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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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The Wrap, Multichannel News, Variety, Broadcasting & Cable, Adweek, Fortune, Guardian, USA Today, International Business Times, Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, Tubefilter, FishbowlNY, VideoInk and PE HUB
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, Digiday, The Next Web, @jasonabbruzzese, Marketing Land, the Econsultancy blog and Engadget
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, @jessebrown, @justin_ling, @cancivlib, @jacquesgallant, @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
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, Foreign Policy, @hadas_gold, @bendenoon, telesurtv.net and Mashable
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
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
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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@lavalerina, @kevvwill, @gavinjacksonpc, @moneyries, @chicagotribune, @jordynjournals, @darceltribune and @kgmcwilliams
Financial Times:
Marketers move beyond scheduled posts and tweets to livestreaming but struggle with maintaining image, moderating comments, and analytics — Brands begin to see marketing benefits in livestreaming — As the winds blew and the snow piled up, Southwest Airlines knew what it had to do …
Rory Gallivan / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Online content creator and platform Playbuzz raises $15M led by Saban Ventures and Walt Disney — Disney, Saban Invest in Content-Platform Maker Playbuzz — Walt Disney has invested in Playbuzz, a creator of an online platform for quizzes, games and other content …