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Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
At Gawker meeting, Denton says editorial must take business and advertising concerns into consideration — The ‘Gawker tax’ is getting too high, Denton tells his staff — Gawker Media is a business. — That's the message that C.E.O. Nick Denton had for his editorial employees yesterday …
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Guardian, Fortune, @antderosa, @petersterne, @jayrosen_nyu, @jayrosen_nyu, @tylercoates, @leonlazaroff, @patrickcoffee, @raju, @clarajeffery, @leahfinnegan, @paulszoldra, @mathewi and @hadas_gold
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Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
Drama at Gawker and Reddit reflects practical limits of absolute freedom of expression, even for native Internet companies that have opposed self-censorship — Limits at Gawker? Rules at Reddit? Wild West Web Turns a Page — Facing the abrupt resignations of two of his top editors …
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Guardian, The New Republic, @adamweinstein, @jonathanmahler, @mattbuchanan, Slate and CNBC
Hadas Gold / Politico:
New York Times denies Nick Denton's claim that reporters' beats are changed to satisfy advertisers
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@hadas_gold and @petersterne
Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
Denton works to calm Gawker staff; Leah Beckmann was asked to serve as interim editor in chief, John Cook as interim executive editor
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Capital New York, @leahbeckmann, E&, @leahfinnegan, @leahfinnegan, @leahfinnegan, @leahfinnegan, @leahfinnegan, @leahfinnegan and Wall Street Journal
Zach Schonfeld / Newsweek:
How to Rage-Quit Your Prestigious Media Job on Principle
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Vox, @jordanm1125, @kbsmoke and @rubinafillion
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Rupert Murdoch said to have asked Roger Ailes to back off Trump coverage, took to social media when Ailes refused — Rupert Murdoch Wants to Stop Donald Trump, But First He's Got to Rein In Roger Ailes — Has Fox News spun out of the media mogul's control? — Shares
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New York Times, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, @mlcalderone, @gabrielsherman, The Daily Caller and Fox News
Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:
Bill Simmons to host weekly series on HBO debuting next year, deal includes work with HBO Sports, video podcasts and other digital platforms — Bill Simmons Lands at HBO With Multi-Platform Deal — Bill Simmons, the well-known “sports guy” who departed ESPN amid clashes with the network's top brass, has found his next perch: HBO.
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New York Times, TVNewser, Re/code, The Wrap, SI.com, Deadline, Hollywood Reporter, Associated Press, Talking Points Memo, Financial Times and Poynter
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Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
ESPN, Already Battling Rising Costs, Faces a Talent Drain — In just over two months, ESPN has lost three major personalities — a drain of renowned talent that is unusual in its suddenness. — First, Bill Simmons's contract was not renewed in early May.
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TVNewser
Todd Spangler / Variety:
AP to Put Nearly 17,000 Hours of Archival News Footage on YouTube — News org, together with British Movietone, aims to promote licensing deals with filmmakers for video segments — The Associated Press is uploading more than 550,000 video clips to YouTube — covering news events dating back to 1895 …
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Guardian, ap.org, FishbowlNY, Jezebel, The Independent, Associated Press, @niemanlab, 9to5Google, City A.M., Poynter, The Next Web and Broadcasting & Cable
Facebook Media:
Facebook now lets Page owners restrict their videos' audience by age and gender, add custom video thumbnails, and label videos based on interest categories — Customization and Control: New Tools for Video Publishers — We're building tools to help video publishers grow their businesses on Facebook …
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SocialTimes, Search Engine Journal, BetaNews, The Next Web, Marketing Land, Mashable, The Next Web and VentureBeat
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
BBC plans to cut 40 London-based jobs from Factual and Daytime division — Corporation aims to make cuts in division responsible for more 1,000 hours of programming a year as part of Delivering Quality First savings initiative — The BBC is planning to cut almost half the London-based production jobs …
Washpostpr / Washington Post:
The Washington Post files UN petition seeking Jason Rezaian's immediate release — The Washington Post has filed an urgent action petition with the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention asserting numerous violations of international law and seeking the immediate release of Post Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian.
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Washington Post, The Wrap, Guardian and Poynter
Mary Carolan / The Irish Times:
The Irish Times asks for injunction to stop Murdoch's The Times from using similar name in its forthcoming Irish edition — Trademark of ‘The Irish Times’ could be ‘blurred and diluted’ — Newspaper wants injunctions restraining use of the words ‘The Times Irish Edition’
Discussion:
Guardian and Independent.ie
Yuri Kageyama / Associated Press:
Worries grow about freelance Japanese journalist in Syria — 1 photo — TOKYO (AP) — Worries are growing about the whereabouts of a freelance Japanese journalist, last heard from one month ago in war-torn Syria, where reporting assignments have become among the most precarious in the world.
Discussion:
Committee to Protect …, Associated Press, Guardian, Poynter and The Independent
BBC:
Andy Coulson ordered to pay £150,000 prosecution costs — Andy Coulson served five months of an 18-month sentence in jail — Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson has been ordered to pay £150,000 prosecution costs after his 2014 conviction for phone hacking.
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