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Laura Kusisto / Wall Street Journal:
Vice moving to new HQ, adding 525 staff, may receive $6.5M tax credit — Vice Media Moving to New Williamsburg Headquarters — The online production company's move to a 60,000-square-foot former industrial building in Brooklyn will allow it to add 525 employees.
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Capital New York, Capital New York, Gawker, Media & Entertainment, The Awl, FishbowlNY, Gothamist and bookforum.com
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Yahoo to delete thousands of articles and axe hundreds of writers with closure of Contributor Network — Yahoo is closing its Contributor Network website, resulting in articles by hundreds of writers from over the last two-and-a-half years being deleted from the internet.
Discussion:
Examiner, GeekSided, Viral Global News, filmindustrynetwork.biz and @bskipper27
Ron Nixon / New York Times:
Journalists at Odds With Union Over Role of Voice of America — WASHINGTON — Voice of America journalists who are fighting to maintain what they say is their editorial independence are now at odds not only with Congress, but also with their own union. — The union, the American Federation …
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Gawker, The Corsair, @lauralynchcbc, @anonyops, @kgosztola, @jasonleopold and @eldestran
Nathalie Tadena / Wall Street Journal:
Readers Recall Tablet Magazine Ads at Same Rate as Print Ads — A splashy ad in a magazine may catch a reader's eye as he or she is flipping through the pages, but would that ad grab someone's attention when it's displayed on a tablet? … With an ever-growing array of screens and formats to serve ads …
Discussion:
Good E-Reader
Michael Cieply / New York Times:
Weinstein Company Is Said to Consider Spinning Off TV Unit — LOS ANGELES — Just seven months after declaring an ambitious thrust into television, the Weinstein Company, best known for its Oscar-winning film operation, is exploring plans to spin off its TV division into a separate company …
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Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Hollywood Reporter, @jbflint, Reuters, C21Media, The Wrap, Variety and Deadline.com
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
The Guardian appoints Alberto Nardelli as data editor — Tweetminster co-founder joins publisher to boost political data storytelling and election coverage — Alberto Nardelli has been appointed data editor of the Guardian. — Alberto Nardelli, the co-founder of Tweetminster, has been appointed as the Guardian's data editor.
Discussion:
GNM press office and Alberto Nardelli
Sam Thielman / Adweek:
Univision streaming video stops being free on Friday, will require a cable subscription — Univision Streaming Video Stops Being Free on Friday Ratings set records, but digital will require a cable sub from now on By Sam Thielman — It's going to be harder to watch the World Cup on Univision at your desk come Friday.
Discussion:
Lost Remote
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Despite promises, Rebekah Brooks still hasn't explained why News of the World was shuttered in 2011 — So, Rebekah Brooks, what was the reason for the News of the World's closure? — On 8 July 2011, Rebekah Brooks stood nervously before the staff of the News of the World to tell them that their newspaper was to be closed down.
Discussion:
Sky News, @greenslader, @themurdochtimes and @martincloake
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
YouTube, apps and Minecraft: digital kids and the future of childrens media — SuperAwesome boss Dylan Collins challenges entertainment companies and investors to adapt to change — Dylan Collins: ‘The reason Minecraft exploded was it allowed kids to create’
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
If you love books then you should be rooting for Amazon, not Hachette or the Big Five — As Amazon continues to tighten the screws on book publishers like Hachette — by making its books difficult to find, impossible to pre-order, and so on — the conventional wisdom seems to be that the company …
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Tom Pakinkis / Music Week:
Getty offers catalogue of 45,000 royalty-free music tracks — Getty Images has expanded its music licensing platform to provide content creators with access to more than 45,000 high-quality, fully pre-licensed tracks. — The library of music can be obtained through Getty Images SoundExpress collection.
Discussion:
bizjournals and hypebot
Reporters Without Borders:
France - Mediapart loses appeal against censorship of Bettencourt affair recordings — Website will take right to information case to European Court of Human Rights — In another blow to freedom of information in France, the country's highest appeal court, the Court of Cassation …
Ian Burrell / The Independent:
Exclusive: BBC's Panorama team loses confidential information relating to a secret British Army unit — A researcher allegedly downloaded material from an online dropbox service on to a USB stick and handed it to a third party — Highly sensitive and confidential information relating …
Discussion:
@davidtpegg and @logic__bomb