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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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New York Magazine, Forbes, Valleywag, Public Shaming, Poynter, Betabeat, CNNMoney.com, @anildash, @blam, @marklittlenews, @tcarmody, @panzer, @blam, @dawnhfoster, @oryankim, @hblodget, @antderosa, @bobbie, @charlesarthur, @virgiltexas, @jeffjohnroberts, @pjprest, FishbowlNY 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, @nichcarlson, @aronsolomon, Marketing Pilgrim, The Wrap, @paxdickinson, Mediaite, @kmbtweets, @evelynrusli, @irin, @acfoltzer, @jessicavalenti and @samir
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
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MarketWatch
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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Forbes, Broadcasting & Cable, TechCrunch, Rolling Stone, Pocket-lint, Business Insider, ZDNet, MacRumors, 24/7 Wall St. and AppNewser
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Greg Sandoval / The Verge:
Apple launches iTunes radio
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Radio & Television …, 9to5Mac, Billboard, App Advice and @alexpham
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, Digiday, paidContent, Erik Wemple and Poynter
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
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Business Insider and Bloomberg
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
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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@nbj914, @digiday, @joshsternberg, @media_shepherd 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, Adweek, FishbowlNY, AdAge and New York Post
Wall Street Journal:
DNI documents: NSA phone record searches between 2006 and 2009 violated privacy protections — NSA Violated Privacy Protections, Officials Say — Revelation Calls Into Question Security of Phone-Record Database — WASHINGTON—The National Security Agency's searches …
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Bloomberg, @bernardkeane, @benfritz, @declanm, @trevortimm and @trevortimm
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.
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@niemanlab
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
Reuters:
German publisher G+J to spend millions on digital expansion — FRANKFURT, Sept 10 (Reuters) - German publisher Gruner+Jahr (G+J) is to invest several hundred million euros in an online expansion, following other media groups in seeking fresh revenue streams as newspapers and magazines decline.
Thomas Rid / Slate:
The Rest of the Snowden Files Should Be Destroyed — The leaks have done a lot of good. But a lot more damage could be done. — Privacy is fundamental in an open democracy. Without privacy, there is no democracy. Security is also fundamental. Without security, there is no democracy, either.
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@ggreenwald, @silvermanjacob, @astepanovich, @figmic, @jujueyeball, @jamesrbuk and @csoghoian
Min-Jeong Lee / Digits:
Samsung Sets Sights on TV Apps — Samsung Electronics Co. has been beefing up its software capabilities for its smartphones to compete with Apple Inc. Now, it's also setting its sights on apps for its Internet-connected TVs. — At the IFA trade show in Berlin last week …
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, @feministe, @jamilsmith and @thesamhita
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.
Discussion:
The New Republic and @nbj914
Merrill Knox / TVNewser:
‘MediaBuzz’ Debut Wins in Total Viewers, But ‘Reliable Sources’ Tops in the Demo — Howie Kurtz's new show on Fox News Channel went head-to-head with his old show on CNN Sunday morning. In its debut, “MediaBuzz” won in total viewers but lost to “Reliable Sources” in the A25-54 demographic.
Discussion:
Broadcasting & Cable and Business Insider
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
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
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