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Anh Do / Los Angeles Times:
Orange County Register editor Rob Curley confirms he's leaving; sources say 70+ layoffs expected after its acquisition by Digital First Media — Editor and 70-plus others said to be out at the Orange County Register — More than 70 Orange County Register employees were being targeted …
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Orange County Business …, OC Weekly, Media Nation, The Wrap, @robcurley, @scottrenshaw, @sammihandles and @dougfisher
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Adam Ewing / Bloomberg:
Jay Z seeks compensation in his $56M Tidal purchase from Schibsted ASA, claiming subscriber numbers were inflated — Jay Z Says Firm That Sold Him Tidal Inflated Subscriber Numbers — Hip hop mogul says he wants some of his $56 million back — A year after acquisition, Tidal still trails Spotify, Apple
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Music Business Worldwide, The Verge, Re/code, International Business Times, Billboard, Vanity Fair, Consequence of Sound, Complete Music Update, Fortune, FACT Magazine, RAIN News, Rolling Stone, Gizmodo, Variety, Page Six, Quartz, USA Today, hypebot, Forbes, What Hi-Fi?, Ars Technica UK, The 405, Capital Lifestyle, The Local, Complete Music Update, hypebot and Music Ally
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
Sources claim interns produce most of Milo Yiannopoulos's work; he confirms “about 44” interns and two people writing Breitbart posts, says practice is standard — Top Conservative Writer Is A Group Effort, Sources Say — Sources claim interns produce much of Breitbart.com tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos's work.
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Turner leads $15M investment in Mashable, will work together to develop digital and linear content and collaborate on advertising — Turner Leads $15 Million Investment in Mashable — Media companies plan to collaborate on TV content creation, ad deals — Turner has led a new $15 …
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Fortune, The Wrap, Multichannel News, Variety, Broadcasting & Cable, Adweek, USA Today, International Business Times, Hollywood Reporter, Tubefilter, Guardian, VideoInk, Deadline, FishbowlNY and PE HUB
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
The New York Times launches a podcast team to create a new batch of wide-reaching shows — Another news organization has decided to invest in podcasts, and this one's a biggie: The New York Times is creating a new audio team that will work to launch a batch of news and opinion podcasts this year and more in 2017.
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New York Times, @jbenton and FishbowlNY
David Purdum / ESPN:
DraftKings and FanDuel to suspend all college, high school, and youth sports contests indefinitely after this week's college basketball games, in deal with NCAA — DraftKings, FanDuel to stop offering college fantasy games — Leading daily fantasy sports operators DraftKings and FanDuel …
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Deadspin, TechCrunch, CBSSports.com, VatorNews, Gizmodo, NPR, Re/code, The Big Lead, Engadget and @davidpurdum
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
How ten Gannett newspapers teamed up and spent months reporting on Wisconsin's youth suicide problem — How 10 Wisconsin newspapers teamed up to address the state's youth suicide problem — After one of her first interviews with a family who'd lost a child to suicide, Rory Linnane got into her car and called her best friend.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Study finds that of 108M DMCA takedown requests, 99.8% targeted Google search, 28% of all requests are “questionable”, Google likely removes more than it should — 28% of Piracy Takedown Requests Are “Questionable” — In recent years copyright holders have overloaded Google …
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SSRN, Techdirt, @lumendatabase, The Next Web and Boing Boing
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook to allow muted video ads in Instant Articles and one additional ad unit at bottom of articles — Video Ads Are Coming to Facebook Instant Articles — The social network will also allow more advertising in every Instant Article — Facebook is making further changes …
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Digiday, mUmBRELLA, SlashGear, The Next Web, Digiday, MediaPost, @jasonabbruzzese, Engadget and the Econsultancy blog
Wall Street Journal:
Video Creators Are Frustrated With Pace of Facebook's Antipirating Efforts — Copyright infringement hits them in the pocketbook and the company often is too slow to respond, they say — Filmmaker Brady Haran uploaded a video to his science-focused YouTube channel showing what happens when you drop Lithium metal into 7 Up soda.
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@perlberg, Consumerist and @jackmarshall
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Economist deputy editor Tom Standage on how the weekly business mag reached 35m social media followers — Economist deputy editor and head of digital strategy Tom Standage has revealed some of the secrets behind his title's 35m-strong social media following. — In terms of social media reach The Economist boasts:
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
AP reporters ensured their sources were safe before publishing their award-winning international seafood slavery story — How the AP busted an international seafood slavery racket — Journalists at The Associated Press knew that labor abuses in Thailand's seafood business were an awful but open secret.
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@aodespair
Rachel Browne / VICE News:
Canadian judge rules Vice reporter Ben Makuch must hand over instant messages with Canadian accused of terrorism and joining ISIS Farah Shirdon — Canadian Judge Orders VICE News Journalist to Hand Over Digital Messages — An Ontario court has ruled that a VICE News reporter must hand …
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@rsf_inter, @seleross, Reuters, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, @canadacjfe, @jacquesgallant, Toronto Star, @justin_ling, @cancivlib, @jessebrown, @joshvisser, @jessebrown and @jessebrown
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