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Comcast buys DreamWorks Animation for $3.8B in cash, $41 a share; total equity value of deal, including debt, is $4.1B — NBCUniversal to Acquire DreamWorks Animation for $3.8 Billion … NBCUniversal has set a deal to buy DreamWorks Animation for $3.8 billion in cash.
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Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times:
Katzenberg will step down as DreamWorks Animation CEO, will chair DreamWorks New Media, including Awesomeness TV and NOVA, will also be NBCUniversal consultant — Katzenberg to relinquish DreamWorks Animation CEO role after Comcast deal — Jeffrey Katzenberg, the Hollywood mogul whose name …
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Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Sources: Snapchat hits 10B daily video views, up from 8B in February; over a third of daily users create Stories — Snapchat User Content Fuels Jump to 10 Billion Daily Video Views — More than a third of daily users said to create snap stories — Daily video views increase from 8 billion in February
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
In apparent move to boost visibility, Twitter switches its App Store category from Social Networking to News, where it ranks No. 1 — Twitter aims to boost its visibility by switching from ‘Social Networking’ to ‘News’ on the App Store — Following yet another quarter of sluggish user growth …
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Mail Online takes down article after plagiarism complaint from freelance writer for the Times, agrees to pay invoice “with no admission of liability” — Mail Online rips off freelance journalist... yet again — Writer discovers his Times article reproduced on the Daily Mail's website
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Sources: Politico in talks with reporters Jake Sherman, Anna Palmer about taking over as Playbook co-authors when Mike Allen leaves — Politico in talks with new ‘Playbook’ authors — Politico Playbook, the influential morning newsletter read by Washington's power players and political junkies, will have a life after Mike Allen.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Viacom Q2 revenue falls 3% to $3B, compared to $3.08B in same period last year — Viacom Q2 Revenue Dips 3% on Ad Shortfalls, Film Unit Operating Loss … Viacom Inc. said revenue dipped slightly its fiscal second quarter fell 3% as its U.S. media networks grappled with ratings declines …
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Hilary Milnes / Digiday:
Vogue launches iOS app with Snapchat Discover-like design, daily feed of eight stories, in time for New York's Met Gala — Vogue's finally bringing its content to a mobile app — It is late April, 2016, and Vogue finally has a mobile app for its content.
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Fashionista, @johnherrington, @bmorrissey, @niemanlab and Teen Vogue
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Elizabeth Denham, ex-British Columbia information commissioner who led major investigation into Facebook's privacy controls, named UK information commissioner — Canadian who took on Facebook named UK information commissioner — Commons culture, media and sport committee confirms Elizabeth Denham in £140,000-a-year role
Joseph Menn / Reuters:
Traffic to Wikipedia terrorism entries plunged after Snowden revelations, study finds — Internet traffic to Wikipedia pages summarizing knowledge about terror groups and their tools plunged nearly 30 percent after revelations of widespread Web monitoring by the U.S. National Security Agency …
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@netizenrights, @wikipedia, The Intercept, @jamesofur, The Hill and Washington Post
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Crain Communications - behind Crain's New York - launching sites in 35 markets, will feature curated newsletters, and local and national news — Crain's Goes National — Crain Communications is taking its brand national. The company—which owns business sites in New York, Chicago …
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Nathan McAlone / Business Insider:
Profile of media startup Odyssey, which has 10K+ unpaid young writers posting one piece a week, recently raised $25M, and claims 30M uniques a month — A startup that just raised $25 million is like a college newspaper on steroids — and it's racking up 30 million uniques a month
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Cheddar TV, New York Business Journal and LinkedIn Pulse
Kelly McBride / Poynter:
With Arianna Huffington on the Uber board, the Huffington Post must manage both actual and perceived conflicts of interest — Ask the ethicist: Should Arianna Huffington sit on Uber's board? — Arianna Huffington was announced as the newest member of Uber's board of directors today …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Arianna Huffington joins Uber's board, raising questions about Huffington Post editorial boundaries despite her recusing herself from coverage of Uber
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