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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Immediacy, intimacy, mass reach, and influence on media show the power of Facebook Live and other streaming services — When Philando Castile was shot by a Minnesota police officer Wednesday evening, his girlfriend's first instinct was to start broadcasting.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
21st Century Fox launching ‘internal review’ at Fox News following Gretchen Carlson lawsuit — Fox News has launched an internal review of the behavior of CEO Roger Ailes and “Fox & Friends” co-host Steve Doocy, after one of Fox News Channel's top anchors filed a lawsuit against Ailes …
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Gretchen Carlson's Sexual-Harassment Lawsuit May Allow Murdoch Sons to Finally Oust Roger Ailes From Fox News — Throughout his five-decade career in media and Republican politics, Roger Ailes has demonstrated a remarkable talent for self-preservation. “I have been through about 12 train wrecks in my career.
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Jared Kushner / The New York Observer:
Jared Kushner defends father-in-law Donald Trump, saying the worst he could be criticized for was carelessness in retweeting imagery interpreted as offensive — My father-in-law is not an anti-Semite. — It's that simple, really. Donald Trump is not anti-Semitic and he's not a racist.
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Ellen Gamerman / Wall Street Journal:
Audible launches on-demand audio service Channels with six original-content shows, free with $15 per month Audible membership or $5 per month standalone service — The audio retailer unveiled six new original-content shows on Thursday — Audible just used an age-old tactic to get attention: It flashed its breasts.
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Amy Mitchell / Pew Research Center:
Study: 81% of US adults get news online, up from 12% 20 years ago; 72% get news on mobile devices; 36% of online news comes via orgs, 15% from friends, family — Twenty years ago, only 12% of U.S. adults got news online. Today, that number stands at 81%.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Economist profits up to £61m as paid subscriptions offset 18% print ad fall — Strategy of pushing readers to premium packages of print and digital content pays off for magazine, which this year severed links with Pearson — The Economist grew profits to more than £60m …
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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google acquires Anvato, a platform used by broadcasters for encoding, editing, publishing and distributing video ; the team will join Google's Cloud Platform — Google is getting deeper into the tech side of the video and broadcasting business. The company today announced that it has acquired Anvato …
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Noah Kulwin / Recode:
Fusion is launching a new website about music news and social justice called TrackRecord — It's the latest digital play from Univision. — Cable TV companies are scrambling to figure out how they can expand their digital presence as advertiser dollars flock to the internet. — Univision is no exception.
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
How the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism is using Medium's subscription tools for more revenue, picking up 23 subscribers in first two weeks — Most of the publishers using Medium would describe themselves as small, or small-ish. But sites like The Ringer and The Awl are huge compared …
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Bankruptcy Judge Approves Plan to Put Gawker Up For Auction — Other interested buyers might outbid Ziff Davis? — At a hearing on Thursday, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Stuart Bernstein momentarily gave attorneys for Gawker Media a bit of a scare by refusing to allow Gawker to move forward with a plan to sell the media company.
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Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Guardian Editor-in-Chief Katharine Viner gives bleak prognosis for journalism as social media dominates, tells marketers they're financing fake news sites — Guardian News and Media's editor-in-chief Katharine Viner's prognosis of news publishing in an algorithm- and platform-dominated world is bleak.
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