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3:10 AM ET, June 12, 2016

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Peter Sterne / Politico:
Gawker Media files for Chapter 11 triggering auction, will continue operating and fight the Hogan verdict; source says Ziff Davis opens with $90-$100M bid  —  Company files for Chapter 11 to protect assets from seizure by Hulk Hogan  —  Gawker Media parent company Gawker Media Group …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Sources: Denton may try to buy back Gawker.com, if he wins Hogan appeal  —  At the end of the Gawker Media bankruptcy process, Gawker founder Nick Denton will have surrendered control of all of his websites.  —  But there's a chance he will wind up regaining control of the blog where it all began, Gawker.com.
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Gawker requests injunctive relief prohibiting Hogan and others from taking more legal action against it and Denton without bankruptcy court approval  —  Court papers say it's likely that Nick Denton will be filing for personal bankruptcy and that Hogan becoming Gawker's owner would be “inequitable.”
Dan Kennedy / Nieman Lab:
A deep look at digital and business strategies of The Washington Post under Jeff Bezos: a focus on scale, tech, and experimentation  —  Editor's note: Nieman Lab contributor and Northeastern University professor Dan Kennedy has spent the past semester as a Joan Shorenstein Fellow …
Julia Love / Reuters:
Sources: Amazon to launch $9.99/mo standalone streaming music service late summer/early fall  —  Amazon.com Inc is preparing to launch a standalone music streaming subscription service, placing it squarely in competition with rival offerings from Apple Inc and Spotify, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
Sources: Norman Pearlstine in Talks to Step Down as Chief Content Officer of Time Inc.  —  The venerable journalist is expected to move on to a consulting role.  —  Norman Pearlstine, the chief content officer of Time Inc., is negotiating his exit from the role, multiple sources have confirmed.
Discussion: Media Wire Daily and Ad Age
Jason Wilson / VentureBeat:
Twitch's 100 million viewers watched 800 million hours of esports in the last 10 months  —  If you're uncertain why companies like ESPN and Activision have been making big acquisitions and investments in esports, here's a good answer: because more than 100 million viewers spend lots of time …
Discussion: @jcenters, PollstarPro and ESPN
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Two professors highlight fair use with Kickstarter to pay fee to quote the New York Times in their book; publisher Routledge asked professors to get formal OK  —  Obtaining formal permission to use three quotations from New York Times articles in a book ultimately cost two professors $1,884.
Emily Steel / New York Times:
Sources: possible Viacom board members are Kenneth Lerer, Nicole Seligman, Judith McHale, and Thomas J. May in move to reshape board before re-merging with CBS  —  Philippe P. Dauman, Viacom's embattled chief executive, said Thursday that the entertainment company was continuing its efforts …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
New York Times published an op-ed under the byline of a foreign official who apparently never agreed to it  —  The New York Times has sparked an international incident by publishing an op-ed article under the byline of a foreign official who never agreed to it, according to his supporters.
Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu and iMediaEthics
Andy / TorrentFreak:
Canadian court issues temporary injunction banning the sales of some Android-based set-top boxes with piracy software pending a full trial  —  For years Internet piracy was the preserve of desktop machines running various flavors of peer-to-peer file-sharing software.
Discussion: Federal Court
 
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
NAA is getting ready to accept digital-only sites as members
Brian Fung / Washington Post:
New York AG Schneiderman tells Charter to speed up Time Warner Cable's “abysmal” internet service following company's rebranding of TWC/Charter as Spectrum
Kim McLaughlin / Bloomberg:
Axel Springer buys 93% of market researcher EMarketer for $242M
Discussion: @rafat, Mashable and Reuters
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
The Guardian experiments with interactive, auto-updating push alerts for big stories, only available for Chrome desktop and Android for now
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Jessica Davies / Digiday:
German publishers, including Axel Springer, Bertelsmann Group, and Der Spiegel, pool reader data to compete with Google and Facebook
Steve Annear / BostonGlobe.com:
Vermont newspaper owner to give paper to winner of essay contest detailing plans to keep the print publication afloat in the digital age
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: the new iPad Pro may launch with an M4 chip, kicking off Apple's AI strategy that will be expanded at WWDC; the new Pencil will have haptic feedback

Wall Street Journal:
Lawmakers, TikTok staff, and others detail how TikTok lost the war in Washington, including due to CEO Shou Zi Chew's failure to build support on Capitol Hill

Karen Weise / New York Times:
Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet disclosed that they had spent $32B+ combined on data centers and other capital expenses in Q1, as they accelerate AI spending
 
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