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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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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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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.
Nick Summers / The Next Web:
Ghost gives its blogging platform a huge upgrade before moving to a 2-4 week release cycle — Ghost has updated its open-source blogging platform with a bevy of technical improvements that should help it to compete with established competitors such as WordPress, Tumblr and Medium.
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