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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 — Comcast, investor in Vox Media and Recode, could end up buying them both — Vox on the block.
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@alexjamesfitz, @nxthompson, New York Times, BGR, @mathewi and @nytimesbusiness
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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
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Re/code, American Press Institute, Talking Biz News, The Week, @reckless and @ezraklein
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
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Re/code:
Vox Media Acquires Re/code Owner Revere Digital
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Nieman Lab, The Awl, Folio, Vox Media Blog, Adweek, USA Today, Mashable, The Wrap, Reynolds Center, bizjournals, NBC News, Newsweek, Bloomberg View, Poynter, @brooke, @emilybell, MediaNama, AdAge, Wall Street Journal, The Week, Guardian, Media Wire Daily, Variety, Boing Boing, E&, GeekWire, WWD, @digiphile, @voxmediainc, Gawker, The Huffington Post, VentureBeat and Daring Fireball
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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BuzzFeed, @caw_, @mccollumashley, @clarajeffery, @buzzfeedben, @peretti, @mat, @ericbuth and The Drum
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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 …
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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WWD, 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, The Buttry Diary, Poynter, Journalism.co.uk and @vivian
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, @acpress, @spjdana, @digiphile, @digiphile and The New York Observer
Mathew Ingram / Fortune:
GigaOm was probably purchased for less than $1M, new owner will monetize existing and new evergreen content — Can a news site be reborn? Gigaom readers are about to find out — For many, the name Gigaom may have already faded into the mists of time, like any number of other media startups …
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Om Malik, Poynter, @mike_hogan, @tomgara, @mathewi, bizjournals, Fast Company and The Verge
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 …
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 …
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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TVNewser, FishbowlNY and Poynter
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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The Next Web, Mobile World Live, Geeky Gadgets, Tech News Today, SlashGear, Wired, ITProPortal, PC Pro, bizjournals, Business Insider and Mashable
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Suddenlink Inks Hulu Deal to Stream Service via Set-Tops, While Shunning Viacom — Midsize cable operator Suddenlink Communications won't carry Viacom's networks — but it has just reached a deal with Hulu to offer subscribers access to the Internet TV service's premium VOD service.
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