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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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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Q&A: Pitchfork Founder Ryan Schreiber on Conde Nast Sale, Indie Roots and Expansion — Ryan Schreiber was an indie music buff with no journalism experience when he launched the website Pitchfork out of his suburban Minneapolis home in 1996. On Tuesday, Pitchfork Media joined the big leagues …
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Forbes, WWD and FishbowlNY
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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@palafo, @edmundlee and Business Insider
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Tom Corrigan / Wall Street Journal:
Relativity Television's Employees Expected to Remain After Purchase — Chief Executive Tom Forman will continue in that role — Relativity Television's employees, including chief executive Tom Forman, are expected to remain in place when senior lenders buy the TV studio from the ailing company later …
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Brent Lang / Variety:
Buyers Pledge to Bolster Relativity Television With $60 Million Investment — Senior Film and Media Reporter @BrentALang — The prospective owners of Relativity Media's television business are committed to investing a minimum of $60 million into the company behind such shows as MTV's …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BBC local press plan is ‘backdoor privatisation’, says NUJ chief — Michelle Stanistreet says regional newspaper bosses are seeking BBC funds to prop up ailing businesses they have run into the ground — The general secretary of the National Union of Journalists has slammed BBC attempts …
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Press Gazette
Andrew Flanagan / Billboard:
Aurous sued by Universal, Sony, and Warner for copyright infringement three days after launching its Popcorn Time-like streaming music service — Aurous Sued By the Majors Three Days After Debut — Well, that didn't take long. After launching its alpha version this past Saturday following months …
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Billboard, The Next Web, Digital Music News, CBC News, International Business Times and TorrentFreak
Pedro Burgos / Medium:
As sites turn off comments, some are experimenting with new tools for curated conversations alongside articles — Goodbye, comments. Hello, “conversations” — There are two seemingly incompatible trends going on in the publishing world right now. On one hand, there is a growing number …
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@sjkmcnally and @derfleck
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Profile of Ali Rezaian, brother of imprisoned Washington Post reporter Jason, as he campaigns for his brother's release — Jason Rezaian's brother logs many miles — and emotions — to free him — “Starting my 15th trip to DC this year,” Ali Rezaian tweeted early Monday morning.
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San Francisco Chronicle, Associated Press and Reuters
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Dish Petitions FCC to Deny Charter-Time Warner Cable Merger — Satellite provider cites combined company's market power in broadband — Satellite provider Dish Network Corp. petitioned the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday to deny the proposed merger between Charter Communications Inc …
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Multichannel News, Reuters, Deadline and Seeking Alpha
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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Comcast, Multichannel News, VideoNuze Analysis and Engadget
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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