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Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Blendle launches pay-per-story app in the US with articles from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Economist, and Financial Times, starting at $.09 each — Paid journalism startup Blendle launches in the U.S. — Blendle, the Dutch journalism start-up developing an iTunes-style payment method …
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Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:
Interview with Jeff Bezos about his deepening involvement in The Washington Post, Amazon Books retail store, and more — Bezos Prime — Amazon's CEO has driven his company to all-consuming growth (and even, believe it or not, profits). Today, though, as he deepens his involvement …
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@ylichterman, @marfgilbert and @sfiegerman
Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
Sources: Google building Periscope-like live streaming app YouTube Connect for iOS and Android — Google is building YouTube Connect, a livestreaming app to take on Periscope — EXCLUSIVE: — Google has quietly been building a new livestreaming app called YouTube Connect, VentureBeat has learned.
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Nick Denton / Gawker:
Hogan suit was about racist comments on another videotape, and Gawker will win on appeal — The Hogan Verdict — The decision by a Florida jury to grant $140 million in damages for a story on Gawker.com about a Hulk Hogan sex tape was extraordinary. The number is far larger than even the plaintiff himself had asked for in relief.
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Interview with GroundSource founder Andrew Haeg, on using messaging over SMS, WhatsApp, more to build community for news sites and others — GroundSource is trying to help news sites build community through text-message conversations — “I can't imagine many stronger indications …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Nielsen to Break Out Metrics for Apple TV, Roku, Other Connected-TV Devices — Nielsen promises to give clients a look next month at usage metrics for connected-TV devices — including Roku and Apple TV set-tops — segmented by individual brand and device type.
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Fast Company, Multichannel News, Digital Trends, 9to5Mac, Adweek and Engadget
Oscar Williams / Guardian:
British journalism is 94% white and 55% male, survey reveals — More women than men are entering the profession but female journalists remain underpaid and under-promoted, new research finds — The British journalism industry is 94% white, 86% university-educated and 55% male …
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Guardian:
Sun publisher posts £250m loss due to write-down and hacking costs — Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers pushed to loss as value of publishing rights falls and £50m is set aside to deal with continuing cost of hacking scandal — The publisher of the Sun has recorded a loss …
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Telegraph, Politico, @jamesdoleman and Press Gazette
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Inside Jacobin: how a socialist magazine is winning the left's war of ideas, with a paid print circulation near 20K and a site with 1M unique visitors per month — Inside Jacobin: how a socialist magazine is winning the left's war of ideas — Bhaskar Sunkara is very eager not to turn into one of the bosses he wants to overthrow.
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Muneeza Naqvi / Associated Press:
Indian reporter arrested after posting criticism of police — NEW DELHI (AP) — Police in eastern India arrested a local journalist and beat him after he criticized authorities on social media and demanded a law protecting reporters in a region embroiled in a Maoist insurgency, his supporters said Wednesday.
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
For France's Libération, Facebook Instant Articles drives a 30 percent increase in time spent — As an experiment, French political publisher Libération has spent the last two months publishing each of its 150 daily articles to Facebook Instant Articles. It turns out, people like reading articles there.
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@mathewi
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
How the Financial Times racked up 45M downloads of its 12 podcasts in 2015 and why it continues to launch more — The Financial Times racked up 45 million podcast downloads last year — Podcasting is the hot new thing to many publishers, but not to the Financial Times.
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@sarahvm
Alexios Mantzarlis / Poynter:
Twitter accounts like @UberFacts and @OMGFacts mislead by leaving out valuable context and attribution — Do we really want our facts to be ‘Uber’ or ‘OMG?’ — At the moment of writing, @UberFacts has 13.3 million followers on Twitter. — Fun fact: If all of its followers were real-life people …
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@tinythings, @poynter, @upstreamism and @superjaberwocky