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Ronald Grover / Reuters:
Exclusive: Disney to buy YouTube network Maker Studios for $500 million — (Reuters) - The Walt Disney Co has agreed to buy Maker Studios for $500 million, becoming a major online video distributor through the purchase of one of YouTube's largest networks, according to a person familiar with the deal.
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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Why Disney Is Taking the Huge Risk of Buying Maker Studios — Commentary: MCN model still unproven but there are plenty of ancillary benefits to the purchase — By Disney standards, acquiring Maker Studios for less than $1 billion is chump change considering the eye-popping purchases the conglomerate has made over the years.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
After Disney's Maker Buy, More Deals In Store for Multichannel Networks — With Disney's blockbuster $500 million-plus deal to buy Maker Studios, look for dealmaking activity in the online multichannel network space to continue apace. — MCNs are “now top-of-mind for all the major studios …
Jim Romenesko:
Ben Richardson quits Bloomberg News over handling of investigative piece — Ben Richardson has resigned from Bloomberg News after 13 years to protest editors' handling of an investigative piece reported from China - a story that the bosses feared would get them expelled from the country.
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Bob Iger: ‘Work Ethic, Intellect and Curiosity’ Helped Ben Sherwood Land Top Disney Job — It was no knee-jerk appointment: Bob Iger's decision to name ABC News chief Ben Sherwood as Anne Sweeney's successor atop Disney/ABC TV Group had been in the works for nine months. as far as Iger was concerned.
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TVNewser, Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, Forbes, Radio & Television … and Mediaite
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com:
Ben Sherwood To Succeed Anne Sweeney As Disney/ABC Television Group President, ABC's Paul Lee Closing In On New Contract
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Business Wire, AdAge, The Wrap, Variety, @rosslevinsohn, MediaPost, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, @piersmorgan and Capital New York
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Back to the newsroom: A new program lets professors go back to the thick of today's news work — Before joining the faculty of Savannah State University last year to teach multimedia journalism, Jessica Sparks had spent her career working for local, community news organizations like Bluffton Today …
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New York Times:
Journalists Group and Internet Lawyers Challenge Turkey's Ban on Twitter — ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's leading press organization and two experts in Internet law took legal action Monday to try to overturn a government ban on Twitter, even as the government intensified its efforts to block access to the social media site.
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Hunter Walker / Business Insider:
Meet Business Insider's Newest Political Columnist — Anthony Weiner — Business Insider is very pleased to announce former New York City mayoral candidate and Congressman Anthony Weiner will be contributing a new monthly column to our politics page. — The new column, which will be titled …
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Ben Thompson / stratechery:
Newspapers Are Dead; Long Live Journalism — This is Part 3 in a series on the future of news and newspapers. Previously: — Part 1: FiveThirtyEight and the End of Average link — Part 2: The Stages of Newspapers' Decline link — Newspapers are held up as an irreplaceable tentpole …
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
In Hollywood News Wars, TheWrap Rebounds — LOS ANGELES — Talk about going from fizzle to sizzle. — A year ago, TheWrap.com was still trundling along as an also-ran in Hollywood's hotly competitive trade news wars. The Hollywood Reporter was riding a slick redesign.
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@therealjethro, @timamolloy and @braxtonpope
Julia La Roche / Business Insider:
Hedge fund drops legal motion to unmask anonymous blogger at Seeking Alpha — David Einhorn Knows The Name Of The Anonymous Blogger Who Revealed One Of His Investments — Greenlight Capital, the hedge fund run by David Einhorn, has discovered the identity of the anonymous Seeking Alpha blogger …
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Bloomberg, New York Times, Seeking Alpha, Talking Biz News, Wall Street Journal and @talkingbiznews
Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:
Bloomberg hires Inside.com CCO Gabriel Snyder and ex-AOL Live president Nathan Richardson — Bloomberg Media Makes First Moves Toward New Digital Products — Justin Smith has taken the first major steps in his revamp of Bloomberg Media with the hiring of former AOL Live president Nathan Richardson …
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FishbowlNY, The New York Observer, @katies, @edmundlee, Capital New York, @justin_b_smith, @felixsalmon and @gabrielsnyder
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Apple-Comcast TV Pact? Don't Hold Your Breath — A long history of failed dealmaking should cast doubt on this one working out — The mere prospect that Apple and Comcast could be joining forces for a new joint TV service, as the Wall Street Journal first reported Sunday, has revived a fresh round of hyperventilation.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix Shares Tumble Following Apple-Comcast Report
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Hollywood Reporter and TVWeek.com
Nitsuh Abebe / New York Magazine:
Watching Team Upworthy Work Is Enough to Make You a Cynic. Or Lose Your Cynicism. Or Both. Or Neither. — Rebecca Eisenberg, an editor for the viral website Upworthy, works from the back of her Jersey City apartment, surrounded by Star Trek posters, felt Muppet versions of herself …
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