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Nicola Clark / New York Times:
New Day, British Newspaper That Shunned Web, Will Close After 10 Weeks — PARIS — “Life is short,” read the slogan of The New Day, Britain's youngest national newspaper. “Let's live it well.” — Unfortunately for the publication, the first half of its slogan proved prophetic.
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
New Day failed because of unclear pricing, early deadlines, and a timid launch on the cheap with little staff investment — Why The New Day didn't work... and had no hope of working — The New Day's demise is no surprise. A couple of weeks after its launch I blurted out at a Media Society seminar …
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Pew Research Center:
Study: readers spend an average of two minutes on 1K words and longer articles on mobile, traffic from Twitter leads to longer engagement than from Facebook — Long-Form Reading Shows Signs of Life in Our Mobile News World — In recent years, the news media have followed their audience's lead …
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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
The New York Times and Chef'd partner to deliver ingredients used in NYT Cooking recipes starting this summer — New York Times to Start Delivering Meal Kits to Your Home — Times partners with Chef'd to drop off ingredients for recipes — Publisher is seeking new revenue sources as print declines
Rishika Sadam / Reuters:
Time Inc Q1: digital ad revenue up 23.2% helped by digital acquisitions, total revenue up slightly to $690M — Time Inc revenue rises as digital acquisitions pay — Magazine publisher Time Inc's quarterly revenue rose for the first time in six quarters, helped by acquisitions in its digital business.
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Time Inc. announces People/Entertainment Weekly network, a free, ad-supported streaming service to launch in fall, focused on lifestyle and celebrities — Time Inc. to Launch People/Entertainment Weekly Streaming Network — Free, ad-supported network aims to launch in the fall and is still negotiating with distributors
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Periscope public beta allows users to permanently save broadcasts by typing #save in title of stream — Periscope mimics FB Live by letting you permanently #Save replays — Periscope added its biggest missing feature today in a move that could make it more palatable to brands and social stars …
Tribune Publishing Co.:
Tribune Publishing board unanimously rejects Gannett offer, says it understates firm's value — Tribune Publishing's Board Unanimously Rejects Gannett's Unsolicited Proposal — Opportunistic Proposal Understates the Company's True Value and Is Not in the Best Interest of Shareholders
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Independent grows digital editorial team to 90 and website said to be in profit already — The Independent revealed today that its digital editorial team has now grown to 90 (double its size before the closure of the Independent print editions at the end of March).
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
With a scripted daily comedy news show, Mic looks to add a little late night TV to the social video mold — None of my friends own (working) TVs. Left-leaning, smartphone-toting, annoyingly predictable content consumers that we are, we're instead constantly emailing each other links to clips …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
NBC relocated entire Nightly News to Trump Tower on Wednesday when Trump became apparent Republican nominee, will offer same to Democratic nominee — NBC Relocates ‘Nightly News’ to Trump Tower, for a Night — On the day that Donald J. Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee for president, NBC came to him.
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
The Tampa Tribune's closure signals how the private equity formula of milking newspapers could play out in lots of cities — Tampa just lost a daily newspaper; is this the continuation of an old trend or the start of a new one? — I rewatched Page One not long ago — the documentary …
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Boris Kachka / Vulture:
Q&A with Jessa Crispin on shutting down lit-blog Bookslut after 14 years of making no money, literary criticism, and maintaining intentional non-professionalism — 'I Just Don't Find American Literature Interesting': Lit-Blog Pioneer Jessa Crispin Closes Bookslut, Does Not Bite Tongue
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@jbenton, @knottyyarn, @vulture, @straycarnivore, @jennydeluxe, @chelseagsummers, @mattdpearce, Vox and The Millions
Christine Hauser / New York Times:
Cartoonist Fired From Farm News for Pro-Farmer Cartoon — Rick Friday was not immediately available on Wednesday to explain why he was fired after two decades working as a cartoonist for Farm News. That is because he was feeding the cows on his Iowa farm, as he does early every morning before most people have gone to work.
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