Latest and Breaking Media News and Top Stories - July 2
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An NBC News crew, including foreign correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin , was caught in the crossfire as Israeli soldiers fired rubber bullets and stun grenades at Palestinian protestors in East Jerusalem today. Mohyeldin wrote on Instagram th...
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Production company Great Guns mixes molotov cocktails and soccer in their filmtrack for Santigold’s “Kicking Down Doors,” part of Pepsi’s Beats of the Beautiful Game visual album. For Santigold’s filmtrack, ...
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Welcome to Slovakia: Where the Homeless Live in Advertising. Sound strange for an ad campaign? What if it were real? According to AdWeek , it is . Billboards have often served as placards for cause marketing and conscientious messag...
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James Ball / Guardian : EU's right to be forgotten: Guardian articles have been hidden by Google — Publishers must fight back against this indirect challenge to press freedom, which allows articles to be ‘disappe...
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An NBC News crew was caught in the midst of dangerous clashes in East Jerusalem on Wednesday. Ayman Mohyeldin, one of the network's top foreign correspondents, and his team were in Jerusalem to cover violence that has broken out there in...
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The New York Post reports a homeless man armed with a knife was arrested yesterday morning outside of “Good Morning America’s” studio after attacking an ABC employee and threatening to kill “GMA’s” Mic...
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The role of women in media and gender inequality in the workplace were the dominant topics of discussion at the National Press Club on Monday night. At “Closing Journalism’s Gender Gap: A Forum on Women and Leadership," an event co-hoste...
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Lisa Sendrow — the sexual assault victim whose rape George Will dismissed in his incendiary column — said on Wednesday that she was "outraged" by his comments. Will came under fire last month after claiming in a column that being a victi...
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It may have been way too early, but one of our readers caught an odd message in a ticker during the “Way Too Early” business report this morning. The message read: “Only quite a fatuous individual would question the use...
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William Turvill / Press Gazette : Stuff magazine drops pics of scantily-dressed women from the front page after research shows they harm sales — Gadget magazine Stuff is axing scantily-dressed women from its cover 18 y...
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- Jerry Seinfeld writes another batch of web ads for Acura. link -Facebook targets emerging markets with new ad products. link - Winona Ryder ‘s stars in first fashion campaign in ten years. link -CMOs prepare for digital to swell ...
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(Reuters) - Cloud service provider Rackspace Hosting Inc is considering taking itself private and is in talks with a private equity firm to fund the deal, technology blog TechCrunch reported on Wednesday, citing a source.
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The Beamly rebranding appears to be working. Since April, the social TV platform formerly known as zeebox, has tripled the number of monthly active users, along with increases in visits and user retention. Beamly has forged partnerships ...
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., July 2 (Reuters) - Comedian Melissa McCarthy and her husband and writing partner Ben Falcone team up for the first time behind and in front of the camera in "Tammy," a Midwestern road-trip comedy about a woman's de...
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Here’s a quick look at the media news of the day so far. What are we missing? Let us know . – MediaWire Morning : The Oregonian gets a new editor | When are Bloomberg’s new verticals launching? | Alts … Read more
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Here’s our roundup of the top digital and social media stories you should know about (and from Andrew Beaujon, 10 media stories to start your day, and from Kristen Hare, a world roundup ): — What makes a tweet likely … Read more
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Rachel Miskowiec , who was EP of “Katie” for its final season joins “Good Morning America” as executive producer of the 8am hour. Also announced today, Chris Vlasto who has been senior broadcast producer of “...
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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter : Most Major Media Conglomerates Underperforming at Half-Year Mark — Disney outperforms the broader markets, and Time Warner keeps pace. Video games are a hit while new media is a m...
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Kansas City, MO – Entercom Kansas City seeks a can-do, creative General Sales Manager. We are looking for a person who will take an active role in leading new business development and implementing innovative initiatives among our c...
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Rochester, NY – Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc. WHEC-TV (NY), a strong NBC affiliate has an immediate opening for an Account Executive in the sales department. The candidate will be conducting business meetings and interacting with clie...
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1. EFF changes position on #NetNeutrality: Recognizes FCC must act, but narrowly (Mike Masnick / Techdirt) 2. In Philadelphia, the Internet Archive is assembling a new way to monitor campaigns on TV (Caroline O’Donovan / Nieman Lab...
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Joan Rivers thinks Chelsea Handler "made a mistake" in the way she handled her departure from her talk show on E!. During a conversation about Rivers's book Diary of a Mad Diva , HuffPost Live's Marc Lamont Hill asked the veteran comedie...
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“Heading into summer, overall box office was actually up roughly 9%, compared with 2013. But since early May, the wind has gone out of Hollywood’s sails, and that healthy head start has been wiped away. With the summer season...
