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Kerry Flynn / Digiday:
Twitter releases LiveCut, a tool to help publishers make, monetize, and share video clips of live broadcasts, similar to SnappyTV, which Twitter bought in 2014 — Twitter has a new tool to help publishers make more Twitter videos. — LiveCut lets publishers make, monetize and share video clips of live broadcasts through Twitter.
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Reflecting on VidCon, it's clear that influencers' command of social media foreshadows future power in politics and elsewhere — As social media expands its cultural dominance, the people who can steer the online conversation will have an upper hand. — ANAHEIM, Calif. …
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@nytimesbusiness, @joshspero, @nytimesbusiness and @kevinroose, more at Techmeme »
Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to fund original, exclusive podcasts and has reached out to media companies, in a bid to compete with Spotify — - Tech giant looks to use exclusives to compete with Spotify — Company has recently added new Podcasts Mac app, web interface
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Jem Aswad / Variety:
Sony unites its recorded-music operation, Sony Music Entertainment, and its publishing company, Sony/ATV, under Sony Music Group led by SME chief Rob Stringer — Sony has created Sony Music Group, an umbrella for both its recorded-music operation — Sony Music Entertainment …
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Billboard
Max Willens / Digiday:
Bloomberg launches Work Wise, a newsletter with work and career content, after noticing 48% of traffic to its company pages came from people under the age of 34 — Shortly after Julia Beizer joined Bloomberg Media as chief product officer last year, she had a conversation with David Harding …
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@juliabeizer and Bloomberg Media
Sara Guaglione / MediaPost:
Group Nine's animal-focused publisher The Dodo debuts a children's vertical called Dodo Kids, with a brand-safe YouTube channel — The Dodo, a digital publisher owned by Group Nine that focuses on animal content, launched a new vertical called Dodo Kids. — The division will produce kid …
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Axios, @benjlerer and Tubefilter
April Ehrlich / Jefferson Public Radio:
Sinclair has invested in a small Oregon newspaper, which partnered with a Sinclair TV station to share content, a web management system, and soon, a building — America's biggest broadcast media company is financially backing the owner of the Rogue Valley's largest newspaper …
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@aprilehrlich, @aprilehrlich, @aprilehrlich, @emilycureton, @carlschirps and @dana_flo, Thanks:@morganatopb
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway grilled a Jewish reporter about his ethnicity while defending Trump's racist statements about four congresswomen of color — When the quiet part becomes very loud. — White House counselor Kellyanne Conway went as far as to grill a Jewish reporter …
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@andrewfeinberg, @kellyannepolls, The Guardian, @andrewfeinberg, The Intercept, @acosta, CNN, New York Magazine, @cnn, @jayrosen_nyu, @thekarami, @morgfair, @joncoopertweets, @pattonoswalt, @lexalexander, @hjbenjamin, @andrewfeinberg, @brendannyhan, @joenbc, @atrupar, @melaniesill, NBC News and The Hill
Sara Jerde / Adweek:
Former Bloomberg Media CRO Keith Grossman joins Time as president, reporting to Time editor in chief and CEO Edward Felsenthal — Exclusive: The former Bloomberg Media CRO also spent 5 months at Engine — Time, the nearly 100-year-old brand, is getting a new president.
Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
US sports site The Athletic poaches Daniel Taylor from The Guardian and David Ornstein from the BBC, continuing its UK football journalism talent hiring spree — “It's a journalist transfer window.” — A US sports website that wants to dominate the British football market has made a series …
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Prolific North, @alexwickham, @markdistef, Spectator, @mikelizun and @markdistef
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Facebook Journalism Project announces 22 projects receiving grants between $5,000 and $25,000 to fund community-building proposals over the next six months — In its latest quest to build community, Facebook is trying to develop a meta-community for local news publishers to then, you know, build that community.
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Facebook Journalism Project and @mathewi
BBC:
Pearson, the world's largest education publisher, says all future releases of its 1,500 active US titles will be “digital first” and updated on an ongoing basis — The world's largest education publisher has taken the first step towards phasing out print books by making all its learning resources “digital first”.
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@janiswong_, @tombennett71, @nicolebarbaro, @joenutt_author and @tcarpenter216, more at Techmeme »
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