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Christopher Heine / Adweek:
Business Insider's Slideshows Are Now Ads, Too — Business Insider has become known all-too-well for making its site sticky with a constant procession of topical or newsy slideshows. — Well, the New York-based digital publisher this week started to monetize the idea with a sponsored gallery ad unit …
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Dan Reimold / MediaShift:
Business Insider Just Told College Students Their Secrets of Success — Earlier this month, in a Manhattan hotel conference room, a student journalist admitted being nervous about an upcoming business reporting internship. “I'm going to be blunt,” she said. “I'm 20. I don't know about the Stock Exchange.
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
“First do no harm”: My interview with Amazon and Goodreads on the future of Goodreads — Amazon announced Thursday afternoon that it has acquired the popular book-related social networking site Goodreads for an undisclosed sum. I spoke with Goodreads CEO Otis Chandler and Amazon's VP …
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Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:
Amazon Acquires Social Reading Site Goodreads, Which Gives The Company A Social Advantage Over Apple — Today, Amazon has announced the acquisition of social reading service, Goodreads. Specific terms of the deal weren't disclosed and it should close by the end of Q2.
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Erik Wemple:
NYT's Keller talked with Columbia about journalism dean job — Former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller says he got a call from the search firm that assisted in finding a replacement for Nicholas Lemann atop the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. “They asked if I was interested,” says Keller.
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Cooking site Food52 raises $2M to expand publishing, mobile and shopping initiatives — Food52, the crowdsourced cooking website cofounded by former New York Times food writer Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, has raised $2 million in Series A funding, the company announced on its blog Wednesday.
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Watch out, internet: Dave Winer is back in the business of making blogging tools — He may not have the same kind of public profile as the teenaged founder who sold his company to Yahoo for $30 million, or the founders of hot apps like SnapChat or Instagram, but Dave Winer has done a lot …
Tim Carmody / The Verge:
President of HBO Sports says HBO Go will stream live events by the end of this year — But HBO spokesman denies that HBO Go will feature live boxing — At Harvard Law School's Sports Law Symposium today, HBO Sports president Ken Hershman said that live sports would be on HBO Go by the end of this year …
Fred Wilson / A VC:
A Roaming Network For Subscription Music Services — Back in the early days of the ATM machine, you could only transact on ATMs operated by your bank. If you were a Chase customer, you needed to find a Chase ATM to take cash out. That, of course, was a pain and the banks recognized it and formed roaming networks.
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The Guardian:
Ian McClelland appointed Managing Director, Guardian Australia — The Guardian announced today that Ian McClelland has been appointed to the new role of Managing Director, Guardian Australia. — The Managing Director role is the latest appointment to the new Guardian Australia digital edition …
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Wendy Davis / MediaPost News:
Backpage Wins Permanent Order Blocking Tennesse Sex-Trafficking Law — In a victory for Backpage.com, a federal judge in Tennessee has permanently barred the state from enforcing a 2012 law regulating online ads. That law, which was aimed at curbing the sex-trafficking of teens …
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Ann Friedman / Columbia Journalism Review:
Quotas get results — A chat with MSNBC's Chris Hayes on tapping sources more diverse than the usual pool of white dudes — Let's face it: The conversation about diversity in journalism is mostly boring hand-wringing. With each new byline count, it's easy to despair that gender …
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