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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Limited resources and paywalls limit some publishers experiments with AMP while others go all in — Diving all in or dipping a toe? How publishers are approaching Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages initiative — “Mobile web performance is bad — I challenge you find someone who disagrees with that …
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google's AMP listings appear in mobile search; results recognizable by green-filled circle with lightning bolt AMP icon — Live: Google Launches AMP Listings In Mobile Search Results, For Some — Google's launch of accelerated mobile pages in its search results appears to have started a day earlier than expected.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Warner Bros. Acquires DramaFever from SoftBank — Warner Bros. has bought DramaFever, a streaming-video subscription service specializing in Korean TV shows and film dramas, and is eyeing the deal as paving the way to launch new over-the-top services. — WB is acquiring DramaFever …
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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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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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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, @janebsinger, @risj_oxford, Journalism.co.uk and Reuters Institute …
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
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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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Google launches Project Shield, a free DDOS mitigation service, to all non-state news sites — Google Wants to Save News Sites From Cyberattacks—For Free — Mehdi Yahyanejad thought that after Iranians voted on June 12, 2009, he would finally get some rest.
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.
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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