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Business Insider:
Sources: Facebook planning on premiering about 24 TV-like shows in mid-June, has greenlit virtual-reality dating show from Condé Nast Entertainment — Facebook has kicked its push for TV-like shows into high gear and is aiming to premiere its slate of programming in mid-June …
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9to5Mac, Pocket-lint, Variety, The Verge, @alexeheath, @asharma, @alexweprin, @katyonthehill, @bizcarson and @katiedrumm, more at Techmeme »
Erik Hayden / Hollywood Reporter:
ABC, CBS, and NBC join CNN in declining Trump campaign ad that includes a “Fake News” title over faces of well-known anchors — “CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC have now all chosen to block our ad,” Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of the President, said.
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TVWeek.com, Variety and Business Insider
BuzzFeed:
Inside founders' fights for hugely popular liberal sites and Facebook pages like Occupy Democrats, USUncut, and Addicting Info, as income rose fueled by Trump — The US election — and its surprise victory for Donald Trump have helped propel liberal hyperpartisan Facebook pages and websites to new traffic and revenue heights.
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@pkafka, Alternet, @janelytv, The Seattle Times, @tristanbronca, @janelytv, @pomeranian99, @jwherrman and @ddayen
Financial Times:
Spotify, Deezer, Rocket Internet, others sign letter to European Commission urging antitrust action against Apple and Google — Brussels urged to take action against those abusing mobile and app store dominance — Read next … Spotify and a host of European internet businesses have called …
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Music Ally and Axios, more at Techmeme »
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Spain's PRISA teams up with Amazon Prime Now to deliver copies of El Pais and Cinco Dias newspapers within 2 hours in Madrid and Barcelona — Amazon can now be your newspaper delivery guy, at least in a couple of cities in Spain: Customers in Madrid can now request copies of El Pais …
Discussion:
Mashable and @niemanlab
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Congressional Periodical Press Gallery denies Sputnik a permanent press pass and grants a pass to Laura Ingraham's site, LifeZette — The Congressional Periodical Press Gallery committee has denied Sputnik, a Russian state-owned news website, a permanent congressional press pass.
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@jayrosen_nyu
Kathy English / Toronto Star:
Toronto Star public editor weighs in on columnist Desmond Cole's abrupt resignation from the paper this week, determining that Cole's activism went too far — 'As public editor with responsibility for overseeing the Star's policies, I agree with the Star's concerns about Desmond Cole's recent actions.'
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Cole's Notes, @mathewi, @jonkay, @navalang, @justin_ling and @heerjeet
Max Willens / Digiday:
LinkedIn says engagement with its recently overhauled news feed is up 40% YoY as some business publishers also see spikes from referral traffic — Publishers have their ups and downs with distribution platforms, but LinkedIn is having a moment, at least with business news outlets.
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@alexcharraudeau, @hl_bowen and @mcely
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Facebook debuts a Twitter-like “Latest Conversations” feature that shows public posts about buzzing topics — Facebook is rolling out a new feature called “Latest Conversations” in its search results that will show the most recent public posts about timely topics that a lot of people across its network are discussing.
Discussion:
Mashable, more at Techmeme »
Peter Kafka / Recode:
The NYT's recent subscription bump is in large part a product of Trump but also the result of a years-long effort to get its readers to pay for its product — Subscriptions, not ads. — The New York Times saw its stock shoot up this week after it announced strong Q1 results …
Discussion:
@ranimolla, @urvaksh, @ranimolla and @jayrosen_nyu
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Spotify debuts scannable Spotify Codes in mobile app to let users easily share music — Spotify has taken a tip from Snapchat with its new feature for sharing music via scannable images. The new Spotify Codes feature creates a unique barcode and album cover image for every song, artist and playlist.
Discussion:
Forbes, Engadget, Mashable and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Memo: Warner Music renews YouTube pact, but CEO Steve Cooper calls deal “short-term” and criticizes safe harbor copyright law — Here's the full memo from Warner Music CEO Steve Cooper — Warner Music Group has a signed a new deal with YouTube. It's not happy about it.
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