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Jezebel:
Jezebel staff accuse Gawker of not dealing with trolls posting violent porn images in comments — We Have a Rape Gif Problem and Gawker Media Won't Do Anything About It — Working at Gawker Media is a dream job for many of the women on staff here at Jezebel.
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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Jezebel staffers wanted to 'light a fire under management's collective ass' — On Monday, Jezebel staff filed a post entitled “We Have a Rape Gif Problem and Gawker Media Won't Do Anything About It.” The post shared that “For months, an individual or individuals has been using anonymous …
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The New York Observer, Gigaom, @mathewi and Mediaite
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:
With $50 million, BuzzFeed growth calls for sharper lines between news and the other stuff — The New York Times' Mike Isaac was the first to report late Sunday night that BuzzFeed had raised $50 million in new venture funding from Andreessen Horowitz. … The story was followed by a chorus of blog posts and press releases.
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USA Today, The Awl, Medium, PandoDaily, @natematias, Mashable, @mikeisaac, @mathewi, Om Malik, @cdirusso, Business Insider, @ceodonovan, BBC, @jbenton and Guardian
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Why BuzzFeed Is Launching Its Own Hollywood Studio — VC firm Andreesen Horowitz invests $50 million in Internet-media company — Are you ready for “Listicle: The Movie”? — BuzzFeed, the Internet-media company best known for its shareable list-based articles, is expanding across multiple vectors …
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BuzzFeed, Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, Daily Dot, Latest News & Headlines, AdAge, Crain's New York, Lost Remote, FishbowlNY and @jesseredniss
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
A16Z's Chris Dixon: BuzzFeed, which could reach 10X-100X the audience of past media empires, is a bargain at $850M valuation — How Jonah Peretti and BuzzFeed Got to $850 Million — We passed the billion dollar mark awhile ago. Today a hot tech company is worth multiple billions of dollars, easily.
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BuzzMachine, Valleywag, chris dixon's blog, Guardian, Poynter, Gigaom, New York Magazine, @edmundlee, @timkiladze, @nbj914, Gawker, @riceid, The FJP and @weegee
Tim Molloy / The Wrap:
Producer Michael Shamberg and comedian Jordan Peele join BuzzFeed's new movie unit as advisers
Producer Michael Shamberg and comedian Jordan Peele join BuzzFeed's new movie unit as advisers
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@alexweprin and New York Times
Mat Honan / Wired:
If you like everything on Facebook, brands and content mills like Upworthy dominate News Feed — I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days. Here's What It Did to Me — There's this great Andy Warhol quote you've probably seen before: “I think everybody should like everybody.”
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PandoDaily, @matthewteller, AdAge, @mnik, @bobmcmillan, @jeffchu, @stevesilberman, @brad_frost, @numeson and Mother Jones
Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch:
BeachMint Gets Lucky In Joint Venture With Conde Nast — E-commerce platform BeachMint announced it will take over all operations for Lucky Magazine today. The takeover is part of a newly formed joint venture between BeachMint and magazine publishing giant Conde Nast.
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Adweek, MediaWire Daily, AdAge, Fashionista, VentureBeat, PandoDaily, FishbowlNY, WWD Media Headlines, Jezebel, @lapresmidi, @benparr, The Huffington Post, New York Magazine and MinOnline
Greg Gilman / The Wrap:
Los Angeles Times Names Austin Beutner New CEO and Publisher — Beutner succeeds Eddy W. Hartenstein, who was the Times publisher for six years — Austin Beutner, the civic leader and former Wall Street investment banker, has been named the new publisher and chief executive officer …
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LA Observed, Los Angeles Times, @latimesrainey, Poynter, Variety, The Daily Caller and FishbowlNY
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Harper's Publisher Standing Firm in His Defense of Print and Paywall — When John R. MacArthur, the publisher of Harper's Magazine and a zealous promoter of the virtues of print journalism, sits down at his desk to write, he has three options — a typewriter, an ancient beige PC and a modern Apple desktop computer.
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Yahoo Finance reboots with unpaid contributor network on Tumblr — Yahoo Finance tries to reboot with a platform publishing model — Can Yahoo Finance get its groove back? The once-dominant online finance publisher is leaning on fellow Yahoo property Tumblr to power a revamped contributor network …
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
A Year After Its Disastrous Launch, Bustle Is Doing Better Than OK — It would be hard to make a less auspicious entrance than the one Bustle, the women's general interest site started by Bleacher Report co-founder Bryan Goldberg, managed for itself one year ago.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BSkyB takes on rivals with weekly pay-as-you-go sports online tariff — The £10.99 option offered to consumers until 27 November via BSkyB's Now TV internet service, rising to £14.99 — BSkyB is to extend its radical strategy to allow customers to watch its sports channels without …
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Sky News, Hollywood Reporter and Pocket-lint
Jenny Rogers / City Desk:
Stephen Smith Is Out at Washington Examiner — Stephen Smith, the top editor at the Washington Examiner, is leaving the publication after more than seven years. His last day will be Sept. 5. Hugo Gurdon, previously the editor of The Hill, is taking over the top slot.