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Culture | Mother Jones:
How Mother Jones won a defamation lawsuit filed by GOP super PAC donor Frank VanderSloot and his company, Melaleuca Inc. — We Were Sued By A Billionaire Political Donor. We Won. Here's What Happened. — Today we are happy to announce a monumental legal victory for Mother Jones …
The Century Foundation:
Purdue University deletes video of keynote speech about national security journalism because it included classified documents related to Snowden leaks — Scholarship, Security, and ‘Spillage’ on Campus — This is an adventure in classified speech at an academic conference.
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WRTV-TV, Freedom to Tinker, @bartongellman, Purdue Exponent, @snowden, Journal and Courier, RT, Poynter, Inside Higher Ed and Techdirt
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Twitter announces new offering for automatically matching 6-second ads to publishers' videos; Twitter takes 30% of revenue, with publisher retaining 70% — Twitter's Video Ad Strategy Now Looks Like YouTube's Ad Strategy — Earlier this week, Twitter showed off Moments, a new way of organizing content on the social network.
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USA Today, AdExchanger, Wall Street Journal, Adweek, @pkafka, @jyarow, Variety, VentureBeat, The Twitter Blog, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Forbes and Digiday
Sam Stecklow / The Awl:
How Aggrego's Sun Times Network, which tried to cover 70 cities through aggregation, led to the slow decline of the Chicago Sun Times' reputation — The Chicago End-Times — Sometime between early February and late May, the proprietor of a yoga studio read a “Best Yoga Studios” …
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@davemckinney, @samstecky, @dan_bernstein, @keithecker, @kurtgessler, @alenevince, @robertfeder and @johnbonazzo
Robin Pogrebin / New York Times:
Art media properties controlled by Peter Brant, including Art in America and ARTnews, to be consolidated online at ARTnews.com — Peter Brant to Consolidate Art Media Properties at ARTnews.com — The art media properties controlled by Peter Brant, including the century-old magazine Art …
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Business Wire and The New York Observer
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
What Gannett gets by getting bigger and why newspaper consolidation will continue — For three different reasons, Gannett's surprise acquisition Wednesday of Journal Media (the former Scripps papers and the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel) makes a lot of sense: — In the era of digital transformation, bigger is better.
Discussion:
New York Times and Florida Today
Piya Sinha-Roy / Reuters:
InStyle to send branded cardboard VR headsets to subscribers for its November 360-degree cover — InStyle, Jaunt VR target fashion audience with virtual reality cover — As makers of virtual reality content get ready to enter the mass market next year, one company is hoping to appeal …
Roy J. Harris Jr / Poynter:
The story behind Spotlight, the movie chronicling the Boston Globe's work to expose sex abuse in the Catholic church — “Spotlight:” Boston Globe church-scandal movie spurs press introspection — After the thunderous applause died down for last week's preview of “Spotlight,” …
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Tribune Media puts Tribune Tower, headquarters of the Chicago Tribune, up for sale — Tribune Tower is up for sale — Tribune Tower, photographed in 2006. (AP Photo) … Tribune Tower, the iconic headquarters of the Chicago Tribune, is on the market.
Discussion:
Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun Times
Martin Vacher / Spotify:
Discover Weekly reaches one billion tracks streamed in 10 weeks — It seems we've found a cure for “a case of the Mondays.” In just 10 weeks, 1 billion tracks have been streamed from Discover Weekly playlists. It's the best-ever recommendations delivered to you as a weekly mixtape of fresh music each Monday.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
HBO to Launch Standalone Streaming Service in Latin America, Caribbean — HBO, opening a new international front in its battle with Netflix, plans to roll out HBO Go as a standalone online subscription service in Latin America, Brazil and the Caribbean, starting with a launch in Colombia by the end of the year.
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Multichannel News, Pocket-lint and BroadwayWorld.com
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