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Sources: NBCUniversal close to investing $250M in BuzzFeed at a $1.5B valuation, also investing in Vox Media at a $850M valuation — NBCUniversal Poised to Make Big Investments in BuzzFeed and Vox Media — NBCUniversal is close to a deal to invest $250 million in BuzzFeed …
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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 …
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Daniel Victor / New York Times:
Former University of Virginia Fraternity Members Sue Rolling Stone
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Brendan James / International Business Times:
Gawker names John Cook temporary executive editor, Leah Beckmann editor-in-chief, Hamilton Nolan deputy editor — Exclusive: John Cook Named New Top Editor At Gawker After Resignations — John Cook will be stepping up to temporarily serve as executive editor at Gawker Media …
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John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed:
Sources: Apple planning to debut new Apple TV during September iPhone event — Apple Will Debut New Apple TV In September — The new Apple TV is headed to market along with an App Store of its own. Next step: that long-in-the-offing subscription internet-TV service. — Managing Editor, BuzzFeed San Francisco
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Jackie Calmes / Shorenstein Center:
Conservative media is pushing the Republican Party further to the right: a report from Shorenstein Center Fellow Jackie Calmes — Conservative Media's Influence on the Republican Party — A new paper by Jackie Calmes, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Spring 2015) and national correspondent …
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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Gannett ‘Aggressively Pursuing’ Large-Market Acquisitions, Says New CEO — Strategy follows completion of spinoff from company's broadcast unit — Gannett Co. 's new chief executive said Wednesday that the publishing company is aggressively pursuing acquisitions of large-market properties …
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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Former ‘Top Gear’ Hosts to Launch Series on Amazon — The controversial ex-hosts of the long-running British television show “Top Gear” are headed to Amazon.com Inc.'s Prime Instant Video service to create a new automotive series, people familiar with the matter said.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
MSNBC cancels three shows amid transition — MSNBC has formally decided to cancel three programs — “The Cycle,” “Now with Alex Wagner” and “The Ed Show” — as part of a larger effort to shift its daytime lineup away from opinion programming, network sources told the On Media blog on Thursday.
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
A new app from NowThis wants to reduce the work of finding news to one big red button — The two-and-a-half year old distributed media company NowThis bears little resemblance to the “social news video startup” that we first covered nearly three years ago. It's seen a name change …
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Arthur Gregg Sulzberger Named Associate Editor — New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet announced that Arthur Gregg Sulzberger has been promoted to Associate Editor in a memo to staff. The memo follows: — Mapping Our Strategy: A.G. Sulzberger — Effective immediately, A.G. Sulzberger will be an Associate Editor.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Time Warner Cable Misses Q2 Estimates, Hurt by Rising TV Programming Costs — Time Warner Cable, target of a pending takeover by John Malone-backed Charter Communications, posted revenue and earnings below analyst expectations for the second quarter of 2015 — even though the cable operator touted …
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David Meyer / Politico:
Google asks French data protection authority CNIL to withdraw its order forcing right to be forgotten delistings to be applied globally — Google challenges global ‘right to be forgotten’ order — Don't make us apply European laws around the world, Google pleads.
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Timothy Heritage / Reuters:
Independent media battle on in Putin's Russia — Alexei Venediktov, one of Russia's most prominent journalists, does not go out without a bodyguard and does not answer mobile phone calls for fear of being tracked. — He has worried about security since someone left a chopping block …
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