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Jotham Sederstrom:
Fired New York Daily News editor Jotham Sederstrom says CMS and distraction to blame for missing attribution in Shaun King story — Regarding Shaun King and the Daily News — When I learned in October that Shaun King had been tapped to become a social justice columnist for the Daily News …
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Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Baseball analyst Curt Schilling fired from ESPN one day after posting offensive commentary on Facebook — Curt Schilling Is Fired by ESPN — Curt Schilling, a former All-Star pitcher and one of the highest-profile baseball analysts on ESPN, was fired from the network Wednesday …
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Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg:
Tribune Publishing using commenting system from startup SolidOpinion that lets readers earn or buy points for prominent comment placement — News Sites Start Charging Readers to Comment on Articles — A startup thinks newspapers can profit by getting people to pay to elevate their rants …
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Viacom and Dish Avert Blackout, Set Deal That Includes Sling TV Rights for Key Channels … After a long night of negotiations, Viacom and Dish have come to terms on a carriage agreement that will make some Viacom channels available through Dish's low-cost Sling TV streaming service for the first time.
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The Wrap, Deadline, Los Angeles Times, Reuters, Hollywood Reporter, dish.client.shareholder.com and Wall Street Journal
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Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Wins $30 Million Contract to Sell E-Books to New York City Schools — Panel at nation's largest district votes in favor of three-year agreement — Amazon.com Inc. won a deal worth about $30 million to provide e-books to New York City, the nation's largest school district.
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Daniel Alegre / Inside Search:
Google will soon add live TV listings to search results, announces advertisers can buy targeted TV ads with DoubleClick Dynamic Ad Insertion — Building the future of TV, with you — This blog is cross-posted on DoubleClick and Cloud Platform. — The television industry is in the midst of a massive change.
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
American Press Institute study examining ethics of giving to nonprofit news organizations finds 6 of 10 funders gave grants for specific stories — An ethical quandary for nonprofit journalism — are funders calling the shots? — The American Press Institute — and an axis …
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American Press Institute, @ampress, Current and @poynter
Serri Graslie / Nieman Lab:
NPR social audio experiment on Facebook finds images important, calls-to-action effective, ideal length hard to discern due to lack of data, convoluted workflow — Can audio go viral on Facebook? Here's what happened when NPR ran an experiment for a month — Sharing audio on social media is hard to do.
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David Lieberman / Deadline:
Comcast announces Xfinity TV Partner Program, allowing subscribers to watch without its set-top box, starting with Samsung Smart TVs, Roku boxes later this year — Comcast Introduces Plan To Let TV Subs Watch Without Its Set-Top Box — Comcast is relaxing its grip on the set-top box …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix Content Obligations Balloon to $12.3 Billion on Global Expansion … Netflix keeps pumping more dollars into global licensing and production deals — and the company has increased its bet that continued subscriber growth will keep pace to pay for its long-term content contracts.
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Israeli media company Literally Media buys Cheezburger, takes controlling stake in eBaum's World — Cheezburger joins forces with online comedy rival eBaum's World in acquisition by Israeli media firm — Two of the biggest names in Internet comedy, Cheezburger and eBaum's World, are now part of the same corporate family.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Donald Trump using the libel laws he said he'll obliterate, in his defense against lawsuit filed by Cheri Jacobus — The libel laws targeted by Donald Trump are helping him big-time — Back when Donald Trump first broached the republic-endangering idea of “opening up” U.S. libel laws …
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