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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Sources: Denton sought advice and possible financial backing from Mark Cuban and Pierre Omidyar as he considers diluting his financial risk in Gawker — Is This Nick Denton's Exit Strategy From Gawker? — Today the controversy-beset website moved to new offices.
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Capital New York, Jezebel, @jyarow and Newsworks.org
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Leah Finnegan to leave Gawker amid buyouts
Leah Finnegan to leave Gawker amid buyouts
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@leahfinnegan, WWD, @leahfinnegan, @choire and @yesasingenghis
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
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
William Arkin, founder of Gawker's national security site, first staffer to take buyout
William Arkin, founder of Gawker's national security site, first staffer to take buyout
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Cryptome, @warkin, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, The Wrap and New York Times
Madeline Welsh / Nieman Lab:
How New York magazine used Instagram and Tumblr to promote and share its Bill Cosby story after a DDoS attack — So a hacker brought down your news site. Now what? New York magazine found out today — So let's say you're a New York-based publication which has just published the words …
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Quartz, Subtraction.com + Feed, Detroit Free Press, Gothamist, Fusion and Mommyish
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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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New York Magazine, Talking Points Memo, New York Times, Jezebel, Fortune, Vox, The New York Observer, Gothamist, Paper, The Federalist, @jeffjarvis, Digiday, Mediaite, Business Insider, @pappademas, Poynter, Fusion, @tombreihan, Salon, CNNMoney, Slate, FishbowlNY, The Week, @kurafire, The Wrap, VentureBeat, @pomeranian99, @planetoffinks, @lheron, @byjoelanderson, @russfischer, @_alastair, @clumsyandshy, @max_read, @samuelaadams, @mhess4, @harrisj, @buzz, @notscientific and @j_zimms
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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USA Today, Washington Post, Mediaite, Business Insider, Hit & Run, AlterNet.org, The Buttry Diary, @ahmed, FishbowlDC, @jayrosen_nyu, Talking Points Memo, The Wrap, Fox News, Poynter and The Week
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 …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Snapchat Adds BuzzFeed, iHeartRadio to Discover Lineup After Dropping Yahoo, Warner Music — Snapchat has slotted in BuzzFeed and music-streaming service iHeartRadio to its Discover media section, after removing launch partners Yahoo and Warner Music Group from the lineup.
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Ad Age, WWD, Adweek, The FADER, Business Wire, Re/code and The Next Web
Dino Grandoni / New York Times:
Podcasts, which aren't 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
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.
Sibusiso Tshabalala / Quartz:
Africa's biggest media group, Naspers, has finally apologized for its role during Apartheid — This past weekend, South Africa's biggest media group, Naspers, did something it should have done 19 years ago: apologize for the key role it played during Apartheid.
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@lilkuo
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Google is splitting Google+ from all its products, starting with YouTube; Google account is all you will need to log in — Google+ and YouTube are finally splitting up — Google is officially divorcing Google+ profiles from its other, more popular services.
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YouTube Blog, Variety, Official Google Blog, Digiday, TechCrunch, New York Times, USA Today, CNET, VentureBeat, Business Insider and Ars Technica
Sage Lazzaro / The New York Observer:
Vice's female-focused channel, Broadly, sets Aug. 3 launch date, releases promo video — Vice Drops Promo Video, Launch Date for New Female-Focused Channel ‘Broadly’ — The site will begin covering women's news full-time August 3 — The opening scene in the content tease video just released for Broadly.
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Business Insider
Emily Steel / New York Times:
Netflix still has 5.3M DVD subscribers, generating hundreds of millions in profit a year — Netflix Refines Its DVD Business, Even as Streaming Unit Booms — FREMONT, Calif. — It was just past sunrise on an early-spring morning at Netflix's DVD operations here, where metallic arms whirred …
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Home Media Magazine, Reynolds Center and mUmBRELLA
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