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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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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
In the wake of Gawker's troubles, veteran editors reflect on their worst mistakes
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@digiday, @lmoses, @sarahw, @romenesko and Media Wire Daily
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”
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Madeline Welsh / Nieman Lab:
The Salt Lake Tribune, its future uncertain, offers to eliminate all its ads — for 10 bucks a month — The Trib is looking for members. — On Monday, The Salt Lake Tribune launched a membership program that was first announced last week. Described as being for frequent visitors …
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Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
W.W.D. strikes syndication deal with Tribune Publishing
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Folio and Media Wire Daily
Christopher Heine / Adweek:
GoPro introduces stock video licensing service, starting with 600 videos priced at $1K each and up — Brands Are About to Find Out How Powerful GoPro Videos Can Be — Spellbinding scenes captured by adventure seekers and even wildlife made GoPro the hottest video camera around.
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GoPro, @niallharbison, the Econsultancy blog, The Next Web and Pocket-lint
Michael Malone / Broadcasting & Cable:
Tegna to Sell Headquarters for $270 Million — Former Gannett TV division shopping for new digs — Tegna, as the former Gannett broadcasting division is known, has signed a contract to sell its McLean, Virginia headquarters to private investment group Tamares for $270 million.
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E& and Media Wire Daily
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Thomas Gryta / Wall Street Journal:
FCC Poised to Approve AT&T's $49 Billion Acquisition of DirecTV — FCC Approval Would Clear Path for AT&T to Close Deal — Federal regulators are poised to approve AT&T Inc. 's $49 billion acquisition of DirecTV, according to people familiar with the matter, ending a review process …
Felix Salmon / Guardian:
Advertising is making the mobile web almost unusable by clogging bandwidth, which may drive readers to Apple News or Facebook apps — Ad tech is killing the online experience — Advertising is making the mobile web almost unusable by clogging up our bandwidth - which may end up driving users to Apple News or Facebook apps
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Variety:
Penske Media Corporation, owner of Variety, acquires Gold Derby, a website that predicts who will win major entertainment award shows — Penske Media Corporation Acquires Gold Derby — Gold Derby, a website dedicated to predicting the winners at major entertainment awards shows …
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The Wrap and FishbowlNY
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Met press office provided journalists' mobile numbers so police could view call records and find sources — The Metropolitan Police made a series of errors in secret applications to view the phone records of Sun journalists and showed a complete failure to consider issues around the confidentiality of sources, a court heard.
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@camillalong, @timesoneill, @henrymance, @kayburley, @wallaceme and Guido Fawkes
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 …
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E&, Poynter, @raju, @mrjohncrowley, @digidave and @niemanlab
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Cory Haik named WaPo's executive director of emerging news products — Cory Haik, the brains behind The Washington Post's skunkworks devoted to technological experimentation, has been named executive director of emerging news products there. — Haik, currently an executive producer …
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Christine Magee / TechCrunch:
Booktrack Pulls In Another $5 Million To Put Audio To E-Books — Booktrack, a startup out of New Zealand that creates soundtracks to accompany e-books, has raised another $5 million in funding to make sure that reading is no longer a quiet activity. — Led by COENT Venture Partners …
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GalleyCat, @ronmartinez and Publishers Weekly
Owen Williams / The Next Web:
Google kills Streamus, a popular third party Chrome extension with 300K users that queued YouTube songs to play in background — How YouTube killed an extension with 300,000 users — Streamus, the Chrome extension that turns YouTube into a serious music service, has been neutered by Google …
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Tubefilter and Variety
Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Q2 beats estimates with revenue of $1.04B, misses on earnings with $0.16 EPS — Yahoo's Q2 Manages A Slim Revenue Beat, But Its Per-Share Profit Of $0.16 Dissapoints — Today, Yahoo reported its second quarter financial performance, including $1.04 billion in revenue after discounting …
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The Wrap, investor.yahoo.net, VentureBeat, Re/code, TIME, Re/code, CNET, Fortune, @vindugoel, @lauramandaro and @emilychangtv
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Harper's is launching a metered paywall; readers can read one story a month for free — Harper's Launches Metered Paywall — Notoriously anti-web Harper's is easing things up a bit. And we stress “a bit.” Harper's is introducing a metered paywall, which will allow readers the chance …
Alistair Dawber / The Independent:
Three Spanish journalists kidnapped in Syria — Three Spanish journalists have been kidnapped near the Syrian city of Aleppo. — It is believed that the three - Antonio Pampliega, José Manuel López and Ángel Sastre - were taken about 10 days ago.
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