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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
More than 100 Boston Globe writers, editors, and business side employees pitched in to deliver Sunday papers after widespread problems with new delivery vendor — ‘Army’ of Boston Globe reporters to deliver Sunday's newspaper — If you're a subscriber to the Boston Globe …
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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 …
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NPR and FishbowlNY
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 …
Nancy Scola / Politico:
How Medium, which opened a Washington DC office last spring, is courting politicians on the left and right — How Medium is breaking Washington's op-ed habit — The online publishing platform has assiduously courted the political class. — Medium, the three-year-old online publishing platform run …
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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 …
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@djfolk
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Drudge Report's pro-Trump links stand in contrast with the site's support of Romney in 2012 — Why Is Matt Drudge Boosting Donald Trump? — The Republican frontrunner owes his rise to a whole host of factors. But Drudge's conservative media behemoth could've stopped him. Why didn't it?
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The New York Observer and Variety
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 …
Rafat Ali / Skift:
How we built travel news site Skift, now profitable with revenue near “mid single-digits millions”, after giving up on scale and VC funding — How We Got off the Addiction to Venture Capital and Created Our Own Way to Profits — The Skift team on stage, at Skift Global Forum 2015.
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 …
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Hollywood Reporter and Variety
Brooke Borel / Guardian:
Science journalists need to look beyond data and focus on scientists and conflicts of interest — The problem with science journalism: we've forgotten that reality matters most — It's the job of science journalists to look beyond data - we have to look at the people doing the science and whether they have conflicts of interest
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@whereisdaz and @virgilwong
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 …
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Bob Bryan / Business Insider:
Netflix stock falls 4.5% after Wall Street firm downgrades it from Buy to Neutral — A Wall Street firm just downgraded Netflix, and now the stock is tumbling — Netflix has made itself into a fixture in the entertainment business. But according to one Wall Street firm, it's booming growth days may be over.
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