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Hadas Gold / Politico:
US House leaders cut off cameras during Democrats' sit-in protest seeking gun legislation; C-SPAN and others turn to Periscope and Twitter — TV viewers hoping to catch all of the House Democrats' sit-in on the House floor on Wednesday had to find other methods besides Capitol chronicler CSPAN.
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Belinda Luscombe / TIME:
Q&A with Nick Denton on Peter Thiel, respect for Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes, and why Elizabeth Spiers is his favorite Gawker editor-in-chief — Belinda Luscombe is an editor-at-large of TIME — 'I've always had a surprising amount of respect for Rupert Murdoch'
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Peg Brickley / Wall Street Journal:
Hogan challenges Gawker plan to sell itself, says sale unfairly trades away valuable rights
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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 …
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.
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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 …
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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 …
Pamela Rolfe / Hollywood Reporter:
AMC and Machinima partner to launch SVOD channel in Spain and Portugal focused on gaming and esports — EMAIL ME — “We understand that users of this kind of content are used to consuming it on demand, so an SVOD is more appropriate for this target than lineal television.”
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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.
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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.
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.
Josh Saul / Newsweek:
How an ownership deal between the founder of a digital news startup, the Alaska Dispatch, and a wealthy publisher, Alice Rogoff, unraveled — The relationship that reshaped Alaska journalism in the 21st century began and ended with deals inked on napkins. Tony Hopfinger, the reporter …
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
How Fusion, Techcrunch, Poncho, and Complex use Facebook's Messenger bots — It's been two months since Facebook Messenger opened up a bot platform to outside companies, and several publishers have thrown bots up, eager for the chance to interact with Messenger's 900 million users.
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