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Anna M. Phillips / Tampa Bay Times:
Judge in Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker has been reversed on appeal more times than any other judge in her county — Trial judge in Hulk Hogan-Gawker case is most reversed in Pinellas — ST. PETERSBURG — Hulk Hogan has plenty of reasons to celebrate his $140 million win against the website Gawker over its publication of a sex tape.
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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Source: Gawker paid Condé Nast executive the site outed an undisclosed amount in order to avoid another lawsuit — Gawker's Season of Fear and Loathing — The now-pariah gossip website may be bruised in the aftermath of its Hulk Hogan verdict, but those anticipating its demise might be sorely disappointed.
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Digital news jobs are concentrating in New York and a few other big coastal cities, leading to unrepresentative media — The game of concentration: The Internet is pushing the American news business to New York and the coasts — Editor's note: Our sister publication Nieman Reports is out with their new issue — go check it out.
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Wall Street Journal:
Netflix says it has throttled its videos on AT&T's and Verizon's wireless networks for more than five years to protect users from exceeding data caps — Netflix Throttles Its Videos on AT&T, Verizon Networks — Streaming service says it limits video quality to protect users from exceeding data caps
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Jeremy Barr / Ad Age:
Q&A with Ev Williams on Medium's evolution, monetization efforts, Matter's spinoff as an independent studio, and Backchannel's future — How Can Marketers and Publishers Best Use Medium? Ev Williams Shares His Vision — Ahead of Ad Age's Digital Conference, Co-Founder/CEO Talks …
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Ros Barber / Guardian:
For me, traditional publishing means poverty. But self-publish? No way — A few days ago, I wrote a piece on my blog exploding the myth of the rich writer, and laying out (in terms the Royal Literary Fund described as “ruthlessly mathematical") what authors actually receive when you buy their books.
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Ed Vulliamy / Guardian:
French journalist Florence Hartmann jailed by war crimes tribunal — Former Le Monde correspondent in Bosnia detained for revealing information about Srebrenica massacre was withheld from international criminal court — The journalist Florence Hartmann, a former correspondent for Le Monde …
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Agence France-Presse, @glynmoody and New York Magazine
Karla Zabludovsky / BuzzFeed:
Two reporters at Mexican newspaper Milenio quit after accusing paper's leadership of caving to government pressure — Uproar In Mexico Over Latest Journalist Scandal — Two reporters have quit a Mexican newspaper after accusing the leadership of caving to government pressure.
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Amber Bouman / Engadget:
Engadget shuts down comments for seven days to figure out how to improve quality of system — We're shutting down our comments ... see you next week — A few months back, we rolled out a new comments system. This was, in the words of Douglas Adams, widely regarded as a bad decision.
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@danawollman, @numeson, @penenberg, Talking New Media, @dameright, @mathewi, @carcaster, @kyliu99 and @coaster78fan
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Boston Globe's Catholic news vertical Crux will survive with backing of Knights of Columbus — Crux's “corporate resurrection”: How the Catholic news site will live on beyond The Boston Globe — The Boston Globe announced earlier this month that it will shut down Crux …
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CRUX, @jayrosen_nyu, @niemanlab, @jeffjarvis and @niemanlab
Emily Steel / New York Times:
CEO Peter Liguori talks about Tribune Media's changes and the February announcement that it's exploring partnerships or a sale — Tribune Chief Discusses Transforming a Mature Media Company — Peter Liguori, the longtime television executive, was appointed the new chief executive …
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@brianstelter
Jason Koebler / Motherboard:
In Angola, Wikipedia Zero and Facebook Free Basics are being used to create a clandestine file sharing network — Angola's Wikipedia Pirates Are Exposing the Problems With Digital Colonialism — Wikimedia and Facebook have given Angolans free access to their websites, but not to the rest of the internet.
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