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Ashley Feinberg / Gawker:
Reddit mods take popular subreddits private after removal of Victoria Taylor; Ellen Pao says Reddit has underserved site mods, added 5 people to community team — Reddit In Chaos After Allegedly Firing AMA Coordinator Victoria Taylor — If you tried to visit r/IAmA, one of Reddit's biggest subs …
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Ryan Devereaux / The Intercept:
In 2011, CIA outed German spy official who was leaking information to Der Spiegel; Der Spiegel files complaint with its government — Report: After Spying Operation in Germany, CIA Outed Suspected Leaker to Retaliate Against Journalists — Image: The United States embassy in Berlin, Germany.
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CNN, @ioerror, @dogthefootsteps, @ioerror, @kaboom1776, The Verge, @mtaibbi and Associated Press
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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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
153 Met Police staff probed for media leaks in 10 years, more than doubling in Leveson years — 153 Met Police staff investigated over media leaks in ten years - probes more than doubled in Leveson years — The frequency of Metropolitan Police press leak investigations nearly tripled …
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 …
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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JIMROMENESKO.COM, @alexweprin, @nicknotned, @zseward, @danprimack, Quartz, Wall Street Journal and The New York Observer
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
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
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
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.
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Marc Herman / Columbia Journalism Review:
Spain's Citizen Security Law makes it illegal to disseminate content deemed “damaging” to police and security forces — Under Spain's gag law, covering the news could cost you — One evening last month, a police helicopter swooped over my neighborhood of mid-sized apartment blocks in Barcelona.
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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