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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Exclusive: Glenn Greenwald Will Leave Guardian To Create New News Organization — Glenn Greenwald, the lawyer and blogger who brought the Guardian the biggest scoop of the decade, is departing the London-based news organization, for a brand new, large-scale, broadly-focused media outlet, he told BuzzFeed Tuesday.
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Glenn Greenwald, Talking Points Memo, The Atlantic Wire, Slate, @ggreenwald, Erik Wemple, The New York Observer, @arusbridger, VentureBeat, @blam, @brianstelter, @rafat, BBC, USA Today, @dylanbyers, Gawker, FishbowlNY, bookforum.com, The Verge, Boing Boing, @rosental, @fishbowlny, @erikwemple, @fishbowlla, Business Insider, @megan, @raniakhalek, CNET, New York Times, @pkafka, @jackofkent, @jeffjarvis, The Wrap, New York Magazine, Hit & Run, The Huffington Post, Politico, @michaelroston, @niemanlab, @davewiner, @hamishmckenzie, @hunterw, Mediaite, GigaOM, Guardian, Hillicon Valley, @stefanjbecket, The Raw Story, Daily Dot, mUmBRELLA, Online NewsHour, WebProNews and Talking New Media
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Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Exclusive: Greenwald exits Guardian for new Omidyar media venture — (Reuters) - Glenn Greenwald, who has made headlines around the world with his reporting on U.S. electronic surveillance programs, is leaving the Guardian newspaper to join a new media venture funded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar …
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Washington Post, Softpedia News, @qhardy, Mediaite, GigaOM and Pressing Issues
PandoDaily:
$40-million round for Vox seals it: Venture capital likes media — Vox's new mega-round puts a bow on content's holy-s**t moment — Today it was revealed that Vox Media, owner of The Verge, SB Nation, and Polygon has raised another $40 million of funding.
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@codytoshiro, @rafat, @editorialiste, @robpegoraro, @elegantlywasted, @hsmittman and @emilybell
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Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:
Why Accel Is Leading A $40M Round In Vox Media, A Digital Content Company (!) — “At some level, it is still contrarian,” Accel Partners' Andrew Braccia admits about leading a $40 million fourth round of funding in Vox Media, the publisher of hundreds of major league sports fan blogs …
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@markos, @reckless, Digital Media Wire and @rafat
Tim Peterson / AdAge:
Vox Media Raises $34 Million to Expand Video Business
Vox Media Raises $34 Million to Expand Video Business
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TechCrunch, Fortune, VentureBeat, bizjournals, @hblodget, Reuters, VideoInk, @pkafka, @jorilallo, @reckless, GigaOM, AllThingsD, @agolis, @justinnxt, @mattbuchanan and @jeffjohnroberts
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.
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@mcproulx
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Twitter's changing its direct messaging policy, some journalists are ready to take advantage
Twitter's changing its direct messaging policy, some journalists are ready to take advantage
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Mashable and Pocket-lint
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Earnings and Revenue Down — Yahoo Delivers on Expected Lackluster Third Quarter — Yahoo met weak financial expectations, turning in what can only be described as lackluster performance in its third-quarter earnings report today. — The Silicon Valley Internet giant said it earned 34 cents …
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AllThingsD, AllThingsD, Reuters, Globe and Mail, Mercury News, MediaNama, bizjournals, @pkafka, Forbes, The Wrap, Business Wire, ZDNet, AdAge, The Wrap, Hollywood Reporter, VentureBeat and Digits
The Smoking Gun:
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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Gawker, FishbowlNY, Poynter, Deadline.com, @romenesko, JIMROMENESKO.COM, @drudge_report and New York Magazine
Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
Can Journalists Cut It as CEOs? — Reporters are notorious procrastinators, cynical to the core, often disorganized and frequently drunk. Sounds like CEO material. — But there are exceptions to the crude stereotype above. On Sunday, Jim VandeHei, co-founder and executive editor …
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@juliemmoos and @digiday
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Marvel Preps 60-Episode Package Of Four Series & A Mini For VOD & Cable Networks — EXCLUSIVE: The notorious secrecy that surrounds Marvel's projects has been heightened to the nth degree for this one. No one would breathe a word, with rumors that everyone from top to bottom is bound …
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Wired, The Huffington Post, /Film, Digital Spy and The Verge
Tim Masters / BBC:
Man Booker Prize: Eleanor Catton becomes youngest winner with The Luminaries — Eleanor Catton began writing her winning novel when she was 25 — New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has, at the age of 28, become the youngest ever winner of the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for her novel The Luminaries.
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New York Times, GalleyCat, TIME, Reuters and Associated Press
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Report: Stories about politics inspire best, worst comments — Researchers from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) spoke with online editors and community managers at 104 news organizations from 63 countries to help assemble a report written by Emma Goodman …
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Kirk LaPointe's …
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Twitter Revenue More Than Doubles in Third Quarter — Twitter Inc.'s revenue more than doubled in the third quarter, as the microblogging company prepares to go public. The San Francisco-based company said in a filing that its revenue was $168.6 million in the third quarter, up from $82.3 million in the same period a year ago.
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CNBC, Forbes, VentureBeat, GeekWire and @pkafka
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Acuerdo: Long-form journalism for ‘pissed-off readers’ — The ‘journalistic start-up’ and ‘innovations lab’ is looking to incorporate numerous elements of digital journalism into a bi-monthly, tablet-first edition — Copyright: Image by John.Karakatsanis on Flickr. Some rights reserved
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Univision to Debut ‘Flama,’ Its First Online-Only Video Network, on YouTube — Hispanic broadcaster forms joint venture with Bedrocket for online Latin culture network aimed at millennials — Univision Communications has formed a joint venture with digital media producer Bedrocket Media to launch Flama …
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VideoInk and Tubefilter
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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@flashboy and @jimwaterson
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Patrick Smith / TheMediaBriefing.com:
All these media organisations won't be covered by the press regulation Royal Charter
All these media organisations won't be covered by the press regulation Royal Charter
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Daily Mail and @joannahiggins
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘IHT’ publisher gets a promotion as ‘International New York Times’ debuts — As we reported yesterday, The New York Times is doing a big promotional push for its new global edition, The International New York Times, which debuted this morning as a rebranded version of The International Herald Tribune.
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Poynter, @joepompeo and New York Times
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
The International New York Times debuts
The International New York Times debuts
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Nieman Journalism Lab, Guardian, Forbes, FishbowlNY and @poynter