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Connor Simpson / The Atlantic Wire:
Controversial CTO Pax Dickinson Is Out at Business Insider — Business Insider came under fire Monday after the world was alerted to the sexist, misogynistic, homophobic and classist Twitter feed of its chief-technology officer Pax Dickinson. The two sides have parted ways, though there's some debate over the semantics.
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Forbes, New York Magazine, Valleywag, Public Shaming, Poynter, Betabeat, CNNMoney.com, FishbowlNY, @anildash, @blam, @marklittlenews, @tcarmody, @panzer, @blam, @dawnhfoster, @oryankim, @hblodget, @antderosa, @bobbie, @charlesarthur, @virgiltexas, @jeffjohnroberts, @pjprest and Daily Dot
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Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
Statement From Business Insider — A Business Insider executive has made some comments on Twitter that do not reflect our values and have no place at our company. The executive has left the company, effective immediately. — Business Insider's team is composed of more than 100 talented men …
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Valleywag, The Wrap, @nichcarlson, Mediaite, @paxdickinson, @kmbtweets, @evelynrusli, @irin, @acfoltzer, @jessicavalenti and @samir
Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
Politico Founder Sees $1,000 a Year Fee for Capital N.Y. — Robert Allbritton, publisher of Washington politics website Politico, plans to charge subscription fees of about $1,000 a year for a high-end version of newly acquired media and politics blog Capital New York.
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New York Magazine, FishbowlNY, @mlcalderone, @peterlauria3, @jayrosen_nyu, @edmundlee, @editorialiste, @mlcalderone, paidContent and Digiday
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Capital editor: 'I'm not going to sleep for the next couple of years'
Capital editor: 'I'm not going to sleep for the next couple of years'
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FishbowlDC, @nbj914, Politico, Erik Wemple and Columbia Journalism Review
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Outbrain plans IPO valued at $1 billion for 2014 - reports — Outbrain, the biggest of the content engines that help publishers serve suggested stories and ads, will reportedly seek $200 million from Wall Street in 2014. — Outbrain, a startup that helps publishers like CNN and USA Today serve ads …
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AllThingsD, VentureBeat, Globes Online, The Times of Israel, Shalom Life Canada and eMedia Vitals
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Amidst IPO Rumors, Outbrain Hires Its First CFO, Jeff Davison
Amidst IPO Rumors, Outbrain Hires Its First CFO, Jeff Davison
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MarketWatch
Cliff Edwards / Bloomberg:
Netflix Added to Virgin Media U.K. TV in Industry First — Netflix Inc. (NFLX)'s subscription-video service will be offered on Virgin Media cable systems in the U.K., marking the first time the Web-delivered product is integrated by a major pay-TV provider.
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix Stock Hits All-Time High
Netflix Stock Hits All-Time High
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Business Insider and Bloomberg
Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
Apple TV a no-show, in any respect, at iPhone event — Despite initial hopes for new hardware, and then tempered hopes for a software update, Apple continues to tread water on its set-top box. — A lot of big names showed up at Apple's event Tuesday — Al Gore, Marissa Mayer, Elvis Costello …
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Business Insider, ZDNet and AppNewser
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Greg Sandoval / The Verge:
Apple launches iTunes radio
Apple launches iTunes radio
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Radio & Television …, 9to5Mac, Billboard, @alexpham and App Advice
Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
The New Yorker Goes Native — In January, when the Atlantic ran sponsored content on behalf of Scientology, the media world went apoplectic. Last month, when the New Yorker began experimenting with sponsored content, no one made a peep. Times have changed.
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@media_shepherd, @nbj914, @digiday, @joshsternberg and @zimbalist, Thanks:@steverubel
Sara Morrison / The Wrap:
Time Inc. Acquires American Express Publishing — Time Inc. will buy all five of American Express Publishing's magazine titles, the company is set to announce on Tuesday. Time Inc. CEO Joseph Ripp sent a memo to employees informing them of the deal. — TheWrap previously reported that the deal was “very close” to being finalized.
