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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Vice set to raise another $250M from TCV for 10% stake; will end up with one of A&E's channels — Big Moves for Shane Smith: Vice Media Is Set to Raise $500 Million and Get Its Own Cable Channel — Cable TV viewers have had a chance to watch Shane Smith and his Vice Media reporters …
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@pkafka, @pkafka and @joshsternberg
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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
A&E Networks agrees to pay $250M for a 10% share of Vice Media, valuing it at $2.5B — A&E Networks Buying Minority Stake in Vice Media — The deal for 10 percent of the digital media company would value it at $2.5 billion — A&E Networks has agreed to pay $250 million …
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TVNewser, Financial Times, @tomgara, @pkafka, @evelynrusli, @mlcalderone, @jboorstin, Broadcasting & Cable, Bloomberg, AdAge, Guardian, Poynter and Multichannel News
New York Times:
The evolution of propaganda: how ISIS uses Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, SoundCloud, and more — ISIS Displaying a Deft Command of Varied Media — The extremists who have seized large parts of Syria and Iraq have riveted the world's attention with their military prowess and unrestrained brutality.
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Yep, BuzzFeed Is Building A Games Team — If you like BuzzFeed's quizzes and interactive projects like its Game Of Thrones name generator, congratulations, you're probably going to be seeing more of them. If you think they're all annoying gimmicks, well, uh, you're going to be seeing more of them anyway.
Discussion:
Kotaku Australia and VentureBeat
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Pakistani journalists shot dead in attack on news agency office — Three staff working in a Pakistani news agency were shot dead when two gunmen burst into their office in Quetta, south-west Pakistan. — One of the murdered trio was Irshad Mastoi (aka Arshad Mustoi), 34, secretary general of Balochistan Union of Journalists (BUJ).
Global Voices:
In Serbia, press oppression takes the form of cyber attacks on news sites — Two Months After Flooding, Digital Freedoms in Serbia Are Still in Trouble — There's a worrying trend in Serbia's digital world. Media websites are increasingly the target of mysterious technical attacks …
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
OWN's YouTube Partnership Pays Off With Digital Series (Exclusive) — Celebrity guests will ask the question “Who am I?” — The Oprah Winfrey Network has been working out of YouTube Space LA for more than six months to experiment with digital formats and online talent.
Discussion:
Variety, @owntv and Multichannel News
Leo Kelion / BBC:
Flickr gaining 14M historic images extracted from 2M public domain books in Internet Archive — 2.6m historic pictures posted online — The project has resulted in even more pictures of cats being put on to the internet — An American academic is creating a searchable database of 12 million historic copyright-free images.
Discussion:
Internet Archive Blogs, Flickr Blog, Gigaom, @digiphile, @carlmalamud, PetaPixel, Techdirt, Boing Boing, Ars Technica and GalleyCat
Anya Schiffrin / Mother Jones:
Why We're In A Golden Age of Global Investigative Journalism — Around the world, muckrakers are taking corrupt governments and businesses to task. — In our world, the news about the news is often grim. Newspapers are shrinking, folding up, or being cut loose by their parent companies.
Eric Enge / Search Engine Land:
It's Over: The Rise & Fall Of Google Authorship For Search Results — After three years the great Google Authorship experiment has come to an end ... at least for now. — Today John Mueller of Google Webmaster Tools announced in a Google+ post that Google will stop showing authorship results …
Discussion:
@moorehn, @dannysullivan, @digiphile, Forbes, SocialTimes, MarketingVox News & Trends, the Econsultancy blog, Softpedia News, BetaNews, CNET, The Drum and Engadget
Richard Smirke / Billboard:
U.K. Group Rallies Musicians, Writers and Performers to Fight Government Cuts — Newly formed U.K. protest group Artists' Assembly Against Austerity are calling on musicians, writers, artists and performers to voice their opposition against government cuts in public and voluntary services.
Ethan Zuckerman / My heart's in Accra:
Self-segregation on social networks and the implications for the Ferguson, MO story — Michael Brown was fatally shot by police officer Darren Wilson on Saturday August 9, 2014. After his body lay in the hot street for four hours, Ferguson residents took to the streets to protest his killing.
Discussion:
New York Times, @jesseholcomb, @jayrosen_nyu, @davelafontaine, @infotweets, @stevesunypi, @fgoldsmith and @dangillmor
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