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2:40 PM ET, May 27, 2015

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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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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.
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 …
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 …
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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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.
Discussion: FishbowlNY and @goldsbie
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Paul Melvin / ESPN MediaZone:
Chris Connelly Named Interim Editor-In-Chief of Grantland  —  Award-winning journalist and contributor to E:60, Outside the Lines, Grantland and ABC News to lead growing sports and pop culture storytelling brand  —  Chris Connelly, the award-winning reporter and essayist whose work includes contributions …
Discussion: FishbowlNY 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.
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 …
Mădălina Ciobanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Reuters' head of archive talks about the challenges and rewards of the digitising process  —  Reuters' head of archive talks about the challenges and rewards of the digitising process  —  Credit: By kulturarvsprojektet on Flickr.  Some rights reserved  —  Archives have great potential …
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 …
 
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Gabriel Arana / The Huffington Post:
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Discussion: @gabrielarana
Wall Street Journal:
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Media Guido:
The full internal email from Guardian Editor-in-Chief Alan Rusbridger announcing the departure of Janine Gibson
Discussion: New York Times
Martha Mercer / The Daily Beast:
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Discussion: @marthmerc
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