Mediagazer: What Yahoo Should Do with Billions from Alibaba IPO: Invest in Video, Ad Tech (Todd Spangler/Variety)

10:20 PM ET, September 19, 2014

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

What Yahoo Should Do with Billions from Alibaba IPO: Invest in Video, Ad Tech — Yahoo stands to reap a windfall of $8 billion or more in cash after selling part of its stake in China's Alibaba Group, which is launching the biggest U.S. initial public offering in history — and with the bigger kitty …

Leslie Picker / Bloomberg:

Alibaba opens for trading on NYSE at $92.70 a share, up from IPO price of $68 — Alibaba Surges in New York Trading Debut After U.S. IPO — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. surged in its U.S. trading debut, after the company raised a record-breaking $21.8 billion in an initial public offering.

Discussion: Forbes, Businessweek, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Business Insider, Talking Biz News and TIME

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Hollywood emerges as winner in Alibaba's market debut

Discussion: Guardian, Forbes, USA Today, New York Times, Reuters, CBS News, VentureBeat, Mashable, Hollywood Reporter, Hollywood Reporter, CNBC, Los Angeles Times, Mynextfone.co.uk …, Re/code, Variety and CNBC

Miriam Berger / BuzzFeed:

Brother Of Jailed Washington Post Journalist Calls For His Release As Iranian Leadership Heads To New York — “At a time when I think Iran wants to be seen in a more positive light and be part of the international community it really brings a question to how the country really works.”

Discussion: @modavari

Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:

Iranian president offers no new details on detained Washington Post reporter — In a new interview with NBC's Ann Curry, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani declined to offer details on the condition of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, who was detained about two months ago on unspecified charges.

Erin Madigan White / The Definitive Source:

8 ways the Obama administration is blocking information — The fight for access to public information has never been harder, Associated Press Washington Bureau Chief Sally Buzbee said recently at a joint meeting of the American Society of News Editors, the Associated Press Media Editors and the Associated Press Photo Managers.

Discussion: TVNewser, @tbridis, @salenazitotrib, Washington Post, Mediaite, @caseymcdermott, @burgessev, @dangillmor, FishbowlDC and @freedomofpress

Andrea Peterson / Washington Post:

Online court archive PACER says it will restore access to missing records — The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (or AO) has a plan to restore online access to documents that were controversially removed in August from PACER, the online system for accessing public court records, a spokesperson said.

Discussion: Gigaom, @marklemley, @sjschultze, @csoghoian, Techdirt and Ars Technica

Brian Fung / Washington Post:

Berners-Lee: proposed FCC net neutrality rules would force firms to “effectively bribe” ISPs — World Wide Web inventor lashes out at Internet fast lanes: 'It's bribery.' — A quarter-century ago, Timothy Berners-Lee designed the world's first Web browser and server …

Dylan Byers / Politico:

N.Y. Times mulls new round of buyouts — The New York Times leadership is currently considering a new round of buyout offers that is likely to slash at least 50 positions from the company, and possibly several more, sources at the paper told POLITICO this week.

Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:

How data is central to the New Statesman's digital ‘spin-offs’ — With the launch of CityMetric and election portal May2015, the team behind the New Statesman is experimenting with data journalism off-site — Credit: Image by kenteegardin on Flickr. Some rights reserved.

Nicole Levy / Capital New York:

Hearst acquires San Francisco-based networking startup BranchOut to develop mobile apps and services — Hearst heads to Silicon Valley to launch development group — Hearst Corporation is setting up a digital product development group in Silicon Valley to build out new mobile apps and services, Capital has learned.

Discussion: WWD, @hearstcorp, Talking New Media and Hearst Corporation

Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:

Corporate owned news sites bypass traditional media, blurring lines between journalism and PR — The invasion of corporate news — The lines between journalism and PR are rapidly becoming blurred as business interests bypass traditional media to get their message across

Discussion: Gigaom, Om Malik, @dgelles, @emilybell, Capital New York and @raju

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Editor Of Vice News Says There Was ‘No Collusion’ With ISIS For Documentary — NEW YORK — Vice News editor-in-chief Jason Mojica shot down an accusation Thursday night that his news organization may have “colluded” with militants from the Islamic State, or ISIS, in order to gain access for its recent, widely praised documentary.

Portada:

Aaron Kushner to evaluate whether the Los Angeles Register is viable as a daily — Aaron Kushner, CEO of Freedom Communications, said that he will evaluate “in the next few weeks” whether the Los Angeles Register has a viable future as a daily. The Los Angeles Register was launched in April …

Discussion: LA Observed

Toni McQuilken / Adweek:

Facebook Will Get 10% of U.S. Digital Ad Spending in 2014 — Research shows social giant's digital dominance — Adults in the United States will spend an average of 6 percent of their total digital media time on Facebook—or 21 minutes every day—and the social media giant captures 10 percent …