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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 …
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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.
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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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Michael Calderone / Huffington Post:
Bloomberg Editor Quits Over Fear The Company Can't Cover Michael Bloomberg Aggressively — “The bottom line is, you can't cover the circus unless you can write about one of the biggest elephants in the room,” said Kathy Kiely. — Can Bloomberg aggressively cover Bloomberg?
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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John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal:
FCC to propose new rules to give cable and satellite customers more choice over set top boxes, 40 telco and media groups plan coalition to oppose the initiative — FCC to Propose Overhauling Rules on Set-Top Boxes — Measure, aimed at cutting cable bills, likely would let consumers choose among competing devices
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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 …
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.
Benjamin Wallace / Vulture:
Behind the rise and fall of Relativity Media and CEO Ryan Kavanaugh — The Epic Fail of Hollywood's Hottest Algorithm — In an industry where no one knows anything, here, finally, was someone who seemed to know something: Ryan Kavanaugh, a spikily red-haired man-child with an impish grin …
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Al Jazeera English:
Al Jazeera crew in Yemen released by kidnappers — Hamdi al-Bokari, Abdulaziz al-Sabri, and Moneer al-Sabai disappeared 10 days ago in the besieged city of Taiz. — Hamdi al-Bokari and his colleagues were filming in the besieged city of Taiz [Al Jazeera]
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Gulf News, Associated Press, Reuters and The National
Kaveh Waddell / The Atlantic:
Slack is trying to make it easier for organizations to comply with FOIA document-retention requirements — Are Slack Messages Subject to FOIA Requests? — In offices the world over, email servers are gathering dust as workers flock to group instant-messaging platforms to communicate.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Daily Mail and General Trust Q4: Mail Online ad revenue up 27%, total company advertising down 3%, Daily Mail to increase cover price to 65p from February 1 — Daily Mail website's ad revenues surge as paper announces price hike — Mail Online ad income soared by 27% in the fourth quarter …
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