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12:40 PM ET, June 22, 2016

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Wall Street Journal:
Document lists deals with media firms and celebrities for Facebook Live, totaling $50M+ on nearly 140 contracts; BuzzFeed is highest paid at $3.05M for one year  —  Nearly 140 contracts with video creators total more than $50 million  —  Facebook Inc. is paying an array of media companies …
Matt Waite / Nieman Lab:
New FAA rules will allow any newsroom to legally use drones for journalism in 60 days, with restrictions  —  In 60 days, drone journalism will be legally possible in any newsroom in the United States.  That's not to say it will be easy, but it will be legally possible in ways that it has never been before.
Belinda Luscombe / TIME:
Q&A with Nick Denton on Peter Thiel, respect for Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes, and his favorite Gawker editor  —  Belinda Luscombe is an editor-at-large of TIME  —  'I've always had a surprising amount of respect for Rupert Murdoch'  —  Recently, you had a $140 million judgment …
Discussion: TVNewser, FishbowlNY and Fortune
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Politico's Playbook could be delivered more than once a day, with new authors Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer considering introducing 90-second audio briefings  —  When Mike Allen launched Playbook in 2007, he promised to deliver his agenda-setting newsletter to a D.C. crowd obsessed with Treos (remember those?) and Blackberries.
Nathan McAlone / Business Insider:
Study: Amazon Video downstream traffic share in North America hits 4.26%, up from 1.97% in 2015, overtaking iTunes; Netflix has 35.15% share, YouTube has 17.53%  —  Streaming video companies like Netflix are notoriously secretive about their numbers, but there are proxy measurements we can use …
Discussion: Recode, CNET and platform
Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Twitter and Vine to support 140 second videos, will share revenue with influential Vine creators  —  Vine is expanding its video limit to 140-seconds.  —  There are a lot of places you can go on your phone to watch videos — Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat are a few popular options.
David Katzmaier / CNET:
PlayStation Vue live TV service now available on Roku, hits Android devices next week  —  The app for Sony's live TV service, which offers a variety of TV channels nationwide starting at $30 per month, is now available for download on Roku streaming sticks, boxes and TVs, with an Android mobile app coming soon.
Discussion: PlayStation.Blog, VG247 and Engadget
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Vice to launch in more than 50 countries through international media partnerships in the Middle East, Africa, India, and Southeast Asia  —  Youth-focused media company to push into territories including Iran, Nigeria, Thailand and Afghanistan  —  Vice is to launch TV and digital services …
Jeremy Barr / Ad Age:
Report: ad blocking to grow 34% among US internet users this year to nearly 70M, will grow to 86.6M in 2017  —  Publishers would love internet users to decide that, actually, they don't need to install an ad-blocker on their browser of choice.  But a new report from research firm eMarketer suggested …
Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
SoundCloud says it is debuting video ads on mobile in US  —  If you tune into SoundCloud on your mobile device in the US, video ads will crop up as you're fiddling with the app.  —  SoundCloud is adding video ads, the latest service to roll out the commercial format.
Discussion: RAIN News, The Drum and Ubergizmo
Liana B. Baker / Reuters:
Europe's Altice completes $17.7B deal to buy Cablevision, making it fourth-largest cable provider in the US with 4.6M customers  —  Altice (ATCA.AS) could target more U.S. growth through acquisitions, a top executive said, after the European telecoms group completed a $17.7 billion deal …
 
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Tumblr launches live video support in partnership with YouTube, YouNow and others; 15 media partners committed to publishing videos, including MTV
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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Spotify expands its ad sales operation as it seeks to maximize ad revenue; ad sales have doubled YoY for last two years
Discussion: @digitalshields and Variety
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Washington Post experiments with limiting access from social by asking for email addresses from non-paying, logged out online readers
Noah Kulwin / Recode:
Tronc's latest branding video discusses content funnels and AI, resembles an Adult Swim parody, and draws criticism online for its use of buzzwords
 

 
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Thomas Barrabi / New York Post:
Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Europol, law enforcement in 19 countries, Microsoft, and others disrupt phishing-as-a-service platform LabHost in a year-long operation and make 37 arrests

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
The US CFPB fines BloomTech, formerly Lambda School, and CEO Austen Allred $164K and bans BloomTech from lending for 10 years over deceiving students on loans
 
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