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With sale of Cablevision to Altice, cable TV pioneers in the Dolan family shift focus to assets spun out earlier: Madison Square Garden and AMC — Dolans Cash Out of Cablevision — With sale of their company to Altice, family's focus to shift to MSG, AMC


Sidewire launches on iOS, offers curated political news and analysis from 100+ journalists, analysts, campaign managers, politicians to help cut through noise — Sidewire Is Your Hotline To Political Insight — Aiming to help people cut through all of the political noise, Sidewire …
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Re/code, The Iowa Republican and The Wrap


How Broadly, The Skimm, and Refinery29 are mixing feminism with news and politics — Fashion, politics, and feminism: The women's magazines for a new generation — “Women working at Douglas Aircraft” by Alfred T. Palmer (United States Library of Congress)


50 year old Tiger Beat plans to reboot with digital in mind but will keep the print magazine as the central focus — Tiger Beat Turns 50, But Teen Idols Stay The Same Age … Mark Patricof doesn't seem like the sort of guy who'd have a magazine with the face of Justin Bieber framed …


Interview with KRCL community radio's Lara Jones on why she's giving volunteer podcasters access to station equipment in exchange for content — In Salt Lake City, the community radio station invited the community in to podcast — Lara Jones is currently the only full …


How trust in Spain's media system is being slowly restored by a small group of media upstarts — The Spanish Media Are the Worst in Europe. These Upstarts Are Trying to Change That. — A broad range of leftist media projects committed to democracy and transparency have flourished in recent years.

Tribune Publishing lowers guidance for 2015 earnings, citing Southern California results, days after it fired LA Times publisher — Tribune Publishing Lowers Guidance — Company cites results in Southern California — Tribune Publishing Co. lowered its 2015 guidance, mainly due to results in Southern California.
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Los Angeles Times, Business Wire and Chicago Tribune


Gannett to launch storytelling events in nine cities following success in its Arizona program — Gannett takes the idea behind Arizona Storytellers Project nationwide … Next week at the Online News Association's annual conference, a group of journalists from nine Gannett newspapers …


Interview with video remix artist Elisa Kreisinger on fair use and the importance of defending new digital works — What Does Fair Use Mean?: Talking with Pop Culture Pirate Elisa Kreisinger — Video remix artist Elisa Kreisinger doesn't wait for someone to write her a storyline that she wants to watch.


Layoffs total about 50 staffers at New York Daily News in sports, business, and features — More Daily News layoffs as newsroom keeps bleeding — The Daily News raised its weekday price from 75 cents to $1.25 last summer. — The Daily News swung the ax for a third day …
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@dchangnyt, New York Post, Politico, FishbowlNY, Deadline, CNNMoney, Politico and bookforum.com


Dispatch Media Group in Columbus, Ohio, cutting 63 jobs three months after purchase by New Media Investment Group — Columbus Dispatch cutting 63 jobs, with more on the way — The Columbus Dispatch is cutting 63 jobs, three months after the newspaper and related holdings became part of GateHouse Media.
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@alanjudd3000, The Columbus Dispatch, The Columbus Dispatch and Poynter


Mobile apps were already destroying online ad revenue, and ad blockers are just another, short-term threat — The Allure of an Ad-Free Internet — Well, that happened fast. After 36 hours as the No. 1 paid app in the App store, the programmer Marco Arment is pulling his ad-blocker, Peace, from the market.
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New York Times, Fortune, Fortune, BetaNews, Continuations, New Statesman, Storify, The Verge and Marco.org