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Todd Spangler / Variety:
NBC, BuzzFeed, and Snap team up for 2018 winter Olympic coverage; NBC and Buzzfeed to produce content for Snapchat Discover, Snap to provide ad-sales packages — NBC, Snap Inc. and BuzzFeed will be jumping back into the Olympics rings next year. — The broadcaster will work with BuzzFeed …
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Jack Williams / New York Times:
NBC says it will broadcast the 2018 Winter Games live across all time zones for the first time after delayed broadcasts of past Games were subject to criticism — When the Olympics are held in Pyeongchang, South Korea, in 2018, NBC will be broadcasting the Winter Games live across all time zones …
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Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic:
Study of 15K scholars and tech experts shows 81% expect online incivility and trolling to stay the same or get worse, with “Potemkin internet” hiding incivility — I'm going to confess an occasional habit of mine, which is petty, and which I would still enthusiastically recommend …
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Pew Research Center, Nieman Lab, @devjpow and The Awl - Medium
Jim Coudal / The Deck:
Ad network The Deck, used by blogs including Daring Fireball and Kottke, to shut down after 11 years — We started The Deck in 2006 and for the first couple years it struggled. By 2008, it was an OK business and by 2009, it was a pretty good business. From then through 2013, The Deck was going along just fine.
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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Facebook opens 360-degree streaming to all users with compatible devices — Facebook just made live streaming 360-degree video relatively easy, provided you have the equipment to capture the content. Users of devices like the new 2017 model Gear 360 just announced at the S8 smartphone launch …
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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
OneUp Sports, a sports media startup backed by the NFL and MLB, is facing multiple lawsuits and owes thousands of dollars to distributors and employees — OneUp Sports had plans to distribute videos among thousands of local sites, but instead it's facing lawsuits and struggling financially
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Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton criticizes Press Sec Spicer for cutting reporter April Ryan off during press conference, Bill O'Reilly for comment about politician's hair — Only a few hours apart on Tuesday, two black women were confronted by white, male public figures in exchanges that many viewed as demeaning and disparaging.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Sources: BuzzFeed is preparing to go public in 2018 — With a blinding spotlight on Snap's IPO, viral powerhouse BuzzFeed is quietly making preparations to go public in 2018, industry sources tell me. OMG! — The widely (and poorly) copied BuzzFeed , which began as a " great cat site …
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Karl Bode / DSLreports:
House passes resolution that lets ISPs sell customers' browsing history without user permission, 215 to 205 along party lines — As most had expected, the House of Representatives today voted 215 to 205 to kill privacy rules protecting US broadband subscribers.
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The Daily Beast:
Sources: ex-Breitbart writer filed a complaint to the DoJ, claiming the site was acting as a de-facto foreign agent for its DC landlord, an Egyptian politician — A former Breitbart News writer alleged the site was acting as an illegal influence operation for its Washington DC landlord …
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Media Matters for America, @lachlan, @redsteeze, @notthatrkelly, @louisemensch, @lachlan and @alteeob
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
VC-backed, ad-dependent publishers struggle to reach a goal of $100M in revenue per year, with few reaching that mark of scaled success — Earlier this month, Genius, which started as a rap annotation platform, decided that now it would become a video-focused company.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
White House staff are boycotting this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner, in “solidarity” with Trump who has previously announced he is not attending — No White House staff will attend next month's White House Correspondents' Dinner in “solidarity” with their boss …
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