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Rudi Keller / Columbia Daily Tribune:
University of Missouri board votes to fire professor Melissa Click, who called for “muscle” against student reporter — University of Missouri curators vote to fire Melissa Click — Melissa Click, an assistant professor of mass media at the University of Missouri …
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Prof. Jeff Jarvis / Al Jazeera America:
The New Republic, Pando, Al Jazeera America, Fusion, Mic, and The Dodo get skewered by @profjeffjarvis in satiric piece — Six hot media startups to watch in 2016 — When it comes to innovation in journalism, these companies are the true incubators — As a leading hyperglocal thinkfluencer …
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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Soldier of Fortune Shutters Print Magazine After 40 Years — Magazine, which chronicles the world of mercenaries, will transition to being entirely online — Soldier of Fortune, the notorious magazine chronicling the shadowy world of mercenaries battling it out in hot spots around the globe …
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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Snapchat teams up with Nielsen to measure video ad reach for Live Stories and Discover, and also will use ad tech firms Innovid and Sizmek — Snapchat Enlists Nielsen to Track Ad Campaigns — Move should please ad buyers, who have been clamoring for more data from fast-growing mobile app
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Facebook:
Facebook rolling out live video streaming to Android in US, expanding to over 30 countries on iOS — Bringing Facebook Live to Android and More Countries — Facebook Live enables you to share your experiences and perspectives in real time, with the people who matter to you …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
BuzzFeed reporter attended closed White House anti-ISIS meeting with tech and media companies, but editor says she was reporting, not advising — BuzzFeed Says It Wasn't Participating In Government's Anti-ISIS Meeting, Only Reporting — So why weren't other journalists let in to cover the “Madison Valleywood Project”?
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Pew Research Center:
Study: 78% of Reddit users get news there, 45% use it to learn about the 2016 election, majority of candidate-centered comments appear in political subreddits — Nearly Eight-in-Ten Reddit Users Get News on the Site — Interest in Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders …
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Ben Williams / Adblock Plus and (a little) more:
Adblock Plus Acceptable Ads: publishers with over 10M ad impressions per month pay licensing fee for whitelisting — Acceptable Ads explained: monetization — Internally, we talk about Acceptable Ads all the time. Ever since we decided to take the middle way, choosing not to block …
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Roger Yu / USA Today:
Q&A with The Hill owner Jimmy Finkelstein on plans to increase editorial staff by 25%, video initiatives, and the future of print — ‘The Hill’ to expand as digital traffic grows — Heightened interest for all things political this season — thanks in no small measure …
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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Jay Yarow, former Business Insider executive editor, named SVP and executive editor for CNBC Digital, reporting to network President Mark Hoffman — CNBC Digital hires Yarow as executive editor — CNBC chairman Mark Hoffman sent out the following announcement on Thursday:
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Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
RIAA wins $22M in damages from MP3Skull filesharing site and the power to seize domain names, but the site's owner is unknown — Music labels win $22.2m damages from MP3Skull - if they can find its owners — Following a lawsuit coordinated by industry body the RIAA …
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Metropolitan Police:
Operation Elveden, the probe into leaking of information to journalists, and inappropriate payments by journalists to police and public officials, has ended — Operation Elveden completed — [IMAGE: Infographic on Operation Elveden in numbers] — On Wednesday, 24 February following consultation …
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