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Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
Joel Johnson out as editor in Gawker management shake-up — Gawker is shaking up its editorial management structure, removing editorial director Joel Johnson and creating two new positions: executive editor and group managing editor. — This afternoon, Gawker owner Nick Denton sent a memo to staff …
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Jim Romenesko:
Gawker adds an executive editor and group managing editor, prepares for an ‘intense’ 2015 — The executive editor at Gawker - a new position - will “provide editorial direction and drive coverage of major stories,” while the group managing editor will handle personnel.
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Kevin Roose / Fusion:
More from the Sony Pictures hack: budgets, layoffs, HR scripts, and 3,800 social security numbers — Yesterday, I reported on a spreadsheet apparently taken from Sony Pictures Entertainment, one of the largest and most powerful studios in Hollywood, by a group of hackers calling themselves Guardians of Peace.
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Kevin Roose / Fusion:
Documents from hack of Sony Pictures reveal salaries of over 6k employees, including top execs — Hacked documents reveal a Hollywood studio's stunning gender and race gap — Sony Pictures Entertainment, one of the largest film studios in Hollywood, appears to have been the subject of a massive, devastating computer hack.
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Bezos: Washington Post is changing from a local paper to a national and global publication — Bezos on 'the thing we're changing' at The Washington Post — Amazon chairman and C.E.O. Jeff Bezos is optimistic about the future of The Washington Post, which he bought last year …
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Roger Parloff / Fortune:
Eddy Cue interviewed on Apple's ebook price-fixing case, says “we have to fight for the truth” — Second Bite: Can Apple clear its name in the ebooks drama? — When Apple goes before a federal appeals court on Dec. 15, trying to overturn the ebooks price-fixing judgment …
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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
To Gain the Upper Hand, Amazon Disrupts Itself — Sometime last summer, a quarter-billion dollars went missing at Amazon. — Analysts were expecting the usual gangbusters third quarter. But it was about $250 million short of forecasts. — Here is one way to look at the disappointing results …
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Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:
Business reporters flock to Ello for a more intimate crowd, easy blogging, room for images — Finance media's hottest club is Ello — By now, you've probably heard of Ello, the anti-Facebook social networking site founded by a handful of graphic designers.
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Christopher Miller / Mashable:
Ukraine just created its own version of Orwell's ‘Ministry of Truth’ — KIEV, Ukraine — The Ukraine government has established a department that critics are calling the “Ministry of Truth” — borrowing a term from George Orwell's classic dystopian novel 1984.
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Reporters Without Borders, @andreypanevin and kyivpost.com
Don Reisinger / CNET:
Roku still tops as sales of streaming-media players rise — Ten percent of US households with a broadband connection purchased a streaming-media device in the first nine months of this year, already matching last year's tally. — Streaming-media devices continue to grow …
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Variety:
CBS Threatens to Go Dark for Dish Subscribers on Thursday — Despite past extensions, CBS has vowed to go dark for Dish subscribers on Thursday if a new carriage deal is not reached by then. “For six months, CBS has been vigorously attempting to secure fair carriage deals with Dish,” reads a statement from CBS.
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Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
Vice, Knight Foundation and CUNY create ‘innovators’ fund — Vice Media, Knight Foundation and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism announced plans Monday evening for a $500,000 journalism innovation fund, to be awarded to journalism organizations around the world.
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
After Getting to $100 Million, BuzzFeed Ad Sales Boss Andy Wiedlin Heads for the Door — BuzzFeed says it will generate more than $100 million in revenue this year. Now the man in charge of bringing in that money is heading out the door. — Chief revenue officer Andy Wiedlin …
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@sfiegerman and @pkafka
John McDermott / Digiday:
Google's tying of two DoubleClick ad tech products, Bid Manager and Ad Exchange, raises anti-competitive concerns amongst media buyers — Google's display advertising dominance raises concerns — The digital advertising industry has long worried about Google using its dominance …
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Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Audio book distributor Audible commissioning and producing original audio dramas from established authors — An Art Form Rises: Audio Without the Book — Print has been good to Jeffery Deaver. Over the last 26 years, Mr. Deaver, a lawyer-turned-thriller writer, has published 35 novels and sold 40 million copies of them globally.
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