Mediagazer: Legal experts discuss third-party litigation funding, previous examples involving media, and legal obligations of the lawyers involved (Barry Meier/New York Times)

5:00 PM ET, May 27, 2016

Top News:

Kevin Dugan / New York Post:

Pierre Omidyar's First Look Media is reaching out to media organizations about filing amicus briefs in support of Gawker's appeal — Two Silicon Valley billionaires with a history of bad blood are squaring off over Gawker. — Pierre Omidyar, an eBay co-founder, is leading the charge …

Discussion: Fast Company, Business Insider, @becket, @xor, @aminatou, @justinjm1, @lissawicks and @pierre

Nick Denton / Gawker:

Nick Denton challenges Peter Thiel to a public debate in open letter, says decade-long campaign by Thiel is out of proportion, asks about ultimate intent — Nearly a decade ago, after you had opened up to friends and colleagues, a gay writer for Gawker shared an item with the readers of Valleywag …

Discussion: New York Times, Fusion, Politico, Cody Brown, The Drum, Slate, @jtlol, Mother Jones, New York Magazine, @ggreenwald, @nicknotned, TechSpot, Recode, Here & Now, @jason, FishbowlNY, The Wrap, Vanity Fair, BuzzFeed, The Daily Caller, Quartz, Washington Post, Reveal, Financial Times, CNBC, CNN, Daily Mail, Talking Biz News, Fast Company, @jason, INSIDER, Wall Street Journal, @nicknotned, Business Insider, ABC News, Newser, Adweek, Wired, Tech Times, @chriswarcraft, @mattdpearce, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Deadline, @csoghoian, @csoghoian, The Huffington Post, Mediaite, Mashable, @daringfirefeed, SiliconBeat, Politico, Variety, @joshsternberg, Business Insider, Guardian, @mikeisaac, Recode, The Wrap, Fortune, Alternet, @ftrain, Forbes, VentureBeat, @oliyoung, Hollywood Reporter, @ryanchittum, Recode, @thrmattbelloni, @edmundlee, @carneross, @yaelwrites, @mathewi and Talking Points Memo

Will Oremus / Slate:

Peter Thiel's secret war against Gawker proves Silicon Valley needs a Valleywag to hold its powerful accountable — Peter Thiel's misguided, secret war against Gawker Media proves it. — Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and Facebook board member who co-founded PayPal and Palantir …

Discussion: Politico, @petersterne, @dangillmor, @danluvsbeer, @willoremus, @petersterne, @rurikbradbury, PoliMedia and Reuters Breakingviews

Barry Meier / New York Times:

Legal experts discuss third-party litigation funding, previous examples involving media, and legal obligations of the lawyers involved — The Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel has put the future of Gawker Media into doubt by secretly funding a successful lawsuit that threatens to undermine the media company's finances.

Discussion: @nytimes, @timrace and Forbes

Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:
Source: Gawker Media is exploring strategic options, including potential sale

Discussion: New York Post, The Wrap, @nitashatiku, New York Times, Media Wire Daily, Vanity Fair, Awful Announcing, Politico, FishbowlNY, CNNMoney, Fast Company, The Huffington Post, TechCrunch, Variety, SiliconBeat and USA Today

Greg Sterling / Marketing Land:

Facebook expands Audience Network reach beyond just its users — to everyone — All people on Audience Network mobile sites and apps can now be targeted using familiar Facebook parameters. — Two years ago Facebook launched the Facebook Audience Network as part of an effort to expand …

Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:

Facebook to shut down FBX, its ad exchange that lets third party companies purchase ads for desktop as company shifts focus toward mobile — Social network focusing on its own ad network and mobile ad inventory — Facebook is planning to shut down its ad exchange, FBX …

Discussion: SocialTimes, MediaPost, Recode, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, The Drum, Business Insider, AdExchanger and Fortune

Pew Research Center:

Pew: 62% of US adults get news on social media; 66% of Facebook, 23% of Instagram, 21% of YouTube, 19% of LinkedIn users get news there — A majority of U.S. adults - 62% - get news on social media, and 18% do so often, according to a new survey by Pew Research Center …

Discussion: NewsWhip, Mashable, The Huffington Post, Nieman Lab, US News, PC Magazine, Tech Times, TechSpot, Marketing Land, SiliconBeat, Poynter, The Hill, TechCrunch and SocialTimes

Kevin Eck / TVSpy:

Nexstar to sell five stations to meet FCC requirements for merger with Media General — In what it's calling a first step towards getting approval for its proposed merger with Media General, Nexstar Broadcasting says it's selling five stations to three different ownership groups.

Discussion: Radio & Television …, Broadcasting & Cable and FierceCable

Politico:

Inside the decline of digital media pioneer Salon.com, from changes in political coverage to financial failures — How a digital trailblazer and progressive powerhouse lost its way. — A Facebook page dedicated to celebrating the 20th anniversary of digital media pioneer Salon is functioning as a crowdsourced eulogy.

