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Craig Douglas / Boston Business Journal:
John Henry and NYT Co. set Oct. 15 deadline for Boston Globe's $70 million sale — Henry, NY Times set aggressive deadline to finalize Boston Globe sale — Billionaire investor John Henry and The New York Times Co. have set an Oct. 15 target date to close on the $70 million sale …
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Craig Douglas / Boston Business Journal:
Boston Globe in scramble to replace Cars.com business — The Boston Globe is nearing a critical crossroads to salvage its profitable online auto business, as sources say the media giant's senior executives are scrambling to find new revenue and avoid a talent raid ahead of the company's …
Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing.com:
Quartz to reach profitability by 2015 with native ads and open web focus — Atlantic Media Company, Advertising, Consumer Media, Digital Media, Newspapers — Business news site Quartz is on course to reach profitability in 2015, three years after its launch by The Atlantic Media Company.
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@felixsalmon and @dskok, Thanks:@mediabrief
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
The Finke-Penske feud shows the difficulties of linking brands and personalities — Brand Suffers Most From Spat Between Owner and Hollywood Blogger — LOS ANGELES — For her detractors, and there are many, the turnabout is delicious: Nikki Finke, the blogger who squeezed Hollywood …
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@bradmiska, @carr2n, @unclegrambo, @brianstelter, @ckrewson, @theplaylist and @andymacmiller
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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Nikki Finke and Deadline owner Jay Penske still at odds
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@kateaurthur, @jbflint and @scottcollinslat
Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed:
Why Reuters Ditched Its Big Web Push — Reuters Wednesday decided that it cares more about its business than its brand, ending a big bet on becoming a major player in online news. In a memo sent to the company today, Reuters chief executive Andrew Rashbass announced that the company will end …
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Financial Times, Reuters, @ryanchittum, @edmundlee, @carr2n, @jayrosen_nyu, @gabestein, @dancow, @jayrosen_nyu, @buzzfeedben, @mattzeitlin and @jaredbkeller
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Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:
Reuters Next Canceled
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New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review, FishbowlNY, @kylestanding, @acarvin, @smalera, @nycjim, CNET, @howardlindzon, @jbenton, @hblodget, @stefanjbecket, @justinnxt, The Wrap, Wall Street Journal, @dancow, FishbowlNY, @poynter, Talking Biz News, @niemanlab, @ryanchittum, @jayrosen_nyu, @henryjfoy, @felixsalmon and @jwherrman
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
BBC to axe 75 news posts — James Harding tells staff compulsory redundancies are possible as corporation seeks to reduce division's budget by £60m — The BBC is to axe 75 more posts in news and the English regions in the latest round of cuts as part of its £700m Delivering Quality First cost savings initiative.
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Press Gazette, @alstewitn, @therealflannerz and @joshhalliday
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Facebook ‘like’ deserves free speech protection: U.S. court — (Reuters) - Facebook users who employ the website's “like” feature to show support for a political candidate engage in legally protected speech, a U.S. appeals court said, reviving a lawsuit examining the limits of what people may constitutionally do online.
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Law Blog, GigaOM, Bloomberg, Ars Technica, ZDNet, Marketing Land, Business Insider, The Switch, CNET, The Verge and @ronrodgers
Chicago Business Journal:
World Book launches subscription e-book platform — World Book Inc., known for its World Book Encyclopedia, is making many of its popular educational titles available in e-book format through “World Book eBooks,” a subscription service that offers librarians and educators access …
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Good E-Reader and PublishersWeekly.com
Rem Rieder / USA Today:
Rieder: Newspaper association chief optimistic — Being president and CEO of the Newspaper Association of America is not a job for the fainthearted. Your mission includes lobbying for, speaking for and galvanizing an industry that, while it is the press, hasn't gotten very much good press, not for a long time.
Guardian:
Virgin Media to cut 600 top and middle management posts — UK cable company set to reduce staff by about 4% as new US owner Liberty Global looks to make it more ‘agile and efficient’ — Virgin Media is to cut 600 posts among its top and middle management, as US cable giant Liberty Global looks …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Cox Pulls Plug on Internet TV Trial — Cable operator's over-the-top service, aimed at price-sensitive cord-cutters, had used Fanhattan set-top box — After a three-month test, Cox Communications has ended the broadband-delivered subscription TV service it launched Southern California that had used Fanhattan's set-top box.
Alexis Sobel Fitts / Columbia Journalism Review:
#Oceanfall: The Seattle Times' glitzy new digital package unveils a substantial piece of reporting on our changing seas — The Seattle Times' glitzy new digital package unveils a substantial piece of reporting on our changing seas — Like most newspapers around the country …
Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
Gone Native: The Magazine Whose Editors Write Ad Content — Over the summer, Mental Floss asked its online readers what kinds of tricks or skills would they like to learn as part of the magazine's “How To” series. It then turned those ideas into posts, paid for by Dos Equis, which also had four display ads on each page.
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@digiday
Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic Online:
Instapaper Thinks You Should Read This Story — Coming soon to that big stack of unread magazine articles? A recommendation engine. — At the center of our vast, electro-digital journalistic infotainment ecosystem, there, hidden behind the more recognizable names of the products it owns, is Betaworks.
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Instapaper, @theatlantictech, Cult of Mac and MacStories
Associated Press:
Sri Lankan editor flees after death threats and attack by armed gang — COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A Sri Lankan newspaper editor has fled the country following death threats and an attack in her home in which her family was held at knifepoint, a media rights group said Thursday.
Alex Kantrowitz / AdAge:
One Publisher's Social Media Strategy: Outright Rejection — Monocle Eschews Social Media, Says It's No Worse Off Without It — Enamored with social media's ability to funnel traffic to their websites, publishers have leaped headfirst onto Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit and others.
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@shannboogie
Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
Netflix is giving people their Net fix, Nielsen says — Streaming services like Netflix and Hulu are feeding “incredible binge appetites” for programming, the researcher says, with the vast majority of users watching at least three episodes of the same show in a single day. — Follow @@joan_e
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USA Today, The Wrap, ValueWalk, Los Angeles Times, The Mary Sue, Betabeat and Broadcasting & Cable
Beth Schepens / Speakeasy:
A Q&A With Alexandra Senes — Alexandra Senes has founded a fashion magazine (Jalouse), a clothing line (Kilometre Paris) and a communications agency that bridges the art and fashion worlds (SAS). She's curated exhibitions, written books and traveled the world.
Alison Dame-Boyle / Medium:
Yes, it's still a problem your story contains no women. … Today, San Francisco magazine's website published a piece on “Silicon Valley's Geek Chorus,” ostensibly profiling the leaders of the more-mainstream-but-still-tech- journalist movement. Because life is basically an eternal recurrence …
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San Francisco magazine
Steven Nelson / US News:
Holes in Media Shield Law Worry Opponents, and Even Some Supporters — It's possible limited legal protections would shrink further, legal and media experts say — The so-called media shield law approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee Sept. 12 would likely fail to curtail …
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Josh Stearns / Index on Censorship:
The US shield law's dangerous precedent - and how to fix it
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