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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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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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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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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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NYT media reporter Haughney taking buyout — Christine Haughney, who has recently covered the media industry for The New York Times, is leaving the paper via its buyout offer. — On Twitter, Haughney wrote, “After 8 years with @nytimes including nearly 3 years writing about my colleagues …
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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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Nature, 48 other journals in group will use ReadCube software to let subscribers share screen-only versions of papers for free — Nature publisher hopes to end ‘dark sharing’ by making read-only papers free — The publisher of the prestigious Nature family of scientific journals today unveiled …
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Tribune Media to begin trading Friday on NYSE — Tribune Media is set to begin trading Friday on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TRCO. — The Chicago-based media company announced Tuesday it has received approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission to list its stock on the NYSE …
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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.


Serial's success lies in Koenig's narration style and likely won't translate to other mediums or help other podcasts grow despite the buzz — Why ‘Serial’ Won't Do Much for Podcasting or Hollywood — Given how much ink has been spilled about solving the whodunit featured in the new podcast …


How Vox Media expects to turn a profit — and justify a $380 million valuation — $380 million: That's the value of digital media startup Vox Media following its latest big cash infusion. — It's a stunning number — stunning just like the August investment that valued BuzzFeed at $850 million.
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British journalist found guilty of contempt by Bangladesh court for questioning war death toll — A British journalist has been found guilty of contempt by a court in Bangladesh for questioning the official death toll in the country's war of independence. — David Bergman …