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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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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Leah Finnegan to leave Gawker amid buyouts — Leah Finnegan, Gawker's features editor, announced on Monday she is leaving the site as Gawker Media offers buyouts and realigns itself around new editorial standards. … Finnegan, who joined Gawker last year from The New York Times …
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@leahfinnegan, @leahfinnegan and @choire
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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@warkin, The Wrap, Mediaite and Talking Points Memo
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Gawker's Future: A Conversation With Nick Denton
Gawker's Future: A Conversation With Nick Denton
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Washington Post, @drudge_report, @jeffbercovici, @drudge_siren, @cryptomeorg, Poynter, Mediaite, @kateaurthur, @felixsalmon, @jayrosen_nyu and Mediaite
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, Business Insider, USA Today, Washington Post, The Wrap, AlterNet.org, The Week, Hit & Run, Talking Points Memo, Fox News, The Buttry Diary, @ahmed, @jayrosen_nyu and Poynter
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, The Week, 9to5Mac, VideoNuze Analysis, @dangillmor, Consumerist, @carlquintanilla and App Advice
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, Digiday, Vox, The Federalist, Poynter, The New York Observer, Fusion, Mediaite, Salon, Business Insider, The Wrap, CNNMoney, @byjoelanderson, @kurafire, Gothamist, @russfischer, Paper, FishbowlNY, @lheron, @_alastair, @jeffjarvis, @clumsyandshy, @max_read, @samuelaadams, @pappademas, @pomeranian99, @planetoffinks, @tombreihan, @mhess4, @harrisj, @buzz, @notscientific, @j_zimms, VentureBeat, Slate and The Week
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.
Discussion:
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.
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:
Media Wire Daily, FishbowlNY and @joepompeo
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, Adweek, Business Wire, Re/code and The Next Web
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 …
Discussion:
@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.
Discussion:
@crowdjournalism
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 …
Discussion:
Reynolds Center and mUmBRELLA