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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Condé Nast buys Pitchfork Media, the company behind the independent music site and quarterly magazine, for an undisclosed sum — Condé Nast Buys Pitchfork Media — Condé Nast, the publisher that owns magazines like Vogue and Vanity Fair, said on Tuesday …
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Jeremy Barr / Politico:
New York Times creates digital newsroom to cover and add reporting, commentary on viral stories — The New York Times builds out digital rewrite team — The New York Times has created a new newsroom unit to tackle the types of stories that are going viral on the web.
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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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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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Catherine Adams / Guardian:
Female tech journalists, facing online and offline abuse and intimidation, have to disguise their identities — Female technology journalists report abuse is still the name of the game — Women in tech forced to disguise their identity - and even quit the industry - after facing threats online, study finds
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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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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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Tara Conlan / Guardian:
BBC TV chief Danny Cohen to leave corporation — Executive who dealt with the fallout from the Jeremy Clarkson ‘fracas’ is understood to be considering offers from both UK and US companies — BBC director of television Danny Cohen is to leave after eight years at the corporation.
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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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David W. Dunlap / New York Times:
Flooding Threatens The Times's Picture Archive — A broken pipe on Saturday morning sent water cascading into the morgue — the storage area where The Times keeps its immense collection of historical photos, along with newspaper clippings, microfilm records, books and other archival material …
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Daniel Frankel / FierceCable:
Comcast partners with 30 broadcast and cable networks, including ESPN and AMC, to bring short-form videos to its X1 video platform — Comcast partners with programmers to bring short-form Web clips to X1 — Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) announced it launched a “Web” section …
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James Bradshaw / Globe and Mail:
Bloomberg TV Canada to launch Nov. 16 — Canada's newest business TV network will have its first broadcast on Nov. 16 as Bloomberg LP flips the switch on a locally-tailored channel. — The launch of Bloomberg TV Canada will replace the American-focused Bloomberg Television on many TV packages …
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