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Itay Hod / The Wrap:
BuzzFeed Editor Ben Smith Apologizes for Yanking Post Critical of Advertiser Dove — Just one day after BuzzFeed deleted a post critical of advertiser Dove, editor-in-chief Ben Smith has released a mea culpa apologizing for the site's actions. — Smith posted the following message to his Twitter account on Friday.
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Michelle Castillo / Adweek:
BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith says Dove post removed to avoid “Hot Takes”; earlier post on Monopoly, a Buzzfeed partner, likely removed for same reason — After Removing Article Critical of Dove, BuzzFeed Says It Wants to Avoid Publishing ‘Hot Takes’
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Guido Fawkes:
BuzzFeed also altered its robots.txt file to hide deleted Monopoly article from Google and the Wayback Machine — Buzzfeed: Follow the Monopoly Money — Following Guido's revelation that Buzzfeed deleted a negative article about the board game Monopoly just a month after entering …
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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
BuzzFeed deletes post critical of Dove, a BuzzFeed advertiser; editors said post wasn't in line with tone and editorial mission of BuzzFeed Life
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Wall Street Journal:
Spotify nearing deal to raise $400M in round valuing the music-streaming service at $8.4B — Spotify Nears Deal to Raise $400 Million at $8.4 Billion Valuation — Goldman Sachs and Abu Dhabi's Sovereign Wealth Fund Have Invested — Spotify AB has headed back to the funding well for a seventh time …
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Clay Shirky's advice to the New York Times: demystify the end of print, cut costs, emphasize mobile ad dollars, and get loyal readers to pay more — A ‘Darker Narrative’ of Print's Future From Clay Shirky — A column I wrote last month on the enduring importance of the printed newspaper …
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Electronic Frontier Foundation:
EFF busts infamous podcasting patent, invalidating key claims used to threaten podcasters — EFF Busts Podcasting Patent, Invalidating Key Claims at Patent Office — San Francisco - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) invalided key claims in the so-called “podcasting patent” …
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Charles V. Bagli / New York Times:
News Corp. and 21st Century Fox Consider Move to World Trade Center Site, Officials Say — News Corporation and 21st Century Fox, two giant media companies controlled by Rupert Murdoch, are considering building a joint headquarters in a new 88-story skyscraper at the World Trade Center …
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg Business:
Apple has asked over a dozen artists for exclusive deals to promote Beats Music, which relaunches this summer at $9.99/month with family plan for $14.99 — Apple's New Beats Music Thinks Taylor Swift Will Make You Pay — Apple Inc. has asked Florence and the Machine and more than a dozen …
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Mike Krings / KU Today:
Study shows journalism burnout affecting women more than men — Study shows journalism burnout affecting women more than men … Study shows journalism burnout affecting women more than men — LAWRENCE — The field of journalism has changed greatly over the last decade …
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
YouTube Pushes Video Owners to Join Paid Subscription Service — YouTube is getting ready to launch an ad-free subscription service. And the world's largest video site is flexing some muscle to make sure its new product is as big as possible. — YouTube is doing that with new rules …
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Felix Salmon / Fusion:
Why being a newswire media CEO is an impossible job — The surprise media news of the day is that Andrew Rashbass has quit his job as CEO of Reuters Media to become executive chairman of UK business publisher Euromoney. — The news is surprising because Rashbass only joined Thomson Reuters in July 2013 …
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NYC Media Lab / Medium:
News Corp, Columbia, NYU, and NYC Media Lab are developing Lenses, an open-source mobile data visualizations tool — A Tool for Instant Data Visualizations — How News Corp, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, and NYC Media Lab are working together to build something new
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Amazon reveals HDR-quality video streaming is coming to Prime this year, kicking off with Amazon Originals — Amazon has announced that it's introducing support for high dynamic range (HDR) quality videos, kicking off later this year with Amazon's own “Originals” programming.
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Eric Blattberg / Digiday:
The Onion to launch studio arm to produce videos for The Onion, A.V. Club, and Clickhole sites — Once a newspaper, The Onion is growing its video ambitions — The Onion began as a free weekly paper, but its future increasingly lies in video. — Within the next six weeks …
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