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Taylyn Washington-Harmon / Nieman Lab:
Inside The New York Times, National Geographic, and Sports Illustrated strategies for Instagram Stories versus Snapchat — The announcement of Instagram Stories last Tuesday came with mixed reviews, many considering it a blatant ripoff of Snapchat. Allowing users to share real-time life updates …
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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Media brands, including many Snapchat Discover partners, are testing Instagram Stories and report solid early traffic — Media brands, including many Snapchat Discover partners, are seeing solid early traffic — Media firms are flocking to the new Instagram Stories …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Bill Shine will be in charge of Fox News talent, programming, and newsgathering, Jack Abernethy will oversee business functions, CFO Mark Kranz is retiring — Now that Roger Ailes is gone, Fox News will be led by a pair of executives, Bill Shine and Jack Abernethy.
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Business Wire:
Rupert Murdoch names Jack Abernethy and Bill Shine as co-presidents of Fox News, effective immediately
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Tom Kertscher / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Conviction overturned for Brendan Dassey of Netflix's Making a Murderer, due to investigators' false promises; prosecutors get 90 days to decide on retrial — Brendan Dassey, who was convicted along with his uncle, Steven Avery, in the murder of Teresa Halbach, has won a court order …
Dion Nissenbaum / Wall Street Journal:
Staffers at TRT World, Turkey's government-owned TV station, say views critical of the government's post-coup crackdown on press have been muted — Amid Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's purge, unhappy staffers say TRT World has muted criticism of the government while blasting the opposition Gulen movement
Finn Cohen / New York Times:
Warner keeps hip-hop group De La Soul's influential catalog off of digital music services because samples they used may not be legally cleared for digital use — On Valentine's Day in 2014, De La Soul did something surprising: The group gave away almost all of its work.
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Taylyn Washington-Harmon / Nieman Lab:
There was no measurable traffic impact from Facebook's friends-and-family algorithm change, according to Parse.ly analysis across 600 digital publishers — When Facebook announced in June that it was tweaking its News Feed algorithm — giving more weight to friends and family and less …
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@mathewi and Parse.ly, Thanks:@amontalenti
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
New York Times buys marketing agency Fake Love, which specializes in virtual and augmented reality, in a push to build up its in-house ad services — For the second time this year, The New York Times is acquiring a marketing agency. This time, it's buying Fake Love, an agency that specializes …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Donald Trump's war with the media has given Hillary Clinton cover not to create a press pool for her campaign, bucking tradition — As Trump wars with the media, Clinton moves just as slowly to allow reporters full coverage, bucking tradition. — Think Donald Trump is the only candidate sidelining the press?
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@maggienyt, @emma_dumain, @politico and The Daily Caller
Melissa Mittelman / Bloomberg:
CB Insights: venture funding to media-tech companies slid for the third consecutive quarter to $91.7M, the lowest amount since mid-2013 — Even as funding rounds hit 4-year low, some VCs remain bullish. ‘The media landscape is being transformed,’ says Eric Hippeau
Thanks:@ravichandrans25
Wall Street Journal:
Concerned about revenue split, algorithm tweaks, and ad sales control, TV content owners like the NFL, Disney, and NBCUniversal resist Facebook video deals — ‘Premium’ content owners have doubts about advertising arrangements — The National Football League, Walt Disney Co …
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@joshconstine and Fortune
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
A look at why traditional TV companies have invested over $1.6B in digital startups like Refinery29, BuzzFeed, Vice, and Vox since 2013 — For all of the attention given to digital media startups producing buzzworthy content on social platforms, it's easy to forget that spending decades deeply entrenched …
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