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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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CNN, Politico, Associated Press, The Intercept, New York Times, The FJP, Business Insider, @jayrosen_nyu, @emptywheel, @brianstelter, @joshtpm, @tcarmody, @adrianchen, @ggreenwald, @ggreenwald, Mediaite, The Hill, The Verge, @petersterne, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller, Techdirt, @jeremyscahill, @csoghoian, PandoDaily, Defense One, Engadget, The Week and New York Magazine
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Fox Withdraws Proposal To Buy Time Warner — And Time Warner Shares Are Crashing — Fox has withdrawn its plans to purchase Time Warner, according to an announcement the company made Tuesday.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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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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The Wrap, BuzzFeed, AdExchanger, @lazerow, @peretti, @felixsalmon, @kantrowitz, @buzzfeedben, @schlaf, @raju, @joshsternberg and @rosslevinsohn
Bill Mickey / Folio:
In first earnings report since spin-off, Time Inc. reports $32M loss — Time Inc. Reports $32 Million Net Loss for Q2 — The American Express Publishing deal helped stem larger declines. — In its first quarterly report since spinning off from Time Warner, Time inc. posted a $32 million loss …
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Nicole Levy / Capital New York:
Time Inc. downtown move to ‘transform the cost base,’ but layoffs also likely
Time Inc. downtown move to ‘transform the cost base,’ but layoffs also likely
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AdAge
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
One year in: 10 ways The Washington Post has changed under Jeff Bezos — A year ago, Jeff Bezos stunned the media world with the news that he was buying The Washington Post for $250 million. With his jumble of businesses, the founder of Amazon seemed an unlikely buyer for a newspaper that was losing money.
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@randyebarnett and @ulrikelanger
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Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Washington Post has record traffic month after adding digital staff — is it the Bezos effect?
Washington Post has record traffic month after adding digital staff — is it the Bezos effect?
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Washington Post
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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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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Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Graham Is Not Slowing Down After Sale of The Washington Post — When Donald E. Graham announced a year ago that he was selling The Washington Post to Jeff Bezos for $250 million, it was unclear what Mr. Graham, one of journalism's most revered executives, would do next.
Joe Miller / BBC:
Wikipedia link hidden by ‘right to be forgotten’ — Jimmy Wales had previously voiced his opposition to the right-to-be-forgotten ruling — A Wikipedia entry has been removed from certain Google search results, under the new EU “right to be forgotten” law.
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VentureBeat, Daily Dot, Techdirt, Guardian, Telegraph, The Drum, VPN Creative and Softpedia News
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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Business Insider
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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TechCrunch, @nash076, The Verge, Electronista, VatorNews and Variety
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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MarketingVox News & Trends, Capital New York and The New York Observer
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Gannett to Separate Broadcasting, Publishing Businesses Via Spin-Off
Gannett to Separate Broadcasting, Publishing Businesses Via Spin-Off
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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