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Linette Lopez / Business Insider:
Fox Withdraws Proposal To Buy Time Warner — And Time Warner Shares Are Crashing — Fox has withdrawn its plans to purchase Time Warner, according to an announcement the company made Tuesday. — Time Warner shares are down 11% post-market on the news. — Reports of an original proposal …
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Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
Time Warner Rebuff of Fox May Not Just Be Negotiating Ploy
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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
A US spy agency stole a scoop from The Intercept and gave it to the AP — Spy Agency Stole Scoop From Media Outlet And Handed It To The AP — WASHINGTON — The Associated Press dropped a significant scoop on Tuesday afternoon, reporting that in the last several years the U.S. government's terrorism watch list has doubled.
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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Digital Media Veteran Greg Coleman Jumps From Criteo to BuzzFeed President — BuzzFeed Inc. has brought on digital advertising veteran Greg Coleman as the company's new president. — Mr. Coleman replaces Jon Steinberg, who left BuzzFeed a few months ago to become Mail Online North America's CEO.
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Nicole Levy / Capital New York:
Time Inc. downtown move to ‘transform the cost base,’ but layoffs also likely — As an independent company since its spin-off from parent company Time Warner on June 6, Time Inc. has been thinking hard about cost-cutting measures and digital advertising. — The publisher reported …
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Bill Mickey / Folio:
In first earnings report since spin-off, Time Inc. reports $32M loss
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Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Maker Studios Snags AOL, Yahoo Execs for Original Content Division (Exclusive) — The Disney-owned digital media firm has hired Gabriel Lewis and Bonnie Pan to its programming division, led by chief content officer Erin McPherson. — Maker Studios is making a significant bet on original content with two big digital media hires.
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Disney Q3 earnings top estimates with $1.28 EPS vs. expected $1.17; revenue of $12.47B; operating income for media networks flat at $2.3B — Disney's Third-Quarter Profits Soar, on Marvel's Back — LOS ANGELES — Marvel powered Disney to a superheroic third fiscal quarter.
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Hollywood Reporter, TIME, Stocks to Watch, Variety, @jboorstin, @jboorstin and Business Insider
Alexa Davis / Forbes:
After Breakup, Gannett's Print and Broadcast Assets May Be Ripe For The Picking — Gannett Tuesday became the latest media company to separate its publishing assets, which include USA Today, from broadcast and digital businesses. The move is the latest in a string of similar actions …
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Gannett to Separate Broadcasting, Publishing Businesses Via Spin-Off
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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Justin.tv shuts down after 7 years amid reports Google is acquiring Twitch — Twitch today announced that the Justin.tv website, mobile apps, and APIs are no longer in service. A very simple explanation is given for the shutdown: since rebranding the company to Twitch Interactive in February 2014 …
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Gigaom, VatorNews, Electronista, Variety and @nash076
Nicole LaPorte / Fast Company:
Susan Wojcicki built Google into a $55B advertising giant. Now she's running YouTube. Her job: do it again. — Susan Wojcicki built Google into a $55 billion advertising giant. Now she's running YouTube. Her job: Do it again. — When Susan Wojcicki took over YouTube in February …
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Lauren Kern joins New York magazine as executive editor — Lauren Kern headed back to New York mag — Lauren Kern is leaving The New York Times Magazine and heading back to New York as executive editor. — She fills the vacancy created by the departure last month of longtime executive …
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FishbowlNY, @tmcgev, MediaWire Daily, Politico and Talking Biz News
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Shazam Inks TV Ad Pacts with A+E, AMC, Dick Clark Productions and Others — Shazam Entertainment, whose app is best known for ID'ing songs, is making an even stronger push into American TV. — The company has struck deals with partners including A+E Networks, AMC, Dick Clark Prods. and Fuse …
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The Wrap, Hollywood Reporter, Wall Street Journal, Broadcasting & Cable and AdExchanger
Frank Rose / Wired:
How the Smartphone Ushered In a Golden Age of Journalism — When I first — arrived in New York, some time back in the last century, I gazed in awe and fascination at subway riders reading The New York Times. Thanks to a precise and universally adopted method of folding the paper …
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@thefoodeconomy, @signored, @frankrose and @colvinius
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Russian journalist's body found after disappearance — The body of an independent Russian journalist was found in a wood the day after he had gone missing following threats from law enforcement authorities. — Timur Kuashev worked for the magazine Dosh (or Dosch) as its correspondent in Nalchik …
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@mathewi, @rorypecktrust and Human Rights Watch
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
NATO soldier fires ‘warning shot’ near AP photographer — A member of NATO forces fired a warning shot near an Associated Press photographer outside of a military training academy on the outskirts of Kabul, according to the New York Times. — Massoud Hossaini was there to cover a story …
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New York Times, Gawker and Mashable
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Lionsgate wins restraining order against six torrent sites after “Expendables” leak; judge enables freezing of bank accounts, domain transfers — Lionsgate Granted Restraining Order Over ‘Expendables 3’ Leak — A California judge orders six torrent sites to stop distributing the Sylvester Stallone film.
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Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Day after trading debut, Tribune Co. spin-off stock drops 2.5% — Tribune Publishing falls in trading debut — Tribune Publishing fell in its trading debut on the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday, one day after spinning off on its own. — The stock lost 56 cents, or 2.5 percent …
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