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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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Poynter, @dskok and @felixsalmon, 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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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Nikki Finke and Deadline owner Jay Penske still at odds
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Andy Gensler / Billboard:
Exclusive: ‘Spotify Landmark’ Original Content Series Launches With Nirvana's ‘In Utero’ (Listen) — Spotify Landmark's homepage which launched yesterday with “the Real Story of Nirvana's In Utero.” (Screenshot)
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PandoDaily, The Verge, WebProNews and Music Week
Rem Rieder / USA Today:
Zuckerberg: No plans to get into news business — In Washington, D.C, to lobby for immigration reform, Facebook CEO participates in a wide-ranging interview at the Newseum. — CONNECT — While Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is buying The Washington Post, fellow digital icon Mark Zuckerberg …
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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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, ZDNet, Ars Technica, Marketing Land, Business Insider, The Switch, The Verge, CNET and @ronrodgers
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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@niemanlab and @shannboogie
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
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Not all mass shootings are equal in the eyes of the media or the public — We've moved on, apparently. Barely 48 hours after a gunman murdered 12 people and injured six others in another U.S. bloodbath, the national news media had other things on their minds.
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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 …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Apparent e-mail hack attack reveals Hassan Fattah, editor of U.A.E. newspaper ‘The National,’ is leaving his post — Hassan M. Fattah, the former New York Times correspondent who went on to lead an ambitious but controversial Middle East newspaper, The National, is now moving on from his editorship …
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, @therealflannerz, @alstewitn and @joshhalliday
Publishers Weekly:
Scholastic Cuts Loss Despite Sales Drop — Gains in its educational technology group were not enough to offset declines in the children's book publishing and distribution unit resulting in a 5.8% decline in total sales at Scholastic for the first quarter ended August 31.
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Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Reuters and Fox Business
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Yemeni journalists under attack despite progress - human rights report — A surge in attacks on journalists in Yemen is revealed today despite media controls having been eased under the government of President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi. — The attacks, which threaten to overwhelm …
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
Eyal Lehmann / Ynetnews:
Comment posted, damage done: Online battle for Israel's hasbara — Internet pages are fighting ring where Israel supporters try to ward off millions of pro-Palestinian posters. In hectic, viral world of talkbacks, every photo is replied, every reply is commented on, every comment …
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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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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 …
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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