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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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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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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
In the wake of Gawker's troubles, veteran editors reflect on their worst mistakes — ‘I still have the ulcer’: Veteran editors on their worst mistakes — It's been a bad time for Gawker, which continues to deal with the aftermath of its decision to publish, then unpublish …
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Media Wire Daily, @lmoses, @sarahw and @romenesko
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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the Econsultancy blog, @niallharbison, The Next Web and Pocket-lint
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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Lisa Beilfuss / Wall Street Journal:
In first earnings report since Gannett spin-off, Tegna reports revenue up 4.2% to $1.52B but profit down to $115.9M from $208.5M a year ago — Tegna's Profit Falls in First Report Since Gannett Spinoff — Digital offerings including Cars.com and CareerBuilder.com represented nearly all of the second-quarter's top line
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USA Today, Business Wire and TVNewsCheck.com
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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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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&, @raju, @mrjohncrowley, Poynter, @digidave and @niemanlab
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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Guido Fawkes, @camillalong, @timesoneill, @henrymance, @kayburley and @wallaceme
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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Publishers Weekly and @ronmartinez
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.
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@jamesrichardson and @megkrakauer
Paul Revoir / Guardian:
BBC iPlayer ‘watched by more than 60 million people outside the UK for free’ — Research finds more than 38 million people in China are using VPNs or proxy servers to watch BBC shows - and could be a useful source of revenue — More than 60 million people around the world …
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 …
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