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Gawker:
Voicemails that appear to be from Trump phone show friendship with MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, and Tamron Hall — Voicemails Appear to Reveal Donald Trump's Cozy Relationship With the Liberal Media — Early Thursday morning, Gawker received an anonymous email with an attachment …
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Mediaite, @johnjcook, @mlcalderone, @poniewozik, @asankin, @ywxwy, @ericgeller, @jktrotter, @mhbergen and @alexweprin
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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@deanstarkman, @edmundlee, @n8brown, Fortune, @henrymance and @pkafka
Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
New Emmy Rules Open Categories to YouTube and Other Streaming Shorts — 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, and it's good news for streamers who deal in short form content.
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The Wrap, Variety, Television Academy, Deadline, EW.com, Realscreen, Ars Technica, Los Angeles Times, Tubefilter, Mashable, Forbes, Adweek, Broadcasting & Cable, Tech Times, Tech Times, VideoInk, Digital Trends, Polygon, The Next Web and Ubergizmo
Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
La Presse+ app generates more than 75% of La Presse's advertising revenue, is accessed by 250K unique devices per weekday, average 40 minutes in the app — For La Presse, the tablet is the future as it leaves print behind — Publisher Guy Crevier says newspapers should change their model before they find themselves in a crisis
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@mathewi and @niemanlab
Chris Lehmann / The Baffler:
Streaming TV startups Cheddar and Viceland stem from lazy theorizing about what millennials want — Your Media Future: Cheesy and Skeezy — For decades, American parents and authority figures have fretted over how the goddamn kids in their lives might be induced to pull themselves …
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Editor & Publisher
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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
How Vice Media pleases sponsors: blurring logos in a KKK documentary, using reporter's interview to promote a video game, killing banking investigation, more
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@nickconfessore, @sdbcraig, @thebafflermag, @dicktofel, @joshsternberg, @sulliview, @mattdpearce, @bymikebaker and @brfreed
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, @sirgooddarren, Guardian, Australia Network News, @chrismurphys, @mikecarlton01, @beneltham, ABC, SBS News, mUmBRELLA, 9 News, NEWS.com.au, iMediaEthics, New Matilda and Crikey
Alastair Sharp / Reuters:
Toronto Star to invest C$10M into Star Touch tablet edition in 2016, expects it to break even in 2017, posts Q4 loss of C$233M with revenue down 8% to C$213.7M — Toronto Star publisher ups bets on tablet app, online forums — Torstar Corp (TSb.TO) will pour more money into the tablet version …
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Globe and Mail, @jembradshaw, @joeycoleman, Toronto Star, The Huffington Post, Financial Post and MobileSyrup.com
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.
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nook.com, Talking New Media, New York Times, GalleyCat, BBC, bit-tech.net, PC Magazine, TechRadar.com, ChannelBiz UK, Liliputing, The Verge, Digital Spy, Geeky Gadgets, GeekWire, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, The Register, Digital Trends, Reuters, Bookseller News, Good E-Reader, Engadget, TymberDalton.com, Wall Street Journal, Good E-Reader, Consumerist, Fortune and Good E-Reader
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Google will extend right-to-be-forgotten to all Search domains for searches from EU country where request was filed beginning next week — Google confirms it will extend E.U. right-to-be-forgotten to all Google Search domains from next week — Google has confirmed previous reports …
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TechCrunch, Google Europe Blog, The Verge, SlashGear, Digital Trends, BetaNews and 9to5Google
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Meerkat Is Ditching the Livestream — And Chasing a Video Social Network Instead — Two weeks ago, Meerkat CEO Ben Rubin sent an email to his company's 48 investors laying bare an observation that he'd made peace with months earlier: Meerkat, the livestreaming app that played the role …
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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@harrymccracken and @raju, Thanks:@talkingbiznews
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Twitter Editorial Director Karen Wickre Is Leaving the Company — Marisa Allegra Williams (@marisa) for Twitter, Inc. — Twitter's editorial director, Karen Wickre, is leaving the company after more than four years. — Wickre made the announcement in a Medium post Friday.
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@kvox and Karen Wickre