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On Twitter's 10th anniversary, Jack Dorsey talks about its past, current changes, and future — The Future of Twitter: Q&A with Jack Dorsey — An in-depth conversation on 10 years of tweeting, the importance of live media, and “the puddle.” — Last year, amid a cratering stock price …
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
The Mutual Dependence of Donald Trump and the News Media — Did you catch the Trump-Kelly bout Friday night? What a show. — It had Donald J. Trump, The Likely Republican Presidential Nominee, throwing the first punch (of that day) at the star Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly by composing …
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Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Medium spins off publication Matter as Matter Studios, which aims to be HBO for digital storytellers, funded by Ev Williams, led by Mark Lotto and Hillary Frey — Medium spins off Matter into new company owned by Ev Williams — The self-publishing service and social network Medium …
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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
VICE's February traffic plunges 17.4%, to 49.1M unique visitors, compared to 59.5M in January — Vice Media Traffic Plummets, Underscoring Risky Web Strategy — Vice Media has come into the month of March looking more like a lamb than the proverbial lion.
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Sébastien Cevey / inso:
Software engineer Sébastien Cevey leaves the Guardian to join Google for a “publishing-related product” — On leaving the Guardian: dreams of digital journalism — After I joined the Guardian 4 years ago, and as I gradually learned how journalism was done …
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Richard Horgan / FishbowlNY:
The New Republic shuts down content marketing arm, Novel; number of staff departing from company on April 1, including chief revenue officer Kayvan Salmanpour — New Republic Pulls the Plug on Novel — Hamilton Fish, who recently joined New Republic as publisher and editorial director …
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Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Best-selling author James Patterson to launch Bookshots, short novels that can be read in a single sitting — James Patterson Has a Big Plan for Small Books — People already read James Patterson's books — and in staggering numbers. Last year, he and his team of writers had 36 books land on the New York Times best-seller list.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
NBCUniversal's E! cable network launches daily talk show on Facebook Live, “Live from E!”, shot using iPhone 6s Plus — E! Launches Live Talk Show on Facebook (EXCLUSIVE) — Facebook is getting a daily live talk show from NBCUniversal's E! cable network …
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Report forecasts U.S ad spending to grow 3.7% this year, digital to overtake TV as biggest category in 2017 — U.S., Global Ad Forecasts Cut Slightly, Digital Poised to Overtake TV Spending in 2017 — EMAIL ME — “Digital continues to grow at the expense of print media as consumers shift …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon partners with Comcast to sell Xfinity bundles, quietly launches Amazon Cable Store — Amazon.com Starts Selling Comcast Xfinity TV, Internet Service — Amazon.com is now selling a range of Comcast Xfinity bundles, as the cable giant seeks to get its cable TV …
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Alphabet's Jigsaw launches Unfiltered.News, a data visualization tool using Google News data to show undercovered and popular stories by region — A new data viz tool shows what stories are being undercovered in countries around the world — It's a common lament: Though the Internet provides us access …
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Andy / TorrentFreak:
EU Commission inquiry reveals 68% of digital content providers geo-block in EU, content supplier contracts forcing it may be investigated — 68% of Digital Content Providers Geo-Block in the EU — The European Union wants companies selling digital content to citizens in EU Member States to do so across the entire region.