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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.
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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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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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Re/code, American Press Institute, Talking Biz News, @reckless, @ezraklein and The Week
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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Financial Times:
German court rules Adblock's practices of blocking ads and letting some through for a fee is legal, in a second legal win for Adblock this year — Adblocking group wins fresh legal round in media fight — Jeevan Vasagar in Berlin and Henry Mance in London
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Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
Ad blocking keeps rising, leaving publishers few options unless they change relationships with readers
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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.
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FishbowlNY and @goldsbie
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, Journalism.co.uk, The Buttry Diary, Poynter and @vivian
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 …
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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.
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Poynter, @spjdana, @digiphile, @digiphile and The New York Observer
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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Knight Foundation, ASU, @chanders and Poynter
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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