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Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Sheryl Sandberg sees Facebook as a second-screen to TV ads as company claims 500M users watch 100M hours of video per day — Facebook Says Video Is Huge — 100-Million-Hours-Per-Day Huge — Facebook's obsession with video — getting users to both upload and consume it on Facebook …
Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Las Vegas Review Journal names former USA Today head Craig Moon as publisher — Review-Journal names former USA Today head as publisher — Craig Moon has been named publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the newspaper announced Thursday. — Moon, 65, is the former president …
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Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
A working theory: Adelson overpaid for the Las Vegas Review-Journal because the deal included obscuring his connection to critical coverage of Nevada judges — Journalists as ‘hit squad:’ Connecting the dots on Sheldon Adelson, the Review-Journal of Las Vegas and Edward Clarkin in Connecticut
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Andy Malt / Complete Music Update:
Amazon launches Prime Stations personalised radio service in the UK — Amazon has added its Prime Stations personalised radio service for subscribers to the free-delivery-with-added-content set-up in the UK. It expands on the Prime Music on-demand streaming service, which has also just had a new lyrics feature added to it as well.
Lucas Matney / TechCrunch:
T-Mobile adds Amazon Video, Fox News, Univision Now, and WWE Network to Binge On, says users streaming twice as much video than before service — T-Mobile Says Binge On Customers Are Streaming Twice As Much Video, Adds Amazon Video Support — John Legere may have drawn the ire of the EFF …
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Vadim Lavrusik / Facebook:
Facebook expands ability to share live video to all iPhone users in the US, rest of the world over coming weeks, Android users soon — Expanding Live Video to More People — In December, we started testing the ability for people to share live video on Facebook, and it has been inspiring …
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Mădălina Ciobanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Washington Post introduces Backdrop feature on all election stories, a pop-up providing background information — The Washington Post builds new feature to add context to election coverage — The pop-up button called Backdrop will be available on all stories about the 2016 US presidential race
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Tara Conlan / Guardian:
Lord Puttnam and Channel 4 launch MBA for media executives — Two-year course aimed at bosses in the creative industries aims at developing leaders for the digital era — In the week it emerged the creative industries contributed £84.1bn to the UK economy, Oscar-winning film producer Lord Puttnam …
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
How newspaper reporters in Washington DC, Detroit, Milwaukee, Atlanta, and Des Moines are experimenting with podcasts — All the news that's fit to podcast: Newspapers try out audio — The podcasting fervor of 2015 has continued into 2016 and shows no signs of diminishing.
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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
‘Pushed out’ Panorama reporter Raphael Rowe's farewell email: Diversity at BBC is 'worse than I've ever known' — Former Panorama reporter Raphael Rowe told colleagues he felt diversity at the BBC is “worse than I've ever known” on his last day at the corporation.
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Lizzie Plaugic / The Verge:
Hulu will be the ‘exclusive streaming home’ of all future IFC Films documentaries — Hulu will soon start ramping up its collection of documentary films. The streaming service announced today it closed a deal with IFC Films to become the “exclusive streaming home” for all future documentary releases …
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Thomas Oide / The Maneater:
University of Missouri suspends professor Melissa Click, who called for “muscle” against student reporter — Melissa Click suspended by UM System Board of Curators pending further investigation — Suspension comes after being charged for third-degree assault on Monday.
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