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Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
New Emmy Rules Open Categories to YouTube and Other Streaming Shorts — EMAIL ME — The TV Academy is also increasing nominee count in writing and directing races and doing away with ranked voting. — The TV Academy is rolling out additional changes for the 2016 Emmys …
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Simon Thomsen / Business Insider Australia:
Sydney Morning Herald suspends Australian journalist Paul Sheehan indefinitely from his position at Fairfax Media over his fabricated rape story — The Sydney Morning Herald has suspended columnist Paul Sheehan over his false rape column — The Sydney Morning Herald has suspended …
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
How Vice Media pleases sponsors: blurring logos in a KKK documentary, using reporter's interview to promote a video game, killing banking investigation, more — Vice Media goes gonzo on the news. Advertisers may be a different story. — With its swaggering reporting style and frank …
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Jeremy Barr / Ad Age:
Business Insider generated €9.4M revenue with a net loss of €1.1M in Q4, revenue increased 41% in 2015 — Axel Springer Report Gives Peek at Business Insider Finances — Net Loss of €1.1 million From Oct. 30 Through Dec. 31 — Consulting Services Add Creative And Digital Agency Expertise
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Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader:
Barnes & Noble to close Nook App store, Nook Video, and UK Nook Store March 15 — B&N is Shutting Down One of Its Top Three Digital Blunders on 15 March — Barnes & Noble announced a slew of of closures on Thursday, including Nook Video, the UK Nook Store, and what had to have been one of B&N's greatest digital mistakes.
Tim Peterson / Marketing Land:
Sources: Facebook to announce it will open Messenger to publishers for content distribution at its F8 conference in April — Facebook Plans To Open Messenger To Publishers At F8 In April — Facebook will officially let publishers distribute content through Messenger and will announce …
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Sara Guaglione / MediaPost:
Outbrain Acquires Revee, Time Inc To Utilize Its Real-Time Tech — Outbrain, a content discovery platform, today announced that through its acquisition of technology company Revee, it has launched Automatic Yield, a content recommendation solution that enables publishers to monetize audiences with a real-time understanding of content.
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Agence France-Presse:
Istanbul court orders anti-Erdogan daily Zaman into administration amid alarm over freedom of expression — Istanbul court orders anti-Erdogan daily into administration — Istanbul (AFP) - An Istanbul court on Friday ordered into administration a Turkish daily newspaper that is sharply critical …
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Jane Martinson / Guardian:
BBC white paper may be delayed until after EU referendum — Charter renewal proposals unlikely to be published before June 23 due to political considerations and huge public response to green paper — The government is likely to delay publishing the white paper on the renewal …
John Reynolds / Press Gazette:
Time Out editor says title makes a profit and predicts that more magazines will go free — More paid-for titles will follow Time Out's “freemium” model, according to the editor of the London issue of the listings title, who has also revealed that the magazine makes a profit.
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Sources: Facebook, Amazon, Verizon, and Yahoo to bid on digital rights to NFL Thursday night games, league would like deal completed by March 20 — Facebook Wants to Pay for NFL Streaming Rights but Apple Doesn't — Last month, the NFL sold off TV rights to its Thursday night games to CBS and NBC*.
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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Investor's Business Daily to become a weekly, 20 news jobs to be cut — Investor's Business Daily, which has published five days a week since its founding in 1984, will announce next week that it will become a weekly newspaper and will focus its editorial efforts more online.
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