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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
How changes to Apple's App Store subscriptions, including the 85/15 revenue split for subscriptions after 12 months, could affect publishers — Monday is Apple's big day for software announcements at its annual WWDC conference, but we got an early peek at one of them at The Verge …
John Koblin / New York Times:
Netflix study: binge watchers take about a week average for the first season of a show, watching about two hours per day, horror and thrillers viewed fastest — At a time when there's more scripted television than ever, how long does it take to finish a complete season of a show?
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Examining the pundits at CNN, Fox, and MSNBC, as cable news reports less and speculates more — Babblers, bomb throwers and bloviators: A visit to the wacky land of Punditstan — Today is Wednesday, the day after Donald Trump's big victory in the New York primary, so today, pundits …
Jason Lynch / Adweek:
PwC: Internet Advertising Will Overtake Broadcast Advertising in the U.S. Next Year — Although TV advertising will remain strong as the industry evolves over the next five years, internet advertising will overtake broadcast advertising in the U.S. next year.
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Honolulu Civil Beat drops paywall and launches membership program as it becomes a nonprofit — The Honolulu Civil Beat, the six-year-old Hawaii-based news site launched by Pierre Omidyar, is becoming a nonprofit, the organization said Wednesday. It's dropping its metered paywall and introducing a membership program.
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Facebook hires CollegeHumor's Ricky Van Veen as head of global creative strategy — Goodbye, Barry Diller. Hello, Mark Zuckerberg. — Last year, Ricky Van Veen argued that Mark Zuckerberg is the most powerful person in the world. — Now he's going to work for him.
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Kathy English / Toronto Star:
Two Toronto Star managers lose newsroom jobs after reporter's suicide; policies on workplace relationships and conflicts of interest to be “amplified” — Reporter Raveena Aulakh instructed the Star not to ‘write about’ her suicide, but media coverage of a suicide demands caution …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Arianna Huffington plans health and wellness media startup with backing from Alibaba's Jack Ma — Thrive will provide health and wellness-related content, with a little help from Huffington's celebrity friends and backing from Alibaba's Jack Ma. — A decade after co-founding …
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
In redesigned Snapchat app, Live Stories show alongside publishers' stories on both the Stories and Discover page, and you can subscribe to favorite channels — Snapchat is redesigning the Stories page in an effort to boost views of publishers' content — and to help build the advertising business …
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
NYT Deputy Washington Editor Jon Weisman says he's leaving Twitter after facing anti-Semitic tweets and inconsistent Twitter response to trolls — Inundated with anti-Semitic tweets and frustrated by Twitter's initial response, New York Times editor Jon Weisman is packing up and leaving the social media platform.
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Ryan Mac / Forbes:
A look at the legal battles against Gawker involving Charles Harder, the attorney funded by Peter Thiel in the Hulk Hogan case — It's voting season for the Emmy Awards, which means that electioneering in the form of billboards rising into the haze dominates the Los Angeles skyline.
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Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Long-time Twitter exec Ross Hoffman named vice president of global media, reporting to Ali Jafari — Ross Hoffman is the third person to fill the role in the last six months. — Longtime Twitter exec Ross Hoffman has been tapped as Twitter's new VP of global media, according to sources …
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