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Sarah Jeong / Motherboard:
Matthew Keys found guilty of hacking under Computer Fraud and Abuse Act; US attorney's office may seek less than five year prison sentence in January — Former Reuters Journalist Matthew Keys Found Guilty Of Hacking, Faces 25 Years — On Wednesday, a jury in Sacramento, California …
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Roger Yu / USA Today:
Gannett to buy Milwaukee-based Journal Media Group for $280M in cash deal, expected to close in early 2016 — Gannett to buy Journal Media Group for $280 million — Gannett, the publishing company that owns USA TODAY and media businesses in 92 local markets, said late Wednesday …
Ev Williams / Medium:
Medium adds publishing API, @mentions, updated apps, improved editing options, custom domains for all, and a new logo — Taking Medium to the Next Level — Two years ago, we opened up Medium for anyone to write. It was a new, well-lit place for an old idea: letting people share their stories …
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
AMP adds constraints for faster loading webpages that restrict Javascript and ban some HTML tags including iframes; new AMP-specific elements introduced — Get AMP'd: Here's what publishers need to know about Google's new plan to speed up your website — Google unveiled its new plan …
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Russell Brandom / The Verge:
Google's AMP code available on GitHub as of Thursday; The Guardian, Washington Post, Vox, and others already using it — Google has a new plan to speed up the mobile web. Today, the company announced a technical preview for a system called Accelerated Mobile Pages (or AMP) …
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg Business:
Sources: Amazon weighs creating a live online TV service, holds preliminary talks with CBS, NBCUniversal — Amazon Said to Weigh Creating a Live Online Television Service — Amazon.com Inc. is exploring the creation of a live online TV service and has reached out to major media companies …
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
TV Guide Magazine is sold for the third time in less than 10 years to NTVB Media — TV Guide Magazine, once the unrivaled bible for television fans and a powerhouse in the publishing business, has been sold for the third time in less than 10 years. — NTVB Media, the Troy, Mich. …
Colin Dwyer / NPR:
Belarusian Journalist Svetlana Alexievich Wins Literature Nobel — Investigative journalist Svetlana Alexievich has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday. Alexievich is the first writer from Belarus to win the prize.
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
New York Times memo outlines plans to double digital revenue to $800M in 2020, says 12% of readers currently deliver 90% — Times Co. Outlines Strategy to Double Digital Revenue — The New York Times Company released a strategy memo to its staff on Wednesday outlining an ambitious plan …
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Hannah Karp / Wall Street Journal:
Sources say Sony triggers clause in Sony/ATV Music Publishing contract to sell its 50% stake — Sony Moves Toward Sale of Music-Publishing Unit — Sony triggers buy-sell mechanism in partnership with Michael Jackson estate, sources say — Sony Corp. is moving closer to selling off …
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Medium launches Ghost Boat, a series that invites readers to help solve the mystery of 243 refugees who vanished in Mediterranean — 243 people disappeared on a ship in the Mediterranean; a new project from Medium aims to find them — The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 …
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Emily Guendelsberger / Philadelphia City Paper:
Broad Street Media CEO Darwin Oordt says he'll keep Philadelphia City Paper's archives accessible after paper ends publication Thursday — CEO of Broad Street Media says he'll preserve ‘City Paper’ archives, keep them public — Darwin Oordt, CEO of Broad Street Media …
Wall Street Journal:
FanDuel, DraftKings Ban Employees From Playing Daily Fantasy Contests for Money — Move comes after a DraftKings employee won $350,000 playing in a FanDuel contest; he had prematurely released lineup data — FanDuel Inc. and DraftKings Inc., the biggest companies in the daily fantasy-sports industry …
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