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Ashley Feinberg / Gawker:
Reddit moderators shut down popular subreddits after apparent removal of Victoria Taylor, AMA coordinator and Reddit's director of talent — Reddit In Chaos After Allegedly Firing AMA Coordinator Victoria Taylor — If you tried to visit r/IAmA, one of Reddit's biggest subs, recently …
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
As expensive trial looms, a look at Gawker's financials: $6.52M in operating income in 2014 on $44.2M revenue; debt financing from Silicon Valley Bank — Gawker dodges potentially deadly Hulk Hogan lawsuit — for now — Gawker boss Nick Denton was sitting in the Gramercy Cafe in Manhattan …
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
The Hulk Hogan versus Gawker sex tape trial delayed
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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
The Guardian US is opening a San Francisco bureau; staff includes Merope Mills, Paul Lewis, Jemima Kiss, and Nigel M. Smith — Merope Mills and Paul Lewis to head up new west coast US bureau for The Guardian — The Guardian is launching an editorial office in San Francisco.
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FishbowlNY, @meropemills, @pressgazette and @meropemills
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
How The New York Times uses startup KeyWee for natural language analysis to find keywords to target Facebook audiences — How The New York Times finds new subscribers on Facebook — Publishers have a lot of tools to bring readers back to their site. But often those visitors amount …
Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code:
Nielsen: songs streamed in the US up 92.4% YoY to 135.2B, digital song sales down 10.4% to 531.6M, in the first half of 2015 — Americans Stream 135 Billion Songs in First Half of Year — Americans streamed a staggering 135 billion songs and music videos in the first half of 2015 …
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VVN Music, Ars Technica and 9to5Mac
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
SoundCloud updates iOS app with “play related tracks” feature that creates a stream of songs — In Wake Of Apple Music, SoundCloud Update Focuses On Music Discovery, Better User Experience — All the buzz this week may be about the launch of Apple Music …
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SoundCloud, SiliconANGLE, Engadget and 9to5Mac
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
Martin Beck / Marketing Land:
Twitter Updates Audience Insights & Introduces Persona Targeting — New features give advertisers more demographic information about their paid audiences and streamlines category targeting. — Twitter today announced an update to its audience insights dashboard and introduced a streamlined …
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The Twitter Blog, BuzzFeed, Adweek, VentureBeat and The Next Web
Andy Cush / Gawker:
Texas town apologizes for sending Gawker a FOIA request bill for $79K related to police abuse video, calls it a mistake — McKinney, Texas, Apologizes for “Erroneous” $79,000 FOIA Bill — Wednesday evening, a spokeswoman for McKinney, Texas, apologized to Gawker for sending a $79,000 bill …
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@bubbaprog and @chrisgeidner
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Digital media M&A grew in first half of 2015, with 1,243 deals globally, up about 24% from 1,000 in first half of 2014 — Digital Media M&A Accelerated in First Half of 2015 — Mergers and acquisitions in the digital media space are accelerating, according to data from investment banking and strategic advisory firms.
Robert Faturechi / ProPublica:
MPAA paid to renovate screening rooms in at least four US embassies in 2014 as it lobbied US government on piracy and copyright rules — As Hollywood Lobbied State Department, It Built Free Home Theaters for U.S. Embassies — Four U.S. Embassies got upgraded screening rooms last year …
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@eff, @robertfaturechi and @robertfaturechi
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Prince sends takedown requests to Spotify, Rdio, and Deezer — Prince Won't Stream 4 U (Unless You're On Tidal, Or Maybe Google Music) — Call it the Taylor effect: it looks like another high-profile musician is sharpening his arrows to take aim at how streaming music services pay artists.
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