Mediagazer: Yahoo Tumblrs for $1.1 Billion — As Expected, Board Approves Deal (Kara Swisher/AllThingsD)

10:07 AM ET, May 20, 2013

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

It's Official: Yahoo Is Buying Tumblr For $1.1B, Vows To Keep It Independent — Yahoo has now officially confirmed that it is buying blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion mostly in cash, after reports on an impending deal first surfaced last week. It says it will keep it as an independent company …

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo Tumblrs for $1.1 Billion — As Expected, Board Approves Deal — The Yahoo board has approved a massive $1.1 billion deal to buy Tumblr. — Sources close to the board said the deal was a foregone conclusion and was an unanimous vote by the Silicon Valley Internet giant.

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

WordPress' Mullenweg Claims 72,000 Blog Posts Imported From Tumblr in Just One Hour on Sunday — Despite largely anecdotal media speculation, it's not clear how the acquisition of Tumblr by Yahoo for $1.1 billion will be greeted by users of the New York blogging service.

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Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:

A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe — When the Justice Department began investigating possible leaks of classified information about North Korea in 2009, investigators did more than obtain telephone records of a working journalist suspected of receiving the secret material.

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Noah Rothman / Mediaite:

Justice Dept. Tracked Fox News Reporter James Rosen's Movements, Obtained His Personal Emails — A report in the Washington Post indicates that the Justice Department's admission that they seized two months of telephone records from the Associated Press was not the first time the DoJ invaded …

Elizabeth Jensen / New York Times:

Charlie Rose to Host a Show in Prime Time on PBS — Viewers can already wake up with Charlie Rose on “CBS This Morning,” and wind down their day with his late-night PBS newsmaker interview program. If that is not enough, Mr. Rose, who has been called “the hardest working man in television …

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Josh Halliday / Guardian:

NBC News confirms ITV's Deborah Turness as president — Editor of ITV News will be the first female head of a television network news operation in the United States — Deborah Turness, editor of ITV News, has been appointed president of NBC News in the United States. Photograph: Eamonn Mccabe for the Guardian

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

New York Times CEO calls digital pay model “most successful” decision in years — In a speech to Columbia business school graduates, the CEO of the New York Times described the company's role in media disruption. — In a commencement address to business students at Columbia University …

Christine Haughney / New York Times:
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Todd Spangler / Variety:

TV Upfronts Dive Deep into Digital … This week's upfront presentations in Manhattan weren't purely about TV; broadcast and cable made plenty of digital waves as well. — ABC Adapts to Apps — ABC became the first broadcaster to make itself available on smartphones and tablets via livestream.

Jack Marshall / Digiday:

Pitchfork Opts Out of the Pageview Rat Race — Pitchfork was one of few media outlets granted access to dance music duo Daft Punk ahead of its highly anticipated new album Random Access Memories. Determined to make the most of the opportunity, the online music mag ditched …

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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

The Evolution Of Hacker News — The idea of a VC having its own news aggregator was a bit outlandish in 2007. But Y Combinator was in an unusual position in those days anyway. Startup incubators had been a highly visible part of the dot-com crash, and Silicon Valley was still skeptical of the concept nearly a decade later.

Dan Kennedy / The Huffington Post:

Beyond the Tea Party: How the IRS Is Killing Nonprofit Media — Outrage over the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of Tea Party and other right-wing groups continues to boil — yet a potentially more consequential IRS practice has scarcely gained any attention.