Top 50 Media News & Stories - July 10
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London-based startup This Place has developed a software that lets Google Glass users snap a photo just by thinking about it, and even share it to social media sites. The app MindRDR works with NeuroSky’s commercially available bra...
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Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer : Tweet Cheat: How Rusty Foster's Newsletter Became a New York Media Obsession — Rusty Foster. — Rusty Foster's daily newsletter, Today in Tabs, has been...
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John Plunkett / Guardian : BBC should encrypt iPlayer for licence fee payers, says Channel 4 boss — Lord Burns says change would be first step towards an alternative way of funding the corporation — C...
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While many think the Aereo battle has come to an end now that the Supreme Court has ruled against them, the company is not bowing out just yet. CEO Chet Kanojia sent out a letter to their users yesterday detailing their plans for the fu...
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Pandora launched its initial public offering during the summer of 2011, at a price point of $16. The company has since acquired significant market capitalization of $5.309 billion, and now boasts a stock value of ~$26.
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Alex Weprin / Capital New York : The premium Emmys: Pay-TV services dominate nominations — If you want to watch all of this year's primetime Emmy nominees, be prepared to pay up. — The list is a sign ...
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More than 25% of U.S. TV homes will have a streaming media player by next year -- and will continue to grow. Roku is now the most-used player of those who homes who have the devices, having a 44% share. Apple TV is next at 26%.
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SUN VALLEY, Idaho — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is giving leadership lessons in the wake of “Bridgegate.” Christie traded the Garden State for the Gem State on Wednesday night,...
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A recent study by YouGov found that while more than half of Americans agree that it’s easier to find a date online than in a public place, and over one-third of them think that online relationships can last, only one-fifth of Ameri...
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Celebrities often covet magazine covers as a way to scoop up publicity for their latest movie roles or other work. They give editors some skinny on their personal lives in exchange for the chance to chat up their projects. But what happe...
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W+K New York tapped young Washington Nationals star Bryce Harper for their latest “This is SportsCenter” spot for ESPN, choosing to go an unexpected route with the outfielder. In the 30-second spot, Harper sits in an office w...
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BBC | The Telegraph The BBC launched a Facebook news stream in Thailand on Thursday. The initiative “follows the military coup in May after which international channels, including BBC World News TV, were taken off air temporar...
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Kia Kokalitcheva / VentureBeat : Bop.fm is a remote control for your music apps, and it's now $2M richer — I've recently been arguing with a couple of colleagues over which music streaming service to use for our shared...
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NBC News contributor Chelsea Clinton earns $75,000 per appearance on behalf of the Clinton Foundation. “100 percent of the fees are remitted directly to the foundation,” says her spokesperson. Clinton last appeared on NBC New...
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You need radio personalities for audience connection, just as you need forward momentum for audience preservation. It’s not easy to dodge the fact that listeners perceive your personality talking as an interruption. I have some thoughts ...
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HBO got 99 nominations for the 2014 Emmy Awards, the most of any network. HBO's Game of Thrones got 19 nominations, one ahead of FX's miniseries Fargo .
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Seth Meyers is taking another shot at becoming best friends with a cable news guy. While his first attempt with NBC's Lester Holt didn't go so well, Meyers tried again on Wednesday night with NBC's "Dateline" correspondent Keith Morrison...
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Marie Gilot / Knight Foundation : Knight Foundation grants three public media outlets $750,000 to explore post-broadcast future — What does a post-broadcast world mean for public media? — Above: Chann...
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The Primetime Emmy nominations were announced this morning. Some of the usual suspects have been given nods, including Bryan Cranston for Breaking Bad , Claire Danes for Homeland, Jim Parsons for The Big Bang Theory , and Julia Louis-Dre...
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The one thing every journalist knows (apart from how to get a source to return a call just before a deadline) is that we also have to be experts in something besides getting a good story. Business news. Sports. Tech. National security. T...
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CNN's Kate Boulduan pressed Texas governor Rick Perry on Thursday to explain his recent comments that the Obama administration is somehow "in on" the immigration crisis at the border. Perry met with President Obama in Dallas on Wednesday...
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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch : Tribune Digital Ventures Acquires Indian Electronic Program Guide Provider What's On — Tribune Digital Ventures has acquired electronic program guide provider What's On to help it expand in d...
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Brian Dunbar Colin Jeffery David&Goliath’s founder and chief executive officer, David Angelo , has named Director for Client Services Brian Dunbar to the newly created role of president, and Executive Creative Director Colin Je...
