Mediagazer: Blendle, Dutch startup that charges readers by the article, reaches 60k users, adds Economist (Alexander Klöpping/Medium)

2:30 PM ET, June 10, 2014

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Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:

NY Times Mag Names Bill Wasik Deputy Editor — The New York Times Magazine has added a new deputy editor — Bill Wasik. Wasik comes to the magazine from Wired, where he served as a senior editor. Wasik previously worked as a senior editor for Harper's. He's also the author of And Then There's …

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Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:

Report: Global digital news audience increased by 23% in 2013 — Digital news audiences have risen by 23 per cent in the last year, according to the new World Press Trends report, but publishers are not making the most of their increased audience in terms of revenue.

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Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

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The New Republic:

TNR promotes Linda Kinstler to Managing Editor, Amanda Silverman to Deputy Editor — Amanda Silverman Named Deputy Editor, Linda Kinstler Managing Editor, and Rebecca Leber Joins as Staff Writer — Washington, D.C.—Franklin Foer, Editor of The New Republic, announced two promotions and a hire today …

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Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:

Andrew Sullivan's The Dish introducing ads for non-subs soon, keeping premium product ad-free — Is Big Online Media Doomed? — You only have to observe the painful and austere transition of Time Inc. to see the grim portents of a much leaner future. And a lot of this has to do with a double problem …

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Mark Kleinman / Sky News:

Time Warner said to be considering 50% stake in Vice Media, in a deal valuing the company at $2.2B — Time Warner In Talks About $2.2bn Vice Deal — Shane Smith, the company's co-founder and chief executive — Vice Media, the digital group which has mounted an aggressive assault …

Hadas Gold / Politico:

Time's International Editor Bobby Ghosh joins Quartz as Managing Editor — Time's Bobby Ghosh joins Quartz — Time magazine's Bobby Ghosh is joining Atlantic Media's Quartz site as managing editor, editor-in-chief Kevin Delaney announced to staff on Tuesday.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Marc Lavallee is NYT's new head of interactive news technology — Marc Lavallee is the The New York Times' new head of interactive news technology, according to a memo sent to staffers. He was previously deputy editor of interactive news. This is the one of roles Aron Pilhofer held …

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Jason Deans / Guardian:

BBC Radio to cut 65 more posts — Cost-savings drive aims to cut 15% of total staff, with stations moved into two ‘hubs’: pop music and classical and speech — BBC Radio director Helen Boaden said the division needed to be as small as possible to meet savings targets as part of the Delivering Quality First initiative

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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:

Fox News Retracts Fraud Claim Against Former Executive — When Fox News president Roger Ailes fired his close advisor Brian Lewis last year, the channel claimed—via a series of coordinated leaks to Fox-friendly outlets—that Lewis was terminated over “financial irregularities” and unspecified “breaches of his employment contract.”

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Amy Schatz / Re/code:

Cisco report says video to make up 84% of all US internet traffic by 2018, up from current 78% — Cat Videos, Binge TV Watching Will Account for 84 Percent of Internet Traffic, Cisco Says — Internet traffic will likely more than double in five years, and much of it will be used for online video …

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Alexander Klöpping / Medium:

Blendle, Dutch startup that charges readers by the article, reaches 60k users, adds Economist — Our Dutch paydike for journalism gets The Economist to try something new — I'm co-founder of a journalistic startup from the Netherlands called Blendle (the first true iTunes for journalism in the world).

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Gustavo Arellano / OC Weekly:

Aaron Kushner to OC Reg Staff: “Cannot” Guarantee Even More Layoffs Won't Come this Year — So Orange County Register owner Aaron Kushner tried to rally his troops yesterday during a townhall held at the Reg's third-floor newsroom. The occasion, of course, is an expected exodus of the newsroom …

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