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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Facebook ramps up its Instant Articles as Washington Post says it will publish all of its articles on Facebook and over a dozen new publishers join — Facebook Ramps Up Its Instant Articles, and the Washington Post Is All In — Last spring Facebook started hosting stories from the New York Times …
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Tribune Publishing pleads its case with investors; share price falls further — Tribune Publishing hosted a brief “investor update” call Tuesday, making more explicit its earlier statements that the Los Angeles Times was under-performing financially and dragging down company-wide results.
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Los Angeles Times memo fails to ease layoff fears — If the editor of The Los Angeles Times was hoping to temper his staff's fears about impending layoffs, the memo he sent on Tuesday didn't do the trick. — “We need to accelerate our evolution,” Davan Maharaj wrote — a promising message …
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LA Observed, Los Angeles Business …, Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Business …
Jane Martinson / Guardian:
Al-Jazeera to cut 800-1,000 jobs worldwide as oil prices fall; Al-Jazeera America expected to be protected — Al-Jazeera expected to cut hundreds of jobs — Surprise move could mark a reduction in state commitment to Qatari-owned media group amid falling oil prices
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
“Happy Birthday” Ruled To Be In the Public Domain — A judge grants summary judgment to a filmmaker challenging Warner Chappel's copyright to a song more than a century old. — The world's most popular English language song is now free from copyright after a federal judge ruled on Tuesday …
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Los Angeles Times, Business Insider, @popehat, @harrymccracken and @eriqgardner
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Source: Google acquired Oyster's tech, discovery tools, and editorial content, including literary magazine The Oyster Review, but not its publisher contracts — Google's grab of Oyster suggests ebooks, like news, are becoming “content” read on big platforms
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Fortune, TechnoBuffalo, @laurahazardowen, Tech Insider, @janefriedman, @losowsky, @willyblackmore, GeekWire, Mashable, Entrepreneur, Ubergizmo, Consumerist, Inc.com, VatorNews and 9to5Google
George Gene Gustines / New York Times:
Ta-Nehisi Coates to Write Black Panther Comic for Marvel — Ta-Nehisi Coates can be identified in many ways: as a national correspondent for The Atlantic, as an author and, as of this month, as a nominee for the National Book Award's nonfiction prize. But Mr. Coates also has a not-so-secret identity …
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io9, Comicbook.com, @mattegagnon, @justinnxt, Polygon, The Verge, @leonardpittsjr1, UPROXX, Paper, Forbes, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, Boing Boing, Variety, @skylightbooks, Shadow and Act and Tor.com
Jack Murtha / Columbia Journalism Review:
Columbia J-School launches Columbia Global Reports, a longform, non-fiction publisher of works averaging 25K words in length — Could a university be the savior longform journalism has been looking for? — The relationship between academia and journalism had not always been cozy.
Jason McIntyre / The Big Lead:
Sources: 200-300 layoffs coming to ESPN within the next few months, as Disney has notified ESPN to trim $100M from the 2016 budget — Layoffs are coming to ESPN. — Multiple sources inside and outside of ESPN tell The Big Lead that the network will be laying off “200 to 300” employees in the coming months.
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Variety, Deadline, FishbowlNY, The Wrap, @jeffschultzajc, @realobf and Media Wire Daily
Shareen Pathak / Digiday:
Bloomberg head of global digital video, Paul Marcum, takes on new role as president of Truffle Pig, the ad agency created by Snapchat, Daily Mail, and WPP — Bloomberg exec Paul Marcum joins agency Truffle Pig as president: ‘A transformative time in the industry’ — Paul Marcum has hit the trifecta.
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@digiday and Talking Biz News
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Complex, a network of pop culture magazines, raises $21M from Hearst — Another Old Media-New Media Bet: Hearst Invests $21 Million in Dude-Centric Complex — Big media companies have lots of cash. But they're worried that won't help them if they can't find new audiences.
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CNNMoney, Variety, Folio, FishbowlNY, Ad Age, Media Wire Daily, WWD and Crain's New York
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
Investigative reporting podcast Reveal works to expand its network beyond current five news partners as it prepares for weekly shows in January — A cross-country network helps Reveal boost its investigative reporting power — One of the great benefits of working in audio …
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