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Noah Robischon / Fast Company:
BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti and President Greg Coleman on how company uses data and local knowledge to tailor and leverage international coverage — BuzzFeed's Global Domination Plan: The Techniker Has Been Informed — BuzzFeed is expanding across the globe—and tackling one of advertising's greatest challenges.
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Fast Company, Re/code, BuzzFeed, Mashable, @eawharton, @petersterne, Fortune and Tubefilter
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Ex-Buzzfeed president Jon Steinberg launches Cheddar, a video streaming startup for millennials covering CNBC-like topics, with $3M in funding — Former BuzzFeed president Jon Steinberg launches Cheddar, a CNBC for millennials, with $3 million in funding — Jon Steinberg …
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Mediaite, @felixsalmon, @profjeffjarvis, @jbenton, @petersterne, @mollywood, The New York Observer, @petersterne, @adamsinger, @_bmturner_ and @ajs
Greg Howard / Deadspin:
Memo: SB Nation cuts ties with writer of now-deleted Holtzclaw article, suspends longform program, plans internal review led by Vox Media's Lockhart Steele — SB Nation Memo Announces Hiatus For Longform Program — Two days ago, SB Nation published “Who Is Daniel Holtzclaw?”, a long …
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@saramorrison, The New York Observer, Awful Announcing and @jessesingal
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Jessica Luther / FanSided:
Why SB Nation's profile of serial rapist Daniel Holtzclaw went down in flames … On Wednesday, SB Nation published a longform piece on Daniel Holtzclaw, the former Eastern Michigan University linebacker who was recently sentenced to 263 years for the rape and assault of multiple black women …
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@jbenton, Slate, @tressiemcphd, @scatx, @todougherty, @farwent, @scatx, @laurenarankin, @tanyarezak, @pecunium, @byjoelanderson and @ranachronism
Maureen Morrison / Ad Age:
Israeli ad blocking company Shine partners with 30M subscriber-strong European carrier Three Group to offer network-level ad blocking — European Carrier Blocks Ads at Network Level — Shine and Three Group Team Up to Offer Ad Blocking — Free Webcast — The Skinny on Scope Management: 2016 Keys to Success
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Guardian, Telegraph, Mashable, @dangillmor, TechCrunch, AdExchanger, Business Insider, @emilybell, The Stack, @bodil, The Drum, Ubergizmo, The Drum, Wired.co.uk, International Business Times, CNET, MediaPost, Engadget and Ars Technica UK
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Pressure builds for Viacom to sell assets as stock falls, confidence in Dauman falters; analyst thinks company could get $5.5B for Paramount, $11.1B for MTV — Should Viacom Sell Paramount? Analyst Pressure Builds — EMAIL ME — CEO Philippe Dauman may need to act soon as the stock sinks …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Viacom participated in Roku's last funding round, which brought in $45.5M — Viacom Invests in Roku — Viacom has joined the ranks of big media and TV companies investing in Roku, the Web video streaming hardware and software company. — The cable programmer participated …
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Turkey detains Syrian journalist Rami Jarrah, co-founder of ANA Press — Turkey detains journalist who risks his life to report from Syria — Reporter raised in London is held after applying for residency in a border city — A Syrian journalist who was raised in Britain …
Mark Toner / INMA:
How Dallas Morning News used acquisitions to expand into content marketing, event businesses — Realising it could not build an in-house, large-scale, multi-channel marketing presence as fast as it needed, The Dallas Morning News opted to acquire existing successful businesses.
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Pressure on Katie Couric to deliver for Yahoo amid cutbacks — Yahoo!'s round of cutbacks this week is putting renewed pressure on Katie Couric, the global news anchor who is pulling in $10 million a year. — There was grumbling in the ranks recently, several sources said, as Yahoo! …
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@mathewi, FishbowlNY, @eosredux2, Deadline and The Information
Axegrinder / Press Gazette:
Huffington Post Editor-in-Chief Stephen Hull suggests unpaid articles are more authentic than paid-for stories, which is “something to be proud of” — Stephen Hull and the blockheads: Backlash against HuffPo ed's claim unpaid articles are ‘more authentic’
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New Statesman, Wordyard, @mathewi, @natashadevonmbe, @tigerbeat, @jilliancyork, @jimspencesport, @laurenduca, @markloundy, terribleminds and @mathewi
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: after launching a year ago, Sling TV now has more than 600K subscribers; Chief Executive Roger Lynch says “vast majority” are not pay-TV subscribers — Dish Network's Sling TV Has More Than 600,000 Subscribers — Hasn't been breaking out the subscribers publicly for Sling TV since launch a year ago
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