Mediagazer: Gawker suspends staffer after story pulls from Miami New Times (Andrew Beaujon/Poynter)

9:35 PM ET, June 24, 2014

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Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street Journal:

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Michael Cader / Publishers Lunch:

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Jon Russell / The Next Web:

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Joan E. Solsman / CNET:

Apple TV's walled garden gets new channel: AOL — With the arrival of an AOL video channel on the Apple TV set-top box Tuesday, Apple is now bringing a wide array of free, ad-supported video across the deep moat it has built around its $99 streaming-media device.

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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Erin Griffith / Fortune:

Why YouTube is spending mega ad dollars to promote Vice News — With a billion people tuning in each month, YouTube's audience is almost as big as Facebook's. And yet, the network lags Facebook in monetization: Last year YouTube earned around $5.6 billion, coming in below Facebook's $7.8 billion.

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Gawker suspends staffer after story pulls from Miami New Times — Gawker Editor Max Read has suspended staff writer Jay Hathaway after he posted a story that drew on a Miami New Times story without attribution. An editor's note now adorns the post. Here's Read's memo to Gawker staff:

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Yahoo hires Daily News digital editor to build breaking news desk — Yahoo has been poaching talent from legacy media outlets for much of the past year, and in its latest landgrab, the massive online portal turned content producer took a dip into New York's tabloid pool.

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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

National Geographic explores new frontiers with Gary Knell at the helm — The sea otter story didn't make that night's network news or hit newspaper front pages when it broke this month, but it was kind of a big deal for the Web site that reported it. NGNews.com, the digital home …

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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:

TV station swap: Fox gets KTVU, KICU in San Francisco; Cox gets Boston's WFXT, WHBQ in Memphis — Fox Acquires San Francisco TV Stations in Swap with Cox — Fox is acquiring two San Francisco TV stations in a station-swap agreement with Cox Media Group.

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Sarah Sloat / Wall Street Journal:

German Publishing Group Files Complaint Against Amazon — Online Retailer Accused of Strong-arm Tactics Over Pricing — FRANKFURT—The association of German publishers said Tuesday it filed a complaint against Amazon.com Inc., accusing the online retailer of trying to strong-arm a publisher into more favorable pricing.

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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Epoxy Raises $6.5M From Upfront Ventures And Time Warner To Connect YouTubers With Fans — First there was YouTube. And from YouTube came an ecosystem of video creators who could use the platform to freely distribute their content and maybe make money from it.

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Trei Brundrett / Vox Media:

Collaborative writing and editing platform Editorially acquired by Vox Media — Editorially Joins Vox Media — The founders of Editorially—Mandy Brown, David Yee, and Jason Santa Maria—are joining Vox Product as we mark the next step in the evolution of our platform, Chorus.

Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:

Tribune Publishing targets Aug. 4 for spinoff — Tribune Publishing has set Aug. 4 as the target date for spinning off from Tribune Co., according to sources familiar with the situation. The spinoff date was included in a presentation for lenders conducted by Tribune Publishing June 17 in New York, according to sources.

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BBC:

Egypt trial: Journalists protest over al-Jazeera trio — “The case is unjust,” BBC Director of News James Harding told the gathering — Hundreds of journalists have gathered in London to protest against the seven-year jail terms given to three al-Jazeera journalists in Egypt.