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Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
Gawker restructures editorial leadership, removing editorial director Joel Johnson, who remains at the company — 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 …
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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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The New York Observer, @gaberivera, @carigervin, @mathewi and @dansaltzstein
Chris Ip / Columbia Journalism Review:
New narrative journalism startups, like Latterly Magazine, launch as quickly as others fail in a crowded marketplace — New narrative journalism startups, like Latterly Magazine, launch as quickly as others fail in a crowded marketplace — Jill Abramson and Steven Brill's upcoming longform outfit …
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Catherine Stupp / Nieman Lab:
The fight to get Google to pay for news continues in Europe — BERLIN — The European Union's new commissioner for digital affairs didn't waste any time. Days before starting the job at the end of October, Günther Oettinger (his official title is commissioner for digital economy and society) …
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@emmamayalex and @niemanlab
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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D.B. Hebbard / Talking New Media:
Private equity firm KKR invests $50 million in Next Issue Media — The Wall Street Journal today reported that the private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) has a invested $50 million in Next Issue Media, the joint venture of Time Inc., Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith …
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Wall Street Journal and VentureBeat
Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:
Live from everywhere: ABC News journalists will stream video to your screen — ABC News is giving its journalists the ability to live stream video to viewers, embracing a popular tool among citizen journalists. — The project, called GoStream, will allow any of ABC's field journalists …
Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
Federal judge finds ESPN's transmission of Roku serial number to Adobe doesn't violate the Video Privacy Protection Act — ESPN Defeats Video Privacy Case — A federal judge in Seattle has dismissed a potential class-action lawsuit accusing ESPN of violating a federal video privacy law …
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Twitter tries to stem its abuse problem with new reporting tools — For some time, Twitter has been criticized for having an abuse and harassment reporting process that many victims say is too cumbersome and time-consuming to be useful. On Tuesday, the company announced that it is rolling out a new …
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The Twitter Blog, Boing Boing, CNN, @mathewi and Forbes
Karl Bode / DSLreports:
Verizon's Tech News Website Sugarstring Quietly Dies — Verizon's experiment in technology blogging appears to be over. At the tail end of October news broke that Verizon would be entering the blogging business via a new website dubbed SugarString. The effort appeared to be Verizon's attempt …
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Gizmodo, @taylorlorenz, @karlbode, @mmasnick, @paulwallbank, The Verge and @caseynewton
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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Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
Broadcasters experiment with second screen content for monetizing sports franchise deals — The age of the microcast — It is no secret that live sports is the most powerful television programming in the U.S. At this writing, past the halfway point of the National Football League's season …
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC commmissioner Ajit Pai accuses Netflix of creating its own proprietary fast lanes on ISP networks — Netflix accused of creating fast lanes “at the expense of competitors” — FCC commissioner revives claims made by Internet service providers. — Ajit Pai of the Federal Communications …
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