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NewsCred hooks New York Times, secures $15m funding

Licensing and syndication service NewsCred recently added The New York Times to its list of 2,500 publishing partners and raised $15 million in its second round of funding, the company announced Tuesday.

"This deal was years in the making," Founder and CEO Shafqat Islam told Business Insider. "And I think its a big statement that content marketing as a category has really evolved when large and mainstream publishers, and The New York Times is among the largest most reputable ones, are actually looking at software partners like NewsCred to help them figure out that space." 

Founded in 2008, NewsCred uses both algorithms and an editorial staff of 8 to aggregate content for clients including Pepsi and Toyota. While marketers comprise 50 percent of the company’s business, Islam told paidContent that the company’s mission focuses chiefly on publishers, including partners CNN, Al-Jazeera and The Guardian. Other news organizations are clients, such as The New York Daily News, which relies on NewsCred-licensed content to fill its South Asian section.

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Kira Witkin

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2013-03-20 15:17

Arab spring invigorates newspapers and journalism in the region

The Arab Spring took journalism by the storm.

In a region where authoritarian regimes get the final say, citizens and journalists seized an opportunity to stand up to repressive governments last spring. People took cell phone videos and Tweeted about protests, and journalists followed their leads.

Since the revolutions have died down, some states are fostering a more vibrant news community than ever.

Tunisian press was once plagued with high levels of corruption and full of state propaganda. Now, tides are turning, and the Tunisian Interior ministry called for factual journalism in the country. This new tolerance of free speech has lead to a proliferation of news sources. According to the Africa Review, more than 70 media companies have applied for business licenses in Tunis, the capital.

Lebanon was formerly best place for journalists to work in the region, but Tunis has taken over in the annual ranking of media freedom by Reporters without Borders.

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Florence Pichon

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2011-06-10 13:15

Facebook: newspaper of the people?

Last month, Vadim Lavrusik, the coordinator of Facebook's new journalism program, called Facebook a "newspaper of the people". His speech at Columbia's Social Media Weekend came a few weeks after the launch of Facebook's Journalist page, and media sites have been buzzing about Facebook's potential as a journalistic resource since.

The speech echoed much of what is published on the Journalist page, which demonstrates how journalists can reach Facebook users and build a fan base.


Lavrusik attempted to explain Facebook's advantages as a social media resource. Twitter remains the preferred social media site for journalists, but all communication is limited to 140-character posts.

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Florence Pichon

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2011-06-08 15:59

Media links of the day

The Guardian has just reported that the U.S. military is developing software that allows for the secret manipulation of social media through the use of fake online accounts and personas. These are designed to influence non-English speaking/writing users through conversations on the Internet with the intent to spread pro-American propaganda. For more on this, click here.

A battle is waging between the U.S.'s media capabilities and Al-Jazeera, determined by the fault lines of the former's insistence on "a million commercials ... and arguments between talking heads," versus the latter's "real news" in trying to "change minds and attitudes of people," according to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. For more about this, click here to read the coverage by Owni.eu.

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Ashley Stepanek

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2011-03-17 18:33

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