Latest and Breaking Media News and Top Stories - July 8
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Could Rosie O'Donnell be returning to "The View"? According to TMZ, it's very possible. The site reported on Monday night that O'Donnell is in "active negotiations" to come back to the talk show she famously (or, if you prefer, infamousl...
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Michael Cieply / New York Times : Participant Index Seeks to Determine Why One Film Spurs Activism, While Others Falter — LOS ANGELES — You watched the wrenching documentary. You posted your outrage on Twit...
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There's no napping in baseball. When 26-year-old Yankees fan Andrew Rector fell asleep during a game against the Red Sox on April 13, an ESPN cameraman lingered on his snoozing face and two announcers launched into a diatribe that includ...
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July 8 (Reuters) - Marketing software company Yodle Inc filed with U.S. regulators on Tuesday to raise about $75 million in an initial public offering of common stock.
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Mark Sweney / Guardian : Rightster buys digital video business Base79 in £50m deal — Multichannel network acquires rival run by Ashley MacKenzie, as YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley joins advisory committee &...
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Interviewing is a skill. I’ve heard this repeatedly as a college student, at journalism conferences and in newsrooms. Not all of us are born with the ability to form penetrating questions or to extract crucial details from sources....
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AFP : Iranian journalist Marzieh Rasouli sentenced to 2 years in prison and 50 lashes for anti-establishment propaganda — Iranian journalist jailed for opposing government — Marzieh Rasouli sentenced ...
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Team Sky encouraged its riders through targeted outdoor ads as the Tour de France cyclists passed through east London.
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SHANGHAI, July 8 (Reuters) - U.S. electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc is being sued in China for trademark infringement, a surprise development that casts a shadow over CEO Elon Musk's ambition to expand rapidly in the world's biggest au...
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Mark Sweney / Guardian : Guardian News & Media narrows loss to £30.6m, print income stable, digital revenues up 24% — Guardian and Observer narrow losses — Guardian News & Media reports ...
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SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Tuesday issued unexpectedly weak quarterly earnings guidance which put it on track for its worst results in two years and cast doubt on the smartphone leader's strategy against cheaper Chin...
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* Q2 op profit likely fell 24.5 pct on year to 7.2 tln won
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TEL AVIV/LONDON, July 8 (Reuters) - Shares in Israeli digital advertising firm Matomy began trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) at 235 pence on Tuesday, above the price of 227 pence the firm set for its initial public offering.
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“I understand that the black audience is not monolithic. There are many different types of films that black people want and I’ve never had a feeling that all my films would appeal to all black people. Never, ever, ever.”
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Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal : Facebook Suffers Brief Outages in Violence-Hit Myanmar — Some users say Facebook has been inaccessible in Myanmar's second largest city for brief periods since a curfew began Thur...
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Neymar, Brazil's injured star striker, was the player with the highest sponsorship value in the UK during the first three weeks of the World Cup, according to research from MediaCom's Business Science team.
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Coders are inherently creative and don't need to be partnered with art directors and copywriters, said Google Creative Lab's Steve Vranakis at a digital art exhibition at the Barbican last night.
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Below are company-related news and stories from French and Benelux media which could have an impact on the region's markets or individual stocks.
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FRANKFURT, July 8 (Reuters) - The DAX top-30 index looked set to open unchanged on Tuesday, according to premarket data from brokerage Lang & Schwarz at 0639 GMT.
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The Advertising Association has revised its annual forecast for the UK ad market upwards on the back of strong TV and radio advertising in Q1 2014, in the latest AA/Warc Expenditure Report.
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Harley Brown / Billboard : Microsoft Opens Xbox Music to App Makers — Xbox Music has become the latest music streaming services platform to open up its API to third-party app developers, according to a post on Microsof...
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The company recently assigned New-Delhi-based Pine Creek Tech as its exclusive distributor in India
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July 8 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
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Taylor Swift / Wall Street Journal : Piracy and streaming shrank album sales, but music retains value and fan relationships matter — For Taylor Swift, the Future of Music Is a Love Story — The Singer-...
