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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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Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, widely reported to have been assassinated in Kiev on Tuesday, appeared at a Ukrainian press conference on Wednesday
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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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Rebecca Stewart / The Drum:
The Evening Standard denies allegations of payment in exchange for favorable coverage of brands like Uber, saying that all commercial content will be labeled — The Evening Standard (ES) has explicitly denied allegations that it has accepted millions of pounds from brands like Uber in return for …
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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 …
Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land:
DoubleClick announces advertisers can now buy ad inventory programmatically from Google Play Music, Spotify, SoundCloud, TuneIn, and soon Pandora — Advertisers can buy digital audio ad inventory programmatically on Spotify, TuneIn, SoundCloud and Google Play Music.
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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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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
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says Apple has been rejecting its app updates globally since Russia banned Telegram in April — Encrypted messaging app Telegram is feeling the squeeze out of Russia, where regulators are not letting up in their ongoing attempts to block the app because its publishers refuse …
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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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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 …
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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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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