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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Turner leads $15M investment in Mashable, will work together to develop digital and linear content and collaborate on advertising — Turner Leads $15 Million Investment in Mashable — Media companies plan to collaborate on TV content creation, ad deals — Turner has led a new $15 …
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Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook to allow muted video ads in Instant Articles and one additional ad unit at bottom of articles — Video Ads Are Coming to Facebook Instant Articles — The social network will also allow more advertising in every Instant Article — Facebook is making further changes …
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Digiday, MediaPost, Digiday, The Next Web, @jasonabbruzzese, Marketing Land, Engadget and the Econsultancy blog
Rachel Browne / VICE News:
Canadian judge rules Vice reporter Ben Makuch must hand over instant messages with Canadian accused of terrorism and joining ISIS Farah Shirdon — Canadian Judge Orders VICE News Journalist to Hand Over Digital Messages — An Ontario court has ruled that a VICE News reporter must hand …
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Reuters, Toronto Star, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, @canadacjfe, @jacquesgallant, @justin_ling, @cancivlib, @jessebrown, @joshvisser, @jessebrown and @jessebrown
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
The New York Times launches a podcast team to create a new batch of wide-reaching shows — Another news organization has decided to invest in podcasts, and this one's a biggie: The New York Times is creating a new audio team that will work to launch a batch of news and opinion podcasts this year and more in 2017.
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FishbowlNY and @jbenton
Wall Street Journal:
Video Creators Are Frustrated With Pace of Facebook's Antipirating Efforts — Copyright infringement hits them in the pocketbook and the company often is too slow to respond, they say — Filmmaker Brady Haran uploaded a video to his science-focused YouTube channel showing what happens when you drop Lithium metal into 7 Up soda.
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@perlberg and Consumerist
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Study finds that of 108M DMCA takedown requests, 99.8% targeted Google search, 28% of all requests are “questionable”, Google likely removes more than it should — 28% of Piracy Takedown Requests Are “Questionable” — In recent years copyright holders have overloaded Google …
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SSRN, Techdirt, The Next Web and Boing Boing
John M. Donnelly / National Press Club:
National Press Club objects to roughing up of reporters by Turkish security during President Erdogan's visit to US — National Press Club Alarmed About Reported Abuses in DC by Turkish Security — National Press Club leaders expressed alarm about reports that security personnel guarding …
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@npcpresident, @hadas_gold, @bendenoon, telesurtv.net, Foreign Policy and Mashable
David Purdum / ESPN:
DraftKings and FanDuel to suspend all college, high school and youth sports contests indefinitely after this week's college basketball games, in deal with NCAA — DraftKings, FanDuel to stop offering college fantasy games — Leading daily fantasy sports operators DraftKings and FanDuel …
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CBSSports.com, @davidpurdum, Engadget, The Verge and The Big Lead
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
AP reporters ensured their sources were safe before publishing their award-winning international seafood slavery story — How the AP busted an international seafood slavery racket — Journalists at The Associated Press knew that labor abuses in Thailand's seafood business were an awful but open secret.
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Inside the Telegraph's move to in-house developed CMS, Telegraph Authoring, after having used five different versions of off-the-shelf CMS Escenic — How The Telegraph built its new CMS by focusing on simplicity — Starting Wednesday, about 95 percent of content the British newspaper …
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@niemanlab, @niemanlab and @niemanlab
Joan E. Solsman / The Wrap:
Discovery to Relaunch ‘Seeker’ Digital Network in Hunt for Millennials — Discovery is redoubling its effort to reach coveted millennial viewers through its Seeker online network, the company said Thursday, planning to revamp the digital brand with virtual reality and more programming.
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Broadcasting & Cable, Politico, Adweek and Realscreen
Charles J. Johnson / Chicago Tribune:
Why journalists become scapegoats when international tragedies don't have wall-to-wall digital coverage and the power of readers on visibility — Commentary: When faraway tragedies are ignored, it's not always the media's fault — A bomb attack on a park in the Pakistani city of Lahore killed dozens and injured hundreds.
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