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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.
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 …
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.
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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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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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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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Press can't see Hulk Hogan sex tape at trial, judge orders
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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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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 …
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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Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
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