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Folio, New York Times, WWD Media Headlines, FishbowlNY, AdAge, Adweek and New York Post
Phyllis Furman / NY Daily News:
Daily News launches startup incubator, Innovation Lab — Daily News' Innovation Lab will nurture cutting-edge media technology startups — Innovation starts at the Daily News. The News on Monday announced the launch of the Innovation Lab, a program that will provide select early-stage startup businesses …
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Nieman Journalism Lab, @niemanlab, @rafat and @glassruss
Jim Romenesko:
Patch editors will be working harder, not smarter — What's Patch's editorial strategy now that it's laid off hundreds of staffers and closed many of its sites? Here's a report from a Romenesko tipster: … Care to add to this, Patch staffers? Post in comments or send me an email.
Matthew Holehouse / Telegraph:
Culture Secretary ‘has doubts over BBC Trust’ — Future of the BBC Trust called into question again after a cabinet minister indicated the Culture Secretary has doubts over the body. — Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, said Maria Miller shared his view that the BBC Trust is failing to do its job.
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Guardian, @telegraphnews, Kirk LaPointe's … and The Independent
Press Gazette:
New Statesman agrees content-sharing deal with The New Republic — Left of centre political weekly New Statesman has signed a content-sharing deal with US magazine The New Republic. — Under the deal, New Statesman will carry three pieces from The New Republic each week - and vice versa.
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The New Republic and @nbj914
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
University apologizes for censoring crypto prof over anti-NSA post — Johns Hopkins acted “on inadequate information.” — Andrew Douglas, interim dean of the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, has apologized publicly today for asking one of his cryptography professors …
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ProPublica, Guardian, bizjournals, Inside Higher Ed, The Switch, Techdirt, Business Insider and Errata Security
Jason Deans / Guardian:
Telegraph Media Group hires PBS's Jason Seiken as chief content officer — Editors of Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph will report to Seiken, a former editor-in-chief of Washington Post website — Telegraph Media Group has hired Jason Seiken, head of digital for US public service broadcaster PBS …
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Press Gazette, @mediaguardian, @jasondeansy and @lisaocarroll
Andrea Peterson / The Switch:
Here's what you miss by only talking to white men about the digital revolution and journalism — On Monday, Harvard's Joan Shorenstein Center on The Press, Politics and Public Policy and the Nieman Journalism Lab launched Riptide, a new project about the disruption of journalism by technology.
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Slate and @jamilsmith
Richard Pendry / Columbia Journalism Review:
In Syria, freelancer demand amidst increasing restrictions — New outlets are happy to reap the rewards of dangerous reporting, so long as freelancers shoulder all responsibility — News organizations are desperate for Damascus-based reporters, so they are calling on freelancers, stretching their own rules against doing so.
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Columbia Journalism Review, @mlcalderone and @kavitharao
Markham Nolan:
News needs to go Netflix — The way we buy news is a ridiculous bundling mess. The news needs to go Netflix. — I don't buy weekday newspapers now, that change happened years ago, because no one newspaper is going to have all the news I want to read. Simple fact. Buying one paper means a lot of redundancy.
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@niemanlab and eMedia Vitals
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Washington Post TV Host Leaves — Brook Silva-Braga, host of Post TV's daily news show, “The Fold,” is leaving the paper. — “My year at the Post has been a treat and a gift,” Silva-Braga said in a note to colleagues, obtained by HuffPost. “The chance to interview people across the newsroom …
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
FCC and Verizon square off for the future of net neutrality — Are tubes speech? — Verizon is nearing the end of a legal battle that could render the FCC's net neutrality rules a thing of the past. Today, the two groups presented oral arguments to a DC circuit court …
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GigaOM, Hillicon Valley, Broadcasting & Cable, Broadcasting & Cable, CNET, VentureBeat, Reuters, PC Advisor and @reckless
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Miriam Gottfried / Wall Street Journal:
Broadband Streams New Courtroom Drama