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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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The Wrap, Variety, Television Academy, Deadline, EW.com, Los Angeles Times, Realscreen, Ars Technica, Tubefilter, Mashable, Forbes, Adweek, Broadcasting & Cable, Tech Times, Tech Times, VideoInk, Digital Trends, Polygon, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, Engadget and Digiday
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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Sydney Morning Herald, Daily Mail, Australia Network News, @sirgooddarren, Guardian, NEWS.com.au, ABC, SBS News, mUmBRELLA, @chrismurphys, @mikecarlton01, 9 News, Crikey, @beneltham, iMediaEthics and New Matilda
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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BGR, Ubergizmo, @swanniontv, @pkafka, @harrymccracken, @mikelizun, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Business Insider, Fast Company and SocialTimes
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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The Baffler, @mattdpearce, @bymikebaker and @brfreed
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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PR Newswire, GeekTime, Jewish Business News, Business Insider and AdExchanger
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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@petersontee, VentureBeat and Business Insider
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Vimeo revamps its iOS app with new design, improved discovery with categories, picture-in-picture, and Spotlight search support — Vimeo's iOS app gets a big makeover aimed at improving discovery — Vimeo, the video network and underdog to the global behemoth that is YouTube …
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MacRumors, SocialTimes, 9to5Mac and The Next Web
Taylor Soper / GeekWire:
Facebook adds Spotify integration to Messenger so users can share songs and playlists — Spotify becomes first music platform to integrate with Facebook Messenger — Music has arrived on Messenger. — Facebook announced today that its mobile messaging platform now integrates with Spotify.
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Variety, Guardian, PCMag India feed, Mashable, Ubergizmo, TechCrunch, RAIN News, Messenger and VentureBeat
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.
Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:
Atlas Obscura, a travel and exploration site, raises $2.5M from NYT, New Atlantic, Henry Blodget, and others, to expand its user-generated Atlas product — Travel Site Atlas Obscura Raises $2.5 Million in New Funding — The company wants to be like ‘if National Geographic and Vice had a baby’
Discussion:
@wsjcmo and Melville House Books
Olivier Laurent / TIME:
World Press Photo finds fewer manipulated entries in this year's contest, 16% compared with last year's 20%, but reports ongoing problems within the industry — World Press Photo Finds Fewer Manipulated Entries in This Year's Photojournalism Contest — Yet issues around heavy post-processing remain
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PetaPixel, Thanks:@ravichandrans25
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Perseus Books Agrees to Sell Distribution Business to Ingram — Deal comes days after agreement to sell publishing arm to Hachette Book Group — Perseus Books Group has agreed to sell the last remaining piece of its business—its physical and digital distribution services group—to Ingram Content Group for an undisclosed price.
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