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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Time acquires two youth-focused digital sports firms, SportsSignup and LeagueAthletics.com, digital scorecard firm iScore Sports, and events company inVNT — Time Inc. Acquires Youth Sports Firms, Creates ‘Sports Illustrated Play’ Unit — Time Inc. has acquired three youth-focused digital sports companies …
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Folio, Talking New Media, WWD and mUmBRELLA
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
GoPro hires former Hulu original series chief, Charlotte Koh, as head of features and series for content push — GoPro Hires Former Hulu Original Series Chief for Content Push (Exclusive) — GoPro is getting ready to step up its content game: Charlotte Koh, who used to lead Hulu's original …
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Fortune and App Advice
David McCabe / The Hill:
Consumer group files FTC complaint against Google, seeking to extend right to be forgotten to US — Group demands that Google offer users the ‘right to be forgotten’ — A group on Tuesday filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) arguing that Google should allow users …
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Washington Post, InfoWorld, Quartz and NBC News
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Concerns about copyright law lead to takedown from Medium of translated Thomas Piketty comments originally from Die Zeit — Copyright Takes Down High-Profile Translation Of Thomas Piketty's Comments On Germany & Greek Debt — Here we go again with copyright taking content away from the public, rather than the other way around.
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Washington Post, Mashable, Slate, @gavinschalliol and @gavinschalliol
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Q&A with Associated Press editor Mary Rajkumar on how stories of modern-day slavery led to the freedom of hundreds — AP editor: 'It's not every day that we help get hundreds of slaves freed.' — Last week, Associated Press reporter Margie Mason told the next chapter in a dramatic story the AP started telling in March.
Mike Farrell / Multichannel News:
CBS plans debt offering of $800M, with proceeds for general purposes including stock buyback — CBS to Issue $800M in Debt — Senior Notes to Help Repurchase Shares, Retire Debt — CBS said it will commence an $800 million offering of senior notes later this week, proceeds of which will be used to repurchase its own shares.
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PR Newswire and The Wrap
Reeves Wiedeman / New York Magazine:
A look at the prospects for ESPN's The Undefeated, still not launched and regrouping after Jason Whitlock's departure — Jason Whitlock and the Messy Saga of ESPN's ‘Black Grantland’ — He has been fired from the website he was supposed to create. The fallout is revealing cracks in ESPN's empire.
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Deadspin
Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:
Bruce Headlam, New York Times' managing editor for video, moving to another senior newsroom role — Bruce Headlam out, too, in Times video shake-up — In a restrucuring of The New York Times' video operations, Bruce Headlam, managing editor for video, will leave that role for another …
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Video chief Rebecca Howard to leave New York Times
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New York Times, Media Wire Daily, @joepompeo and @tmcgev
Stowe Boyd / Gigaom Research:
Gigaom Research is relaunching under new owner Knowingly; existing subscriptions to be extended four months — Rebooting Gigaom Research — On March 9 2015, Gigaom ceased operations because of the insolvency of Giga Omni, the corporation behind the scenes.
Chris Sutcliffe / TheMediaBriefing:
How Norweigian publisher Schibsted's single log-in across all properties lets it successfully monetize mobile content — Schibsted's head of data: Publishers need to keep pace with tech companies to make money from mobile — Arvid Cedergen will be speaking at Monetising Media 2015 in London.
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Showtime officially launches streaming service for the web, Apple TV, iOS, Roku, and Playstation Vue, does not require a cable subscription — You can now subscribe to Showtime online — Showtime is now offering an online subscription, allowing customers to watch its shows and movies without also getting cable.
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Business Insider, Multichannel News, MacRumors, USA Today, TVbytheNumbers, Deadline, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Re/code, Adweek and TechCrunch
Nicola Davis / Observer:
Inside British Library's operation to digitize and preserve 300 years of newspaper content — Not fade away... how robots are preserving our old newspapers — In a Yorkshire outpost of the British Library, archivists using the latest conservation technology are racing to digitise 300 years …
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Cuts to the BBC would threaten the whole TV industry, says Pact chair — Expected cuts including £650m cost of free licence fees for over 75s being taken on by corporation would harm quality, claims Laura Mansfield — Cuts to the BBC would threaten the rest of the TV ecosystem …
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