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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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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.


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


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


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 …


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 …