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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: YouTube seeks streaming rights for TV shows and movies to support its new subscription service Red — YouTube Seeks Streaming Rights to TV Shows, Movies — Efforts come as YouTube looks to bolster $9.99-a-month subscription service called Red — YouTube is seeking streaming rights …
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Guardian, London Evening Standard, CNET, TechRadar.com, New York Post, Reuters, Gizmodo, Pocket-lint, 9to5Google, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, The Stack, The Verge, Advanced Television and Engadget
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: potential bidders for a Yahoo sale include Verizon, IAC/InterActive, with News Corp and Time Inc. likely interested in pieces of Yahoo — Bidders Emerge for Yahoo's Internet Business — Potential buyers range from media and telecom giants to private-equity firms
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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Engadget Unveils Redesign Focused on Technology's Effect on Society — AOL-owned gadget site broadens editorial mission to boost audience — Veteran tech site Engadget is getting a face-lift and a new outlook on life. — The 11-year-old blog is unveiling a significant redesign of its site …
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@antderosa, @shanedingman, Digiday, Business Wire and Engadget
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Shareholder who controls about 10% of Viacom asks CEO Philippe Dauman for more disclosure about Executive Chairman Sumner Redstone's health and competency — Mario Gabelli Wants More Disclosures on Sumner Redstone's Health — Billionaire money manager's Gamco Investors owns about 10% of Viacom voting shares
Wall Street Journal:
Advertising holding company Publicis Groupe overhauls company structure and top management — Publicis Groupe Shuffles Management — Advertising holding company looks to coordinate its myriad agencies and rejuvenate business — PARIS— Publicis Groupe SA is overhauling its structure …
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AgencySpy, Ad Age, GlobeNewswire News Room, The Drum and Financial Times
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
The San Francisco Chronicle, once imperiled, is profitable — and growing its digital business … When newspapers took a nosedive in the late 2000s, it appeared as if the San Francisco Chronicle might be one of the industry's biggest casualties. The paper reportedly was bleeding …
BBC:
India's The Hindu newspaper not printed Wednesday for the first time since 1878 due to heavy floods in Chennai, making the press inaccessible to workers — Chennai floods: The Hindu not published for first time since 1878 — One of India's oldest newspapers has not been printed …
FBI:
FBI launches eFOIA system, putting individual FOIA requests and results online for the first time, but limits requests to one per day — Try New eFOIA System — The FBI recently began open beta testing of eFOIA, a system that puts Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests into a medium …
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@ryanjreilly, GCN, @derekwillis, @a_marshall_plan, @jasonleopold, @morisy, @derekwillis and FedScoop
Glenn Peoples / Billboard:
Q&A with new Tidal CEO, former SoundCloud exec Jeff Toig, the startup's third CEO in under a year — Jay Z's Tidal Gets New CEO: Former SoundCloud Exec Takes the Streaming Reins — EMAIL ME — The former Muve Music and Soundcloud executive should be a steadying influence as Tidal's third CEO in less than a year.
Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Warner Bros. and Turner invest $15.8M in LeBron James' platform-agnostic content network for athletes, Uninterrupted — LeBron James Scores $15M Warner Bros. Investment for Entertainment Studio (Exclusive) — The company and Turner Sports are putting millions into the NBA star's Uninterrupted platform …
Paul Linford / HoldTheFrontPage:
New version of Editors' Code published following post-Leveson overhaul — New provisions on headline acccuracy, suicide reporting and gender discrimination have been included in a revamped version of the Editors' Code of Practice published today. — The Code, under which most UK journalists operate …
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Press Gazette, The Independent, The Independent, editorscode.org.uk, Guardian and Daily Mail
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Alan Yentob steps down from BBC senior management role as creative director over Kids Company charity scandal — Alan Yentob steps down as BBC executive over Kids Company row — Corporation veteran embroiled in scandal over charity says media coverage revolving around his role is ‘proving a serious distraction’
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The Independent, Deadline, BBC, BuzzFeed, Mirror.co.uk, ITV, Metro.co.uk, Telegraph, Financial Times, Guido Fawkes, City A.M. and Variety