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Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
ASNE newspaper census 2014: 10.4% drop in jobs YoY, 21.58% drop for papers with 100K-250K circulation, minority journalists make up 12.76% of newsrooms — Newsonomics: The halving of America's daily newsrooms — Cigar maker. Elevator operator. Pinsetter. Iceman. Lamplighter.
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@yinkawrites and ASNE
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Justin Fox / Bloomberg View:
The Midsize Newspaper Is Toast — Everybody who's been paying attention knows that it's been a tough decade for American newspapers. But every once in a while it's worth checking in on just how bad it's been. The release of the American Society of Newspaper Editors' annual newsroom census …
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@herbgreenberg and @jontalton
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Twitter added just 2M MAUs in Q2, excluding “SMS Fast Followers” — Twitter Asks for More Time to Fix Things — And Freaks Out Wall Street — Twitter added just two million new core users last quarter, and while it also beat Wall Street revenue estimates, investors still aren't buying the Twitter story.
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New York Times:
Iran's Trial of Jason Rezaian Illustrates Perils Faced by Reporters — TEHRAN — For Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post reporter now on trial for espionage in Iran, the incident was extraordinary but still looked like another example of the difficulties in covering the country's politics.
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Washington Post and Wall Street Journal
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
White House considered Jon Stewart so influential, it arranged secret meetings between the TV host and Obama — Jon Stewart's secret White House visits — Obama, aides took unusual steps to cultivate ‘Daily Show’ comic — Jon Stewart slipped unnoticed into the White House in the midst …
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The New York Times Company:
New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet and Metro editors write to the NYRB, rebutting its story on paper's nail salon investigation — Rebuttal to The NYRB's Article on NYT Nail Salon Series — Below is a letter sent to The New York Review of Books by Times editors in response to …
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
New trial date in Hulk Hogan sex tape case could come at upcoming hearing — After a last-minute ruling that put off a trial days before it was slated to begin, representatives for Gawker Media and Hulk Hogan will appear together in court earlier than expected.
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The New York Observer and The Huffington Post
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Caity Weaver takes the Gawker buyout
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FishbowlNY, Business Insider, @caityweaver, @caityweaver, The Huffington Post, @mcgrathmag, Capital New York, The Daily Beast and Gawker
Hollywood Reporter:
Major Layoffs to Hit Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity This Week as Bankruptcy Looms — Some 350 people currently work at Beverly Hills-based Relativity. — Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media is set to lay off as many as 50 employees this week (and possibly more) as the financially-embattled studio …
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The Wrap, Los Angeles Times and Variety
Chad Bray / New York Times:
McGraw Hill Financial Buys SNL Financial for $2.2 Billion — McGraw Hill Financial, the owner of Standard & Poor's Ratings Services and S&P Capital IQ, said on Monday that it had agreed to buy the financial data and information provider SNL Financial for $2.2 billion in cash.
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Folio, Bloomberg Business and Reuters
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
“Happy Birthday” Lawsuit: “Smoking Gun” Emerges in Bid to Free World's Most Popular Song — Attorneys for suing filmmakers uncover a blurry version of an 88-year-old book in the files of Warner/Chappell. That leads to another serendipitous discovery. — On the eve of a judge's ruling …
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Ars Technica, New York Times, Fortune, Techdirt, Boing Boing, Plagiarism Today and VICE
Los Angeles Times:
Netflix seeks to double office space by moving to a 150K square foot place in Hollywood — Netflix, on a roll, seeks to double its L.A.-area office space — Netflix, as it continues to bulk up its muscle within Hollywood, is now seeking to take up residence there.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CBS Will Live-Stream Super Bowl Ads In Big Move For Media Industry — TV's most memorable and most-watched commercials will no longer be relegated to the TV set. — For nearly half a century, the only way for the average consumer to see all the glitzy commercials that accompanied …
Tyler Falk / Current.org:
NPR plans environmental reporting project with stations — NPR is assembling a new reporting team to focus on energy and the environment with contributions from journalists at its member station. — In a memo to stations, Bruce Auster, NPR's senior editor for collaborative coverage …
Samuel Gibbs / Guardian:
Amazon Prime Music launches in the UK — Amazon attempts to undercut Spotify and Apple Music with a 1m-track music streaming service bundled with its Prime delivery, books and music service — Amazon is launching its Prime Music streaming service in the UK, in a move that will see it aim to undercut Spotify and Apple Music.
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