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Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Las Vegas Review Journal to name Dave Butler, exec editor at the Providence Journal, as interim editor to restore order after paper's sale to Sheldon Adelson — Review-Journal brass set to announce Dave Butler as interim editor — New Media Investment Group, the company that continues …
Discussion:
@stephgrimes, @petersterne, @iandon and New York Times
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
ESPN's The Undefeated will launch in 2016 — ESPN — After a series of setbacks that included the outsing of founding editor Jason Whitlock, ESPN's site focusing on the intersection of race and sports is primed for a launch in 2016. — That's according to Kevin Merida …
Discussion:
NPR, FishbowlNY and @poynter
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Wired is expanding its online coverage, adding Transportation vertical — Wired Expands Online Coverage — Wired is growing its online world with the addition of a Transportation vertical and the expansion of its Entertainment vertical. The former is overseen by associate editor Alex Davies …
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The New York Observer
Digital TV Europe:
Netflix reportedly preparing Russia launch this month — The SVoD service will launch locally this month on smart TVs, Russia's Izvestia newspaper reported. — “We hope that there will be more licensed content in Russia, and with the advent of Netflix people will start to get used …
Discussion:
Variety and Hollywood Reporter
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
Traffic growth of some digital news sites slows, with Business Insider growing 10% in 2015, compared to 80% in 2014 and BuzzFeed's traffic flat in 2015 — Digital publishers face a winter of discontent — The sunny days of hot growth for digital publishers are fading into a memory as many now face a long, dark winter.
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@cdirusso, @mattdpearce, @mims, @emilybell, @jacobwe, @rafat, @mattatmit, @heather_muse and @thestalwart
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
US federal government returns music blog OnSmash to owner Kevin Hofman for $7 fee, 5 years after seizing it; Hofman never formally charged with any wrongdoing — 5 Years and $7 Later, U.S. Returns a Seized Hip-Hop Site — In the early hours of Thanksgiving Day in 2010, all the music at OnSmash.com …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Twitter invests in Muzik, maker of high-end wireless headphones; social network will be integrated directly into headphones, allowing users to share music — Twitter Invests in Muzik, a High-End Headphone Startup — Here is something you didn't expect to hear about coming out of CES this year …
Discussion:
@rosslevinsohn, VatorNews, The Next Web, Fortune, @jamesliamcook, @mathewi and hypebot
Wall Street Journal:
How Gawker earns revenue through affiliate links, which brought in about $10M in 2014 — How Gawker Brings In Millions Selling Headphones, Chargers and Flashlights — Media company uses affiliate links to help sell products on e-commerce sites — Gawker Media, a network of websites known …
Discussion:
@digitalshields
Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
Relativity Media's creditors accept company's reorganization plans — Relativity Creditors Accept Reorganization Plan — The group of creditors involved in the Relativity Media bankruptcy case said Monday that it supports the studio's plan of reorganization.
Discussion:
@tatianasiegel27
John Hopewell / Variety:
Netflix to stream Je Suis Charlie documentary on January 7, the first anniversary of terrorist attack which claimed lives of Charlie Hebdo staff — Netflix Takes Pyramide-Sold Docu ‘Je Suis Charlie’ (EXCLUSIVE) — Pyramide strikes pre-sales on Adele Haenel starrer ‘Les Ogres’ and ‘That Summer Feeling,’ from Mikhael Hers
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Time Warner's Turner indicates it will bring native ads to TV, replacing some 15-60 second ad spots with longer-form content — Time Warner's Turner Seeks To Replace Some TV Ads With New Kinds of Content — If it looks like a TV show and acts like a TV show, will viewers forget it's really a new kind of TV commercial?
Discussion:
@jpeters1221
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Reality TV giant Discovery tries to return to its roots by spending millions on documentaries and science shows — Life after ‘Honey Boo Boo’: Inside Discovery's fight to grow up — NEW YORK — Since the Discovery Channel first hit the airwaves 30 years ago with an after-school special on icebergs …
Discussion:
New York Times, @dduart3, @leilanimunter, @sci_phile and @modestproposal1
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