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11:45 AM ET, June 10, 2016

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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Two professors highlight fair use with Kickstarter to pay fee to quote the New York Times in their book; publisher Routledge asked professors to get formal OK  —  Obtaining formal permission to use three quotations from New York Times articles in a book ultimately cost two professors $1,884.
Emily Steel / New York Times:
Sources: possible Viacom board members are Kenneth Lerer, Nicole Seligman, Judith McHale, and Thomas J. May in move to reshape board before re-merging with CBS  —  Philippe P. Dauman, Viacom's embattled chief executive, said Thursday that the entertainment company was continuing its efforts …
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.
Kim McLaughlin / Bloomberg:
Axel Springer buys 93% of market researcher EMarketer for $242M  —  Axel Springer SE agreed to buy market researcher EMarketer Inc. at an enterprise value of about $250 million as the German publisher continues its push into digital businesses and English-speaking markets.
Discussion: @rafat, Reuters and Mashable
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.
Brian Fung / Washington Post:
New York AG Schneiderman tells Charter to speed up Time Warner Cable's “abysmal” internet service following company's rebranding of TWC/Charter as Spectrum  —  The ink is barely dry on Charter's massive acquisition of Time Warner Cable — a deal that just formed …
Discussion: Tech Times, SlashGear and The Verge
Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
Digital-rights advocates file complaints with the FCC and FTC about the use of consumers' set-top box data by AT&T, Comcast, and Cablevision  —  Cable companies have spent the better part of five months arguing that the FCC's proposed new set-top rules won't protect people's privacy.
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
NAA is getting ready to accept digital-only sites as members  —  In a break with tradition, The Newspaper Association of America is looking to expand its membership to include digital-only news organizations, according to its top leaders.  —  Chairman Tony Hunter and President and CEO David Chavern …
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
The Guardian experiments with interactive, auto-updating push alerts for big stories, only available for Chrome desktop and Android for now  —  For such a new technology, the news notification is a format that got really safe really quickly.  For most publishers, notifications are rarely …
Joy Lanzendorfer / The Atlantic:
A look at the legal, emotional, and financial struggles of self-published authors whose stories are plagiarized  —  One day two years ago Rachel Ann Nunes, who writes Mormon fiction and romance novels, received an email from a reader asking a strange question: Had she collaborated with someone named Sam Taylor Mullens?
Marty Swant / Adweek:
Pandora to begin beta testing responsive mobile ads, and introduce muted video ads in August as it moves away from pop-up ads  —  Pandora is overhauling its ads to create a more dynamic experience for some 80 million monthly users—blending images and sound, and integrating native video into its mobile experience.
 
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Ian Burrell / The Drum:
Inside BuzzFeed UK's newsroom, focused on investigations, politics, and reach over clicks
Discussion: @helenlewis
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
Press regulator IPSO launches 24-hour whistleblowing hotline for journalists
Discussion: HoldTheFrontPage
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Global Voices teams up with MediaCloud on a two-year project to build tool that examines whether stories are over- or under-covered
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Bill Graveland / Globe and Mail:
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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
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Honolulu Civil Beat drops paywall and launches membership program as it becomes a nonprofit
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