Friday's Top 50 Media News & Stories
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There’s a moment, when he can get to a crime scene quick enough, where everything feels weightless. Peter Nickeas looks across the scene, reads graffiti so he knows the gang territory, notes where the police stand and sees where th...
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This week McCann Worldwide announced two C-level changes: Pablo Walker , formerly President of McCann Worldgroup Latin America & Caribbean, will now hold the same title for McCann Worldgroup Europe. Replacing him will be Fernando F...
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Pew Research Center Many of America’s biggest alternative weeklies saw circulation fall or remain stagnant in 2013 , but there were two exceptions: The Chicago Reader and Miami New Times. The gains, reported by Pew Research Center ...
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Last Saturday, Ally Schweitzer was returning from a run when she spotted a neighbor “fussing over this cat.” The cat, a ginger tabby, looked too healthy to be a stray, but it was collarless. Schweitzer, who works as an editor...
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The day after LeBron James announced he was leaving Cleveland, here’s what The (Cleveland, Ohio) Plain Dealer put on the front page: James is back, Cleveland and the rest of the world learned Friday. Come back yourselves tomorrow m...
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Al Jazeera America producers are being told to rein in the costs, by thinking twice about booking costly studio time and satellite remotes. TVNewser obtained an email sent by Al Jazeera America SVP of programming David Doss with the subj...
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Cecilia Kang / Washington Post : Netflix has hits, Emmys and subscribers. But can it survive its fight with cable? — LOS GATOS, Calif. — Reed Hastings, the lanky and goateed chief executive of Netflix, is o...
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If there was ever a group of individuals unqualified to discuss issues of women's health, a bunch of male football players and coaches would be it. In a 1992 commercial entitled "Life: The Way Of Champions," members of the Washington Red...
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U.K.-based digital marketer Stuart Davidson offers a handy list of “ 30 Best Social Media Monitoring Tools for Business .” These tools help businesses monitor their industry, reputations, customers, competitors and content. &...
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Longtime Eat The Press readers know that our official position on 2016 speculatin' in the year 2014 is that we'd love it if there was far, far less of it. But that doesn't mean we'd like none . As Jonathan Bernstein wrote two days after ...
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Cumulus announced the new team that debuted this week with the new WNBM-FM, “Radio 103.9”, featuring New York’s best mix of R&B with an urban adult format. Radio 103.9 PD Ken Johnson is joined by APD/Music Director Raphael George, w...
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After 19 years at Townsquare’s Country WGNA-FM, popular middayer Kevin Richards is out at WGNA. No word as to the reason given. He's an award winning personality that has won many awards for Medium sized markets, produced a highly rated ...
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It's a mythical number that skeptics never question. And it's come up again and again in the national press for decades. It's purportedly the number of victims from the infamous child sexual abuse cases of the 1980s and 1990s. Not child ...
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A TV station in Cleveland will rename its sports studio the “LeBron James Sports Center” now that the hometown NBA star is returning to play for the Cavaliers. A robot journalist is being considered as a co-host for “Th...
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CBS is integrating Fitbit Flex activity trackers into this season of "Big Brother," letting viewers track the contestants' movement and other physical data. The trackers are already ranking the houseguests from most active to least activ...
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Being disabled doesn't automatically make you a noble inspiration to all humanity, says Stella Young. In this very funny talk, she breaks down society's habit of turning disabled people into "inspiration porn." We want to know what you t...
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Peter Kafka / Re/code : Twitter Shuts World Cup Goal Account ReplayLastGoal After FIFA Letter
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“Good Morning America” wins another week in the mornings in both viewers and the younger demo, but NBC’s “Today” posted its closest total viewer gap with “GMA” since the Winter Olympics in Sochi....
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(Reuters) - Trading in shares of Cynk Technology Corp was suspended Friday in the loosely regulated over-the-counter market, amid concerns about possible market manipulation after a 24,000-percent surge in the stock price in the last month.
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Nominations for the 66th Prime-Time Emmy Awards were announced Thursday, with Netflix earning 31 nominations.
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It may not have the sunshine and parties of Cannes Lions, or the glittery nightlife of CES, but DMEXCO (digital media expo) in Cologne is where business gets done for the digital media industry, says Christian Muche, co-founder of the gi...
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Social@Ogilvy appointed Fergus Hay as General Manager for the Asia-Pacific region in Hong Kong. Hay, who previously served as Executive Marketing Director at Ogilvy New York and Worldwide Managing Director on the SC Johnson business bas...
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Someone is very interested in letting the world know that CNN host S.E. Cupp is being considered to join "The View," because they're telling just about every media outlet in Washington. Sources told FishbowlDC and Politico AND The Hill t...
