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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
New York Daily News fires an editor for removing attribution from columns by writer Shaun King, who was accused of plagiarism — Daily News fires editor after Shaun King accused of plagiarism — The New York Daily News has fired one of its editors for removing attribution from columns …
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New York Daily News, The Daily Beast, Poynter, Politico, Mediaite, @dylanbyers, @shaunking, BuzzFeed, @dylanbyers, @justinjm1, @ohthemaryd, @justinjm1, FishbowlNY, @dylanbyers, Death and Taxes, @noahshachtman, @petersterne, @mcmoynihan, @shaunking, @petersterne, @pauldebenedetto, @richarddeitsch, Mediaite, @tomkludt, @joeprich, @zpower and @parspec
Jack Shafer / Politico:
BuzzFeed's fun, shallow content like exploding watermelon videos isn't destroying journalism, just mirroring the light stories that newspapers have always used — Why BuzzFeed's Exploding Watermelon Won't Destroy Journalism — Just look at the New York Times' long history of cat coverage.
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@annehelen and FishbowlDC
Everett Rosenfeld / CNBC:
Yahoo reports Q1 revenue of $1.087B, slightly higher than expectations but still down 12% YoY — Yahoo earnings: 8 cents per share, vs expected EPS of 7 cents — Yahoo announced earnings and revenue Tuesday that slightly topped analyst estimates. — The company said it saw adjusted …
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Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Yahoo bidders include Verizon, TPG, and Bain Capital paired with Vista Equity Partners, which involves multiple former Yahoo execs including Ross Levinsohn
Yahoo bidders include Verizon, TPG, and Bain Capital paired with Vista Equity Partners, which involves multiple former Yahoo execs including Ross Levinsohn
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Fortune, AdExchanger, VentureBeat, Business Insider, ZDNet, The Wrap, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Mashable, Re/code, @danprimack and Reuters
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Trump campaign paid Breitbart News national security editor Sebastian Gorka $8K for policy consulting in 2015, according to Federal Election Commission filing — Trump Campaign Paid A Breitbart Editor For Consulting Work — Donald Trump's campaign paid the site's national security editor …
Reporters Without Borders:
World Press Freedom Index: Europe has freest media, North Africa/Middle East has least free; Finland ranked 1st, Tunisia and Ukraine rose most, Poland fell most — 2016 World Press Freedom Index - leaders paranoid about journalists — Organisation — RSF_en
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
French daily newspaper Le Figaro extends its ad blocker ban, after 20% of users switch them off after one week trial; 20% of monthly traffic had been affected — How Le Figaro got 20 percent of its ad blocking readers to whitelist the site — French daily newspaper Le Figaro will extend …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
HBO, Discovery invest in VR startup OTOY to produce original holographic content, terms not disclosed — HBO gets into VR with investment in OTOY — HBO is getting into virtual reality, too. Amid the ongoing craze for VR videos, which has seen streaming rivals like Netflix and Hulu rolling …
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Business Insider, OTOY, Los Angeles Times and Engadget
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Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch adds staffers covering hardware, security and privacy, and more, plus other staffers in product — Please welcome Brian Heater, Kate Conger and more to TechCrunch — We aren't done yet. We've got some more new faces for you here at TechCrunch, and they're good ones.
D.B. Hebbard / Talking New Media:
Tribune Publishing buys Splash magazine from the Sun-Times — The former editor of Splash, Susanna Homan, had already resigned and moved to Tribune to be editor/publisher of the Tribune-owned Chicago magazine — Tribune Publishing has a newish boss, Michael Ferro, who used to be the big wig at the Sun-Times.
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Chicago Business, Robert Feder, Chicagoist and Chicago Tribune
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Uproxx and BroBible owner Woven Digital buys HitFix, which publishes entertainment news, reviews, and video — Woven Digital Acquires HitFix (Exclusive) … Youth-skewing media company Woven Digital has bought HitFix, a fan-focused publisher of entertainment news, reviews and video.
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@christhilk, @hitfix and @ceilidhann
Jonathan Peters / Columbia Journalism Review:
More than 20 months after Ferguson, Ryan Reilly and Wesley Lowery are still facing charges in St. Louis County — The 2014 arrests of journalists Ryan Reilly and Wesley Lowery for, well, doing journalism at a McDonald's in Ferguson, Missouri, were misguided.
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@mariachappellen and @wesleylowery
Debra Birnbaum / Variety:
NPR, This American Life, and HBO among Peabody Award winners — ‘Real Sports,’ ‘This American Life’ Among Peabody Awards Winners … “This American Life's” exploration of desegregation and HBO's “Real Sports with Bryan Gumbel's” investigation of the ivory trade are among the winners …
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The Peabody Awards, FishbowlDC, The Wrap, 89.3 KPCC, @gwenifill, Current, TVSpy, @markmemmottnpr and Broadcasting & Cable
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Netflix promises 100 hours of HDR programming by August, more by 2017 — Netflix just announced plans to introduce more high dynamic range (HDR)-quality videos to its library this year. — Though we already knew Netflix had big plans on the HDR front and that it had recently upgraded the first season of …
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Netflix Media Center, Forbes, Variety and The Verge