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Charlie Lankston For / Daily Mail:
Daily Mail online publisher DMG Media acquires millennial-focused website Elite Daily — DMG Media acquires top global millennial website Elite Daily — Elite Daily is one of the world's leading news sites for millennials, people aged between 18 and 34
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Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
How Elite Daily sold for $40-50 million to Daily Mail — Daily Mail just acquired the media startup Elite Daily for $40 million to $50 million, according to multiple sources familiar with the deal. — But when Daily Mail's US CEO Jon Steinberg was first told to meet with Elite Daily in June, he blew it off.
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@rafat, @lock, @robanthonyc and @bevebedwards
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
BuzzFeed gets serious with editorial standards and ethics guide — As it has grown from being a media laboratory in which Jonah Peretti experimented with viral content into a full-fledged media entity worth close to a billion dollars, BuzzFeed has had to amend some of its previous practices …
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
AOL To Lay Off About 150 People, Mostly In Sales; Folding Joystiq, TUAW Into Engadget — Some more details are emerging around AOL's reorganization plans. Sources tell us that the company will lay off around 150 people, with the majority in sales. As part of it, AOL is also consolidating some websites.
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Snapchat's first original web series debuts tomorrow in Discover, with episodes available for 24 hours — Snapchat's first web series debuts tomorrow in Discover, with episodes available for 24 hours
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Business Insider, Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times, FishbowlNY, Tubefilter, The Next Web, SlashGear and The Verge
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Daily News to shutter borough bureaus — In New York's tabloid war, the Daily News has generally been the combatant with an army on the ground in the outer boroughs, while the New York Post has consolidated power around its Manhattan-centric base. — That's about to change …
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FishbowlNY, @jimmyvielkind, @carriemelago and @joepompeo
Adam Schreck / Associated Press:
Amnesty: Saudis postpone blogger's flogging for 3rd week — DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Authorities in Saudi Arabia delayed the planned flogging of a blogger convicted of insulting Islam for a third straight week Friday in the face of growing international pressure against the punishment …
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Washington Post, CBC News, International Business Times, The Independent, Canadian Press, BBC, DW.DE, Amnesty International, DW.DE, DW.DE, Globe and Mail and ABC News
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Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Vine Rolls Out Children's Version of Six-Second Video App — Vine is thinking of the children. — The Twitter-owned video company on Friday rolled out Vine Kids, a lightweight kid-centric version of its popular video app. — The app, which doesn't require users to sign up or follow anyone …
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Vine blog, Mashable and The Next Web
Tara Conlan / Guardian:
Police urge TV stations to scale back live coverage of any London terrorist siege — Met commissioner says he fears that broadcast of live images could increase difficulties for police and military and risk lives of hostages — Vikram Dodd, Mark Sweney and Tara Conlan
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@drbrookerogers, @paullewismoney, @lawfulrebelli0n and @clydelewis
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
ESPN to sell live, on-demand access to the Cricket World Cup on web for $100, mobile apps coming on Feb. 11 — ESPN Takes Another Step Outside the Bundle, Starts Selling Cricket World Cup Subscriptions — ESPN is going to try selling sports directly to viewers over the Internet …
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CNNMoney, Engadget and Consumerist
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
The Internet Archive to boost its collections using $600,000 Knight News Challenge grant — The Internet Archive hopes to boost its collections through funding from the Knight News Challenge — The staff at the Internet Archive is fond of Raiders of the Lost Ark, thanks in no small part to the film's famous final scene.
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Idea Lab, VentureBeat, bizjournals, CivSource, Next City, miamiherald and @niemanlab
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Andy Baio / Medium:
As Google leaves archival projects in limbo, the Internet Archive steps in to preserve digital history
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Techdirt, @craigmod, @pbump and @exiledsurfer
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Reporters were chaperoned everywhere in one Philadelphia hotel during US House Democrats' retreat — At retreat, Dem staffers escort reporters to restroom — Reporters covering the House Democrats' retreat in Philadelphia this week are having a much different experience than when they're on their home turf on Capitol Hill.
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Mediaite, Washington Free Beacon, @elisefoley, @bdayspring and @ron_fournier
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Politico tries to replicate its own business model around targeting influentials in local and international markets, others should follow its lead — Newsonomics: From national, Politico expands into global — and local — Twenty years ago, Jim VandeHei took an unassuming job …
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@jayrosen_nyu, Business Insider and @carr2n
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Justice Department's IG report disputes Attkisson's computer-intrusion allegations — Many of the allegations made by former CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson regarding alleged computer intrusions by the U.S. government are disputed in a report by the Justice Department's inspector general.
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Mediaite, Daily Signal, Associated Press, The Hill and Talking Points Memo
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