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Maxwell Tani / Business Insider:
Internal memo: Mic is laying off 25 staffers, primarily from its news and editorial departments, as it shifts focus to video and visual journalism — Mic.com laid off staffers on Thursday in what is part of a larger pivot to video that it will begin later this month.
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Joseph Goldstein / New York Times:
The ACLU, a defender of even odious speech with membership surging since the US election, faces tough questions about free speech after Charlottesville — The American Civil Liberties Union was under severe duress. Hate mail poured in, death threats, and the executive director was spat on.
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Reddit now allows users to upload videos of up to 15 minutes to its website or on its mobile apps for iOS and Android — Videos are coming to Reddit, thanks to a new feature that allows users to upload video clips directly to the service. Reddit rolled out the new video feature Tuesday …
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Digiday, VideoInk - Medium, The Verge and The Next Web, more at Techmeme »
Eben Novy-Williams / Bloomberg:
Nielsen is launching a new division, Nielsen Esports, to quantify the rapidly growing industry for teams, sponsors, advertisers, and publishers — Estimates of pro gaming industry, audience vary wildly — Nielsen will provide analysis across traditional, new channels
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Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Electric Jukebox, a UK music streaming service that works through TVs, comes to US with launch of Roxi device for $199 and a subscription of $52 per year — A hardware-based music-streaming service that only works through your TV? That's exactly what Electric Jukebox brought to market in the U.K. last year.
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
In unexpected move, HBO gave Vice go-ahead to post Charlottesville story to YouTube immediately after it aired on TV — Vice Reporter: Protesters knew what they were doing — When my mom shared Vice's documentary about Charlottesville on Facebook, that's when I knew it had really broken through.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Sources: Steve Bannon has told associates that he didn't know he was giving an interview to Robert Kuttner of The American Prospect — Steve Bannon's White House colleagues can't believe what they're reading tonight — and here's the twist: neither can Bannon.
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Tim Peterson / Marketing Land:
Facebook starts offering in-stream-only video ad units that will play as users watch videos on Facebook — Advertisers can buy video ads from Facebook that will only be served when people are viewing a video, increasing the likelihood that people will watch them.
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Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:
Cheddar signs radio deals with iHeartRadio, SiriusXM, TuneIn, Amazon Alexa, and Otto Radio — Have cheese, will travel. — Media startup Cheddar has signed a deal to bring its business-focused live content to national radio, adding to the growing distribution of its content beyond its Facebook Live origins.
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Tom Barnes / Mic:
Spotify says it has begun to remove white supremacist acts that were flagged three years ago as “hate bands” by the Southern Poverty Law Center — In November 2014, the Southern Poverty Law Center put together a list of 54 racist bands that had made a home for themselves on iTunes.
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George Slefo / Ad Age:
Verizon expects to resume buying video ads on YouTube after pulling them in March, under proviso third-party tests prove ads will not run near unsavoury content — Verizon said Tuesday that it will resume buying video ads on YouTube after a five-month break that was triggered by concerns …
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
The pro-Trump media is grappling with a post-Charlottesville identity crisis as it tries to distance itself from white nationalism while defending the president — The events in Charlottesville have created the first real crisis for the pro-Trump media, which is caught between …
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bookforum.com, @cwarzel, @cwarzel and @cwarzel
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