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Gerry Shih / Associated Press:
New Chinese rule bans foreign companies from publishing online without state approval and licensing, requires mainland servers, starting March 10 — China requires approval for foreign firms to publish online … BEIJING (AP) — A new Chinese regulation announced this week …
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Quartz, South China Morning Post, Fortune, Gizmodo, Tech in Asia and American Press Institute
Maureen Morrison / Ad Age:
Israeli ad blocking company Shine partners with 30M subscriber-strong European carrier Three Group to offer network-level ad blocking — European Carrier Blocks Ads at Network Level — Shine and Three Group Team Up to Offer Ad Blocking — Free Webcast — The Skinny on Scope Management: 2016 Keys to Success
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Telegraph, TechCrunch, Guardian, The Drum, AdExchanger, MediaPost, Business Insider, International Business Times, CNET, @bodil, Engadget, Ars Technica UK, @emilybell, Ubergizmo, Wired.co.uk, The Stack and Mashable
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: after launching a year ago, Sling TV now has more than 600K subscribers; Chief Executive Roger Lynch says “vast majority” are not pay-TV subscribers — Dish Network's Sling TV Has More Than 600,000 Subscribers — Hasn't been breaking out the subscribers publicly for Sling TV since launch a year ago
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The Next Web, The Verge, @bluechoochoo, Digital Trends and Re/code
Axegrinder / Press Gazette:
Huffington Post Editor-in-Chief Stephen Hull suggests unpaid articles are more authentic than paid-for stories, which is “something to be proud of” — Stephen Hull and the blockheads: Backlash against HuffPo ed's claim unpaid articles are ‘more authentic’
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@mathewi, New Statesman, @tigerbeat, @markloundy, @jilliancyork, @natashadevonmbe, @jimspencesport, @laurenduca, @mathewi, terribleminds and Guido Fawkes
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Turkey detains Syrian journalist Rami Jarrah, co-founder of ANA Press — Turkey detains journalist who risks his life to report from Syria — Reporter raised in London is held after applying for residency in a border city — A Syrian journalist who was raised in Britain …
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Committee to Protect …, International Business Times, BBC, BuzzFeed, @kreasechan, Facebook and telesurtv.net
James Rainey / Variety:
Source: Nicole Seligman to step down as president of Sony Entertainment and Sony Corp. of America next month — Nicole Seligman Stepping Down as President of Sony Entertainment — Nicole Seligman, president of both Sony Entertainment and Sony Corp. of America, is stepping down from the twin posts …
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Re/code, Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Re/code and Los Angeles Times
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Cox is shutting down Flare services: remote storage, video game service FlarePlay, and Flare Kids, a free video app, because it was not able to monetize them — Cox Is Shutting Down ‘Flare’ Digital Media Products — Effort for videogame service, Web offerings spanned three years
Discussion:
Multichannel News and Variety
Jeremy Kessel / The Twitter Blog:
Twitter transparency report: in the last 6 months, copyright takedown notices were up 89% to 35K, requests for account information increased 27% — Providing more #transparency into legal requests to remove content — Since our first transparency report was published in 2012 …
Discussion:
Techdirt, Twitter Transparency Report, @wexler and @digiphile
Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:
Report finds advertisers to spend about $35.1M on podcasts this year, up about 2% YoY, but lack of audience measurement remains an issue — Podcasts Face Advertising Hurdles — Industry contends with marketers' doubts about measurement, scale — Since the hit podcast “Serial” …
Discussion:
Galleys, AdExchanger, @jazer, @noahchestnut, @jakek, RAIN News and @niemanlab
Joe Coscarelli / New York Times:
Kanye West's new album is a hit, but unconventional digital rollout confuses would-be buyers — Kanye West's ‘The Life of Pablo’ Is a Hit, but It's Not for Sale — In the week since Kanye West debuted his new album, “The Life of Pablo,” with an elaborate listening session-fashion show …
Discussion:
XXL Mag, The FADER and HotNewHipHop.com
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Verizon Revamps ‘Skinny’ FiOS TV Bundles After Spats With ESPN, Others — Verizon Communications is overhauling the lower-priced FiOS Custom TV bundles, and will now offer two basic packages — one with sports channels, and one without them. — The new “skinny” TV packages, launching Sunday …
Discussion:
Multichannel News, Ad Age, PR Newswire, Reuters and Variety
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Publishers like Vice, Refinery29, Condé Nast, and Complex inflate traffic numbers by including sites they handle ad sales for but don't own — The favorite publisher trick that makes their digital audiences look bigger and younger — The pressure is on digital publishers to show …
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