Mediagazer: With More Than 2.5B Monthly Video Views, Fullscreen Closes Funding From Chernin Group, Comcast, And WPP (Ryan Lawler/TechCrunch)

3:10 PM ET, June 17, 2013

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Big News Forges Its Own Path — During a visit to Toronto last week, I noticed the entire city was pivoting around a story by Gawker, a site that has a broad range of interests, but at its core is dedicated to detailing the running silliness of life in Manhattan.

Discussion: paidContent, Poynter, BuzzFeed, @jayrosen_nyu, @antderosa, Kirk LaPointe's …, Washington's Blog and Guardian

Jessica Grose / New Republic:

Can Women's Magazines Do Serious Journalism? — Some people don't think so ... Last week, the feminist Internet exploded with censure for the British quarterly Port Magazine. The magazine's transgression? Publishing a cover story about “A New Golden Age” of print media and featuring six white, male editors.

Discussion: FishbowlNY and The Hairpin

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Source: Instagram Will Get Video On June 20 — We've been working on getting more details on a press event that Facebook is having this week. Earlier, we wrote it could launch a news-reading app, but we have since heard more details that point to something else entirely.

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Sky News:

No Agreement Over Julian Assange's Future — The British and Ecuadorian governments have failed to reach an agreement over the future of Julian Assange after talks in London. — Ecuador's foreign minister Ricardo Patino had travelled to Britain to discuss what to do about the Wikileaks founder …

Discussion: RT, HeraldSun, Agence France Presse, ITV News and Channel NewsAsia

BBC:
Julian Assange: Ecuador will continue to grant asylum

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Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:

LinkedIn Builds Its Publishing Presence — LinkedIn came of age as the staid social media platform for business professionals: reliable, utilitarian and, well, boring. — Unlike Twitter or Facebook, which are hives of message activity that attract constant monitoring …

Discussion: Forbes and eMedia Vitals

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Netflix Links Up With DreamWorks Again for More Kids' Shows — More kids' stuff for Netflix, this time via another DreamWorks Animation deal. — The Web video service will have exclusive worldwide first-run rights to a new batch of original programming from the studio …

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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

With More Than 2.5B Monthly Video Views, Fullscreen Closes Funding From Chernin Group, Comcast, And WPP — Online multichannel network Fullscreen has become the latest in a series of YouTube partners to raise funding. The company has officially closed a funding round led by The Chernin Group …

Discussion: The Wrap, Guardian, Adweek, AdAge, Los Angeles Times, Billboard, Venture Capital Dispatch, PandoDaily and Variety

Noah Rothman / Mediaite:

Sharyl Attkisson Speaks Out About ‘Serious And Disturbing’ Computer Hacking: 'I'm Outraged' — On Friday, a CBS News internal investigation revealed that investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson's personal and work computers had been compromised. “Sophisticated” methods were used to access …

Discussion: TVNewser

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

The Apple e-book antitrust case: The final four days — The DOJ will rest its case. Apple will present its defense. Summations on Thursday. — FORTUNE — Eddy Cue, the alleged “ringmaster” of a conspiracy to raise e-book prices in 2010, returns to a Manhattan federal court Monday …

Discussion: AllThingsD, AppleInsider and Melville House Books

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Not a good sign: Barnes & Noble just keeps slashing Nook tablet prices — Why is Barnes & Noble extending price cuts on Nook tablets? It may be because the retailer is trying to clear out stock. — Barnes & Noble is extending price cuts on its Nook tablets, and that's not necessarily a good thing.

Discussion: Barnes & Noble, Inc., CNET, Motley Fool, Kindle Review, Good e-Reader, Liliputing, Digital Book World, WebProNews and GeekWire

Michelle Salemi / Variety:

Can Local News Take On Watchdog Role? — Some observers think the Web is better-placed to report on civic issue — Can local TV news really fill the watchdog role in the 21st century that local newspapers did in the 20th? — CBS news anchor Bob Schieffer advanced the theory …

Harrison Weber / The Next Web:

Digg Reader will hit iPhone and Web on June 26th with easy importing, basic features, important stories filter — Digg has just announced that its answer to the now fallen Google Reader, named Digg Reader, is launching next week — with access to all opening up by June 26th.

Discussion: paidContent, Digg Blog, Guardian, TechCrunch, Betabeat and CNET

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Jason Sheftell, popular ‘Daily News’ reporter, found dead — At the Daily News, a memo this morning from editor in chief Colin Myler has shocked and saddened the staff, with the news that the newspaper's well-liked and prolific real-estate editor and reporter, Jason Sheftell, has died.