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Alex Weprin / Politico:
Fusion revenue jumped from $28.1M in 2014 to $63.5M in 2015, while losses grew from $27.3M in 2013, to $35M in 2014, and $37.6M in 2015 — Still a joint venture, Fusion more than doubled its revenue in 2015 — Univision CFO Francisco Lopez-Balboa brushed aside reports that the company wants …
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Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
Publishers need to use predictive and conversational bots to add a service on top of their content if they want to survive — News Publishers Need To Jump Into Bots (1/2) — The survival of the news industry depends, for a large part, on its ability to create services on top of their contents streams.
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Nieman Lab:
New report surveys over 30 newsrooms on how they use analytics to make editorial decisions — The next step: Moving from generic analytics to editorial analytics — Big screens with real-time traffic data have become ubiquitous in newsrooms. They illustrate how news organizations …
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On First Thought, Journalism.co.uk and Reuters Institute …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
After nine years without ads, Pocket experiments with sponsored content in Recommended feed; Premium subscribers will remain ad-free — Pocket Wants You To Read Ads Later Too — People love Pocket. Its 22 million registered users have saved over 2 billion articles.
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Pocket Blog, @cjc, @viticci, Android Police, The Verge, The Next Web, Engadget and VentureBeat
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Technorati, former Web 2.0 darling that raised $32M in its heyday, acquired for $3M by Buffalo advertising monetization service Synacor — Synacor Buys Technorati For Just $3M To Build Out Its Mobile And Ad Tech Business — Yet more consolidation underway in the ad tech business …
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Univision launches campaign to encourage Hispanics to register to vote, raising questions about partisanship — Univision Aims to Make Hispanic Voting Bloc Even More Formidable — About 11 million Hispanics voted in the 2012 presidential election, fewer than half of those who were eligible.
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
The Awl co-editor John Herrman, Deadspin reporter Greg Howard, and Slate writer Amanda Hess awarded David Carr fellowships at the New York Times — New York Times Awards David Carr Fellowships to 3 Journalists — The New York Times announced on Tuesday that it had chosen three journalists …
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Alex Sherman / Bloomberg Business:
Sources: Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp is considering acquiring Yahoo's core business, to gain its digital reach of 1B users globally — Time Inc. Said to Be Interested in Joining Fray of Yahoo Suitors — Time said to have heard Citigroup bankers' pitch on Yahoo deal
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John Koblin / New York Times:
PBS to launch free 24-hour channel and online stream dedicated to children's programming later this year — PBS Is Creating a Channel Exclusively for Children — PBS is starting a new 24-hour channel dedicated solely to children's programming. — The channel, which will be called PBS Kids …
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
With CEO Jack Griffin gone, the stage is set to break up Tribune Publishing — With CEO Jack Griffin's unexpected ouster today, all bets are off on where the company is headed strategically. — Specifically, I think the stage is set for Tribune to entertain offers for its various newspaper properties …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Spokesman for ousted Tribune CEO Jack Griffin says he wasn't fired, says decision was mutual
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FishbowlNY, Robert Feder and @brianstelter
Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
How journalist Gary Harki's reports of police with disciplinary issues may have prompted a bill in Virginia to make names of police unavailable under FOIA — Here's the backstory to a bill allowing Virginia police to keep officers' names secret — Photo credit: Rama, Wikimedia; Treatment by CJR
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg Business:
Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman says company is aiming to sell a stake in Paramount Pictures by end of Q3 — Viacom Approached by Investors for Paramount Pictures Stake — Media giant hires PJT Partners to help with discussions — CEO Dauman aims to reach agreement on deal by third quarter
William F. Baker / USA Today:
Spotlight movie fails to acknowledge the dogged reporting of the National Catholic Reporter, beginning in 1985 — How ‘Spotlight’ missed the story: Column — ‘National Catholic Reporter’ exposed priest abuse and the Catholic Church coverup in 1985. — It is just a single line of dialogue …
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