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Some Silicon Valley luminaries, including Vinod Khosla and Jessica Livingston, express approval for Peter Thiel's tactics against Gawker — SAN FRANCISCO — After the news that one of Silicon Valley's stars secretly funded a lawsuit to bring down a gossip site, the overwhelming response …
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Thiel's funding of Hogan's Gawker lawsuit is just one of several sometimes-secret attempts by wealthy to control weakened US media — At first blush, the secret support that the Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel provided for Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker is a salacious yarn about money, power, gossip and revenge.
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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 …
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Will Oremus / Slate:
Peter Thiel's secret war against Gawker proves Silicon Valley needs a Valleywag to hold its powerful accountable
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Liam Corcoran / NewsWhip:
Facebook likes for web content fell 55%, shares declined 57%, comments down 63% between July 2015 and April 2016, NewsWhip analysis of top 10 publishers shows — We look at the decline in Facebook engagements for major Facebook publishers over the last 12 months, and compare it to the rise of Facebook video.
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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
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Ainsley O'Connell / Fast Company:
Inside Verizon's efforts to build a multi-billion dollar media business that can challenge new media giants like Netflix, and why it is vying to buy Yahoo — The telecom giant, which is in talks to acquire Yahoo, wants a piece of the digital content revolution.
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Washington Post creates progressive web app that loads pages in 80 milliseconds — Under the ownership of Jeff Bezos, The Washington Post has become a fount of editorial innovation. There's Arc, The Post's home-cooked content management system that's now being sold to other news organizations.
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Highlights from a conversation between Andrew Sullivan and Ezra Klein on Trump, the media content bubble, journalism, more — Last year, Andrew Sullivan quit blogging — the medium he had done so much to create. — And you know what? He was pretty damn happy about it.
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Japan Times:
Japanese journalists who refuse to toe the official line are under pressure, watchdogs say, as the country drops in freedom of press rankings — Abandon all reason Avoid all eye contact — Hair graying and dressed in slacks and an open-necked shirt, 58-year-old Takashi Uemura would be hard …
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Nic Christensen / Mumbrella:
60 Minutes Australia founding producer Gerald Stone on botched Lebanon kidnapping story: “greatest misadventure in 37 years”, sacking producer Rice was “unfair” — Channel Nine's 60 Minutes last night again apologised for its role in a “child recovery operation” …
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Biz Carson / Business Insider:
Profile of Musical.ly, DIY music video sharing app with 10M daily, 70M registered users, is expanding into live streaming, and is rumored to be raising $100M — Unless you live with a teenager, you've probably never heard of Musical.ly. — If you do, then you've probably already appeared in one of your kid's music videos.
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Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
New York Times launches summer school for high-school students, two weeks of coursework for $4K — The dual challenges of sinking print readership and contracting digital ad revenue are forcing legacy publishers to ponder new ways of making money. For The New York Times, one of those new ways is opening a summer camp.
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Omar Mohammed / IJNet:
How Tanzanian journalists use WhatsApp to find news and contact people relevant to the story — In August of last year, Orton Kiishweko, a reporter with Tanzania's Daily News, stumbled upon a story making the rounds on WhatsApp, the mobile messaging app. — “I read from a WhatsApp group …
Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Facebook plans to officially kill its video ad exchange LiveRail — The writing has been on the wall for some time. — Facebook plans to shutter LiveRail — the video ad exchange that it bought back in 2014 for a reported $400 million to $500 million — for good sometime in the very near future, according to sources.
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Greg Sterling / Marketing Land:
Facebook expands Audience Network reach beyond just its users — to everyone
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