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Ken Doctor / Politico:
Sources: Apollo Global Management approached Tribune Publishing about a sale about a month ago, but Tribune has been “non-responsive” — Apollo seeks purchase of Tribune — and possible California sell-off — Is Rupert right? — Friday afternoon, News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch tweeted …
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@rupertmurdoch, @mattdpearce, Orange County Register, Poynter and The Wrap
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Rupert Murdoch tweets that Tribune Publishing is about to be sold, with Los Angeles Times going to Eli Broad — Murdoch tweets that LA Times about to be bought — Newspaper owner and noted Twitter user Rupert Murdoch is hearing that the Los Angeles Times newspaper is about to change hands.
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USA Today, Mashable, Fortune, Los Angeles Business …, @dainabethcita, @brianstelter, LA Observed, Variety, The Drum, Reuters and FishbowlNY
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Twitter removes share counts in sharing buttons, but publishers say data was important internally and as a signal to readers — Frustrated publishers to Twitter: Give us our share counts back — It seems like Twitter and other social platforms are always making changes to their platforms …
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ClickZ, @newswhip and the Econsultancy blog
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Why the media won't say Donald Trump is lying — Just north of the campus of Ohio State is a bar called The Library. It does not take a college student long to recognize the utility of that name; a parent calls and asks where you are and you can simply say, “The Library,” …
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Medium, @nikkiusher, The Fiscal Times, @nathanjurgenson and @bydanielvictor
Joe Zadeh / Noisey:
How Kane Robinson, who ran the obscure music forum Dancing Jesus, became the target of the UK's biggest piracy case — How a Kid Running an Obscure Music Forum Became the Target Of the UK's Biggest Ever Piracy Case — It's 5pm on a Friday and Kane Robinson is sat in his parents home in North Shields …
Michele McLellan / Knight Digital Media Center:
Study of 287 local, independent news sites shows 60% are 5 years or older, demonstrating staying power — Local independent news operations demonstrate staying power — When I first started studying an emergent group of local online news startups in 2009, it was because I was skeptical …
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Interview with Joe Weisenthal about Bloomberg's podcast Odd Lots and its daily online finance show, What'd You Miss? — Bloomberg TV's What'd You Miss? thinks of linear TV as “a source of content for online video” — What'd You Miss? is a daily, hour-long show from Bloomberg TV that airs …
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@jyarow
Arik Parnass / Medium:
How the role of a daily sports beat writer has evolved over the years and where it is headed in the age of instant access and automated game recaps — The Changing Beat — Once the province of beat writers and their “exclusive access,” the sports media landscape keeps shifting.
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@howardbeck
Elizabeth Dickinson / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of Syria's Orient TV, which broadcasts from unmarked offices, uses activist correspondents, and has been a target for ISIS — Syria's media war — A photograph taken from Suruc district of Sanliurfa, Turkey, near Turkish-Syrian border crossing shows journalists work at Turkish side during …
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@cjr
Mathew Ingram / Fortune:
Mp3.com founder Michael Robertson launches OnRadio, which lets you search for and play songs from 100K+ online radio streams — Mp3.com Founder Launches Radio Search Service, Talks Copyright — Michael Robertson clearly enjoys going up against corporations much larger than his …
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@jackshafer
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
German ISPs may have to block pirate sites if copyright holders exhaust all other options to identify operators or hosting providers, supreme court says — Supreme Court Opens Door for Pirate Site Blockades in Germany — Domain name blocking has become one of the entertainment industries …
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The Register, Billboard, The Digital Reader, Complete Music Update, Ars Technica, Reuters, Top Digital Journal News and Music Week
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Fusion announces distributed news team of 12 to work on platforms such as Snapchat, Instagram, and Vine — Fusion has a 12-person distributed news team for platforms — If the future will be a distributed one, Fusion wants to make sure it's prepared. — The digital news site …
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@digiday
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