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NFL Communications:
NFL confirms streaming deal with Twitter for Thursday night games, allowing users to watch for free across mobile, tablet, web and connected TVs — National Football League and Twitter Announce Streaming Partnership for Thursday Night Football — Twitter to stream 10 Thursday Night Football games globally
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Bloomberg:
Twitter acquires rights to stream NFL's Thursday night games, part of an overall push into online programming and effort to attract mainstream users — Twitter Wins NFL Deal to Stream Thursday Night Games — Twitter Inc., making a strategic push into online programming …
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Sources: Twitter paid less than $10M for 10 NFL games, while rival bids were higher than $15M — Twitter Beats Amazon, Verizon for Global NFL Streaming Deal — Surprise finish to the fight for NFL streaming rights: They're going to Twitter. — The social media company beat …
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Medium:
Medium launches Medium for Publishers, a suite of branding and customization tools, aiming to entice publishers away from their CMS — Making Medium More Powerful for Publishers — At Medium, we're building out a new corner of the Internet specifically designed for people and publishers …
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Nicholas Jackson / Pacific Standard:
Pacific Standard EIC Nicholas Jackson explains why the magazine migrated its site to Medium: improved audience reach, commenting system, more — Introducing the New PSmag.com — We want to bring the kinds of stories we tell—stories that matter—to the widest possible audience.
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@jayrosen_nyu, The Story, @ryanj899 and @niemanlab
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Eight independent sites fully migrate to Medium, including Pacific Standard; four others in pipeline, including Monday Note — Medium lures The Awl and other publishers to go all-in on its platform — Medium is convincing a batch of small publishers to abandon their standalone sites …
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New York Magazine, Ad Age, @theblcklst, Forbes, @joelcifer, @lauraolin, @choire and @alanalevinson
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Judge in lawsuit against Rolling Stone says woman at center of story, “Jackie”, must testify, allows for a five hour deposition — ‘Jackie’ must testify in lawsuit over Rolling Stone rape story — A Virginia judge has ruled that the woman at the center of Rolling Stone's discredited story …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast now selling Disney movies through Xfinity and will be a retailer for Disney Movies Anywhere to store movies in the cloud — Disney Inks Deal With Comcast to Sell Digital Movies — Cable operator also will join Disney Movies Anywhere as a participating retailer
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Eugene Kim / Business Insider:
Yahoo Sports to stream one MLB game every day, 180 games in total, this season for free — You can now watch Major League Baseball games on Yahoo — for free — Yahoo is offering free live streams of one Major League Baseball game every day this season, the company announced on Monday.
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Charles Harder / Hollywood Reporter:
Hulk Hogan's lead lawyer, Charles Harder, reveals how they beat Gawker in sex tape case and says site's counsel did not adequately prepare witnesses — Hulk Hogan's Lead Lawyer Explains How His Team Beat “Arrogant,” “Defiant” Gawker (Guest Column) — Fresh from a $140 million verdict …
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Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
Gawker Seeks New Trial Against Hulk Hogan, Asks Courts to Relieve Nick Denton of Punitive Damages
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FishbowlNY, Business Insider, @jasonabbruzzese, @petersterne, @petersterne and @petersterne
Micah Singleton / The Verge:
Apple News launches a Twitter account to promote stories on its service, curated by its US editors — Apple News is using Twitter to bring in new readers — Apple News has created a Twitter account to promote stories featured on the service. Apple's team of US-based editors will curate the feed …
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AppleInsider, The Next Web and 9to5Mac
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
Hilde Kate Lysiak, 9, breaks crime news before grownups do, fires back at critics, saying “some adult-run papers were reporting wrong news, or no news at all” — 9-year-old reporter breaks crime news, posts videos, fires back at critics — Reporter Hilde Kate Lysiak got …
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Didi Kirsten Tatlow / New York Times:
Owner of China's The Paper, overseen by Communist Party, launches English-language digital news site Sixth Tone to seek audiences abroad — Digital Paper in China Covers Contentious Issues, Now in English — SHANGHAI — The Paper is a new media success story in a fast-changing marketplace for news.
Alexander Spangher / Columbia Journalism Review:
NYT response to Paris attacks shows efficiency in foreign news coverage; within 48 hours, 39 contributors filed from 12 countries and 6 US states to 21 editors — What the Paris attacks tell us about how foreign news gets made — One of the crew members aboard the International Space Station photographed …
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