Mediagazer: CBC names rapper Shad to replace Jian Ghomeshi as host of Q (Canadian Press)

9:40 AM ET, March 11, 2015

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Chris Thompson / Poynter:

Gigaom's Mathew Ingram on the site's sudden closure: “One minute you're working on a story, and the next minute someone is telling you you don't have a job” — Gigaom's Mathew Ingram: “I don't think anyone expected this” — At 5:57 Pacific Standard Time yesterday evening …

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Insiders say Gigaom's site and events were profitable, but research platform failed to meet its goals — Inside GigaOm's VC-driven demise — Tech media eulogized one of its own on Tuesday when GigaOm abruptly announced it had run out of money and was ceasing operations after eight years.

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Danny Sullivan / Medium:
Gigaom's closure isn't a harbinger for all niche media companies, but it is a warning for firms taking venture capital

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Tom Berg / Orange County Register:

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Mark Joyella / TVNewser:

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Reuters:

Sources: Univision hires Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Deutsche Bank AG for IPO in second half of 2015 to raise $1B at up to $20B valuation — Exclusive: Univision hires underwriters for IPO - sources — (Reuters) - U.S. Spanish-language broadcaster Univision Communications Inc …

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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:

Quartz plans to expand into Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa this summer, joining trend of US digital organizations in global expansion — U.S. Digital-Media Outlets Venture Abroad — Mobile connectivity creates opportunity to build audiences for local coverage

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David Post / Washington Post:

RIAA and MPAA are pressuring ICANN to force registrars to suspend domains over “copyright abuse complaints” — ICANN, copyright infringement, and “the public interest” — Last month, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) issued a carefully-worded statement urging ICANN …

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Canadian Press:

CBC names rapper Shad to replace Jian Ghomeshi as host of Q — TORONTO — The CBC has selected rapper Shad to become the new host of its cultural affairs radio show Q, which was helmed by Jian Ghomeshi until he was fired last year. — The broadcaster said on its website that Shad …

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BBC:

South Africa TV presenter Vuyo Mvoko mugged on camera — One of South Africa's best known TV journalists has been mugged on camera as he waited to go on air. — Footage shows two men accosting Vuyo Mvoko, from the national broadcaster SABC, who was outside a Johannesburg hospital to report …

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Storyful:

News Corp's Storyful partners with Youku in China to license and share trending videos — Storyful grows international presence with Youku partnership in China — Storyful has launched a Chinese-language channel for viral videos on the popular Chinese video-sharing portal Youku.

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Mic Wright / The Next Web:

Apple's iTunes Store is having problems and iTunes Connect is down — It looks like Apple is having a bad Wednesday. The iTunes Store, App Store and Mac App Store are suffering outages and the company's app submission service iTunes Connect is down. — While the front pages of both the App Store …

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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

The Times's media editor, Alex Spence, departs after Page 3 drama — He leaves the paper following his ‘inside track’ confirmation of the Sun's decision — The Times's media editor, Alex Spence, has left the newspaper after writing an article about the decision by the paper's sister title, the Sun, to drop Page 3.

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Victoria Kim / Los Angeles Times:

Jury awards family of Marvin Gaye $7.4M in music copyright case, deciding “Blurred Lines” infringed on Gaye's “Got To Give It Up” — Jurors hit Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams with $7.4-million verdict — A verdict has been reached in the Los Angeles federal …

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Miranda Ward / mUmBRELLA:

Fairfax Media to cut 80 jobs, including 62 editorial positions, in regional Victoria, Australia — Fairfax Media announces ‘proposal’ for 80 redundancies in regional Victoria — Fairfax Media has today confirmed a “proposal” for 80 redundancies of full-time equivalent positions across Victoria …

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