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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Gawker's Future: A Conversation With Nick Denton — Earlier this month, the news and gossip website Gawker, a pioneer in web journalism, partly responsible for its tone and sensibility, published an article that accused a married male media executive of seeking, via text message, to pay for sex with a gay escort.
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Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Gawker EIC can only be hired, fired or overridden with the agreement of both the Founder and President, says Nick Denton in a new memo — Gawker's Denton Sends Memo to Staff Pledging Changes, Civility: ‘The Yelling Is Over’ — Via Brian Stelter, Gawker founder Nick Denton sent a new memo …
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Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
New Gawker will be ‘20 percent nicer,’ Denton tells staff
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Richard Bernstein / The New York Review of Books:
Former New York Times journalist and day-spa co-owner, says New York Times' nail salon story misrepresented classified ads, lacked proof, and overgeneralized — What the ‘Times’ Got Wrong About Nail Salons — Rarely does a newspaper story get the kind of response that The New York Times …
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Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal:
YouTube offers money and help to top creators to ward off online video rivals like Facebook — YouTube Creates Stars. Can It Keep Them? — At VidCon, Google battles with Facebook and startups to woo ‘MyCupcakeAddiction’ and other popular online video creators — YouTube created a new kind of celebrity.
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Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:
How production companies and marketers now support the top YouTube stars — The real reasons why YouTube's 5 biggest stars became millionaires — ANAHEIM, Calif — The top five YouTube stars have more subscribers than the population of Mexico. Followers of their channels are double the number of all U.S. cable television viewers.
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Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:
Twitter is deleting stolen jokes on copyright grounds — Let's face it: coming up with a grade-A tweet isn't easy. That's why some people just copy good tweets from other people and act like they came up with the 140-character witticism on their own. This has been going on since the beginning of Twitter.
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
New York Times walks back article that falsely reported government officials sought criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of email — New York Times changes its Hillary Clinton story again — The revision history of a New York Times article that originally reported government officials …
Edward C. Baig / USA Today:
CEO of AT&T Entertainment & Internet Services John Stankey, in charge of DirecTV, talks about branding, broadband, rates, and jobs — AT&T exec in charge of DirecTV, talks branding, rates, Net neutrality — AT&T's $49 billion acquisition of DirecTV was formally approved on Friday.
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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
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Politico:
Sources: Pearson is in advanced talks to sell its 50% stake in The Economist Group — Pearson in talks to sell the Economist … Photo by EPA — Pearson in talks to sell the Economist — Potential buyers include Bloomberg.
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@ajit_ranade, @alexgspence, Quartz, @peter_tl, Reuters, NPR and Politico
Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:
Two years after launch, Bustle has overcome initial criticism with 30M monthly unique page views and 46 full-time editorial staffers — How Bustle Proved the Haters Wrong — (Photo: Chris Sorensen/ New York Observer) — Ten editors of the website Bustle crammed into founder …
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Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Rhapsody and Napster now have over 3M subscribers combined globally, up from 2M a year ago — Napster talks 3m paying subscribers, Taylor Swift and Apple Music — Streaming music services Rhapsody and Napster now have more than three million subscribers, up from two million a year ago.
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The Rhapsody Blog, Digital Trends, BuzzFeed and Variety
Variety:
Variety Chief Film Critic Scott Foundas leaving publication to join Amazon Studios as a film acquisitions and development executive — Variety Chief Film Critic Scott Foundas to Exit for Amazon Studios — Scott Foundas, who has served as Variety's chief film critic for the past two years …
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@foundasonfilm, Thompson on Hollywood, LA Observed, FishbowlNY and Guardian
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