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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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Facebook, Forbes, The Wrap, Reuters, The Next Web, TechCrunch and Ad Age


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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T-Mobile Newsroom, Broadcasting & Cable, Motley Fool, App Advice, PhoneDog.com, Droid Life, TmoNews, TmoNews, Digital Trends, MacRumors and iMore


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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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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New York Post, The Wrap, Music Ally, TIME, Music Business Worldwide, Digital Music News and Digital Trends


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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Columbia Journalism Review, @kdoctor, @jamesdehaven, @johnmcquaid and @jayrosen_nyu


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 …


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?

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.


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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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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FishbowlNY, Deadline, Reuters, Reuters, New York Post, Jewish Business News, The Wrap, Hollywood Reporter and Business Insider


Pandora launches new Browse feature to help you discover new stations — Pandora is trying to make it easier for listeners to find music tailored to their tastes. The streaming service just launched Browse, a new hub within its iOS app that helps users discover new artists and stations they might actually like.
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Pandora, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Tech Times, The Next Web and Engadget


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.
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