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Tasneem Nashrulla / BuzzFeed:
BuzzFeed withdraws from SXSW after two panels related to gaming and online harassment were cancelled due to threats of violence — BuzzFeed To Withdraw From SXSW Over Canceled Gaming Panels — BuzzFeed plans to withdraw its participation from the South by Southwest Interactive festival …
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Noah Kulwin / Re/code:
Sources: SXSW organizers weigh all-day event focusing on combatting online harassment following BuzzFeed and Vox reaction to panel cancellations — Exclusive: After Gamergate Misstep, SXSW Weighing an All-Day Forum on Online Harassment — SXSW festival organizers are considering …
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South by Southwest …, Guardian, @tcarmody, @edmundlee, @xor, BuzzFeed, Tech Insider and Polygon
T.C. Sottek / The Verge:
Vox Media and The Verge will not attend SXSW unless it takes harassment seriously — After the organizers of the SXSW conference canceled an anti-harassment panel due to alleged Gamergate-related “threats of violence,” Vox Media is reevaluating its participation in the SXSW conference.
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Salon, NPR, New York Times, @drance, @imericschneider and 89.3 KPCC
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Twitter reports 320M MAUs in Q3, an increase of just 4M, and EPS of $0.10 against $0.05 expected; stock down more than 12% in after-hours trading — Twitter Stock Tanks on Stagnant User Growth, Lowered Expectations — Twitter's user growth has clearly started to slow down, and that continues to hurt the business.
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Forbes, New York Times, Fast Company, NetNewsCheck Latest, The Verge, Twitter, Ad Age, SFist, Pocket-lint, Gigaom, TechCrunch, Variety, AdExchanger, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Marketing Land and Hollywood Reporter
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Lena Dunham teams up with Hearst Magazines to monetize Lenny Letter — Before “Girls” creator Lena Dunham became the latest celebrity to launch a newsletter, she hinted that it would eventually be accompanied by some form of advertising. — Nearly a month after the debut of Lenny Letter …
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Fortune, Ad Age, The Huffington Post, Adweek, WWD, BuzzFeed, The New York Observer and @mathewi
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: IBM may buy assets of Weather Co., owner of The Weather Channel, as early as Wednesday in $2B+ deal — IBM Nearing Acquisition of Weather Co.'s Digital and Data Assets — Deal could be announced as early as Wednesday — International Business Machines Corp. is nearing a deal …
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TVNewser, Forbes, 24/7 Wall St. and Fortune
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Trinity Mirror announces plan to acquire Local World in £220M deal, making it UK's largest regional news group with more than 200 titles — Trinity Mirror confirms £220m Local World deal — Daily Mirror owner will become UK's biggest regional newspaper publisher as it takes control of more than 100 titles
Kristen V. Brown / Fusion:
Profile of Milo Yiannopoulos, who trolls online and charms in person, raising provocative questions — The ultimate troll: The terrifying allure of GamerGate icon Milo Yiannopoulos — Perhaps the most shocking thing about Milo Yiannopoulos is that he is utterly charming.
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@kristenvbrown, @devindra and BREITBART.COM
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Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg Business:
Breitbart launches Breitbart Tech section with six full-time staffers, led by Milo Yiannopoulos, known for his contrarian views on Internet culture
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@clarajeffery, @ghaatimasala, @mikeisaac, @noltenc, @nero, @nero, @jacksmithiv, @nero, BREITBART.COM and @typodactyl
Noah Kulwin / Re/code:
Gawker's New Editor Is Alex Pareene, Formerly of First Look and Salon — Despite talk of making Gawker “20 percent nicer,” the newly appointed editor of Gawker.com is an old name — Alex Pareene. — In a memo today, Gawker Media Executive Editor John Cook announced that Pareene …
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Media Wire Daily, @pareene, Politico, New York Times, @leahbeckmann, @samfbiddle, @daveweigel, FishbowlNY and @dangillmor
Agence France-Presse:
Turkish police storm offices of opposition media group — Istanbul (AFP) - Turkish riot police firing tear gas and water cannon on Wednesday stormed into the Istanbul headquarters of a media group linked to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's main rival, just days before a weekend election.
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Reuters, Al Bawaba, Bloomberg Business, euronews, DW.COM, TodaysZaman, Guardian and TodaysZaman
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Twitter turns to TV ads to increase reach; advertisements debut during World Series — This is Twitter's first television ad campaign — This month Twitter unveiled Moments, the simplified way of browsing tweets that the company hopes will return it to rapid growth.
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Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, TechCrunch, @dingis, Marketing Land, BuzzFeed, TIME, @lanceulanoff, @mountpajamaja and @twitter
James Vincent / The Verge:
European Parliament rejects amendments protecting net neutrality — The EU has rejected legal amendments that would firmly protect the concept of net neutrality in Europe. The European Parliament voted in favor of the new regulation which proponents says establish an internet …
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EU Press Room, Techdirt, DSLreports, Gizmodo UK, Ars Technica UK, BBC, Pixel Envy, World Wide Web Foundation, TechCrunch, Guardian and Wired.co.uk
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Labor activist-cum-reporter Mike Elk reaches settlement with Politico over summer departure — Mike Elk, the Politico labor reporter who importuned his co-workers to unionize, has reached a settlement agreement with the Rosslyn-based outlet following his August departure, he told the Erik Wemple Blog today.
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