Mediagazer: Center For Public Integrity Lays Off Two Reporters Amid Restructuring (Michael Calderone/The Huffington Post)

8:55 AM ET, May 3, 2016

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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:
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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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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Hulu in talks with Disney, 21st Century Fox to launch an online TV service that would stream broadcast and cable channels in first quarter of 2017

Daniel Holloway / Variety:
Source: NBCUniversal also in early talks with Hulu to join streaming bundle in early 2017

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Reuters:

Sources: Tribune Publishing's second-largest shareholder, Oaktree Capital, wants company to “actively engage” with Gannett and other potential buyers — Exclusive: Tribune Publishing No. 2 shareholder supports sale — Oaktree Capital Group LLC (OAK.N), the second largest shareholder …

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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Tribune calls Gannett's appeal to stockholders a bid to ‘steal the company’

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Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
Gannet urges Tribune shareholders not to back company's slate of director nominees, to send clear signal they want two companies to engage in merger talks

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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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Peter Sterne / Politico:

New York Times rebrands its R&D lab as Story[X], will be led by editor for innovation and strategy, Kinsey Wilson — Times rebrands R&D studio, promotes VR video at NewFront — The New York Times is rebranding its research and development lab as “Story[X]” and will more closely integrate …

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Jeremy Barr / Ad Age: At NewFronts, The New York Times announces six new digital shows; Chief Revenue Officer Meredith Kopit Levien says trend is toward a “visual future”

Jackie Spinner / Columbia Journalism Review:

In Chicago, two brothers are using Instagram to engage new audiences for investigative reporting — In early 2015, Jeff Kelly Lowenstein, a freelance investigative journalist, published a story in The Chicago Reporter about a reverse mortgage scheme that targeted elderly African-Americans on Chicago's south and west sides.

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Center For Public Integrity Lays Off Two Reporters Amid Restructuring — The cutbacks come on the heels of the Center's international investigative project scoring major scoop with the Panama Papers. — The Center for Public Integrity laid off two reporters Friday and will not immediately …

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Julia Marsh / New York Post:

Hulk Hogan suing Gawker again, for allegedly leaking sealed court documents to the National Enquirer that quoted him making racists remarks — Hulk suing Gawker for allegedly leaking his racist tirade — More On: — Hulk Hogan is trying to take down Gawker one more time.

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Brian Rohan / Associated Press:

Egypt's journalists' union calls for dismissal of interior minister, launches protests after detention of two journalists, Amr Badr and Mahmoud el-Sakka — Egypt journalists stage protest over police raid at union — CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's journalists' union called for the dismissal …

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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:

New York magazine's Select All, led by ex-Gawker EIC Max Read, focuses on how gadgets, social networks, and apps affect the lives of a general audience — With Select All, New York wants to separate itself on the crowded tech beat — The internet isn't hurting for a lack of tech coverage.

Harro Ten Wolde / Reuters:

SoundCloud launches SoundCloud Go music subscription service in UK for £9.99 per month, and in Ireland for €9.99 per month — SoundCloud extends paid-for music streaming service to UK, Ireland — German online music start-up SoundCloud said on Tuesday it has expanded …