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Hadas Gold / Politico:
CNN president Jeff Zucker calls Vice and BuzzFeed native ad shops, not legitimate news organizations, praises former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski — Corey Lewandowski is a great CNN contributor and Vice and BuzzFeed are not legitimate news organizations, CNN president Jeff Zucker says in Variety's latest cover story.
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Variety, Inside Cable News, @sethmnookin, @katherinemiller, @jasonhitchcock, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, @oliverdarcy, @mazmhussain, @taylorbuley, @jayrosen_nyu, @noahedavis, @nycjim, @tressiemcphd, @jamilsmith, Media Matters for America, @buzzfeedben, @pkafka, @patcaldwell, @hadas_gold, @shoq, @clarajeffery, @isaacdovere, @joeperticone, @scottbix, @buzzfeedandrew, Business Insider, Hot Air and TVNewser
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Instagram launches new “Stories” section, cloning Snapchat's Stories feature, with PewDiePie and other celebrities and social influencers onboard — Watch out, Snapchat: Instagram is gunning for you. — The Facebook-owned photo sharing service announced a major update Tuesday …
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New York Times, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Techcircle.in, Mashable, @smc90, eMarketer and Newsroom Posts, PAPERMAG, The Tech Portal, Social, GeekWire, New York Magazine, AOL, TIME, Vanity Fair, @maxvoltar, @carleefriez, Ausdroid, Tubefilter, Business Insider, Android Police, Fstoppers, SocialTimes, MacStories, Ad Age, Digiday, The Next Web, Instagram Blog, Recode, Adweek, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, 6abc.com, AppAdvice.com Latest, PDNPulse and Techvibes
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
How New York Magazine's Gabriel Sherman owned the story about sexual harassment claims against Roger Ailes at Fox News: deep sources, persistence, and empathy — Journalists are highly competitive, but every once in a while, a reporter is so far out ahead on a continuing story that all the rest of us can do is acknowledge the obvious.
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The Daily Beast, LawNewz, @thefree_lance, @gretchencarlson and @dylanbyers
Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal:
NFL, Snapchat agree to multi-year partnership extension; NFL gets a Discover slot, will produce Live Stories for games; Snapchat will do most of ad-selling work — Football league to produce analysis, photos, videos for messaging app under extended partnership — The National Football League is huddling up with Snapchat Inc.
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Recode, Adweek, Variety, Fortune, TechCrunch, GeekWire, SocialTimes, CNBC and Broadcasting & Cable
Tobias Burns / Hollywood Reporter:
Funny or Die is cutting about 37 staffers and closing its San Mateo office — EMAIL ME — New CEO Mike Farah is making changes. — Comedy website Funny or Die is cutting approximately 37 staffers and closing their San Mateo office, a company spokesperson said on Tuesday.
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Variety, Tubefilter and The Wrap
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn launches Q&A videos, created by its network of 500 influencers, may extend ability to create video content to other users — LinkedIn, the social platform for people to network and look for work that's getting acquired by Microsoft for $26 billion, is taking the wraps off …
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blog.linkedin.com/topics, Fast Company, The Next Web, @raju, Recode and VentureBeat
Shelley Hepworth / Columbia Journalism Review:
Aron Pilhofer, The Guardian's outgoing executive editor for digital, on the paper's 50K-strong membership model, differences between US and UK media — Aron Pilhofer has had a front-row seat to the sweeping changes newsrooms have experienced at the hands of digital disruption.
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@albertocairo
Garett Sloane / Ad Age:
Facebook is testing giving publishers the option to run fifteen-second mid-roll video ads in Facebook Live streams — Fifteen-Second Commercial Breaks Appear During Live-Streams — Facebook has started running tests of mid-roll video ads inside live video broadcasts from top publishing partners, the company confirmed Monday.
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Digiday, The Wrap, Mashable, BGR, Consumerist, @anthonymaceroni, @dennishegstad and TechCrunch
Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Viacom held settlement talks with Redstone's National Amusements that would have led to Philippe Dauman leaving firm, but talks fell through — Discussions fell through last week but included Viacom CEO Dauman stepping down — Top Viacom Inc. executives recently held discussions …
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Los Angeles Times, New York Times and Deadline
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
NYT to publish print-only 16K-word excerpt of author Colson Whitehead's new novel, part of a plan to use fiction to incentivize sales of paper's print edition — Even as The New York Times prioritizes digital expansion, with a stated goal of reaching $800 million in digital revenue by 2020 …
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The New York Times Company, New York Times, Associated Press, Ad Age and GalleyCat
Jeremy Barr / Ad Age:
Following Vice's lead, digital publishers like Ozy are signing TV deals — Vox Media Says Production Process For Curbed Show Is Going Smoothly — It's no longer a question of “if,” it's a question of “when.” Digital publishers like Vox Media, BuzzFeed, Thrillist Media Group …
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@themehulpatel
Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
How Atlas Obscura is building the “Nice Vice” with a nascent travel business, a potential TV show and a book due in September — One day in 2014, soon after David Plotz left his job as editor of the online magazine Slate, he took his then 13-year-old daughter, Noa, on a bike ride through Anacostia.
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Nieman Lab, @raju and @abeaujon