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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, Slate, New York Times, The Atlantic Wire, Talking Points Memo, @ggreenwald, @arusbridger, Erik Wemple, The New York Observer, @blam, @brianstelter, @rafat, @dylanbyers, bookforum.com, Boing Boing, @rosental, VentureBeat, @fishbowlny, @erikwemple, @fishbowlla, @megan, @raniakhalek, @pkafka, @jackofkent, BBC, The Wrap, USA Today, CNET, @jeffjarvis, Business Insider, Gawker, Hit & Run, The Verge, FishbowlNY, New York Magazine, The Huffington Post, Politico, Hillicon Valley, Guardian, @michaelroston, @niemanlab, @davewiner, @hamishmckenzie, @hunterw, Mediaite, GigaOM, mUmBRELLA, The Raw Story, Daily Dot, @stefanjbecket, 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, @qhardy, Mediaite, Softpedia News, 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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@emilybell, @editorialiste, @hsmittman, @codytoshiro, @elegantlywasted, @robpegoraro and @rafat
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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, @hblodget, Fortune, VentureBeat, bizjournals, Reuters, VideoInk, @pkafka, @jorilallo, @reckless, GigaOM, AllThingsD, @agolis, @justinnxt, @mattbuchanan and @jeffjohnroberts
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Twitter's changing its direct messaging policy, some journalists are ready to take advantage — Twitter is changing an old policy that meant that you could only be DM'd by — that is, you could only receive a direct message from — users that you follow. (So if I follow John Doe …
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Mashable and Pocket-lint
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
BBC to Name Head of VOD Service, Treat It Like Fifth TV Channel — Director of television Danny Cohen discusses possible on-demand offers, expected cost cuts and when broadband delivery of content may supersede broadcasting in the U.K. — LONDON - The BBC is planning to name a controller …
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Guardian
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, Softpedia News, AllThingsD, Reuters, MediaNama, @pkafka, The Wrap, Globe and Mail, AdAge, Hollywood Reporter, bizjournals, Mercury News, The Wrap, ZDNet, Business Wire, Forbes, VentureBeat and Digits
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, Digital Spy, /Film and The Verge
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 …
AdAge:
Effort to Split Murdoch From Chairman Role Resumes at 21st Century Fox — Similar Drives Have Fallen Short Before — 21st Century Fox Inc. investors backing a resolution to strip the chairman job from CEO Rupert Murdoch said they have won the support of shareholder-advisory firm Glass, Lewis & Co.
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Bloomberg
Ira Teinowitz / The Wrap:
FilmOn Threatened With Contempt of Court — A district court judge on Tuesday threatened to find FilmOn X in contempt of court for beginning to air network affiliates from Boston despite her injunction barring the company from airing network stations outside New York and Massachusetts.
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GigaOM, Variety, Hollywood Reporter and Deadline.com
Ben Quinn / Guardian:
New York Times editor defends journalists over Snowden leaks — Jill Abramson says on BBC's Newsnight that Guardian articles on NSA files are ‘very much in the public interest’ — Jill Abramson, executive editor of The New York Times, has mounted a defence of the ability of journalists …
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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@digiday and @juliemmoos
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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
Ellen Hammett / MediaTel:
Nielsen launches ‘multi-screen ad measurement’ in UK — Nielsen has today announced what is being described as a major step forward for multi-platform advertising measurement in the UK, with the launch of Nielsen Cross-Platform Campaign Ratings. — By combining Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings …
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Media Week and Guardian
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