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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 …
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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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Adweek, Forbes, TechCrunch, Digiday, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Variety, @pkafka, @jyarow and The Twitter Blog
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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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.
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Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun Times
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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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.
John Plunkett / Guardian:
BBC rules out funding digital radio switchover — Corporation says in its response to government green paper that costs of switchover could put at risk stations such as 6 Music and Radio 4 Extra — The BBC has ruled itself out of funding digital radio switchover, saying the cost of the project …
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Politico
Nick Statt / The Verge:
Digg Dialog tool that allows conversations between journalists and readers to launch Friday — Digg wants to build the internet comment section of the future — Digg has a plan to save the online comments section. Yes, that Digg, the pre-Reddit social news site that has evolved to become …
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Digg, Tech Times, @petersng, The Next Web and Motherboard
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Digital display advertising up 27.5% in first half of year, £3.98B spent on all forms of digital ads — UK digital ad spend soars despite fears over ad blocking — Display market rises by more than a quarter as total digital advertising hits record £3.98m in first half
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MediaPost, Netimperative, Telegraph and The Drum
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 and BroadwayWorld.com
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
Tasneem Raja, digital editor of NPR's Code Switch, talks about the race and culture beat, using Twitter to shape stories, launching a potential podcast, more — Tasneem Raja on how NPR's Code Switch navigates increasingly crowded race-and-culture beat — Freddie Gray. Sandra Bland. Rachel Dolezal.
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