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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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Digiday, New York Times, @pkafka, Yahoo! Finance, Marketing Land, @lzimm, @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
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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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Poynter, medium.com, Knight Foundation, The Rural Blog, @poynter, @jcstearns, @knightfdn, @ejimbo_com, Knight Foundation, Medium, Medium and Medium
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 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 — 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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@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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Adweek, Mashable, Droid Life, Tubefilter, Bloomberg, The Next Web, The Verge, iMore, Washington Post and MediaNama
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, AppAdvice.com Latest, MacRumors, iMore and AppleInsider
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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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.")
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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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, The Wrap and Variety
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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