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“About three-quarters of the paying audience access the FT online: Digital subscriptions rose 12 percent year-on-year to 566,000. There was no information about its financial performance.”

“This has been a different kind of story. It’s a story where, in a lot of ways, a lot of people have agreed on the facts from the very beginning,” executive producer Julie Snyder told Entertainment Weekly.

“Holmes will create and run a new media property under the First Look umbrella that will focus on commissioning and curating visual work — including videos, photography and graphic storytelling — from independent creators. Holmes expects that the property will have a full-time staff of at least eight people, though most of its content will come from outside contributors. It is expected to launch in the fall.”

“Messenger applications provoke a very different user behavior from desktop and mWeb interaction. It’s more personal. It’s more direct. And users will shy away from any unwanted disruption within their chat stream. It will be an opt in approach, and something different from anything we’ve seen before.” —JL

“The New York-based agency ceded control of its output by signing up to the so-called Schriftleitergesetz (editor’s law), promising not to publish any material ‘calculated to weaken the strength of the Reich abroad or at home'”

Some prototypes do exist that focus on analytics dashboards for end users: Students from the Northwestern University Knight Lab and hackers at an MIT Media Lab journalism hackathon created Slimformation and Newstrition, respectively — which each show readers’ existing news habits through a Google Chrome app.

“If you have friends in Canada or the UK or Australia you should definitely start telling them about this app you’re super into from BuzzFeed that helps you quickly catch up on the news. No reason.”

“The site itself has become more than just a business publication, having launched multi-platform verticals for opinion and politics. A full-fledged tech vertical is also in the works for later this year.”

“Fair critique and I agree. We’ve pulled this one down.”

“For the first time since it launched in 1996, Fox News was the most-watched channel in all of cable TV last quarter, topping ESPN, which had NFL and college football playoff games; AMC, which televises the ratings juggernaut The Walking Dead; and TBS, which aired college basketball games and a number of high-profile comedy shows.”

While the details of what Genius will do for advertisers remain to be seen, the company says it plans to create for marketers custom content and data products underpinned by its technology. —SW

“Publishers acknowledge they can probably never catch up to Elbakyan, yet they are adamant that Sci-Hub will not harm them or evolve into a future business model the way that Napster ultimately led to Apple’s iTunes — and dramatic revenue losses for record labels.”

This is the sixth design of Bloomberg’s homepage in as many years.

“If Black Twitter didn’t continue to exist in the way it does now, you’d actually see a decline of the black press because it’s so difficult to source these stories if you don’t have the resources, which a lot of the black press suffers from.”

“The court found that there is no contract between publishers and visitors to websites as a result of which users have ‘agreed’ to view all the ads a publisher serves. ‘To the contrary, said the court, users have the right to block those or any ads, because no such contract exists,’ Williams writes.”

“millennials spend more than 2.5 times as many minutes in Facebook as they do in its closest competitor — Snapchat.”

“Internally, Facebook Live is seen as a way to move beyond hosting conversations about television and live events to becoming a venue for both.”

“To be clear: as far as I can tell this code breaks the primary algorithm Genius is built on, and they can only beat it by deliberately doing something despicable. Let’s see!”

“Publishers will soon be able to place both autoplay and user-initiated video ads within Instant Articles, and to include pre-roll advertising before any editorial video content they publish…Autoplay video ads must have their sound disabled, however.”