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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
FCC has approved AT&T's $48.5B acquisition of DirecTV with conditions, making combined firm the largest US pay TV company with 26M subscribers — FCC approves AT&T-DirecTV merger — The FCC has approved AT&T's $48.5 billion acquisition of DirecTV, bringing one of the nation's largest …
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How Nikkei won the Financial Times by adding £100M to Axel Springer's bid at the last minute — FT Chase Capped by Nikkei Leapfrogging Axel Springer for Paper — For Nikkei Inc., Japan's biggest financial news group, Thursday's $1.3 billion deal to buy the Financial Times capped a lengthy pursuit of the pink-hued newspaper.
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Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Financial Times to seek new London HQ next year — FT Group chief executive John Ridding says paper will also look to hire more staff following its acquisition by Japanese media group Nikkei — The Financial Times will begin looking for a replacement for its Thames-side London offices …
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Alex Spence / Politico:
FT sale could mean Pearson selling its 50% stake in The Economist, but transfer of shares requires trustee approval
Christopher Cushing / Reuters:
Nikkei's FT buy follows years of attempting to break into English news
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Sources: Snapchat to add BuzzFeed, Vox, and others to Discover, drop Warner Music; 2 or 3 new partners added next week, second group in August or September — Snapchat Adding New Publishers to Its Service, Including BuzzFeed — You'll soon see a few more publishers in Snapchat's Discover feature.
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
How a collaborative approach is helping NPR and local stations raise more money — A little teamwork between NPR and some member stations is helping raise money for future public media projects. According to Current, more than $4 million has been raised in the last year by NPR working …
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Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
New Gawker will be ‘20 percent nicer,’ Denton tells staff — When Gawker.com relaunches on Monday, expect it to be 20 percent nicer—or maybe just 10 percent nicer. — That's what Gawker C.E.O. Nick Denton told Gawker.com employees yesterday, during a meeting at the Crown Victoria bar in Williamsburg.
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D.B. Hebbard / Talking New Media:
McClatchy Q2 ad revenue drops to $158.5M, down 14.2% YoY; audience revenue flat, digital-only subscribers grew 28.6% YoY; impairment charges expected in August — McClatchy reports lower revenue, net income in Q2 earnings report as ad revenue falls 14% — The newspaper company sold off …
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Gurman Bhatia / Poynter:
Poynter to launch international fact checking site funded by Omidyar Network and National Endowment for Democracy grants — Poynter to launch international fact checking site — The Poynter Institute will build an international fact checking operation with $225,000 in grant funding …
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Verizon's mobile video service Go90 will launch late this summer, initially for free, with full TV show episodes from select networks on tap — Verizon Mobile Video Service Details Uncovered: To Be Called Go90 (Exclusive) — Verizon is getting ready to launch a new mobile video service called Go90 this summer, Variety has learned.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
State Of Georgia Sues Carl Malamud For Copyright Infringement For Publishing State's Own Laws — State Of Georgia Sues Carl Malamud For Copyright Infringement For Publishing The State's Own Laws — Two years ago, we wrote about the state of Georgia ridiculously threatening to sue Carl Malamud …
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James Rainey / Variety:
Relativity Media countersues RKA Film Financing for $200M, which had sued Relativity and its CEO, Ryan Kavanaugh, for $90M claiming fraud — New Lawsuit Calls Ryan Kavanaugh ‘Con Man,’ Accusing the Relativity Chief of Fraud (Exclusive) — UPDATED: A New York finance company …
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Caroline Bauman / Nieman Storyboard:
The Riveter, a longform journalism magazine “by women, for women”, to expand print edition to quarterly next year — The Riveter: Longform Journalism by Women, for Women — With their website and print quarterly, founders Kaylen Ralph and Joanna Demkiewicz are addressing gender disparities in narrative nonfiction
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