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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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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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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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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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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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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Apple Starts Streaming “The Interview”, Too
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Steve Kovach / Business Insider:
Sony says ‘The Interview’ was rented or purchased more than 2M times, generated over $15M in online sales
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David Carr / New York Times:
NYT CEO Mark Thompson, Phil Griffin, and other media execs face myriad challenges in 2015 — Media Companies (and Executives) on the Hot Seat in 2015 — While it's great news that the economy is (slowly) coming back, it's important to remember that a rising tide does not necessarily lift all boats.
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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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bizjournals, Variety, Mediaite, Western Journalism, @bluedevilnation and @scareduck
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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@atotalmonet, @gregorydjohnsen and @antderosa
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
Apple introduces 14-day no questions asked refunds for App Store & iTunes in EU countries — Apple has recently introduced a new 14-day no questions asked return policy for iTunes, App Store and iBooks purchases in Europe including the UK, Germany, Italy, France, and many other EU countries.
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BetaNews, Pocket-lint, The Verge, The Next Web, Ars Technica, Engadget, Good E-Reader, ReadWrite, Business Insider, AppleInsider and Gigaom
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
U.S. court approves Condé Nast $5.85 mln intern pay settlement — Condé Nast on Monday won a federal judge's preliminary approval to pay $5.85 million to settle a class-action lawsuit by thousands of former interns who claimed the magazine publisher underpaid them.
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The Wrap, TIME, The Daily Beast and FishbowlNY
Kent Babb / Washington Post:
Donte Stallworth, former NFL wide receiver, working as a Huffington Post fellow — Donte Stallworth was on his morning commute last month, a five-block morning ritual in this attempt at a new life, when he walked past the White House's north lawn. He smiled as he recalled an old memory.
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@leverageagency and @amandawills, Thanks:@steverubel
Anjali Shastry / American Journalism Review:
How news organizations like Washington Post, Newsweek, NPR, and BBC use Tumblr to connect with audiences and document experiments in journalism — The Growing Power of Tumblr — For News — On a recent day, The Washington Post Twitter account is a drumbeat of news about a Supreme Court …
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@alexschelldorf and @alexlaughs
James Regan / Reuters:
Australian foreign minister says Egypt is sending mixed signals, hopes fading for Peter Greste's release — Hopes dim Egypt to release Australian Al Jazeera journalist soon — (Reuters) - Hopes are fading for the release of Australian journalist Peter Greste, who has been in jail in Egypt for a year …
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