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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Tribune Publishing shares plummet 20 percent after company adjusts its 2015 forecast downward — Tribune Publishing shares were down more than 20 percent in midday trading on Monday after the company pulled back from an earlier forecast for revenues and earnings — and largely blamed its Southern California papers for the problem.
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
The firing of LA Times publisher Austin Beutner revealed tensions with Tribune CEO Jack Griffin and financial stress for the news organization — Firing at Los Angeles Times Focuses Discontent — LOS ANGELES — In January, Jack Griffin, the chief executive of Tribune Publishing Company …
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Calvin Reid / Publishers Weekly:
E-book subscription service Oyster shutting down in next few months — Oyster Is Shutting Down Operations — After two years of operation, Oyster, the e-book subscription venture offering unlimited access to a million titles for $9.95 a month, is shutting down operations over the next few months.
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Forbes and @kaetrin67
Matt Miller / Esquire:
The Onion launches StarWipe, a parody of celebrity gossip sites, led by senior The A.V. Club editor Sean O'Neal — ‘StarWipe’ Is The Onion's Answer to Soulless Celebrity Gossip — It's like ClickHole, only with way more Bieber and Kardashian. — STARWIPE
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FishbowlNY, The A.V. Club, Chicago Business, Splitsider and @johnghendy
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
NBC built NewsConnect, an internal newsroom collaboration platform which allows employees to share information and story updates — Working together: How NBC built a new tool to improve collaboration across its newsrooms — Across all of its platforms, in both digital and broadcast …
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
4chan sold to Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2Channel, an early anonymous online message board in Japan — 4chan Message Board Sold to Founder of 2Channel, a Japanese Web Culture Pioneer — If the Internet is the Wild West, you could call 4chan “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”
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Paul Bisceglio / Pacific Standard:
Q&A with Tom Burke, who made a business out of broadcasting his video game playing on Twitch — The Business of Playing Video Games — Every so often, Tom Burke wakes up and finds that someone has given him $1,000 for playing video games. He gets smaller amounts many times a day …
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@mathewi and @pacificstand
Institute for Nonprofit News:
Former Associated Press senior vice-president Sue Cross announced as CEO of the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) — Digital Innovator, Former News Executive Sue Cross to Lead INN — Encino, Calif., Sept. 21, 2015 - The Institute for Nonprofit News announced today the selection …
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Nieman Lab, @denisemalan, @inn and @aschweig
Frederic Filloux / Monday Note:
LinkedIn Editorial was a missed opportunity, as it focused on quantity over quality — LinkedIn Editorial: A Missed Opportunity — LinkedIn was poised to become a major player in the business news sector. Instead, the professional social network is stuck with dull editorial content.
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@jeffjohnroberts, @adamlashinsky, @pankajontech and @filloux
Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News:
VR content startup Jaunt raises $65M from Disney, other investors — Disney Backs Jaunt's $65M ‘B’ Round — VR Content Startup Has Raised $100M-Plus — Jaunt, a startup that specializes in virtual reality content, said it has netted a $65 million B found led by new investors The Walt Disney Company …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
The Daily Show hires former Circa EIC Anthony De Rosa — When “The Daily Show” begins its push to spread comedic news beyond its once-a-day television show this fall, it'll have help from a real newsman: Anthony De Rosa, the former editor in chief of the mobile news startup Circa.
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@antderosa and Soup
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
Apple automatically refunding all purchases of Marco Arment's ad-blocking app Peace — Apple refunding all purchases of Peace — Apple notified me this afternoon that they'll be proactively refunding all purchases of Peace. It will probably take a few days to process.
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Gigaom, The Verge, The Next Web, iMore and MacStories
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