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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, Forbes, Fortune, South China Morning Post, 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, MediaPost, TechCrunch, Guardian, International Business Times, CNET, @emilybell, @bodil, Wired.co.uk, The Stack, The Drum, Mashable, The Drum, Engadget, Ars Technica UK and Ubergizmo
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, Re/code, Variety and Los Angeles Times
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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New Statesman, @mathewi, @tigerbeat, @laurenduca, @natashadevonmbe, @markloundy, terribleminds, @jilliancyork, @mathewi, @jimspencesport 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
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” …
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Galleys, @jazer, @noahchestnut, @jakek, AdExchanger, RAIN News and @niemanlab
Elspeth Reeve / New Republic:
How Tumblr's teen comedy geniuses find fame, build audiences, outsmart ad networks, strike it rich, then lose it all, without adults ever noticing — The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens
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@contagious, @bshoup, @raphaelbw, @hunterschwarz, @mollylambert, Boing Boing, @c_s_green, @ldavidson02, @elspethreeve, @dylanmatt, @imbadatlife, @nickbaumann and @laurenkozak
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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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 …
George Slefo / Ad Age:
Sources: Google's AMP initiative to speed mobile pages to launch Wednesday, with Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed, and Washington Post among those participating — Official Launch Date for Google AMP Confirmed — Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages Is Launching Feb. 24, Ad Age Has Learned
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Digiday, Street Fight, AdExchanger, Search Engine Land and American Press Institute
Chava Gourarie / Columbia Journalism Review:
Behind the Another Round, Unorthodox, and Good Muslim Bad Muslim podcasts that serve underrepresented communities — Podcasts and community — Tracy Clayton's laughter is magnificently contagious. — Clayton is the host of BuzzFeed's Another Round podcast, during which she and co-host …
Madeline Welsh / Nieman Lab:
Guardian compares covering dog show on Periscope and Facebook Live, finds more initial engagement on Periscope, more eventual reach on Facebook Live — What The Guardian learned from comparing Facebook Live and Periscope for event coverage — It was a dramatic night at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.
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UK Blog on The Huffington Post, American Press Institute and @gdnmobilelab
Tom Dotan / The Information:
Yahoo shuts down Originals TV programming division, lays off its chief, Ian Moffitt — Yahoo Originals Department Shuttered — Yahoo's original programming division was laid off on Wednesday, including its head Ian Moffitt. The move, which happened during company-wide layoffs …
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@cityofthetown and Business Insider
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