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Dylan Byers / Politico:
The New Republic's managing editor Linda Kintsler and three others resign — Four more resign from TNR — Four more members of The New Republic's masthead resigned this week, dealing yet another blow to the already depleted magazine, POLITICO has learned.
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Disney enlists Maker Studios to create “Star Wars” short-form sponsored videos online ahead of next film release in December 2015 — Disney Enlists Maker to Create ‘Star Wars’ Series Online — Maker Studios, the Web video network owned by Walt Disney Co. (DIS) …
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Michal Lev-Ram / Fortune:
How Disney CEO Bob Iger uses technology to keep every division of his company relevant — Disney CEO Bob Iger's empire of tech — Even in a dress-down gray sweater, Bob Iger looks a bit mechanical. His mouth is almost geometrically straight, his face constructed of some cool alloy.
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Ben Preston / RadioTimes:
BBC pulls controversial documentary about death of Princess Diana after Royal family lawyers intervene — BBC pulls controversial royal documentary about spin after death of Princess Diana — Radio Times reveals last-minute decision to postpone BBC2 broadcast followed legal intervention
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Eugene Kim / Business Insider:
Washington Post hopes to generate more revenue by licensing its content management system to other news organizations — Here's A New, Inventive Way Jeff Bezos Plans To Make Money From The Washington Post — When Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post for $250 million in 2013 …
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Dave McNary / Variety:
The Interview is a top seller on YouTube Movies and Google Play — ‘The Interview’ Becomes 2014's Top Seller on Google Sites — In six days, Sony's comedy “The Interview” has become 2014's bestseller on a pair of Google streaming sites — Google Play and YouTube Movies — according to a Google spokesperson.
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Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
Tim Marchman named editor of Deadspin — Tim Marchman is to be the next editor of Deadspin, the Gawker Media sports blog, outgoing editor Tommy Craggs confirmed to Capital. — Craggs, who is moving to a new position as executive editor of Gawker Media, announced the news on …
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
The New York Times' continued overuse of anonymous sources enabled US government's accusal of North Korea in Sony hack — AnonyWatch: Department of Ridiculous Reasons — For many months now, I've been keeping track of the overuse of anonymous sources in The Times as a way of discouraging a practice that readers rightly object to.
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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
In Its Last 6 Months Of Existence, Aereo Subscriptions Grew 40% — Yes, Aereo Inc. was tiny. But it grew a lot faster than most people thought. — The now-defunct Web TV service, which recently filed for bankruptcy, ended its run in June with a little more than 108,000 subscribers in 14 cities …
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Andrew Marantz / New Yorker:
How Emerson Spartz builds viral sites that grab Facebook traffic using headline testing and other people's memes — The Virologist — How a young entrepreneur built an empire by repackaging memes.
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Kenneth Li / Re/code:
Tencent Will Be Re/code's Content Partner in China — Get ready to find us in other languages. — Re/code will start making its content available on Tencent's QQ.com, marking our first deal with a Chinese Internet company. — Tech giant Tencent, which owns the dominant messaging platform in China …
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Karl Bode / Techdirt:
Dish, Fox News Feud Again Illustrates How The Cable TV Industry Is Digging Its Own Grave — If you have cable you've probably been exposed to one of the increasingly ugly retransmission fee disputes occurring between cable operators and broadcasters. They usually go something like this …
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