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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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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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Ubergizmo, Tech Times, Digital TV Europe, The Verge, Variety, @kevinroose, Hollywood Reporter, TechCrunch, The Next Web, @rafat and VentureBeat
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Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Snapchat Adds Refinery29 to Its Stable of Discover Publishers
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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 …
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
New York alt-weekly The Village Voice sold to company controlled by investor Peter D. Barbey — Village Voice sold to new owner — The Village Voice has been sold to a new owner, marking the beginning of the latest chapter in the history of the storied weekly newspaper co-founded by Norman Mailer in 1955.
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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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@2avsagas, @johnmoe and AllAccess.com
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 …
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
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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@cindygallop
Nick Statt / The Verge:
Deadspin suspended from Twitter briefly after receiving takedown notices for GIFs from NFL; @SBNationGIF remains suspended for posting college football GIFs — Sports site's Twitter account suspended after NFL complains about GIFs — The NFL reignited a contentious debate today around copyright …
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John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
The National Association of Broadcasters asks FCC to suspend Charter/TWC merger review until the agency finishes overdue broadcast ownership rules review — NAB Asks FCC to Suspend Charter-TWC Review — Says deal should be denied unless broadcast rules are reformed
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
VICE News debuts in Italy, will expand to Netherlands, Germany, Brazil, and Australia before end-of-year — With Italian debut, VICE News continues expansion abroad — VICE News, the journalism outfit within VICE Media's sprawling international empire, just added another outpost to its growing list of foreign editions.
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