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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Playboy magazine, down from a circulation of 5.6M in 1975 to 800K today, will stop publishing images of naked women in March 2016 — Nudes Are Old News at Playboy — Last month, Cory Jones, a top editor at Playboy, went to see its founder Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion.
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Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
Twitter is laying off 336 employees or about 8% of its global workforce — Twitter Is Laying Off 8 Percent Of The Company — Twitter is about to cut up to 336 jobs out of its 4,100 employees working for the company around the world. It represents around 8.2 percent of the company's global workforce.
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Erik Holm / Wall Street Journal:
Twitter stock rises 3.7% amid news of job cuts and expected earnings to exceed or meet earlier forecasts — Twitter Shares Rise Amid Job Cuts — Shares of Twitter Inc. fell Monday on news that job cuts were coming. They're rising Tuesday as the social-media company made the cuts official.
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Snapchat ends production of original content for Snap Channel, will rely solely on Discover content partners, 15-member team laid off or reassigned — Snapchat To Shut Down Snap Channel, Laying Off Team, Changing Content Plans — Underscoring the complicated relationship between …
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Reuters:
Axel Springer bans adblock users from Bild online — Readers of Europe's top-selling tabloid forced pay €2.99 a month or switch off adblocker as German publisher steps up its fight to protect advertising revenue — Germany's Axel Springer has banned readers who use adblockers …
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Jeremy Barr / Politico:
New York Times offers newsstand buyers 24-hour pass for paper's desktop site, mobile apps — New York Times to give digital access to newsstand buyers — While the act of purchasing a physical newspaper from a newsstand hasn't changed much over the last century, The New York Times is hoping …
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FishbowlNY, Media Wire Daily, VentureBeat, Business Insider, @mikelizun, @jeffjarvis and Digiday
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Meet Peter Barbey, the latest owner to take on the Village Voice — If you're The Village Voice, a legendary newspaper that has fallen on hard times, you could do worse than to be sold to a deep-pocketed newspaper lover who's been reading you since the 1970s. — Meet Peter D. Barbey.
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@joepompeo
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Pamela A Maclean / Bloomberg Business:
US Justice Department says monitoring no longer needed in e-books antitrust case, says it's satisfied Apple has reforms in place to comply with antitrust laws — Apple E-Book Antitrust Monitoring May End After Rocky Course — Government says company has put meaningful reforms in place
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Engadget, Reuters, MacRumors, AppleInsider and 9to5Mac
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
BuzzFeed, Vice Media, Huffington Post turn toward television as new source of revenue — BuzzFeed, Vice Media, Huffington Post turn toward television as new source of revenue — Companies like BuzzFeed, Vice Media and Huffington Post are known as “new-media” specialists—makers of lists …
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@digiphile and @jyarow
Brian Flood / TVNewser:
ESPN resumes DraftKings and FanDuel sponsored segments after banning them for about three days — ESPN Resumes Daily Fantasy Sports Sponsored Segments — ESPN's ban on segments sponsored by beleaguered daily fantasy sports sites, is over. — Last Tuesday, as the two major betting platforms DraftKings …
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
WNYC to launch WNYC Studios, a podcasting division to develop new shows, expand syndication, plans to raise $15M — WNYC to Open New Podcast Division — WNYC, the public radio powerhouse in New York, is about to grow even bigger through a new division that will develop programs for the expanding podcast market.
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