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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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BGR, USA Today, New York Times, The New Republic, The Week, The Daily Dot, @benthompson, The Daily Beast, bookforum.com, Washington Post, @awallenstein, @ethicaljourno29, International Business Times, Balloon Juice, @emilylhauser, @seanmcelwee, @joepompeo, Fortune, @karaswisher, @alexburnsnyt, @mccarthyryanj, @dylanmatt, @jesseisterrific, @niallstanage, @tomkludt, @fordm, @johnmcquaid, @speechboy71, @mattbors, @lpolgreen, E& and The New York Observer
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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Salt Lake Tribune
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Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
W.W.D. strikes syndication deal with Tribune Publishing
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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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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
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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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&, @raju, Poynter, @mrjohncrowley, @digidave and @niemanlab
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, Publishers Weekly and @ronmartinez
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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Washington Post
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
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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Reuters and @angelmsastre
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 …
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