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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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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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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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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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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
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Verizon added 26K subs for FiOS video service in Q2, down from 100K a year ago; one-third of FiOS customers also opted for Custom TV packages — The telecom giant's FiOS video service added 26,000 subscribers, compared with 100,000 in the year-ago quarter.
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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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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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Inti Landauro / Wall Street Journal:
Charlie Hebdo's profits, normally distributed amongst shareholders, will be reinvested in the company in this year in act of good will following staff dispute — Charlie Hebdo's Owners Won't Keep Newspaper's Profits This Year — Will reinvest money in company; sales had skyrocketed after Paris terrorist attack
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
How KPCC in Los Angeles grew its Latino listenership while trying to keep its traditional audience — In California, Latinos now outnumber whites as the largest ethnic group in the state, and Los Angeles County is home to the largest Latino population of any county in the United States.
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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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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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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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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