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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 …
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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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SocialTimes, Ricky Van Veen, Hollywood Reporter, Digital Trends, Digital TV Europe, Tech2, VatorNews, @dangillmor, Digital Trends, @taylorbuley, Mashable and Variety
Steve Annear / BostonGlobe.com:
Vermont newspaper owner to give paper to winner of essay contest detailing plans to keep the print publication afloat in the digital age — When Ross Connelly “croaks,” he doesn't want it to be in front of a computer screen while he's trying to make the deadline for next week's newspaper.
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Poynter, Seven Days, Forbes, FishbowlNY, Washington Post and NewBostonPost
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
German publishers, including Axel Springer, Bertelsmann Group, and Der Spiegel, pool reader data to compete with Google and Facebook — Google and Facebook are now commanding 85 percent of incremental digital ad spending, with publishers left to fight it out over the leftovers.
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
New York Times 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.
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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Civil Beat News, Poynter, News & Tech, Current and Honolulu Star-Advertiser
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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Netflix Media Center, Guardian, Variety, Business Insider, TIME, Broadcasting & Cable, Forbes, Indiewire, The Ringer, Tech Times, The New York Observer, Consumerist, @nytimesbusiness, Fortune, FierceOnlineVideo News, Mashable, iDigitalTimes.com, London Evening Standard, Digital Spy, Marie Claire, TIME, Hollywood Reporter, Paste, Collider, Chicago Tribune, AM New York, E! Online, Jezebel, The Irish Times, Guardian and Tech Insider
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.
Emily Stewart / TheStreet.com:
USA Today editor in chief David Callaway appointed CEO of TheStreet, replacing interim CEO Larry Kramer — David Callaway has been appointed chief executive officer of TheStreet (TST) , replacing Larry Kramer, who has served as interim CEO since February 2016.
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FishbowlDC, USA Today, FishbowlNY, Reuters, Wall Street Journal and StreetInsider.com
Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Long-time Twitter executive 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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SocialTimes, Business Standard, Hollywood Reporter, FishbowlNY, Variety and Vanity Fair
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 …
Bill Graveland / Globe and Mail:
Former Canadian political candidate Arthur Kent wins $200K in defamation suit against Postmedia for column critical of his campaign — Former journalist Arthur Kent has won a lawsuit against Postmedia and one of its columnists over an unflattering article that called the one-time TV reporter a “Dud Scud.”
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Editor & Publisher, @fagstein, @gerritd, @kinsellawarren, @nutgraf1 and CBC News