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Gawker:
75% of Gawker Media editorial staff voted yes to unionize and be represented by Writers Guild of America, East — Gawker Media Votes To Unionize — Yesterday, more than 100 Gawker Media editorial employees voted on the question of whether to be represented by the Writers Guild of America …
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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
Twitter revokes API access for Sunlight Foundation's Politwhoops site, which showed politicians' deleted tweets, cites violation of developer agreement — Twitter Just Killed Politwoops — A Twitter spokesperson just provided the following statement to Gawker regarding the apparent suspension …
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Mashable, Politico, Gawker, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, BREITBART.COM, Sky News, Guardian, Washington Times, PandoDaily, Sunlight Foundation Blog, softpedia, Engadget, @kinggary, @onyxfish, Reuters, @politaoke, The Hill, @steeph, VentureBeat, @mcandrew, MediaNama, @mattcutts, The Next Web, @digiphile, @fmanjoo, @elaheizadi, @jeffyoung, @jktrotter, @pbump and Sunlight Foundation Blog
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Alibaba Invests $194M Into China Business News To Build A Financial Data Platform — Alibaba, the Chinese internet giant, is currently focused on investing internationally to grow its business, but is also continuing to build out operations at home. In the latest move, it has invested $193.6 million …
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Patrick Frater / Variety:
China's Alibaba Pictures Raising $1.6 Billion in Share Sale
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Deadline, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Hollywood Reporter, Reuters and Bloomberg Business
Ryan Knutson / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Dish in early stage merger talks with T-Mobile US; combined company likely to have Charlie Ergen as chairman, John Legere as CEO — Dish Network in Merger Talks With T-Mobile US — Dish, T-Mobile Have Agreed Charlie Ergen Would Be Chairman, John Legere CEO
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Re/code, Forbes, Reuters, Bloomberg Business, AppleInsider, GeekWire and ZDNet
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Politico's VandeHei on aiming for influencers, cheapening content in search of scale, and keeping editorial and business separate — Politico's Jim VandeHei: Scale is a ‘deal with the devil’ — At a time when publishers are grappling to diversify their revenue beyond advertising, Politico has an enviable business model.
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@jasonclampet and @digiday
CNNMoney:
Leaked Arianna Huffington memo shows focus on continued global expansion, investment in video, acquisitions, and a global newsroom — Read Arianna Huffington's plan to ‘dominate the industry’ — CNNMoney has obtained a copy of the Huffington Post's strategy for growth …
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@lisahopeking and @gjbarb
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
SoundCloud signs licensing deal to pay independent labels for music streams — Partnership with licensing agency Merlin also covers the company's plans for a paid music subscription service later in 2015 — SoundCloud has struck a deal with licensing agency Merlin that it says will help …
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New York Times, Music Ally, hypebot and Consequence of Sound
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Yandex Launches Yandex.Radio, A Curated Free Music Service For Russian Users — Amid reports that Russia will be one of the first countries to get access to the new music service that Apple is reportedly launching next week, Russian search giant Yandex is enhancing its own.
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AllAccess.com, StreetInsider.com and The Next Web
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
DailyMail.com Invests $3 Million in Web Content Marketing Firm Taboola — DailyMail.com is investing $3 million in the content recommendation firm Taboola as the companies plan to develop advertising products together, including several that are geared toward improving the performance of sponsor-produced content.
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Globes Online, Adweek, Marketing Dive, Jewish Business News, @mathewi, @rafat and Benzinga
AAP:
Australian government document showing no evidence Peter Greste has broken any laws could lead to his acquittal in Egypt — Australian government document could lead to acquittal — Journalist who spent 400 days in an Egyptian prison hopes that because he has not committed a crime in Australia, all charges will finally be dropped
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@nourhanmagdi, @melbpressclub, @sharifkouddous, @kristenmctighe, @sherinet, @sharifkouddous and NEWS.com.au
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Snapchat hires Sean Mills, former president of NowThis and The Onion, as Head of Original Content — Snapchat has hired Sean Mills to be its Head of Original content based in New York City, Business Insider has learned. This is Mills' first week on the job. — The company confirmed the hire to Business Insider.
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Reynolds Center, Business Pundit and The Wrap
Tony Maglio / The Wrap:
‘Transparent’ Season 1 Lands Audio Commentary Version on Amazon — Amazon unveiled an audio commentary version of critically acclaimed new series “Transparent” on Wednesday, with participation from creator Jill Soloway and cast members Jeffrey Tambor, Judith Light, Gaby Hoffmann, Amy Landecker and Jay Duplass.
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USA Today, Variety, The Next Web and Amazon.com
Emily Shackleton / Press Gazette:
Map of UK's local newspapers and websites reveals London news gap — London is one of the least covered region in the UK by local newspapers according to new research by Press Gazette. — Data detailing all the current active local newspapers in the UK reveals that London …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Tablet magazine charges for access to its comments, which has moved conversation to its Facebook page, says comment quality has increased and traffic is steady — After deciding to charge for comments, Tablet's conversation moves...to Facebook — After its publication on May 19 …
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@niemanlab
Estelle Shirbon / Reuters:
Trinity Mirror to appeal £1.2M phone hacking compensation damages — Trinity Mirror to appeal against phone-hacking ruling — Britain's Trinity Mirror newspaper group will appeal against a court ruling ordering it to pay a total of 1.2 million pounds in damages to eight phone-hacking victims …
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BBC, Press Gazette, Financial Times and Life Style Extra
Jacob Adelman / Philly.com:
The Jewish Exponent lays off Philadelphia-based editorial staff, transferring newsroom management to Baltimore — Philadelphia's Jewish Exponent lays off local editorial team — The Jewish Exponent, the nation's second-oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper …
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