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Adults around the world remain hooked on TV but the consumption habits of content-hungry viewers are changing rapidly, according to global
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Apparently, I still have a few more years of "hotness," according to Esquire writer , Tom Junod. Because, you know, I was worried. Really really worried . Junod says: There used to be something tragic about even the most beautiful forty-...
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A new social network called Sobrr erases everything in 24 hours. Users can “keep” connections with other users or choose to be “24-hour friends,” interacting with follows, comments and cheers. Photos are tagged ge...
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Andy Serkis' acting resume may make him a bonafide movie star, but that doesn't mean you would recognize him on the street. That's because the 50-year-old has risen to prominence playing non-human characters in some of the most notable f...
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Adweek described Deutsch LA’s “MicroRave” for Pop Secret perfectly as “like a sad, seizure-inducing nightclub for corn,” in a post that also questioned whether it was the worst ad of the year. Deutsch LA poi...
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The exchange between Rosie O’Donnell and Elisabeth Hasselbeck continues as Hasselbeck responded on Instagram last night to O’Donnell’s critical Twitter comments about her yesterday. Hasselbeck noted that she’s giv...
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When Fox's "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" opens this weekend, even rival studios across Hollywood are hoping it'll be a hit.
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Robot journalism has gone from being an idea of the future to a real-life practice being utilized everyday in some newsrooms. But with more and more news outlets turning to technology to crank out stories, one has to wonder what the huma...
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Every day of this month, NBA fans around the world have been obsessing over a handful of questions: Which team is LeBron James going to sign with? Will Carmelo Anthony stay in New York? Continue reading at AdAge.com
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Shares in social network Cynk Technology, which has one employee and no working phone number, have surged 24,000pc
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Disney Channels, which represent around 10% of the market at a $1 billion total U.S. kids TV advertising sales, says it improved its overall upfront revenue take by 35% this selling period by pushing for early deals.
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* LBMA settles on silver fix replacement after 2-month hunt
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Bloomberg : Disney, CBS Said to Be Queried by U.S. in Comcast Merger — Walt Disney Co. (DIS), Discovery Communications Inc. (DISCA) and CBS Corp. (CBS) are being asked for information by U.S. antitrust officials probin...
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“Familiarity also breeds contempt. Contempt breeds indifference. And when audiences feel like they’ve seen something, or someone, once too often, they start consulting their iPhones to check the weather and put off the movies...
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The numbers and trends are jumping out of the hopper during one of radio's most important weeks to evaluate, plan and hit "refresh!":
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Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Rosie O'Donnell are not backing down in their latest feud. Hasselbeck triggered major drama earlier this week when she lashed out at O'Donnell on Fox News, amid reports that her former "View" colleague was return...
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If you were one of the approximately 7 million people who watched ABC World News with Diane Sawyer Wednesday evening, you likely saw the story covering the current situation in Gaza. Israel launched what it has dubbed "Operation Protecti...
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mcgarrybowen teamed up with production company Bullitt Branded (a new branded content company from the Russo Brothers) to combine the re-launch of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the re-launch of Pizza Hut’s “Cheesy Bites&#...
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At least every other Monday afternoon, five men in their mid-20s post a new video to the YouTube channel "Dude Perfect." It will likely depict these young men, who are collectively known as Dude Perfect, performing a jaw-dropping trick s...
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On last night’s “World News,” Diane Sawyer apologized for a mistake made on a story about the growing violence in Gaza. “On Tuesday evening, we made a mistake…I misidentified these powerful images,” Sa...
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On “Nightly News” last night, Brian Williams reported on a baby boom going on in Washington, DC, which happens to coincide with the government shutdown 9 months ago. “How long until someone on television points out that...
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Cosmopolitan will combine the power of live events with digital scale in order to showcase the key trends for Autumn/Winter 2014 and how to wear them Following the successful launch of Cosmopolitan FASHION, Cosmopolitan is launching #Fas...
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1. Roku and Chromecast go head-to-head in streaming race, Apple TV falling behind (Janko Roettgers / GigaOm) 2. The Dallas Morning News abandons its “premium experience” strategy (Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab) 3. Jay Rosen to journalists a...
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In the next installment of our partnership with 5by , the video discovery platform that curates the web’s best viral videos, we take a look at the top five videos of the week from the platform’s TV category. Trending this week is a blit...
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-”First Kiss” director Tatia Pilieva asked strangers to undress each other for this promo for Showtime’s Masters of Sex (video above). link -Departing Karmarama founder Dave Buonaguidi on “Mad Men culture, profess...
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James Ball / Guardian : Google admits to errors over Guardian ‘right to be forgotten’ link deletions — David Drummond, chief legal officer of internet search firm, says adjusting to EU rule on removing cont...
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Three of the world's richest men are calling on Congress to pass legislation that would overhaul the nation's immigration system and provide some sort of path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. Casino magnate and conservative do...
