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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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CNN, @drudge_report, @cryptomeorg, @drudge_siren, @jayrosen_nyu, @kateaurthur, @felixsalmon and Poynter
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Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Gawker to announce interim editorial lead this week, start search for new senior editors, hires ex-Google exec Ian Fette as new CTO — Nick Denton: Gawker to search for new top staff and draw up editorial code — Media group's founder says it is to begin ‘a real, civil dialogue’ in the wake …
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Observer
William Turton / The Daily Dot:
New York Magazine's site is down, Twitter user claims he launched DDOS attack on it — Anti-NYC hacker takes New York Magazine offline — On Sunday night, New York Magazine released a groundbreaking new cover featuring 35 victims of alleged assault from Bill Cosby. — But you can't see it.
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New York Magazine, Talking Points Memo, CNNMoney, FishbowlNY, @lheron, Gothamist, @harrisj, @byjoelanderson, @notscientific, @samuelaadams, @_alastair, @max_read, @mhess4, @buzz and The Week
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Newsweek hires Time's Europe editor, Matt McAllester, to oversee new EMEA edition — Newsweek hires Time's Europe editor — The competition between Time and Newsweek ain't what it used to be, but apparently there's still some fire left in the old rivalry.
Discussion:
FishbowlNY and @joepompeo
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
DraftKings Raises $300 Million, Promises to Spend Much of It With Fox Sports — Attention sports fans: Prepare to see a lot more DraftKings advertising over the next few years. — DraftKings, one of the top daily fantasy sports companies, has raised $300 million in new funding led by 21st Century Fox's Fox Sports unit.
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Forbes, @paulcharchian, @raf_keustermans, New York Times, @scottkirsner, Business Insider and Wall Street Journal
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 — Ten editors of the website Bustle crammed into founder and CEO Bryan Goldberg's empty office on a recent Friday afternoon for a weekly meeting.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Today Show co-anchor Al Roker's production company to launch three new shows about cooking on Meerkat this week — Al Roker Offers Forecast of TV's Future With Trio of Meerkat Programs — Al Roker is reaching from the solid ground of NBC's “Today” to the shakier terrain of TV's future.
Washington Post:
After Arab Spring, journalism briefly flowered and then withered — CONTROLLING THE STORY: This is the second installment in an ongoing series examining the human cost of reporting the news around the world. — MANAMA, Bahrain — Just three miles from the gleaming center of town …
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@seldeeb and @benmullin
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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Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal:
YouTube offers money and help to top creators to ward off online video rivals like Facebook
YouTube offers money and help to top creators to ward off online video rivals like Facebook
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@howardlindzon
Steve Buttry / The Buttry Diary:
Newspapers continue backward thinking about linking — I remain an optimist that newspapers aren't dying. But if they die, the cause of death will be suicide, not that the evil Internet killed them. — Hyperlinks are not a matter of life or death, even in the digital age.
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@jayrosen_nyu, Nieman Lab and New York Times
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Nate Silver Takes Shot at Vox for Aggregating NYMag's Cosby Story — Burn level: sabermetric. … New York released the bold and unavoidable cover last night, for a story in which all 35 of Cosby's accusers speak out, quickly capturing the attention of the Twittersphere.
Khari Johnson / Through the Cracks:
Beacon Reader launches Bounties to let readers crowdfund and choose which stories get covered — Readers, not journalists, decide what's news with Bounties — Last week Beacon Reader launched Bounties, a service that lets readers crowdfund and choose which stories get covered.
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@crowdjournalism