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Owner of the Onion, A.V. Club, and Clickhole sites hires GCA Savvian bankers to explore sale — Satirist Onion Inc. Said to Hire Adviser for Sale — Everything in this story is actually, honestly true. — Onion Inc., owner of the satirical news site the Onion and the entertainment site the A.V. Club …
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Say Media selling content sites including XoJane and ReadWrite, which never achieved the scale needed to compete — Platishers, beware: Say Media gives up on publishing — Three years ago, Jane Pratt celebrated the launch of her new site XoJane with Say Media by throwing a party at the Jane Hotel …
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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Trinity Mirror to close seven regional newspapers with loss of 50 jobs — Trinity Mirror has announced the closure of seven regional newspapers, with the loss of 50 jobs expected. — All three of the publisher's Berkshire titles - the Reading Post, GetReading and the Wokingham and Bracknell Times …
Mica Rosenberg / Reuters:
Condé Nast agrees to $5.8 mln settlement in suit over intern pay — Condé Nast agreed on Thursday to pay $5.8 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by thousands of former interns at the publisher who said they were underpaid for work at the company's high-end magazines.
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Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:
In Amazon/Hachette deal, ebook agency pricing is a winner — In the deal that Amazon and Hachette Book Group finally reached Thursday after months of bitter negotiations, we don't really know which side “won,” if one side did. But one survivor — perhaps surprisingly — was agency pricing for ebooks.
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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Amazon and Hachette Resolve Dispute
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Amy Schatz / Re/code:
CBS, Disney, Viacom, other media firms ask appeals court to keep contracts private in FCC merger reviews of Comcast-TWC and AT&T-DirecTV — TV Networks Ask Courts to Keep Contracts Private in Comcast Merger Review — CBS, Walt Disney Co. and other media companies asked …
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Philly.com, Bloomberg and Broadcasting & Cable
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Kindle Software Update Lets You Share Your Amazon Library With A Partner And More — Kindle has a new update rolling out to its Kindle e-reader device hardware, which includes new features for the latest Kindle, Kindle Voyage and Kindle Paperwhite devices. The update includes …
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Amazon.com, Gigaom, Liliputing, NDTV Gadgets, The Next Web and Gizmodo
New York Times:
NYT technologists issue friendly challenge to site owners to convert to HTTPS by 2015 — Embracing HTTPS — In light of a growing number of cyber security and data privacy concerns, replacing HTTP with its secure alternative, HTTPS, is becoming increasingly important.
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@xor, @arktronic, @freedomofpress, @aendrew and @morisy
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Streaming Video Alliance Trade Group Launches, Without Netflix or YouTube — A group of 17 service providers, content companies and tech vendors has formed the Streaming Video Alliance, aimed at formulating industry-wide standards and establishing best practices for high-scale Internet video services.
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The Next Web and MarketWatch
Dan Singer / American Journalism Review:
Music Critics See Their Role and Influence Waning in The Era of Digital Music — Nate Patrin's career trajectory in music journalism was once the norm. — Patrin grew up reading Spin and Rolling Stone in the 1990s and wrote music reviews for his high school newspaper.
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@simonretromania and @keyescore
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
StoryTracker is a new tool to track how news homepages change — Hopefully you know about PastPages, the tool built by L.A. Times data journalist Ben Welsh to record what some of the web's most important news sites have on their homepage — hour by hour, every single day.
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@jbenton
Katie Campbell / NetNewsCheck Latest:
Vox.com has hit 2015 traffic and revenue goals, co-founder Melissa Bell says — Vox.com Hits 2015 Traffic, Revenue Goals — In just over six months, Vox.com has already surpassed its traffic expectations and met its revenue goals for next year, its co-founder said yesterday.
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