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William Turton / The Daily Dot:
New York Magazine's site is down, Twitter user claims he launched DDOS attack on it; Update: the site is now up — 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.
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Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC:
Disney CEO Bob Iger says ESPN could one day be sold direct to consumers, but not within next five years — Disney CEO Iger: ESPN could one day be sold direct — Walt Disney chief Bob Iger said Monday he sees ESPN as a media property that could be eventually sold directly to consumers …
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Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Multichannel News, The Verge, App Advice, VideoNuze Analysis, @dangillmor, The Week, @carlquintanilla, 9to5Mac and Consumerist
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
William Arkin, founder of Gawker's national security site, first staffer to take buyout — William Arkin critiques Gawker story on the way out — William Arkin, the founder of Gawker Media's national security site, announced on Twitter Monday he is leaving the company during a round …
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The Wrap, @warkin, Mediaite and Talking Points Memo
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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
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Gawker's Future: A Conversation With Nick Denton
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Washington Post, @drudge_report, @jeffbercovici, @drudge_siren, @cryptomeorg, Poynter, @kateaurthur, Mediaite, @felixsalmon and @jayrosen_nyu
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Increasing competition on the web, pressure to break scoops led to mistakes on Clinton story — A Clinton Story Fraught With Inaccuracies: How It Happened and What Next? — The story certainly seemed like a blockbuster: A criminal investigation of Hillary Rodham Clinton by the Justice Department …
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Mediaite, FishbowlDC, Washington Post, The Wrap, AlterNet.org, The Week, @ahmed, @jayrosen_nyu, Hit & Run, Talking Points Memo, Fox News, The Buttry Diary and Poynter
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.
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.
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Media Wire Daily, FishbowlNY and @joepompeo
Dino Grandoni / New York Times:
Podcasts, not regulated by the FCC, are blurring the line between sponsors and stories — Ads for Podcasts Test the Line Between Story and Sponsor — For the last several months, Lisa Chow, a reporter for and co-host of “StartUp,” a podcast about starting a business, has been interviewing engineers at Ford Motor.
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Nieman Lab, @kjblank80 and @gracehood
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.
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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@ajlisteningpost, @seldeeb, @benmullin and The Newspaper Guild
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
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
DraftKings raises $300M at a valuation of more than $1.2B in a round led by Fox Sports, pledges to spend $250M on ads with the TV company — 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.
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New York Times, GeekWire, Variety, Wall Street Journal, @paulcharchian, @raf_keustermans, @scottkirsner, Forbes and Business Insider
Ruth Reader / VentureBeat:
Yahoo launches live news show with Katie Couric — Yahoo is announcing a new live news program anchored by the company's global news anchor, Katie Couric. The new show, called Yahoo News Live, will air daily at 1 p.m. ET. — “Yahoo News Live will provide perspective on the stories …
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