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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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Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
WordPress.com sites now automatically support Google's AMP to speed up mobile page loading; self-hosted WordPress sites can enable AMP with a plugin — WordPress Sites Now Support Google's AMP To Make Mobile Pages Load Much Faster — Google has some big plans when it comes to making the web faster on your mobile phone.
Mark Bergen / Re/code:
Google AMP Is Less About Beating Facebook at News, More About Gobbling Up the Mobile Web — When Google looks at the mobile Web, it sees so many things it does not like. — Websites aren't built for mobile. Too much code hobbles pages. And everything, oh man, everything is too slow.
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SiliconBeat, Adweek, @jbenton, Digital Journal, CNET and Wired
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Yahoo stops signing up new publishers to its ad network Yahoo Recommends as company faces uncertain future — Yahoo is pulling back on its Outbrain/Taboola competitor — The content recommendation wars have claimed another casualty: Yahoo Recommends, Yahoo's two-year-old widget …
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WebProNews, AdNews, dmwmedia.com and @lmoses
Peter Sterne / Politico:
Genius hires former Gawker features editor Leah Finnegan to head News Genius in renewed push into general news — Genius hires former Gawker editor to spearhead news division — Genius has hired former Gawker editor Leah Finnegan as managing news editor, the annotation start-up announced today.
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@leahfinnegan, @mlcalderone, @max_read and @mathewi
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Sources: Google to add Chromecast-like features to TV sets, starting with Vizio, could become available as early as spring — Google to Add Casting to TV Sets, Starting With Vizio (Exclusive) — Move could signal shift in company's living-room strategy — Google is getting ready …
Discussion:
Business Insider, The Next Web, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, The Verge and TIME
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
New entrants like Fusion, Vox, and Gawker join the crowd of sites covering 2016 national elections — New media players seek to make their mark on the 2016 campaign — Sam Biddle wants to catch Ted Cruz with his pants down. — “My dream story would be me next to Ted Cruz at a urinal …
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@morninggloria, @freddiedeboer and @jayrosen_nyu
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 …
Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
Amazon Studios Paid Staggering $15M for Woody Allen's Next Film — EMAIL ME — The untitled movie, starring Steve Carell, Jesse Eisenberg, Blake Lively and Kristen Stewart, was acquired sight unseen — and at three times what Sony Pictures Classics paid for Allen's previous film.
Discussion:
Engadget, @julia_greenberg, @camcgrady, Fortune and Business Insider
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.
Discussion:
The Next Web, Engadget, blog.wan-ifra.org, The Next Web and 9to5Google
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Business Insider executive editor Jay Yarow leaving to join a not-yet-named “network” — Business Insider executive editor Yarow leaves — Jay Yarow, the executive editor for Business Insider, resigned Wednesday afternoon to accept another job. — His departure was announced in a short newsroom meeting.
Discussion:
@fmanjoo and @talkingbiznews
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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@janebsinger, @risj_oxford, On First Thought and Journalism.co.uk
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