopping.
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Syracuse Post-Standard, Newser, Examiner, New York Daily News, Newsweek and The Atlantic
Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com:
Sling TV Suppliers Say The Company Has Less Than 500,000 Subscribers, Decelerating Signups — In a regulatory filing in August of this year, Dish said they had 169,000 subs as of the end of March for their Sling TV live streaming service. Since then, the company has refused …
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Home Media Magazine, DSLreports, Cordcutting.com, Multichannel News, Cordcutting.com and MediaPost
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
News developers from The New York Times and NPR built Elex, an open-source program that works with AP's new elections API — NPR and The New York Times teamed up to make election reporting faster — Although its monopoly on election night race calls has weakened in recent years …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Tow report on podcasts breaks down various business models, provides context through history — Check out this handy interactive timeline of the history of podcasting — 2015 has brought a constant stream of news about podcasts — but ingesting said news at the micro/announcement level makes …
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