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Tom Berg / Orange County Register:
Aaron Kushner and Eric Spitz resign from Freedom, Orange County Register — SANTA ANA - Aaron Kushner and Eric Spitz, co-owners of Freedom Communications, resigned Tuesday from all executive duties at Freedom and the Orange County Register. — Publisher Rich Mirman, the former casino marketing executive …
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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 — After GigaOm, The Non-VC “SimCity” Approach To Growing A Media Business — I can't speak with any authority about why GigaOm suddenly ran out of money.
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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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Digiday, @terabithia4, @bizcarson, @bmorrissey, @gigastacey, FishbowlNY, @markarms and Guardian
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 …
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 Clinton's face photoshopped onto another woman's body. After users on Twitter and elsewhere questioned the image, the network responded:
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@simonmaloy and @jesseberney
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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Variety, The Wrap, Forbes, USA Today, The Verge, Vox, @maira, CBS Los Angeles, @laurie_ochoa, Consequence of Sound and Radio.com
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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@mitrakalita
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
CNN Pushes More Original Web Video — Say what you want about CNN's continued TV ratings slowdown. The company's investment in digital video appears to be paying dividends. — Nearly a year ago, CNN launched CNN Digital Studios, a new initiative centered around producing more original content for the Web.
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@rusmirnefic and @niemanlab
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Verizon FiOS drops The Weather Channel because there's an app for that — The Weather Channel just disappeared from Verizon FiOS channel listings. This morning, Verizon sent an email to all customers announcing that its agreement to carry the channel has expired — and isn't being renewed.
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Quartz
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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@storyful, @sophiaxuqian and Storyful
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Azerbaijan extends Khadija Ismayilova's pre-trial detention for an additional two months, until May 24 — Azerbaijan Ratchets Up Pressure on Ismayilova — In unscheduled, snap proceedings today, the Baku City Nasimi District Court extended investigative reporter and RFE/RL contributor …
David Gilbert / International Business Times:
Anonymous launches boycott of Daily Dot after it published a review by a hacker who worked with FBI — Anonymous launches Destroy Daily Dot campaign over Sabu reporting role — The online hacktivist group Anonymous has announced a plan to destroy the Daily Dot website as a result of its work with FBI snitch Hector “Sabu” Monsegur.
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The Hill
Kevin Loker / American Press Institute:
American Press Institute working on a new tool for teaching news literacy to young news consumers — API working on a new tool for educating young news consumers — When most of us grew up it was clear what we meant by “the news.” We saw boundaries — the nightly newscast …
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