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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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bizjournals, @annb03, @lmoses, @digiday, @rafat, TechSpot, FishbowlNY, Media & Entertainment, Guardian and Folio
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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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Howdy Y'all, @terabithia4, @bmorrissey, @bizcarson, @gigastacey, The Newspaper Guild, @markarms, @tomrisen, @anildash, AdAge and Gigaom
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 …
Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
AP sues State Department, seeking access to Clinton records — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the State Department to force the release of email correspondence and government documents from Hillary Rodham Clinton's tenure as secretary of state.
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, BuzzFeed, BREITBART.COM, Talking Biz News, @simonmaloy and @jesseberney
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 …
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, @mitrakalita and @enterprisekenya
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 and Journalism.co.uk
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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TechSpot, @glynmoody, @ipjustice, @bretfausett, @xor and @dangillmor
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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CBC News, Hollywood Reporter and Billboard
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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VentureBeat, AppleInsider, Electronista, App Advice, 9to5Mac and MacRumors
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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Press Gazette
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.
Discussion:
Asian Correspondent, @sophiaxuqian, @storyful and Storyful
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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The Border Mail, @perkinsmiki, @nicchristensen, @rexmartinich and @sangriablues
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