Discussion: @charlesarthur, @mikeroe_, @zunguzungu, @jwherrman, @fmanjoo, @amlwhere, @petersterne, @poniewozik and The Awl — Medium

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Blendle pay-per-article news service launches iOS and Android apps in US focused on discovery and speed — News delivery startup Blendle, which is applying a marketplace model to journalism offering pay-per-article reads from a range of different publishers, has launched iOS and Android apps in the US …

Discussion: The Verge, @whatthebit, socialbarrel.com and Engadget

David Prestipino / WA Today:

Seven West Media to buy News Corp's Australian properties, The Sunday Times and PerthNow — The sale of The Sunday Times and PerthNow website to rival Seven West Media is almost complete. — Seven West Media CEO and managing director Tim Worner confirmed the company that owns The West Australian …

Discussion: Mumbrella, ABC and Sky News

Holly Byrnes / NEWS.com.au:

60 Minutes Australia producer fired over Lebanon child kidnapping story that landed children's mother and television crew in jail — Holly ByrnesNews Corp Australia Network — 60 MINUTES producer Stephen Rice has been sacked over the program's botched child snatch scandal in Beirut …

Discussion: Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald, Sky News, Reuters, ABC, The Huffington Post Australia, Voice of America, London Evening Standard, Mumbrella, Sky News, Daily Mail, 9news.com.au, Starts at 60, Business Insider Australia and DW.COM

Archived Page Info:

This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 5:00 PM ET, May 27, 2016.

View the current page or another snapshot:

Who's Hiring in Media?

Deputy Ed. - Gen. Assignment Desk, DC — WaPo

EU Technology Reporter, Brussels — Bloomberg

Breaking News Reporter, NY — Guardian US

Harrisburg Reporter, PA — PCBC

Senior Editor - Styles, NY — NYT

Part-time Editor, Remote — Techmeme

Home & Travel Reporter, Ireland — Newsweek

Assistant Digital Editor, MA — Boston Globe

Senior Editor - Visuals (Temporary), DC — NPR

Copy Editor, Remote US — ProPublica

Markets Reporter, NY/CA — Sherwood Media

Staff Writer, MI — Watershed Voice

Food Reporter, CA — SF Standard

Staff Writer, NV — Las Vegas Weekly

Pharma Editor, Remote — Endpoints

Higher Ed. Reporter, Remote CA — EdSource

Politics Reporter, Brussels — Politico

Investigations & Enterprise Ed., WI — Cap Times

Social Strategy Editor, NY — WSJ

Senior Narrative Editor, CA — Cloud Chamber

Editor-in-Chief, NY (flexible) — The 74

Housing Reporter, OK — The Frontier

Writer/AI Content Reviewer, CA — Outlier

Writer/Editor, Remote — Mediaite

Multi Media Reporter, NC — Cardinal & Pine

Afternoon/Night Editor, NH — Keene Sentinel

Education Lab Editor, WA — Seattle Times

Senior Editor, Remote US — PCWorld

State Worker Reporter, CA — Sacramento Bee

Executive Editor, NM — Searchlight

News Assistant, NY — Quanta Magazine

Local Editor, NJ (Remote) — Patch

News Writer, CA — Hollywood Reporter

News Editor/Reporter, KS — Blade-Empire

Add your company here

See Also:

Mediagazer: site main

Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer

Mediagazer Mobile: for phones

Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources

Subscribe:

Mediagazer RSS feed

Mediagazer on X

Mediagazer on Mastodon

More News:

Yasmeen Abutaleb / Reuters:
Vietnam restricted access to Facebook during Obama visit: activists

Discussion: Business Standard, The Stack, CNET, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Gizmodo and The Verge

Wall Street Journal:
Viacom Director Presses for Access to Sumner Redstone

Discussion: New York Times

SBNation:
SB Nation releases Vox Media review of Daniel Holtzclaw profile and vows to work on building and valuing staff diversity, among other changes

Discussion: Poynter, Deadspin, The Huffington Post, Vox Media, @amandatintero, @amandatintero, @geedee215, @lahlahlindsey, @margarita, @bethelderkin, @raju, @sueyres, @neilweinberg44, @johnwoodrowcox and @chrisgayomali

Earlier Picks:

Lee Glendinning / Guardian:
Guardian takes down 13 articles and removes unverifiable information from others after checking freelancer Joseph Mayton's work, will review processes

Discussion: TwitLonger, Press Gazette, Crikey, The Drum, iMediaEthics, Telegraph, Poynter, Mediaite, @sameralatrush and @cernovich

Angelique Chrisafis / Guardian:
French trade union members prevented printing of all but one national newspaper after papers refused to run opinion piece by union leader

Discussion: France 24

Financial Times:
Sources: Apple had preliminary discussions about buying Time Warner last year as spending on original content set to increase

Discussion: Business Insider, TechSpot, Mediaite, FierceCable, Real Stories and The Loop

From Techmeme:

Daniel Wiessner / Reuters:
Google scraps a 2019 policy requiring US suppliers and staffing firms to pay their employees $15 an hour and provide health insurance and other benefits

Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
The US Senate reauthorizes FISA's Section 702; some communication service providers had threatened to stop cooperating with the US government in case of a lapse

Kate Rogers / CNBC:
A look at Los Angeles' Homelessness Prevention pilot program, which uses AI to identify those at risk of becoming homeless, offering aid to keep them housed

Sister Sites:

Techmeme
Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web

memeorandum
What US political commentators are discussing online right now

WeSmirch
The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page