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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, bookforum.com, Gawker, Media & Entertainment, The Awl, FishbowlNY and Gothamist
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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Wall Street Journal, Hollywood Reporter, @jbflint, Reuters, C21Media, The Wrap, Deadline.com and Variety
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.
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GNM press office and Alberto Nardelli
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 …
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Good E-Reader
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.
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Lost Remote
Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:
Thanks To “Right To Be Forgotten,” Google Now Censors The Press In The EU — The EU's Right To Be Forgotten removals have been happening for about a week on Google, and now news publications are discovering the fallout. For some searches, you can't find their news stories relating to certain people.
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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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@kgosztola, @jasonleopold and @eldestran
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:
@bskipper27
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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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 …
Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:
Weibo takes a page out of Twitter's book with the beta launch of its TV ratings service — Weibo, the Chinese microblogging service commonly known as 'China's Twitter,' has followed in its counterpart's footsteps after it announced the beta launch of its TV ratings service.
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ecns
Charlotte Higgins / Guardian:
The BBC: how the voice of an empire became part of an evolving world — In the sixth of our in-depth eight-part series on the past, present and future of the corporation, Charlotte Higgins looks at how it became a news outlet that was trusted internationally but now faces fundamental questions about its purpose