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Steve Cuozzo / New York Post:
21st Century Fox and News Corp to remain in New York City's Midtown, won't move to 2 World Trade Center — Fox, News Corp. to keep HQs in Midtown — 21st Century Fox and News Corp. won't be moving to the World Trade Center after all. — Real estate sources told The Post …
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Andrew Nusca / Fortune:
Rupert Murdoch: rumors that Roger Ailes stepped back from decision making at Fox News are “bulls**t” — Exclusive: Roger Ailes Taking a Backseat Is ‘Bulls**t,’ Rupert Murdoch Says — The headline of the article, published to New York's Daily Intelligencer column on Wednesday …
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Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Wikipedia launching $100m fund to secure long-term future as site turns 15 — Online encyclopedia reaches its 15th birthday preparing for challenges ahead around funding, mobile access and the developing world — As Wikipedia turns 15, its operator The Wikimedia Foundation is hoping …
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Andrew Lih / Washington Post:
As Wikipedia turns 15, technological shifts, like readers moving to mobile, and board infighting threaten its future
As Wikipedia turns 15, technological shifts, like readers moving to mobile, and board infighting threaten its future
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Matt Bonesteel / Washington Post:
Survey: 56% of respondents would remove ESPN and ESPN2 from cable packages to save $8 per month as subscription base is down to 92M homes, lowest in a decade — Survey paints gloomy picture for ESPN — Last year was a rough one for ESPN, full of big-name departures …
Jacob Gershman / Wall Street Journal:
Federal civil lawsuit in California claims Twitter is responsible for ISIS tweets, raising questions about liability exemptions for online publishers — Can Twitter Be Liable for ISIS Tweets? — Islamic State has been able to mobilize followers via social media sites like Twitter .
Henry Mance / Financial Times:
Guardian braced for job cuts after burning through £70m in cash — The Guardian newspaper is braced for significant job losses after it burnt through more than £70m in cash last year, according to people familiar with its performance. — The left-leaning publisher …
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Jeff Mosier / The Scoop Blog:
Dallas Morning News shuts down neighborsgo and FD, cuts 19 jobs — Front view of The Dallas Morning News building at 508 Young St. (The Dallas Morning News/David Woo) — The Dallas Morning News is shutting down its neighborsgo sections and FD magazines, publisher and CEO Jim Moroney announced Friday morning.
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Brendan Klinkenberg / BuzzFeed:
Apple to move iTunes Radio behind $10/month Apple Music paywall on January 29 — iTunes Radio Will Soon Cost Money — Beats 1 is now the only free music product for Apple. — iTunes Radio, Apple's Pandora-style internet radio service, is going behind the $10 per month Apple Music paywall on January 29th.
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
How I Got Ejected From a Donald Trump Event — WAUKEE, Iowa - I was late to Donald J. Trump's unannounced visit to a Pizza Ranch on Friday, his first drop-by of this ubiquitous Iowa chain that is standard stop for candidates, but which Mr. Trump has avoided in favor of boisterous crowds in big halls.
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Denver-based Layer3 TV starts testing Umio-branded pay TV service in two Texas markets with bundle resembling traditional cable package — Stealth TV Service Revealed: Layer3 TV Starts Testing Umio-Branded Pay TV Service (Exclusive) — Denver-based pay TV upstart Layer3 TV has quietly started …
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Yahoo! Finance:
BuzzFeed consolidates Buzz and Life sections and combines social, app, and homepage teams — BuzzFeed reshuffles sections, lets go of staffers — There is blood in the media water already this year, as The Huffington Post cut its HuffPost Live operation and Al Jazeera has shuttered Al Jazeera America …
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Aleksandra Sagan / The Canadian Press:
Toronto Star laying off over 300, mostly in production as it outsources printing but also 12 contract employees in newsroom and one permanent part timer — Torstar laying off more than 300 employees — TORONTO — The company that owns Canada's largest circulation newspaper, the Toronto Star …
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