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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Vox Media raises $46.5M from NY investment firm General Atlantic at a $380M valuation — Yet Another Big Funding Round for a Big Web Publisher - This Time for Vox Media — Remember when investors didn't want to put money into content? — That was a long time ago!
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Jim Bankoff / LinkedIn Pulse:
Vox Media CEO lists four key areas of focus in “memo” to employees on occasion of $46M round, announces 150M monthly unique visitors across all sites — Building the Next Generation of Media Brands (Memo to Vox Media Team) — (note: Today is a big day for Vox Media as we announced …
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Chris Sutcliffe / TheMediaBriefing:
Despite having similar reach, Vox is valued at less than half of BuzzFeed — Why has Vox Media been valued at less than half of BuzzFeed? — Vox Media's $380 million funding round announced today makes the company theoretically much more valuable than the Washington Post's sale price …
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David Carr / New York Times:
What the forces of disruption look like inside NYT, where another buyout deadline is approaching — When the Forces of Disruption Hit Home — I've been around long enough to have once marveled at the improbability of the fax machine — that can't be real! — but I like to think of myself as modern.
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Number of full-time US daily newspaper journalists has plunged to 36,700 from 55,000 pre-2008 — Taking stock of newsroom head counts — During an appearance at New York University in October, New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and deputy executive editor for digital Ian Fisher …
Brian X. Chen / New York Times:
Apple faces potential damages of $350M in iTunes antitrust lawsuit going to trial in December — Star Witness in Apple Lawsuit Is Steve Jobs — SAN FRANCISCO — Three years after his death, Steve Jobs is very much a presence in courtrooms across the country. — And that's not necessarily good news for Apple.
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Christopher Williams / Telegraph:
Vodafone in talks for Tesco's loss-making pay-TV service — Vodafone is looking to acquire Blinkbox, the video streaming service, as it gears up to move into the broadband and pay-TV markets — Vodafone is poised to take over Tesco's loss-making on-demand entertainment service Blinkbox …
Variety:
Sony's New Movies Leak Online Following Hack Attack — Brad Pitt's ‘Fury,’ ‘Annie’ among titles being downloaded — At least five new movies from Sony Pictures are being devoured on copyright-infringing file-sharing hubs online in the wake of the hack attack that hobbled the studio earlier in the week.
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Chris Smith / Digiday:
Inside the BBC's visual journalism unit — The lines between digital video and TV are blurring to the point of going away at the BBC. — The BBC's two-year-old visual journalism unit services its online and TV output with graphics and data visualizations for its TV and digital news channels.
Emily Steel / New York Times:
Netflix targets international audiences with “Marco Polo”: $90M original series debuts December 12 — How to Build an Empire, the Netflix Way — John Fusco, creator of the Netflix series “Marco Polo,” narrates a scene in which the 13th-century traveler enters the court of Kublai Khan.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
ESPN gives Janay Rice control over as-told-to piece — Transparency is abundant in the editor's note appended to ESPN's story of the long weekend. It's a first-person essay by Janay Rice, wife of former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, who was suspended from the NFL for hitting …
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John Seabrook / New Yorker:
Daniel Ek and Sean Parker on Spotify and the complexities of the current music industry — REVENUE STREAMS — Is Spotify the music industry's friend or its foe? … “Who put back an empty jar of formaldehyde?” — BUY THE PRINT »
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