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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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Al Jazeera America, @robaeprice, Mediaite, TVNewser, @profjeffjarvis, @ibogost, @profjeffjarvis, bookforum.com, @jaredbkeller, @profjeffjarvis, @saramorrison, @profjeffjarvis, @joshsternberg, @ali1m, Gawker, @chanders, CNNMoney, @profjeffjarvis, @mathewi, The New York Observer, @bencjacobs, @mathewi, @jyarow, @brianstelter, @alexrkonrad, @digidave, @profjeffjarvis, @mathewi and The Wrap
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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FishbowlNY and @lalpert1
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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Fortune, MediaPost, Adweek, Nielsen, Variety, Bloomberg Business, Seeking Alpha, Business Insider, Broadcasting & Cable, The Drum, The Drum, Digital Content Next and MediaPost
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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VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Tubefilter, Mashable, 9to5Mac, Fone Arena, Pocketnow, Business Insider, 9to5Google, SlashGear, The Verge, The Next Web, Engadget and Tech Insider
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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BuzzFeed, @husainhaqqani, Pocketnow, @miriamelder, Fast Company, @learmonth, @mlcalderone, @mlcalderone, @jennamc_laugh, Digital Trends, CNN, Patently Apple, Tech Insider, Forbes and New York Times
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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Guardian, Nieman Lab, MediaPost, AdExchanger, The Drum, @ajohnclark, @jackmarshall, Mobile Marketing, @baekdal, MyBroadband and BetaNews
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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Ars Technica, hypebot, Myce.com, TorrentFreak, Digital Music News and TorrentFreak
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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@jweb
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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FishbowlNY, @seamusconwell, @morningmoneyben, @brianstelter, @nikdeogun, @thestalwart, @brianstelter, @mcwellons, @andrewrsorkin, @jyarow and @brianstelter
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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Nieman Lab, @pewjournalism, The New York Observer, Business Insider, Pew Research Center, Mashable, Vox, MediaPost, @asmitch, @lrainie, @kristinejlu, @gottfriedjeff, Poynter and PBS NewsHour
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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