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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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James Warren / Poynter:
SEC filing: ousted Tribune Publishing CEO Jack Griffin to receive $2M in addition to $3.2M 2015 compensation — $2 million golden parachute, a jet plane and other tidbits from Tribune Publishing SEC filings — Departing can be very sweet sorrow in corporate America …
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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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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Saved you a tap: Gmail's Inbox now lets you email links to stories to read later, streamlines newsletters — You've heard the stat that of the many apps on their phones, most people use only five or fewer. At F8 last week, the platform di tutti platforms announced a “Save to Facebook” …
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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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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.
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.
Emma Garman / The Awl:
The history of UK media injunctions, and how celebrities pay to keep out of the papers — He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named — In the globalized digital age, attempting to suppress a faintly titillating story is tantamount to launching a multi-pronged campaign to publicize it, only more humiliating.
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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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