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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 …
Peter Sterne / Politico:
Huffington Post starts appending an editor's note to all Trump stories, calling him a liar, racist, and a bully — HuffPost to publish anti-Trump kicker with all Trump coverage — The Huffington Post has started appending an editor's note to the bottom of posts about Republican presidential …
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Mediaite, The Huffington Post, @bkcolin, @jayrosen_nyu, Business Insider and The Week
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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@reviewjournal, Columbia Journalism Review, @kdoctor, @johnmcquaid, @jamesdehaven and @jayrosen_nyu
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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T-Mobile Newsroom, The Verge, AppleInsider, Consumerist, Android Police, GeekWire, Motley Fool, TmoNews, PhoneDog.com, TmoNews, Droid Life, App Advice and MacRumors
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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John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
FCC votes to require records of political cable, satellite, and radio ads be posted online in searchable database — Cable, Satellite, Radio Public Files Heading to FCC — Commission votes to expand online reporting requirement — The FCC has voted to approve an order requiring cable …
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Multichannel News, Radio & Television …, The Hill, The National Memo and Wall Street Journal
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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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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@niemanlab
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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Advanced Television, @dputtnam, Gamasutra and The Drum
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Watchup launches Apple TV news app for personalized, on-demand TV newscasts from 160 sources including CNN, Fox News, CBS, and Tribune Media — Apple TV Launches Watchup Video-News App (Exclusive) — Startup delivers personalized, on-demand TV newscasts from 160 sources including CNN, Fox News