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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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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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Jack Shafer:
Kurtz moves from CNN to Fox with the same old song — After “Reliable Sources” host Howard Kurtz parted ways with CNN in June and announced the move of his Sunday morning TV act to Fox News Channel, he had a chance to retool the media-news-and-criticism formula he purveyed on the network for 15 years.
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The Huffington Post
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Merrill Knox / TVNewser:
‘MediaBuzz’ Debut Wins in Total Viewers, But ‘Reliable Sources’ Tops in the Demo
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Broadcasting & Cable and Business Insider
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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TechCrunch, Forbes, Rolling Stone, AllThingsD, Broadcasting & Cable, Pocket-lint, Business Insider, ZDNet, MacRumors and 24/7 Wall St.
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Greg Sandoval / The Verge:
Apple launches iTunes radio
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Radio & Television …, 9to5Mac, Billboard, App Advice and @alexpham
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, Globes Online, VentureBeat, 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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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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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, @rafat, @niemanlab 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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@joshsternberg, @media_shepherd, @digiday, @nbj914 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
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
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, @jayrosen_nyu, @natexanderson, bizjournals, Guardian, Inside Higher Ed, The Switch, Techdirt, Business Insider and Errata Security
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
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Investment Firm Takes 11.9 Percent Stake in News Corp — Southeastern Asset Management has purchased more than 23 million of the publishing company's Class-B shares. — Southeastern Asset Management, which invests in “undervalued” securities, has taken an 11.9 percent stake in News Corp …
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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The Switch, Bloomberg, @jameeljaffer, @emptywheel, @ewenmacaskill, @pemalevy, @astepanovich, @b_fung, @bernardkeane, @benfritz, @declanm, @trevortimm and @trevortimm
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, @thesamhita and Riptide
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Apps pushed Vevo to 4bn video streams and 526m viewers in June 2013 — Vevo has published its latest metrics in a US Music Video Viewership Report for January-June 2013, showing strong growth for the music videos service both in the US and globally, fuelled by its apps.
Thanks:@stuartdredge
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