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Peter Kafka / Recode:
It's not a secret: Facebook influences News Feed by rewarding publishers that post what it wants, which is video at the moment — Spoiler: It's not a secret. — Guys. Look. Let me show you the real Facebook media influence story. — That's a 47-minute (!) long video of a walk through a New York City park.
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Fortune, Digiday, Marketing Land, @pkafka, @lzimm, Yahoo! Finance, @jeffjohnroberts, Slate, FishbowlNY and Guardian
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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
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
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Columbia Journalism Review, Wired, Vox, New York Times, Forbes, The Verge, The Hill, ABC News, @fmanjoo, US News, Editor & Publisher, The Federalist, 89.3 KPCC, Quartz, Techdirt, New York Times, The Daily Caller, CNNMoney, Whither news?, Guardian, Fortune, the Econsultancy blog, The Huffington Post, The Loop, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, The Drum, Commentary : NPR, USA Today, Stratechery, NPR, The Wrap and NBC News
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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medium.com, Poynter, Knight Foundation, The Rural Blog, @poynter, @jcstearns, @knightfdn, @ejimbo_com, Knight Foundation, Medium, Medium and Medium
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Apple denies report that it will end iTunes music downloads within the next few years — “Not true.” — The future of music is streaming, not downloads. — But that doesn't mean Apple, the company that essentially invented the market for music download sales, is going to stop selling downloads anytime soon.
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Digital Music News, The Next Web, BuzzFeed, MacRumors, iMore, AppAdvice.com Latest and AppleInsider
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Leon Neyfakh / Slate:
Apple Destroyed My Will to Collect Music — I once used iTunes to organize albums, bootlegs, demos, and deep cuts—until it made that nearly impossible. Will Apple Music finish the job? — Last week, an astonishing blog post by a man named James Pinkstone circulated on social media.
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
Ripple.co launches out of beta, targets big cities with news feeds and contributed posts
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@pmontoro, @jakedobkin, @jensabella, @johnness, @jake_bittle, @scottbrodbeck, @bechang8, @jensabella, @bechang8, @jakedobkin, @jakedobkin, @jakedobkin, @jakedobkin, @jakedobkin, Journalism.co.uk, PR Newswire and @niemanlab
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 …
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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
Axel Springer Q1: revenue up 4.6% to €783.4 adjusted, digital contributed to 67% of earnings, profit up to €203.2M
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@rafat, The Star Online, Bloomberg and Reuters
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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Engadget, Mashable, Droid Life, Adweek, Tubefilter, Bloomberg, iMore, The Next Web, The Verge, Washington Post and MediaNama
Emily Bell / Columbia Journalism Review:
A conversation with Edward Snowden on interacting with the press, how facts can be drowned out on social media, and the impact of journalism — The Tow Center for Digital Journalism's Emily Bell spoke to Edward Snowden over a secure channel about his experiences working with journalists and his perspective on the shifting media world.
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
From bingo games to brackets, The Washington Post is building “alternative story forms” — Did The Washington Post correctly guess your age and income, based solely on the apps on your phone? (For the record: I am, based on my phone apps, “a single guy younger than 32 who makes more than $52,000/year.")
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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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
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