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Former Facebook news curators, who worked on Facebook's Trending News team, discuss poor working conditions and benefits, comparable to a content farm — Want to Know What Facebook Really Thinks of Journalists? Here's What Happened When It Hired Some. — Depending on whom you ask …
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Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
ESPN and Vice News team up to produce sports shows together and exchange content across TV and digital properties — Vice and ESPN Team Up to Produce Sports Shows — Partnership, which also involves swapping content, shows deepening relationship between Walt Disney Co. and Vice
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Adweek, Variety, NetNewsCheck Latest and Broadcasting & Cable
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
New York Times reports $14M net loss for Q1 on revenue of $380M, down 1% YoY; digital-only subscription revenue up 14% to $54M, ad revenue down 7% to $140M — New York Times Co. Reports Loss as Its Digital Subscriber Base Grows — The New York Times Company reported a $14 million net loss …
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Reuters, @jimmacmillan, @noahchestnut, @mattyglesias, @moorehn, @mathewi, Ad Age and Politico
Evan Hansen:
Medium Senior Editor Evan Hansen, Wired's former editor in chief, leaves after three years to become editor in chief at Periscope — Farewell Medium, Hello Periscope — A little over three years ago I was angling for a new job. In an attempt to impress with the local cuisine I took Kate Lee …
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Shakeeb Asrar / USA Today:
World Press Freedom Day comes amid tough times for journalists — Verbal attacks by presidential candidates in the U.S., new security laws in Europe and increased surveillance of information are some of the new challenges journalists face today, media freedom advocates said on the eve of World Press Freedom Day.
Mathew Ingram / Fortune:
Digiday says it makes a seven-figure profit on eight-figure revenue that's growing 30-50% per year, and may spin out its in-house studio later this year — Digiday Shows There Is Money in Media if You Stay Focused — You might not have heard of an online publication called Digiday …
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Digiday launches Glossy, a site dedicated to fashion and luxury
Digiday launches Glossy, a site dedicated to fashion and luxury
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Nieman Lab, Digiday, Re/code, Talking New Media, @catekustanczy, @mathewi and @niemanlab
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
In internal memo, Boston Globe editor Brian McGrory announces new round of buyouts — Boston Globe announces buyouts, again — Another round of buyouts is coming to The Boston Globe as the newspaper seeks to reinvent its strategy and coverage priorities in advance of a move to new downtown offices.
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Sruthijith KK / India - The Huffington Post:
Sources: Quartz Managing Editor Bobby Ghosh to be named editor-In-chief of Hindustan Times, replacing Sanjoy Narayan — Sanjoy Narayan Is Leaving Hindustan Times, Bobby Ghosh To Be Named Editor-In-Chief — Aparisim ‘Bobby’ Ghosh, a seasoned foreign correspondent and editor …
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Talking Biz News, @indiawithin, @dhume, @shantanu18 and @fridaghitis
Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Hulu Move Shows ‘Old’ Media's Urgency to Pioneer a ‘New’ Cable TV — In race to reinvent the bundle, traditional outfits step ahead of Google, Apple and Amazon — Consumers who are angry at the cost and inflexibility of cable TV have been waiting for someone — anyone — to come along and reinvent the business for the online world.
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Digiday, USA Today, Pocket-lint, Polygon and Wall Street Journal
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Daniel Holloway / Variety:
Source: NBCUniversal also in early talks with Hulu to join streaming bundle in early 2017
Source: NBCUniversal also in early talks with Hulu to join streaming bundle in early 2017
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Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, AppAdvice.com Latest and New York Magazine
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Business Insider names four people as executive editors, names two others as managing editors, promotes others — Business Insider names new editorial management — Business Insider co-founder and editor in chief Henry Blodget sent out the following announcement on Tuesday morning:
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FishbowlNY, @whatthebit, @dangraziano and @fromedome
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Interview with former British MP Louise Mensch, who has launched Heat Street, a right-leaning website from News Corp with 16 editorial and business staffers — The Woman Running Rupert Murdoch's ‘Gawker’ for the Right — The former Tory MP Louise Mensch is running Heat Street …
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Adblock Plus and Flattr launch a publisher payment system, Flattr Plus, which distributes payments among sites from a monthly budget after taking a 10% cut — Adblock Plus and Flattr's new project will let users automatically donate money to websites — Adblock Plus and Flattr today …
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