Mediagazer: A Year After Its Disastrous Launch, Bustle Is Doing Better Than OK (Jeff Bercovici/Forbes)

8:30 PM ET, August 11, 2014

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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.

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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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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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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Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Chris Dixon: BuzzFeed will be new media empire as smartphone access grows; $850M is a bargain — 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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Mike Isaac / New York Times:
BuzzFeed raises $50M from Andreessen Horowitz, valuing company at $850M; VC firm's Chris Dixon to join board; most revenues come from BuzzFeed Creative

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Tim Molloy / The Wrap:
Producer Michael Shamberg and comedian Jordan Peele join BuzzFeed's new movie unit as advisers

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Laura Kosann / The New Potato:
BuzzFeed's Founding Editor Peggy Wang on the future of digital media and how she consumes it

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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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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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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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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.

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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.

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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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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Maureen Dowd joins N.Y.T. Magazine ahead of ‘major redesign’ — Maureen Dowd is joining the staff of The New York Times Magazine in a move that brings some fresh star power to the glossy Sunday supplement. — The Times also announced this morning that the magazine, helmed since …

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