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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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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
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Trump Campaign Paid A Breitbart Editor For Consulting Work — Donald Trump's campaign paid the site's national security editor, Sebastian Gorka, $8,000 for “policy consulting” last year. — WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's campaign paid Breitbart News national security editor Sebastian Gorka $8,000 for …
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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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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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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Robert Feder, Chicago Business, 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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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.
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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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, @markmemmottnpr, TVSpy and Broadcasting & Cable
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 …
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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