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Jane Martinson / Guardian:
BBC to cut more than 1,000 jobs in cost-savings push — Managers and back office functions to be cut to make up for a funding shortfall of £150m largely due to the faster-than-expected switch to online viewing — The BBC is to cut more than 1,000 jobs, mainly by slashing layers …
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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
NUJ: BBC ‘sensible’ to target management ‘chiefs’ in latest round of job cuts — The National Union of Journalists has described the BBC's 1,000 management-targeted cuts as “sensible”, contrasting them with a decade of job losses further down the corporation.
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Variety and National Union of Journalists
Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:
As expensive trial looms, Gawker releases financials: $6.52M in operating income in 2014 on $44.2M revenue — Breaking: This Is How Much Money Gawker Is Making — Despite Hulk of a lawsuit, financials show Gawker making money, moves. — In advance of the now-postponed trial between Gawker …
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Quartz, @zseward, @danprimack, @kbsmoke, @alexweprin and @daviduberti
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
The Hulk Hogan versus Gawker sex tape trial delayed — Florida's Second District Court of Appeal ruled Thursday that the trial centered around Gawker's publication of a sex tape featuring Hogan will not begin on July 6 because of a legal technicality. The judge had not allowed sufficient …
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Tampa Bay Times, Gawker, Poynter, Gawker, 10NEWS, @brianstelter, Reason and Poynter
Greg Gilman / The Wrap:
Salon Media Editorial Staff to Unionize With Writers Guild of America — The editorial department at Salon Media, Inc. is following in Gawker's footsteps by organizing with the Writer's Guild of America, East. — Staff writers announced the decision on Thursday with a letter …
Ellen Cushing / BuzzFeed:
On the road with teen social-media stars of DigiTour, estimated to bring in up to $20M in 2015 — On The Road With The Teen Social-Media Sensations Of DigiTour … Hayes Grier is hungry. It's well after 9 p.m., after a two-hour show and a long day, and the dinner delivery guy is running late …
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Business Insider, The Awl and @digiphile
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Lifetime launches SVOD service, drawing on archive of movies, will charge $3.99 a month — Lifetime Digs Into Original Movie Vault to Launch SVOD Service — Lifetime is digging into its library of original movies to launch an SVOD service offering a package of about 30 vintage telepics for $3.99 a month.
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Broadcasting & Cable, Wall Street Journal, Consumerist and FierceCable
Glenn Peoples / Billboard:
Apple Music's Goal: Some Subscribers Now, Lots of Hardware Sales Later — Will Apple Music turn around the record business? Will Apple Music help Apple sell more iPhones and laptops? There are some guesses but little certainty to both questions. — While the music industry …
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Micah Singleton / The Verge:
Facebook has held early talks with the major music labels, future plans may involve the company's video platform — Facebook is talking with music labels, but why? — Facebook has held talks with the major labels about “getting into music,” multiple sources tell The Verge.
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RAIN News, VatorNews, hypebot, Business Insider, Guardian and @toptechticker
Variety:
ESPN Denies Report on Keith Olbermann Censorship — ESPN has denied a story by the Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday that claimed the network wants host Keith Olbermann to suspend commentary from his program. — “Keith has never been told any topic is off limits for his commentary nor …
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Milton Kent / Washington Post:
Keith Olbermann and ESPN may be heading for another breakup
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Hollywood Reporter, Deadspin, The Big Lead, Deadline, Mediaite, The Daily Caller and Sporting News Feed RSS
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
In 2014, Fusion posted a loss of $35M, with $28.1M in revenue and $63.4M in expenses — Univision I.P.O. sheds light on Fusion's finances — Univision's upcoming I.P.O. will be the biggest media I.P.O. in years, thanks to the company's dominance among Spanish-language consumers.
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Gawker, @alexweprin, @mathewi, @steve_katz and @raju
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Unpaid interns' court victory against Fox Entertainment overturned by Second Circuit Court of Appeals — Interns' Big Victory Against Fox Vacated by Appeals Court — 2nd Circuit says the true test of whether internships must be paid comes down to whether the intern or the employer is the primary beneficiary of the relationship.
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Crain's New York, The Wrap and Deadline
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Univision Files for IPO — Univision Holdings said Thursday that it has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering. — The number of shares to be offered in the IPO and the price range for the stock offering …
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CNNMoney, Variety, Financial Times and Reuters
Damaris Colhoun / Columbia Journalism Review:
Inside the tensions at Bloomberg News, facing several recent high-level departures and rumors that Mike Bloomberg wants to scale back some enterprise reporting — Bloomberg's new regime and tensions over the editorial vision — In April, Zachary Mider's groundbreaking story …
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@cjr, @tunkuv, @rafat, @id4ro, @sulliview, @sohrabahmari, @louwhiteman, @cjr and @kenli729
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