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Google has acquired music streaming service Songza. The "Squawk on the Street" news team discuss who this deal benefits.
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“I’m tired of fearing that I’m easily replaceable and I’m tired of hearing that this is industry standard. These companies abuse us, they don’t take our concerns seriously, they are taking our wages from us,...
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Russell Brand is back taking shots at Fox News, and this time he has a new target: Bill O'Reilly. The actor and comedian took to his YouTube channel again on Monday to tear into O'Reilly's recent comments about immigration . The "O'Reill...
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Barbara Walters has sat down with world leaders, sitting presidents and the biggest newsmakers of the day, but one inspiring celebrity tops her list as one of the most moving interviews of her decades-long career: the late Christopher Re...
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Sunday night the BET Awards 14 took place live from Los Angeles. For years , the network’s massive awards show has grown and innovated across social TV. Even Twitter’s Liz Myers covered their activations in advance of the awa...
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Today’s MediaWireWorld roundup of journalism news from outside the U.S. Send tips to Kristen Hare: khare@poynter.org 1. The Russian bride ad isn’t there anymore: The U.K. website Radio Times ran an ad for Russian Brides , Mark Swen...
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A man went to ABC's studios in New York City on Tuesday threatening to kill host Michael Strahan. The New York Post reported that police swiftly arrested Andre Johnson after he pulled out a knife and made threats about Strahan to an offi...
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Alex Sherman / Bloomberg : World Cup Mania Shows How Sports Driving Biggest Mergers — More Americans have watched the U.S. soccer team in this World Cup than ever before. The two biggest announced acquisitions in...
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Shutterfly, the photo-sharing service, is said to be working with boutique investment bank Qatalyst Partners to sell itself, Bloomberg reported.
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HONG KONG/SEOUL, July 2 (Reuters) - Investment bankers are jostling to win plum roles from the founding Lee family of Samsung Group, South Korea's top fee-payer, as it prepares to hand the baton to the next generation in a restructuring ...
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If our lives aren’t unfulfilling enough with traditional advertisers telling us what we don’t need and cannot afford, we can count on our Facebook friends to reaffirm our feelings of inadequacy by convincing us that they do, ...
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The idea behind suggestive selling — or the add-on technique — is that once a consumer is committed to the initial purchase, an additional sale at a fraction of the original price is more likely. Suggestive sellers use positi...
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Good morning. Here are 10 media stories. Where are Bloomberg’s new verticals? Its politics site will launch in October, “30 days before the 2014 Midterms,” Joe Pompeo reports. Bloomberg Business, Bloomberg Markets and B...
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Hillary Clinton's famously fraught relationship with the media isn't going to get better anytime soon, if her latest comments about her press coverage are any indication. Clinton spoke to C-SPAN as part of her ongoing book tour, and she ...
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At a time when much of the ad industry seems preoccupied with so-called "Big Data," WPP data unit Kantar is investing in visualizing data in order to make it more accessible and meaningful to the people who use it. Kantar this morning an...
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TEL AVIV, July 2 (Reuters) - Israel's Communications Ministry on Wednesday issued a tender to operate fourth generation (4G) mobile phone networks that will enable users to upload and download content at three to five times current speeds.
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Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Facebook’s New Type of Ad in India Lets Users Place a ‘Missed Call’ for More Information (The Next Web) Facebook faces several challenges in emerging markets. The c...
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The public radio host Ira Glass and his “This American Life” leave their distributor, giving him more responsibilities and the show fewer financial guarantees.
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York : Bloomberg set to launch digital multi-platform brands starting with a politics site Oct 6 — The new Bloomberg Media — Last weekend, Bloomberg L.P. held its annual compa...
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal : Senior Amazon executive defends company against criticism it bullies publishers, says fight with Hachette is for customers — Amazon Defends Its Stance Against Hachette&nb...
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Fox News had the top 14 cable news programs in total viewers and the top nine programs in the key A25-54 demographic for the second quarter of 2014. As usual, “The O’Reilly Factor” held the top spot and “The Kelly...
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John Plunkett / Guardian : BBC News brings in no surprises rule after McAlpine and Savile scandals — Corporation says new regime, which aims to alert senior management to issues of concern, will not curb investigations...
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July 2 (Reuters) - Two former female employees of Goldman Sachs Group Inc who have accused the bank of gender discrimination are seeking class action status for their case. If class action is granted, the two former employees will be abl...
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - With many Indians worrying about the threat of tough measures in their new government's first budget next week, a Facebook post suggesting the finance minister might be pondering less earthly matters quickly roused ...
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(Reuters) - The British data watchdog is investigating whether Facebook Inc violated data-protection laws when it allowed researchers to conduct a psychological experiment on its users.
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(Repeats article originally sent on July 1 with no changes to text.)
