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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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Poynter, WRTV-TV, Purdue Exponent, Freedom to Tinker, Journal and Courier, @snowden, @bartongellman, Inside Higher Ed, RT 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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Wall Street Journal, Adweek, @pkafka, Variety, AdExchanger, VentureBeat, The Twitter Blog, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Forbes, @jyarow, USA Today and Digiday
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix raises price of most popular plan to $10 a month in US, Canada, and Latin America for new customers, existing customers see no increase for 12 months — Netflix Hikes Price of Standard Streaming Plan to $10 per Month — Increase for new subscribers in U.S., Canada and Latin America follows 10% price rise in Europe
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TechCrunch, Engadget, Mashable, Android Authority, WinBeta, /Film, Consumerist, moviepilot.com, Re/code, The Wrap, VentureBeat and TIME
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
HBO to Launch Standalone Streaming Service in Latin America, Caribbean
HBO to Launch Standalone Streaming Service in Latin America, Caribbean
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Multichannel News, Pocket-lint and BroadwayWorld.com
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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@kurtgessler, @davemckinney, @samstecky, @dan_bernstein, @robertfeder, @keithecker, @alenevince 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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The New York Observer and Business Wire
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.
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New York Times and Florida Today
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
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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@poynter
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 …
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.