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Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Yahoo Mulling Plans to Ax Its Shine Women's Site, Opting for More Online Lifestyle “Magazines” — Yahoo's Marissa Mayer is poised to take an ax to its longtime and massive women-focused content site Shine, closing it down by the second quarter, according to numerous sources close to the situation.
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FishbowlNY, @jayrosen_nyu, @jeffjarvis and @joepompeo
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Bloomberg considering launch of new politics site; in talks with John Heilemann and Mark Halperin — ‘Game change’ for Bloomberg? — As part of a developing digital strategy, Bloomberg L.P. has talked to the prominent political journalists John Heilemann and Mark Halperin about launching …
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@joepompeo and @alexweprin
The Wrap:
Blue Ant Media Invests in YouTube Network Omnia Media — Canadian TV company Blue Ant Media has invested in Omnia Media, YouTube's third largest music-focused network. — Blue Ant did not disclose the size of it investment, though those familiar with the deal said the privately held company took …
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Digital Journal
Ed Sussman / PandoDaily:
A framework for social journalism by former fastcompany.com chief Ed Sussman — The New Rules of Social Journalism: A Proposal — My timing was not ideal. — Last Thursday, Fortune reported that a number of guest contributors on Forbes.com, Seeking Alpha, Wall Street Cheat Sheet …
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@jayrosen_nyu
Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
Comcast Plans $2.5 Billion More in Stock Buybacks — Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) is planning to increase its share buyback program by more than 80 percent if investors approve its $45 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable Inc., boosting shareholder returns. — Comcast will add $2.5 billion …
Discussion:
Radio & Television … and Deadline.com
Todd Spangler / Variety:
StyleHaul Taps Paramount Exec as Content Chief (Exclusive) — Disney's $500 million-plus acquisition of Maker Studios is the biggest example yet of Hollywood's appetite to assimilate the DNA of youth-skewing YouTube multichannel networks. But it's a two-way street — and MCNs are just as eager to acquire studio smarts.
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Deadspin's Manti Te'o story among finalists for Mirror awards, honouring media reporting — Mirror Awards finalists announced — The 2014 Mirror Awards, which honor media industry reporting, announced their finalists Tuesday. Winners will be announced June 4.
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Mirror Awards
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Jawbone acquires personalised music playlist app Playground.fm, deal said to be over 8 figures — Jawbone Snaps Up Playground.fm — Looks like instead of being acquired, wrist and speaker hardware company Jawbone is doing some acquiring, scooping up social and personalized music playlist …
Discussion:
hypebot
Dan Gillmor / Slate:
Pew's media report failed to count advocacy journalists at places like Human Rights Watch — In Praise of the Almost-Journalists — The overlooked advocate writers who are making a difference in online media. — Hope is the latest trend in journalism.
Discussion:
Gigaom, @andreasharsono, @jayrosen_nyu and Journalist's Resource
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
News Corp chief executive Robert Thomson accuses the Washington Post of failing to embrace transition to digital, calls them “high priests” — News Corp boss brands Washington Post journalists ‘high priests’ — Chief executive Robert Thompson says paper's journalists have failed to embrace transition to digital
Discussion:
@ktumulty, @dangillmor, @davidfolkenflik, @blakehounshell and @jackshafer
Philiana Ng / Hollywood Reporter:
Stephen Colbert Fires Back at Racial Tweet Outcry With ‘Colbert Report’ Segment — “The dark forces trying to silence my message of core conservative principles mixed with youth-friendly product placement have been thwarted,” Colbert said in Monday's episode, dedicated to the controversy.
Discussion:
The Huffington Post, Deadline.com, Inside TV, Salon, Washington Post, The Atlantic Online, Salon, Business Insider Australia, The Wire, PerezHilton, seattlepi.com, Today, Gothamist, Salon and New Yorker
Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo in early talks to acquire online video service News Distribution Network for $300M — Yahoo in Talks to Buy Online-Video Service NDN — Sources — Deal Would Help Yahoo Compete With Google's YouTube — Yahoo Inc. is in preliminary talks to acquire online-video service News …
Discussion:
USATODAY.com, ReadWrite, Softpedia News, Electronista, ZDNet, Digital Trends, @xpangler, @jason, @karaswisher, Reuters, Deadline.com, @jasonabbruzzese, Beet.TV and @pkafka
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Like newspapers, Facebook determines who gets included editorially and who needs to buy ads — This is what happens when Facebook controls the signal, and it defines you as noise — A food-delivery startup called Eat24 touched off a minor frenzy of anti-Facebook sentiment recently …
Press Gazette:
Glenn Greenwald named this year's recipient of the University of Georgia's McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage. — Glenn Greenwald wins US award for journalistic courage — The journalist most associated with the coverage of Edward Snowden's leak of phone and internet surveillance …
Discussion:
Washington Times
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Spotify Poaches Googler Alexander Kubaneishvili To Head Russia, Q3 Launch Planned — As Spotify creeps towards a reported IPO later this year, it is also carefully continuing to build out its international footprint, specifically targeting fast-growing, emerging markets.
Discussion:
VentureBeat
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Former Times Washington bureau chief David Leonhardt talks about new vertical, The Upshot — David Leonhardt gives us The Upshot — On March 6, New York Times employees gathered at the Times Center to hear about the ambitious projects that four of their colleagues are working on.
Discussion:
@joepompeo
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