Mediagazer: Two years after launch, Bustle has overcome initial criticism with 30M monthly unique page views and 46 full-time editorial staffers (Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke/The New York …)

4:55 AM ET, July 27, 2015

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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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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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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

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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 …

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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 …

Discussion: @kbsmoke, @zeejab and @maura

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Chernin Group, AT&T Invest in Digital Film Studio Supergravity — Otter Media, the digital-video joint venture of Chernin Group and AT&T, has taken a minority equity stake in Supergravity Pictures and also cut a co-production deal with the fledgling studio for future film projects.

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Jack Murtha / Columbia Journalism Review:

Controlled town hall Q&As on Facebook aren't replacements for press access to candidates — 874 WORDS — Hillary Clinton's question-and-answer session on Facebook this week received ample press, both positive (she's communicating directly with voters!) and negative (this is about show, not substance).

Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept:

U.K. Police Confirm Ongoing Criminal Probe of Snowden Leak Journalists — A secretive British police investigation focusing on journalists working with Edward Snowden's leaked documents remains ongoing two years after it was quietly launched, The Intercept can reveal.

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Bill Mickey / Folio:

Survey: Digital Magazines Still Not a Break-Out Platform — Digital publishing consultancy Mequoda Group has released the results of its third Digital Magazine Market Study. This year, the firm tripled its sample size to 3,642 U.S. adults and backed off the tablet-specific demo they used …

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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