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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Vox Media acquires Re/code in all-stock deal, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher to stay at Re/code after merger — Vox Media Acquiring ReCode — ReCode, the news website led by the veteran journalists Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, is being acquired by Vox Media, a deal that reflects …
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Re/code:
Vox Media Acquires Re/code Owner Revere Digital — We are thrilled to announce that Re/code's parent company, Revere Digital, is being wholly acquired by the highly respected digital-native media company Vox Media. This is the next big step in our mission to bring you quality tech journalism …
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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Re/code's reviews team of Katie Boehret, Bonnie Cha, and Lauren Goode to join Verge staff, Mossberg to write reviews, columns for both sites — The Verge and Recode are joining forces — I'm excited to announce that The Verge's parent company Vox Media is acquiring Recode …
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@waltmossberg, @zpower and Talking New Media
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff explains the Re/code purchase: complementing The Verge's coverage, conference business, more — The Vox Media-Re/code deal, explained by Vox Media's CEO — On Tuesday night, Vox Media — the parent company of Vox.com — announced it was purchasing Re/code …
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Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
Comcast, investor in Vox Media and Recode, could end up buying them both — Vox on the block. — Before Vox Media struck a deal to buy Recode, the two digital publishers already had something in common: Comcast, which has invested in both companies and could end up owning them outright.
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@mathewi, New York Times and @nytimesbusiness
Jessi Hempel / Wired:
BuzzFeed launches The Open Lab for Journalism Technology and the Arts in San Francisco to develop open-source tools — BUZZFEED FOUNDER LAUNCHES NEW LAB FOR OPEN-SOURCE INVENTION — Over the nearly two decades that BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti has spent inventing things …
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Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
BuzzFeed adds Nitasha Tiku to its San Francisco bureau, now grown to 17 people since Mat Honan's hire as bureau chief — BuzzFeed hires a dozen reporters in Silicon Valley, including The Verge's Nitasha Tiku, to try to break more tech news — BuzzFeed has quietly been hiring like crazy in Silicon Valley …
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@nitashatiku, @suldrew and Talking Biz News
Lori Weisberg / San Diego Union Tribune:
After sale to Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune laying off 178 of 603 employees, mostly in printing and delivery, nine from newsroom — 178 Union-Tribune employees are laid off — The San Diego Union-Tribune on Tuesday announced that it is laying off 178 of its 603 employees …
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Rem Rieder / USA Today:
Eric Newton leaving Knight Foundation to become innovation chief at Arizona State J-school — Rieder: Developing an innovation culture for journalism — That journalism desperately needs innovation has been clear for quite awhile. — The digital age has thoroughly disrupted traditional business models …
Wall Street Journal:
Google and Yahoo have both held early acquisition talks with Flipboard in recent weeks but deal price hasn't yet been discussed — Google, Yahoo Have Had Talks to Buy Flipboard — Twitter's Flipboard discussions have largely stalled since April — Several Internet giants have inquired …
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American Press Institute:
Study: How news organizations can adopt new tools, business models, storytelling, and other forms of innovation — A culture-based strategy for creating innovation in news organizations — For journalism it truly is the best of times and the worst of times.
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Knight Foundation, The Buttry Diary and Poynter
Haje Jan Kamps / Medium:
Journalists are the most-active, largest group of verified users on Twitter — Who are Twitter's Verified Users? — A deep dive into the lives of more than 100,000 of Twitter's top users — If you spend a fair bit of time on Twitter, you can't have failed to stumble across users who have a blue tickmark next to their names.
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Poynter, @spjdana, @digiphile, @digiphile and The New York Observer
Alexander Howard / The Huffington Post:
In Saudi Arabia, Embracing New ‘Freedom’ On Social Media May Come With Serious Risks — Over the weekend, The New York Times published an article suggesting young people in Saudi Arabia are finding “freedom” on their smartphones. “Young Saudis are increasingly relying on social media …
Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
Gawker writers plan to vote on unionizing next week — Three weeks ago, Gawker C.E.O. Nick Denton, president Heather Dietrick, and executive editor Tommy Craggs met for lunch with two organizers from the Writers Guild of America-East and Hamilton Nolan, the Gawker.com senior writer who is spearheading a union drive at Gawker Media.
Gabriel Arana / The Huffington Post:
Mac McClelland Says Journalists Need To Talk About Trauma — This is the fifth and final installment in our series on mental health in the newsroom. Here are the first, second, third and fourth installments. — Not to peg myself as a total fanboy, but Mac McClelland is one of my journalism idols.
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Michael Kozlowski / Good E-Reader:
Google Play books publisher program has been closed to new publishers amid piracy concerns — Google Play Books Publisher Program Has Been Closed — Google has closed their Play Books publisher program amidst concerns of rampant e-book piracy. — The Google Play Publisher Program …
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Miriam Gottfried / Wall Street Journal:
Charter's bid for Time Warner Cable is nearly nine times expected 2016 earnings and 14% more than Friday's closing price, despite industry's challenges — Charter's Time Warner Cable Bundle is No Bargain — Charter finally got the cable consolidation it was seeking with deals to buy Time Warner Cable and Bright House.
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Henry Mance / Financial Times:
UK court rules ISPs must block seven e-book piracy sites within 10 days: Ebookee, LibGen, AvaxHome, Freebookspot, Freshwap, Bookfi and Bookre — Publishers win landmark case against ebook pirates — British publishers have won their first ever blocking order against pirate ebook sites …
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