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Katie Benner / Bloomberg View:
After Re/code's sale, the overlooked subscription business model for news sites looks better than ad-based models — Re/code's Sale and Life After Advertising — After the tech news site Re/code sold itself to Vox Media, reports in Fortune and the New York Post noted that the deal …
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Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
Comcast, an investor in Re/code, encouraged publication to sell, has restarted talks with Vox Media over acquisition after they fell through because of price
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Fortune, The Awl, Nieman Lab, @karaswisher, PandoDaily, BGR, Talking Biz News, USA Today, New York Times, New York Magazine, @nxthompson, Digital Media Wire, @mathewi, @alexjamesfitz, bizjournals, Slate and Newsweek
Sam Thielman / Guardian:
Stockbait? BuzzFeed announces IPO as clicks and videos keep public hooked — Chief executive Jonah Peretti has not offered a timeline for the move, but investors will want to know after site was valued at $850m in August — BuzzFeed is planning an IPO, the company's CEO, Jonah Peretti, announced at a tech conference on Wednesday.
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Re/code, Fast Company, The Drum, @simonnricketts, Business Insider and PandoDaily
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune-owned Gracenote acquires sports data companies for $54M to provide schedules, live scores, play-by-play stats, and more — Gracenote launches sports data service with two acquisitions — Gracenote, the digital and data arm of Tribune Media, on Thursday announced the acquisition …
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Wall Street Journal
Adam Thomson / Financial Times:
Luxury group LVMH in talks to acquire French daily newspaper La Parisian for an estimated €50M — LVMH in talks to buy Le Parisien newspaper — LVMH, the world's biggest luxury group by sales, has entered exclusive negotiations to acquire French daily newspaper Le Parisien as part of a drive to build up its media business.
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John Brownlee / Co.Design:
The Kindle Finally Gets Typography That Doesn't Suck — Amazon's Kindle e-reader is a lovely single-purpose gadget, with an industrial design ethos that, in its singular focus on the purity of e-reading, even Dieter Rams could love. The iOS and Android apps are even great.
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The Verge, The Next Web, Good E-Reader, Ink, Bits, & Pixels and Boing Boing
Micah Lee / The Intercept:
First Look Publishes Open Source Code To Advance Privacy, Security, and Journalism — The Intercept and its publisher First Look Media strongly believe in the benefits of free and open source software — in part because we rely on such software every day. To keep our journalists and sources safe …
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@talkopan and @rj_gallagher
Jeff Elder / Wall Street Journal:
Mary Meeker Cites Slower Web Growth in Annual Trends Talk … Mary Meeker, the famed analyst-turned-venture capitalist, warned in her annual Internet trends report on Wednesday that Internet and mobile user growth is slowing, which could affect the prospects of a range of high-profile Web startups.
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Nieman Lab, Wall Street Journal, Re/code, Business Insider, Bloomberg Business, Adweek and Adweek
Nic Christensen / mUmBRELLA:
News Corp Australia to close MX commuter newspapers in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane in two weeks — News Corp to axe commuter mX newspapers — News Corp Australia is scrapping its struggling free mX commuter newspapers, Mumbrella understands. — The news comes just two months …
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@themurdochtimes, @bencubby, @nicchristensen, @kevinairs442, @feefeecee and @della79
Dan Reimold / Nieman Lab:
Mt. San Antonio College's newspaper finds success focusing on realtime reporting and distribution via Medium and Twitter — What happened when a college newspaper abandoned its website for Medium and Twitter — The Mountaineer student newspaper at California's Mt. San Antonio College no longer exists.
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@ericnewton1
Rick Gladstone / New York Times:
Jason Rezaian Trial in Iran May Be More About Leverage Than Justice — On Oct. 16, 2010, Europe's top foreign policy official proposed a date for resuming stalled nuclear talks with Iran. The same day, Iran said it had freed Reza Taghavi, an American business executive incarcerated without charge for more than two years.
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USA Today and @shreeyasinha
James Warren / Poynter:
US ambassador and ex-journalist Samantha Power urges UN to help journalists in conflict zones — Samantha Power calls on UN to protect journalists in conflict zones as Russia portrays itself as victim — The United States urged the United Nations Wednesday “to ensure that people …
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