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Committee to Protect Journalists:
Committee to Protect Journalists expresses relief Arkady Babchenko is alive, calls on Ukrainian officials to say why they used extreme tactic of staging murder — Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, who had been reported shot and killed in the Ukrainian capital yesterday, has appeared alive at a televised news conference in Kiev.
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BBC:
Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, widely reported to have been assassinated in Kiev on Tuesday, appeared at a Ukrainian press conference on Wednesday — Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, widely reported to have been assassinated in Kiev on Tuesday, is alive and well.
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Jon Slattery, BuzzFeed, New York Post, CNN, Metro.co.uk, Al Jazeera English, Reuters, Poynter, Mediaite, @afp, @ridt, @miriamelder, @juliaioffe, Voice of America, @ap, @pdanahar, @johnsweeneyroar, @pressfreedom, @juliaioffe, CNN, @skynewsbreak, @christogrozev, @christogrozev, @maxboot, @christogrozev, @buzzfeednews, @olivianuzzi, @liamstack, @asluhn, @paleofuture, @polina__ivanova, @maxseddon, @maxseddon, @pptsapper, @perlberg, @joelmgunter and @maxseddon
Reporters Without Borders:
Reporters Without Borders condemns faking of Babchenko's murder: “It was distressing and regrettable that the Security Service of Ukraine played with the truth”
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The Moscow Times, @miriamelder, @johnmcquaid, @staska, @be_herrero, The Daily Beast, Mediaite, @christopherjm, @jcstearns, Bustle and Slate
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Meeker's annual chart comparing time spent and ad spending shows rapid drop in print ads and continued mobile growth, nearing the time and money spent on TV — Since 2011, the share of Americans' media consumption that happens in print has dropped about 40 percent.
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Recode, VentureBeat, Recode, @recode, 9to5Mac, cmo.com, The Drum, @joshconstine and @jbenton, more at Techmeme »
James Cusick / openDemocracy:
Sources: London Evening Standard strikes a £3M deal with six companies including Uber and Google that erases divide between news and advertising — London's Evening Standard newspaper, edited by the former chancellor George Osborne, has agreed a £3 million deal …
Shoko Oda / Bloomberg:
Profile of NewsDigest, a popular news app in Japan, which employs no journalists and generates stories using a combination of AI and social media — - Japan millennial made newsroom using artificial intelligence — NewsDigest is one of most popular news apps in Japan
Justin Rowlatt / BBC:
Publishers in India give scant coverage to Cobrapost claims that outlets were willing to skew news for pay; Times of India says it was operating “reverse sting” — It is a potential scandal that claims to strike at a key pillar of Indian democracy - the freedom of the press …
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Jacob Plammoottil Jacob, Times of India and Scroll.in
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
The Skimm launches a one-to-one texting service for subscribers, with editorial team answering questions on specific topics within a time window — “People are always on their phones, but this isn't 'Let's just start shooting them info over text.' When you integrate into somebody's routine …
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@getprpl, @ryanvailbrown, @laurahazardowen and @mattervc
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Hulu CEO says its internet pay-TV service Hulu With Live TV has signed up 800K subscribers since its launch over a year ago — Hulu, in a little over a year since launching its $40 monthly internet-streaming “skinny bundle,” has signed up 800,000 customers for the service, according to CEO Randy Freer.
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Engadget, Hollywood Reporter, Deadline and Recode, more at Techmeme »
Hadas Gold / CNNMoney:
Univision formally names Vincent Sadusky to succeed Randy Falco as chief executive officer; Sadusky starts on Friday — Univision Communications Inc. announced on Wednesday that Vincent Sadusky will be its next chief executive officer, taking over the Spanish-language media giant as it grapples with difficult times.
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Variety, @daviduberti, Financial Times and Broadcasting & Cable
Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
The Village Voice Editor-in-Chief Stephen Mooallem quietly left the company in March, leaving a four-person editorial team — The Village Voice Editor-in-Chief Stephen Mooallem has quietly left the company, The Post has learned. — The former executive editor of Harper's Bazaar …
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
CEO Daniel Ek talks about Spotify's content policy, its direct-listing IPO, and removing R. Kelly's music from its playlists, at Code Conference — Spotify CEO Daniel Ek admitted his company fumbled the deployment of a new content policy that sparked considerable controversy within the music industry.
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@alexeheath, Business Insider, Recode, Billboard, YouTube, @williamalden, @inafried and @alexeheath, more at Techmeme »
Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide:
Sources: Apple launches an internal unit focused on global music publishing and names iTunes veteran Elena Segal as its director — Apple has launched a new internal division dedicated to music publishing, MBW understands, led by respected exec Elena Segal.
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RAIN News, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Fast Company, 9to5Mac, Engadget and MacRumors
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