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4:40 AM ET, December 3, 2014

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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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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 …
Discussion: @sulliview
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) …
Discussion: @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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: TVNewser and Variety
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Q&A with Laura Poitras on privacy, Snowden documents, and startup hurdles at First Look Media
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
After Getting to $100 Million, BuzzFeed Ad Sales Boss Andy Wiedlin Heads for the Door
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Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune Media to begin trading Friday on NYSE
Discussion: Variety and Broadcasting & Cable
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Audio book distributor Audible commissioning and producing original audio dramas from established authors
John McDermott / Digiday:
Google's tying of two DoubleClick ad tech products, Bid Manager and Ad Exchange, raises anti-competitive concerns amongst media buyers
Discussion: @digiday
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
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
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:
Business reporters flock to Ello for a more intimate crowd, easy blogging, room for images
 

 
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Eugen Rochko / Mastodon Blog:
Mastodon forms a new US non-profit, to receive tax-deductible US donations and in-kind support, with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and others on its board

William Brown / Firstyear's blog-a-log:
Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

 
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