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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Months after a retracted UVA rape story that spurred lawsuits, Rolling Stone Managing Editor Will Dana is leaving — Will Dana, Rolling Stone's Managing Editor, to Depart — Will Dana, the managing editor of Rolling Stone, will leave the magazine, just months after a controversial article …
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Staff of Guardian US votes unanimously to unionize under the News Media Guild — Guardian US Votes Unanimously To Unionize — Labor organizing is sweeping through newsrooms. So who's next? — NEW YORK - The staff of the Guardian US voted unanimously Wednesday to unionize under the News Media Guild …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Study: Shutdown of Google News and other aggregators in Spain hurt news sites' traffic, ad revenue, and new and smaller publishers — Study Of Spain's ‘Google Tax’ On News Shows How Much Damage It Has Done — As you may recall, governments across Europe, generally at the behest …
Discussion:
@tolles
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
New Breed of Digital Publishers Just Say No to Ad Tech … Today's new breed of digital publishers is just not that into ad tech. — Indeed, the much hyped cadre of venture-backed, Web-born, and millennially-inclined publishers — think Vox Media, Mic and Refinery29 …
Discussion:
AdExchanger and Street Fight
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Execs Who Left Glenn Beck's TheBlaze Launch Digital-Media Consulting Shop — Four executives who previously worked for conservative commentator Glenn Beck have nailed up their own digital-media consulting shingle with the launch of Red Seat Ventures. — The founding partners are Chris Balfe …
Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Derek Jeter talks about The Players' Tribune, now with contributions from nearly 300 athletes and an average of 1.1M unique viewers/month for first half of 2015 — Derek Jeter, The Aspiring Media Mogul (Who Dislikes Media), Reveals Next Big Swing — On a warm Tuesday evening in mid-July …
Discussion:
Business Insider and FishbowlNY
Randy Kennedy / New York Times:
Art in America Sold to ARTnews Owner — Two of the most venerable American art publications will now be owned by the same company and will be merged into a single entity online. — Peter Brant, the contemporary art collector and publisher, announced on Wednesday that he had agreed to sell Art in America …
Discussion:
Media Wire Daily, Business Wire and Reuters
Stephen Witt / The Verge:
Grooveshark lacked the music rights deals and the funding to compete against other services — Why Grooveshark failed — Sometime in early 2006, Josh Greenberg, a freshman at the University of Florida, began attending meetings at a school club for budding business types.
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
A look at varied approaches to user experience research at The New York Times and ProPublica — Two out of two news organizations recommend user research — The phrase “user research” makes me think of Mad Men, with women sitting behind a one-way mirror trying on lipstick while men watch (and criticize their appearances).
Discussion:
@karenmcgrane
Ken Kurson / The New York Observer:
Editor Ken Kurson defends New York Observer's careful approach to covering Trump, the publisher's father-in-law — When Donald Trump Is the Father-In-Law of Your Publisher — An exchange with a reporter reveals why the Observer has been careful in its coverage of a presidential candidate
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Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Naritiv offers representation and access to brands for Snapchat's emerging stars — Like YouTube, Snapchat is getting content networks — If there's a social platform with hundreds of million of users, you can bet someone will try to build a business on top of it.
Discussion:
@digiday
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
CEO Joe Ripp pushes online video, native ads and big data in an effort to save Time Inc. — Clock Is Ticking for Time Inc.'s CEO — Joe Ripp pushes online video, ‘native’ ads and ‘big data’ to save the company Henry Luce built; ‘slow and steady death’ — In April, Time Inc. Chief …
Discussion:
Media Wire Daily
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Clare Rewcastle Brown, editor of Malaysian news site Sarawak Report, says Malay government has hired “stalkers” to follow her — British journalist: I'm being followed in London by teams of stalkers — Clare Rewcastle Brown, editor of a Malaysian news website …
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