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Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
Denton talks about editorial freedom, official editorial policy, and changing standards; staff meets again Tuesday — Gawker's Denton: ‘This is not the company I built’ — “This is the very, very worst version of the company,” Gawker Media founder and C.E.O. Nick Denton told …
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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
Executive editor Tommy Craggs and editor-in-chief Max Read resign from Gawker; Craggs says advertisers threatened to pull out over escort story — Tommy Craggs and Max Read are Resigning from Gawker — Tommy Craggs, the executive editor of Gawker Media, and Max Read, the editor-in-chief of Gawker.com …
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Nick Denton had been at odds with Executive Editor Tommy Craggs over company's long-term direction, with Denton telling Craggs that Gawker was “too mean” — Gawker's Existential Crisis — Is the notoriously snarky media growing up, or falling apart? — Shares
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Nick Denton:
Gawker founder Nick Denton issues statement, says he alone decided to remove story about male escort but had support of managing partnership — To All of Edit at Gawker Media — The Managing Partnership as a whole is responsible for the Company's management and direction, but they do not and should not make editorial decisions.
Anthony Clark / The Gainvesville Sun:
Grooveshark co-founder Josh Greenberg, 28, found dead at home; no evidence of foul play, injuries or drugs found — Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home — Grooveshark co-founder Josh Greenberg, a pioneer in Gainesville's student startup movement, was found dead in his bed Sunday …
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Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
Veterans of Glenn Beck's The Blaze launch new digital magazine, Autonomous, on Medium — Veterans of Glenn Beck's The Blaze launch digital magazine — A handful of veterans of Glenn Beck's The Blaze website are setting up shop on Medium today, with the launch of a new publication called Autonomous.
Bloomberg Business:
Pearson to Explore Sale of Financial Times — Pearson Plc is exploring a sale of the Financial Times after receiving interest from potential buyers, according to people familiar with the matter. — London-based Pearson is sounding out possible bidders for the salmon-colored newspaper …
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Mark Armstrong / Longreads Blog:
Writer of Grantland's “Dr. V's Magical Putter”, Caleb Hannan, says his wife and a fact checker raised questions about the story before it was published — ‘Dr. V’ Writer Caleb Hannan Speaks for the First Time About What Went Wrong … Out of everyone who read an early draft of …
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Bloomberg Business:
YouTube signs most of its partners for paid service but no shows from major TV networks yet — Google's YouTube Signs Up Everyone But TV for New Paid Service … Google Inc.'s YouTube, which has signed up partners for a new paid video service, may find out by early next year whether …
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Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
W.W.D. strikes syndication deal with Tribune Publishing — Penske Media's W.W.D. has struck a syndication deal with Tribune Publishing, seeing the fashion trade magazine's coverage of the industry appear on LATimes.com, as well in print form for certain Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune …
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Prismatic pivots from offering consumer-facing news aggregation to B2B services for publishers, developers, and hedge funds — Prismatic Pivots To B2B, Packaging Its Content Interest Graph Into APIs For Different Verticals — The market for news reading apps got a little more crowded earlier …
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Frederic Filloux / Monday Note:
20 news sites loaded a total of 516 trackers from about 100 vendors to monitor users' browsing; about 60% of the trackers were ad-related — 20 Home Pages, 500 Trackers Loaded: Media Succumbs to Monitoring Frenzy — 20 Home Pages, 500 Trackers Loaded: Media Succumbs to Monitoring Frenzy">Tweet
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Madeline Welsh / Nieman Lab:
Wall Street Journal decreases focus on live video programming, allocates more resources to video with news articles — From “WSJ Live” to “WSJ Video”: Publishers step away from dreams of live TV-style broadcasting online — For The Wall Street Journal, it was just a change in an icon …
Press Gazette:
Sun tells tribunal that Met violated journalists' rights with secret grab of phone records — The rights of Sun journalists were “unquestionably violated” when the Metropolitan Police secretly obtained their phone records, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal has heard.
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