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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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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, more at Techmeme »
Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
Google ad fiasco gives TV networks ammunition ahead of upfront negotiations as analysts estimate a loss of about $750M in revenue for Google — Channels pitch advertisers amid uproar over Google's placement of ads on objectionable content — When Hallmark Channel makes its annual pitch …
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Ad Age
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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TechCrunch, Daring Fireball, @noahchestnut, @bleedsixcolors, @pieratt, @gruber, @jeffweisbein, @waxpancake, @coudal, @alxmgl, @gte, @ironicsans, @simplebits and Daring Fireball, more at Techmeme »
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Pandora, facing continued pressure by investor Corvex to sell, has to convert some of its 81M users from free radio to its Premium $9.99/month service — Music streaming app is best shot to spur growth, cut losses — Activist Corvex with 8.8% stake urges company to weigh options
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Recode and TechCrunch
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
How 100 Days in Appalachia builds a national audience by involving West Virginia students, pro advisers, and contributors for nuanced stories beyond coal miners — “Everyone's talking to coal miners; we want to introduce you to somebody else that you're not expecting to see."
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@sdkstl and @mlcalderone
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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VentureBeat, Facebook Media, Adweek and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
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 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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Awful Announcing, @joefav, @asharma, @digitalshields and @lmoses
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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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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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson brings two pool reporters from Reuters and Fox News on his trip to Turkey and Belgium — Two pool reporters are traveling with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during his current trip to Turkey and Belgium after blocking pool reporters from his first trip to Asia earlier this month.
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