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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Associated Press sues State Department, seeking access to Clinton records after repeated unfulfilled FOIA requests, including one from 5 years ago — AP sues State Department, seeking access to Clinton records — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press filed a lawsuit Wednesday …
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
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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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”
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JIMROMENESKO.COM:
Columbia Graduate School of Journalism to reduce enrollment, cut about six positions — Columbia Graduate School of Journalism dean Steve Coll tells colleagues: “We believe it's best for the school to return to a smaller student body size.” With the downsizing, “I've reached the conclusion …
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FishbowlNY, @chanders and @chanders
First Look Media:
Former Guardian News & Media, North America CEO Michael Bloom named president and GM of First Look Media — Welcoming Michael Bloom — Today we welcome media and tech entrepreneur Michael Bloom to First Look Media as our new President and General Manager.
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Politico, Capital New York, Poynter, FishbowlNY, @the_intercept, @michael_bloom and @paulcarr
Tom Berg / Orange County Register:
Aaron Kushner and Eric Spitz resign from Freedom, OC Register, Rich Mirman becomes president and chief executive of Freedom, Spitz to chairman at Freedom — Aaron Kushner and Eric Spitz resign from Freedom, Orange County Register — SANTA ANA - Aaron Kushner and Eric Spitz …
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Vox Media Launches Entertainment Division, Signs With WME (Exclusive) — A version of this story first appeared in the March 20 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. — Vox Media is looking to video for its future. — The digital media company, which owns and operates a collection …
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The Wrap, @niemanlab, Tubefilter and Journalism.co.uk
Joe Otterson / The Wrap:
AwesomenessTV, DreamworksTV Team With Verizon on Over-the-Top Channels — AwesomenessTV and DreamworksTV are teaming up with Verizon for two new over-the-top channels, the companies announced on Wednesday. — The multi-platform AwesomenessTV will produce more than 200 hours of original content per year for the wireless provider.
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Deadline, Broadcasting & Cable, Hollywood Reporter, Re/code, Los Angeles Times, Tubefilter and Variety
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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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 …
Frank Pallotta / CNNMoney:
4 in 10 TV households also subscribe to Netflix, Amazon or Hulu — Four in ten American households with traditional television now also subscribe to some form of streaming service like Netflix or Amazon, according to a new Nielsen report on audience behaviors.
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Broadcasting & Cable, Wall Street Journal, LostRemote, Quartz, Deadline, Digital TV Europe, BizReport, The Drum and New York Times
Sonia Perez D. / Associated Press:
Gunmen kill 2 journalists in southern town in Guatemala — GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Gunmen shot and killed two journalists and wounded a third Tuesday as they walked in a park in southern Guatemala, the editor of Prensa Libre newspaper said. — Danilo Lopez, the local correspondent for Prensa Libre …
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Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
New York Times Showcases Short Documentaries Funded Through Kickstarter (Exclusive) — The New York Times is giving documentary filmmakers an international platform. — The media company has teamed with Kickstarter to highlight six short documentaries that were backed in part using the crowdfunding platform.
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The New York Times Company, bizjournals, GeekWire, VideoInk and The Wrap
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Actor in the BBC's EastEnders, Steve McFadden, details personal costs of Mirror phone hacking in court statement — EastEnders actor felt ‘hunted like a fox’ over Mirror phone hacking — Steve McFadden, who plays soap's Phil Mitchell, claims ‘appalling’ hacking caused split with then-partner and on-screen lover Lucy Benjamin
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BBC, Sky News, International Business Times, BBC, UK - The Huffington Post, Globe and Mail and Telegraph
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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CNBC, AppleInsider, @thenextweb, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, App Advice, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Electronista, @benlower, Mashable, WebProNews and TIME
Mark Joyella / TVNewser:
Bloomberg Apologizes for Photoshopped Clinton Promo — Bloomberg TV has apologized after releasing a promo image for Bloomberg's coverage of Hillary Clinton's afternoon news conference that featured a Photoshopped picture of Clinton. After users on Twitter and elsewhere questioned the image, the network responded:
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Politico, BREITBART.COM, @simonmaloy, Talking Biz News and @jesseberney
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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Guardian, Talking Biz News, @enterprisekenya and @mitrakalita
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