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When Fox News host Jesse Watters dubbed single women "the Beyoncé vote," much of the Internet reacted with a warranted collective groan. After all, dismissing a growing part of the population as people who "depend on government because t...
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In an increasingly vital area for journalists, here are 12 tools journalists can use to search, monitor or curate content from the social web
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This morning we confirmed changes at the top of the Zimmerman organization. Over the past seven months, three C-level staffers have departed: CFO Mike Schweiger CEO Pat Patregnani VP Fred Zuckerman Zuckerman was the most recent party to ...
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Television newcomers "True Detective," a crime drama from HBO, and "Orange is the New Black," a dark prison comedy from Netflix, racked up a dozen Emmy nominations each on Thursday, challenging stalwarts like "Bre...
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On the O’Reilly Factor last night, Howard Kurtz suggested MSNBC is no longer favoring President Obama. “Even the folks at MSNBC not getting the thrill up the leg anymore,” Kurtz said, referencing Chris Matthews ‘ ...
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After a months-long conflict that has called into question the constitutionality of a new school policy, student editors at Neshaminy High School in southeast Pennsylvania are prepared to keep fighting a rule , passed by the school boar...
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Dov Charney landed right where he wants to be on this week’s cover of Bloomberg Businessweek. The magazine hitting newsstands Friday morning pictures the ousted American Apparel CEO , infamous for his salacious behavior, photoshopped int...
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Pew Research Center The number of full-time statehouse reporters employed by newspapers has declined 35 percent since 2003, according to a new Pew report . That’s “slightly higher than the decline in newspaper newsroom staffi...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Following is a list of nominees in key categories for the Emmy Awards, the highest honors in U.S. television, announced on Thursday.
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Word came recently that both the Philadelphia Quakers and the Unitarian General Assembly have decided to divest from fossil fuels. It followed by few weeks the news that the Roman Catholic University of Dayton and Union Theological Semin...
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post : Digital Outlets Help Fill Statehouse Ranks As Newspapers Retrench — NEW YORK — The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit news outlet launched in 2009, now boasts the largest stateho...
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(Adds comment, details on Netflix, comedy race) By Mary Milliken and Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES, July 10 (Reuters) - Television newcomers "True Detective," a crime drama from HBO, and "Orange is the New Black," a dark prison comedy from Net...
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Pew Research Journalism Project : America's Shifting Statehouse Press — Can New Players Compensate for Lost Legacy Reporters? — Within America's 50 state capitol buildings, 1,592 journalists inform th...
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Nominations for the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards were announced Thursday, with new series like “Orange Is the New Black” joining stalwarts like “Mad Men” and “Game of Thrones.”
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1. Andrew Miller: The death of newspapers has been exaggerated (Gideon Spanier / The Independent) 2. Ex-ghostwriter on how content grew while journalism declined (Tim Williams / The Awl) 3. In Google newsroom, Brazil defeat is not a head...
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Netflix more than doubled its Emmy nods this year, receiving 31 nominations in total, up from 14 last year. The 2013 season marked the first time a series that originated on non-traditional TV landed any nominations in a major category a...
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-The Richards Group cranks up the summertime to promote Wawa’s Hoagiefest (video above). link -Upworthy claims its paid posts get more views than editorial. link -The ten most viral ads of 2014. link -American Apparel reaches deal ...
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The study by the Journalism Project at the Pew Research Center, which surveyed all 50 capitals, found a loss of 164 full-time statehouse reporters since 2003.
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1. Journalism enrollments fell two years in a row (Michael King / American Journalism Review) 2. U.S. Education Department offers tips to districts, states on social media use (Benjamin Herold / Education Week) 3. The mystery of the miss...
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NPR is still worried that retweets can easily be misconstrued as endorsements, according to a memo from standards and practices supervising editor Mark Memmot obtained by Jim Romenesko . According to Memmot, “despite what many say,...
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In an NPR interview earlier this week, former NBC News senior investigative correspondent Lisa Myers seemed to agree with former CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson that the media hasn’t covered the Obama administ...
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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: Hot takes and ‘cold water’ on Tribune/News Corp. rumor | ABC News’ Israel blunder | What the Guardian’s annual los...
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Fred Barbash / Washington Post : Scholarly journal retracts 60 articles, smashes ‘peer review ring’ — Every now and then a scholarly journal retracts an article because of errors or outright fraud. In...
