Mediagazer: PolicyMic Raises $3M, Betting That Millennials Want Substantive News And Commentary (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

3:45 PM ET, October 15, 2013

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Arianna Huffington made just $21 million from sale of Huffington Post, new document reveals — HuffPost founder pocketed “only” $21 million from web site sale — In a new court filing, lawyers for two men suing Arianna Huffington for allegedly denying them credit and cash for their role …

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

The International New York Times debuts — The first edition of The International New York Times appeared Tuesday. It replaces the International Herald Tribune. In a letter to readers on the front page, Times Publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. says his father “had the vision to make The Times a national newspaper in 1980.”

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘IHT’ publisher gets a promotion as ‘International New York Times’ debuts

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Martin Belam:

How UsVsTh3m shows the Royal Charter regulation farce is not fit for purpose in the digital age — Well, wouldn't you know, after years of blogging about how press regulation didn't work in the digital era, I find myself having just helped launch the very epitome of why the current proposals are completely unfit for the 21st century.

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Patrick Smith / TheMediaBriefing.com:
All these media organisations won't be covered by the press regulation Royal Charter

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Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:

YouTube Partner: We Are ‘Not Happy’ With Money From Subscription Channels — Alchemy Networks CEO Peter Griffith was one of the first media executives to bet YouTube viewers would pay to access certain channels. His company was one of the YouTube's initial partners when it debuted subscription channels …

Casey Newton / The Verge:

This just in: why news is Twitter's next frontier — A new ‘experiment’ and a high-profile hire suggest big plans — Twitter is moving more aggressively into the world of journalism, building a new alert system for breaking news and hiring someone to build new partnerships with the media industry.

Discussion: @mcproulx

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Adam Goldman, Pulitzer-Winning Associated Press Reporter, Joins Washington Post — NEW YORK — Adam Goldman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The Associated Press, is joining The Washington Post to cover terrorism on the paper's national security team, according to a memo obtained by The Huffington Post.

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Brent Lang / The Wrap:

Politico CEO Jim VandeHei Talks Capital New York Relaunch, Jeff Bezos' WaPo Purchase — Jim VandeHei will bring his 15 years of covering Beltway wheeling and dealing to helping Politico and its new Big Apple bauble Capital New York in its quest to become the dominant force in political journalism.

Discussion: Digiday, Folio, FishbowlDC, Adweek and USA Today

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

PolicyMic Raises $3M, Betting That Millennials Want Substantive News And Commentary — How many younger readers really care about news and politics — as opposed to celebrity gossip, viral videos, and cat GIFs? Well, a site called PolicyMic is built around the proposition that readers under 35 …

Discussion: @petersterne, @erichippeau, @mattturck, @jacobdhorowitz and @wp

Tanzina Vega / New York Times:

Harper's Redesigns Its Web Site and Embraces Branded Content — HARPER'S Bazaar is joining the growing list of media properties whose publishers are supplementing more traditional forms of advertising with sponsored content. — The magazine, which is owned by Hearst …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, @careyathearst, @hearstcorp and @dmaunited

Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

Who's Behind the Sponsored Content at BuzzFeed, Gawker, Hearst and WashPo? — A Look at Four Big Publishers, And How Their Native-Advertising Teams Shape Up — What good is native advertising if it doesn't talk like a native? — To help advertisers, media companies are building teams …

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Netflix, as Easy as Changing the Channel — The television two-step is familiar to nearly every household with a TV set and a Netflix subscription. To watch cable, the television must be on one setting; to browse Netflix, it has to be on another. For some family members …

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Bloomberg:
Netflix Gets Assist From TiVo in Push to Join Cable-TV Lineup

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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Personalized Video Ad Company SundaySky Raises $20M Round Led By Comcast Ventures — SundaySky, a company promising to deliver video ads that are customized and updated for each viewer, has raised $20 million in Series C funding. — The round was led by Comcast Ventures …

Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:

News site study: 33% of Twitter referrals return within a week — Readers coming to a news site's homepage direct are the most likely to return, according to a study by real-time analytics platform Chartbeat. Around 80 per cent of those who come to a site direct will come back within one week …

Discussion: @sarahmarshall3, @niemanlab and Big News Network.com

Tim Peterson / AdAge:

Vox Media Raises $34 Million to Expand Video Business — Company's Tech Site Out-Traffics TechCrunch, Wired, Engadget — Vox Media may only have three sites to its name — The Verge, SB Nation and Polygon — but that hasn't stopped the D.C.-based company from stuffing its pockets.