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Everyone in America is free to share an opinion. But in Pennsylvania, expressing an opinion cost one fugitive his freedom . Jacob “Jake” Close, 25, participated in a "Your Opinion" feature in the June 30 edition of the Bloomsburg Press E...
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* Revenue up 7 pct overall; cable and Internet sales up 15 pct
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab : How The Wall Street Journal is celebrating its 125th anniversary while also looking ahead — The Wall Street Journal marked its 75th anniversary on July 8, 1964 with a front-p...
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics, Intel Corp and Dell have joined to establish standard ways for household gadgets like thermostats and light bulbs to talk to each other, at odds with a framework backed by Qualcomm, LG Elect...
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Janko Roettgers / Gigaom : New Zealand ISP allows its customers to subscribe to the U.S. version of Netflix — Slingshot, a local internet provider in New Zealand, wants to give its subscribers a little extra perk: The ...
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Chris Welch / The Verge : BBC told to stop wasting time on climate change deniers and skeptics of proven science — Two months ago, John Oliver delivered a bruising critique of the way TV networks handle science coverag...
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The management team running Twitter’s revenue side, led by Adam Bain, has thrived even as top executives running other parts of the company have resigned or been pushed out.
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Tom Grubisich / Street Fight : An Ex-Patcher Competes in Tim Armstrong's Town — Going entrepreneurial in community journalism is scary anywhere. But when you decide to do it where the mastermind of the publicatio...
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Jeremy Barr / Capital New York : Wall Street Journal plans 125th anniversary — The Wall Street Journal is set to commemorate its 125th anniversary tomorrow with a slate of print and online content. — ...
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David Folkenflik / NPR : CBS Lost Appetite For Government Watchdog Stories, Attkisson Says … When the investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson left CBS this year, she did not do so quietly. She contends the network refused to...
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Mathew Ingram / Gigaom : Beacon Reader's crowdfunding platform now lets supporters fund topics as well as journalists — There are many interesting experiments underway for funding journalism online, but Beacon Reader i...
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House Republicans have requested nearly $3.3 million to operate the select committee investigating Benghazi, which gives the GOP-launched committee a bigger budget than that granted to the committee overseeing the troubled Department of ...
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Source: Monday Note
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Source: Nieman Journalism Lab
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Source: The Guardian
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Source: Adweek
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The next David Attenborough need not have any natural history qualifications but must be able to make the animal world entertaining for viewers, a senior BBC executive has said.
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Brent Lang / Variety : Sun Valley: Cable Consolidation, Murdoch and Digital Disruption Among Big Themes — Media and technology moguls are jetting to Sun Valley, Idaho this week for mountainside pressing of the flesh an...
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Ian and Anthony of SMOSH fought off zombies to get to our interview. Just kidding, but they actually did compare the recent YouTube convention, VidCon to World War Z. "We were walking up the staircase and there was a hoard of zombies, a ...
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You make an ad, you buy the media, and you track your metrics. But somewhere in that equation, you have to wonder if audiences are actually seeing your ad. Or more precisely, if the amount of human eyeballs that were supposed to see the ...
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Content creation and sharing fuel the internet. Having access and insight into exactly how and where your content is shared is a unique advantage. Embedded sharing tools offer a quick reminder and easy opportunity for your audience to sh...
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Technology is moving faster than consumer adoption at scale With so many tech companies getting involved in the wearables trend and the Internet of Things, it's created a gold rush of product roll outs. Were consumers even ready for Sams...
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Programmatic advertising was a natural evolution of the digital landscape. On the one hand, buyers need to target at scale, while on the other, sellers want to monetize remnant inventory. Technology is the glue that makes it possible. We...
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On the eve of his opening session at our MobileBeat conference tomorrow, Google’s head of performance media, Jason Spero, tells us how the company is approaching mobile ads, attribution, and more. At MobileBeat, Spero will be discu...
