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Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Ellen Pao out as Reddit CEO, co-founder and original CEO Steve Huffman takes over immediately; Pao to remain as adviser to the board through end of 2015 — Pao Out as Reddit CEO; Co-Founder Huffman Takes Over — Ellen Pao is stepping down as Reddit's CEO, a move that comes amid mounting pressure …
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Sam Altman / Reddit:
Sam Altman promises clarity about content policy of Reddit, says team will create guidelines — An old team at reddit — Ellen Pao resigned from reddit today by mutual agreement. I'm delighted to announce that Steve Huffman, founder and the original reddit CEO, is returning as CEO.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Bloomberg fires top digital editor Josh Topolsky — Joshua Topolsky, the top digital editor at Bloomberg, has been fired from the company due to Michael Bloomberg's frustration with the website, sources with knowledge of his departure told the On Media blog on Friday.
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Bloomberg Editor in Chief John Micklethwait has worked to consolidate editorial authority amid staff tumult since his arrival from The Economist — At Bloomberg, John Micklethwait channels an ancient ancestor — John Micklethwait's Bloomberg L.P. career kicked off with a good old-fashioned turf war.
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Politico, @talkingbiznews, @alexckaufman, @ryanchittum and @joepompeo
Robert Feder:
Ira Glass takes ownership of This American Life from Chicago Public Media in exchange for ongoing profits from the show and spinoff Serial — Ira Glass owns all of ‘This American Life’ — Twenty years after Ira Glass launched “This American Life” at WBEZ FM 91.5, the host and executive producer …
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Bloomberg Business:
At Sun Valley, New York Times CEO Mark Thompson talks about Facebook's Instant Articles, apps, and journalism careers — How New York Times Survives in a Social Media World — New York Times Company CEO Mark Thompson discusses the newspaper's digital strategy for the future with Olivia Sterns …
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KMVT-TV and FishbowlNY
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Staff changes in the video department at The New York Times signal ambitions of higher digital ad revenue — Long road ahead for the Times' video ambitions — The New York Times has come a long way since it created a video department 10 years ago, but it still has a long …
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Clicks, impressions, audience, and views still more important to ad buyers than attention-based metrics — Why ad buyers are slow to embrace attention metrics — For the past year, a handful of premium publishers have been pushing the idea of attention-based metrics.
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Seven US government agencies to start publishing online the records they release through Freedom of Information Act requests, in a six-month pilot — White House to make public records more public — The law that's supposed to keep citizens in the know about what their government is doing is about to get more robust.
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eMarketer:
New report estimates Netflix will have almost 70M subscribers by year-end, up 28% from end-2014, with Europe driving the expansion — Europe Helps Drive Netflix Subscriptions Worldwide — EU-5 residents will be key to regional growth — Netflix, the subscription video …
New York Times:
Sources: Facebook seeking licensing deals to insert music videos in users' feeds, said to offer better revenue sharing than YouTube — Facebook Said to Seek Music Video Licensing Deals — Over the last few years, Facebook has slowly encroached on YouTube's territory as a go-to outlet for online video …
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
The Turtles Aim to Halt the RIAA's $210 Million Settlement With SiriusXM — A deal over pre-1972 recordings is characterized as a “brazen attempt to disrupt and interfere with the class action process.” — The $210 million settlement that record giants made with SiriusXM over the use …
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