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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Knight Foundation report: users spend 5% of mobile time on news sites and apps, Reddit users spend five times as much time in Reddit app than any other news app — People read the news on their smartphones (duh). They will even read longform (to a certain extent).
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Local news startup Ripple apologizes for taking other people's news — Information doesn't want to be that free. — Yesterday we told you about Ripple, the startup that wants to deliver local news but doesn't create the news itself. — Today several publications that are in the business …
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Ripple.co launches out of beta, targets big cities with news feeds and contributed posts
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Ellen Emmerentze Jervell / Wall Street Journal:
Axel Springer Q1: revenue up 4.6% to €783.4 adjusted, digital contributed to 67% of earnings, profit up to €203.2M — Italy's Mediaset and France's JC Decaux report disappointing results — FRANKFURT—Shares in Axel Springer SE fell sharply Wednesday despite it reporting …
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The Star Online, @rafat, Bloomberg and Reuters
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Ellen Emmerentze Jervell / Wall Street Journal:
Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner wants to become the leading US digital publisher; company now has minority stake in 12 companies — Chief Executive Mathias Döpfner wants company to become the No. 1 digital publisher in every market it enters — BERLIN—German media giant Axel Springer SE …
Reuters:
German court rejects Turkish president Erdogan's request to ban Axel Springer CEO Mathias Doepfner from repeating derogatory term; appeal possible
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Techdirt, Agence France-Presse, Bloomberg, The Local, RT, Sydney Morning Herald, Telegraph, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, DW.COM, VICE News, Associated Press and Guardian
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Facebook's News Feed reflects what we already like, with far more influence than curators of Trending Topics — I got my start writing for the student newspaper at the University of Wisconsin.1 — What is interesting about that statement is that the appropriate follow-up question is “Which student newspaper?”
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New York Times, Guardian, The Loop and Fast Company
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Michael Nunez / Gizmodo:
GOP Sen. Thune sends letter to Zuckerberg asking for more details about curation of Facebook's Trending Topics; Facebook says it looks forward to cooperating — The US Senate Commerce Committee—which has jurisdiction over media issues, consumer protection issues, and internet communication …
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Columbia Journalism Review, The Verge, Nieman Lab, Forbes, New York Times, Wired, CNNMoney, Recode, Vox, Yahoo! Finance, Fusion, Slate, The Hill, ABC News, US News, @fmanjoo, The Federalist, Quartz, Slate, Techdirt, 89.3 KPCC, Whither news?, Fortune, the Econsultancy blog, The Daily Caller, Guardian, Commentary : NPR, USA Today, The Drum, The Huffington Post, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, The Loop, NBC News, The Wrap, Mediaite, NPR, TIME, Broadcasting & Cable, Journalism News and Tom Stocky
Hank Green / Recode:
Vlogger Hank Green responds to Irving Azoff's open letter to YouTube, says the platform protects needs of independent creators from multinational companies — Dear Irving Azoff: Being on YouTube is good for artists and record labels, and everybody knows it.
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Digital Music News, Tubefilter, Billboard, @irvingazoff, Music Ally and The Wrap
Paul Resnikoff / Digital Music News:
Sources: Apple planning to end iTunes music downloads in the next 2 to 4 years — Apple is preparing to abandon music downloads. — Apple is now preparing to completely terminate music download offerings on the iTunes Store, with an aggressive, two-year termination timetable actively being considered and gaining favor.
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Fast Company, @olum_ikuenobe, @tomwarren, AppleInsider, AppAdvice.com Latest, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, MacRumors, The Next Web, iMore and Recode
Davey Alba / Wired:
YouTube tests letting users share and talk about videos in group message threads within the app, which others can be invited to join — We've all had it happen: You're talking with a friend, and the conversation turns to something that a YouTube video perfectly encapsulates.
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Adweek, Mashable, The Verge, Droid Life, The Next Web, Tubefilter and iMore
Mădălina Ciobanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Seven months after launch, El Español finds it challenging to pursue both high traffic and subscriptions — Web traffic to the crowdfunded media outlet is higher than expected, says co-founder María Ramírez, but subscriptions are not keeping up — Credit: Screenshot of El Español
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Hearst plans Snapchat Discover pop-up channels for Seventeen, Elle, and Harper's Bazaar — Snapchat users perusing the app's Discover section the last three weeks might have periodically noticed a prom-themed channel pop up from Hearst-owned Seventeen magazine.
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@mattnavarra and FishbowlNY
Alastair Reid / First Draft News:
Reuters study: 24% of UK journalists say publishing unverified info is sometimes justified — One in four UK journalists believe it is “justified” to publish unverified information, according to new research from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
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