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Nick Denton / Gawker:
Gawker Media will be fine in the long run, and its legal battles have exposed the imbalance of power when covering Silicon Valley — Perhaps the most embarrassing aspect of filing for bankruptcy is the well-meaning condolence note from a friend. “I'm so sorry,” more than one has written.
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Mother Jones, Recode, @clarajeffery, @fieldproducer, @edmundlee, CNBC and Deadspin
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Adrian Chen / New Yorker:
Ex-Gawker writer Adrian Chen recounts his time writing for the site, points to its history of public interest journalism — At 8 p.m. on October 27, 2009, I sat at my desk in the hallway that I used as an office in my Brooklyn apartment and stared at a blank field on my computer screen …
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Mediaite, Forbes, Talking Points Memo, Fortune, @adrianchen, @isaacfitzgerald, @fivefifths, @newyorker, @kantrowitz, LawNewz, The Daily Signal, @jakebeckman, @mediashiftorg, @choire, Techdirt, @tomscocca, @jjn1, The Week, @davidbrin, Heat Street, The Verge, The Wrap, @rtushnet, @ggreenwald, Gawker, @jayrosen_nyu, @natesilver538 and @joshtpm
Maria Chutchian / Forbes:
Judge to rule Wednesday on whether bankruptcy court's protection for Gawker extends to Nick Denton — Gawker Media's last-ditch effort to protect itself from a debilitating $140 million judgment using Chapter 11 may be a novel strategy to the media world but pharmaceutical and casino companies alike …
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The Wrap
Peter Sterne / Politico:
A list of the ten separate lawsuits Gawker is currently fighting
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New York Times, Newser and Forbes
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Pew State of the News Media Report: big platforms hog 65% of digital ad revenue but are dependent on news outlets for content — The 13th annual Pew Research State of the News Media Report documents another year of alarming declines for newspapers — the worst since the 2008-2009 recession.
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Nieman Lab, NewsLab, Mediaite, Journalism.org, Pew Research Center, Journalism.org, Washington Post and Broadcasting & Cable
Joe Nocera / New York Times:
By creating a market for on-demand TV, Netflix spawned its own competitors and is struggling to survive, with a negative cash flow of nearly $1B — It helped to develop all the new ways we watch TV — on-demand, bingeing, mobile. But the Silicon Valley company still has to keep reinventing itself.
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Fortune and Business Insider
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Presidential candidate Donald Trump says he will not revoke press credentials of reporters if elected, as he has done with Washington Post, other news outlets — While Donald Trump's campaign is refusing to give press credentials to reporters from The Washington Post and several other news outlets …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Post Executive Editor Martin Baron says Trump coverage will continue “honorably, accurately, and unflinchingly” regardless of credentials
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Media Matters for America, The Huffington Post, Heat Street, Fox News, KABE-LP, @bryanburrough, @christopherjm, Washington Post, Slate, @ndebruin, @mlcalderone, @mlcalderone, @brianstelter, @wpjenna, @wpjenna, @frankthorp, Jack D. Lail, @wpjenna, @jdiamond1, @ericawerner, Mediaite and The Week
Shirley Halperin / Billboard:
Q&A with Apple's Iovine, Reznor, Cue, and Kondrk on Apple Music, Beats 1, and YouTube's “disingenuous” business model, and more — Eddy Cue, Apple senior vice president of internet software and services, helps introduce the new iOS software at an Apple event …
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Guardian, @alexbrooks, Rolling Stone, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, FACT Magazine, hypebot, Business Insider, AppleInsider, MacRumors and The Loop
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
“It kept coming back to our long-term independence”: FOIA site MuckRock goes nonprofit — MuckRock, a collaborative news site that helps journalists as well as interested citizens with Freedom of Information Act requests, announced Wednesday that it's received 501(c)(3) status — in other words, it's going the nonprofit route.
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Tim Mahlman, head of AOL's publisher tools, takes charge of the company's ad-tech business too — AOL executive Tim Mahlman is getting a promotion. — The titles might not sound all that different — Mahlman was previously AOL's president of publisher platforms, and now he's president of AOL platforms.
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Adweek and AdExchanger
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Johnson Publishing sells Ebony, Jet magazines to Texas firm — Ebony covers featuring Vanessa Williams (1983), Muhammad Ali (1978), Nelson Mandela (1990) and President Barack Obama (2008). — After a 71-year run in Chicago, Johnson Publishing is getting out of publishing.
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FishbowlNY, Robert Feder, Talking New Media, @chicagotribune, Folio, @dionnegrant and New York Post
Ciara Nugent / New York Times:
Paris-based Librarie des Puf holds no books, instead printing titles on customer request from a 3M-title catalog in as little as five minutes — PARIS — Gauthier Charrier, a graphic design student, stepped inside one of Paris's newest bookstores and wondered, “Where are all the books?”
Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
BuzzFeed fires two producers, Jenny Lorenzo and Brittany Ashley, over appearing in a web-series, citing contract clause most video staff are asked to sign — Two popular producers and personalities for BuzzFeed — Jenny Lorenzo, a writer, producer and actor for the company's English-speaking …
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ag.ny.gov, The New York Observer, Wall Street Journal, @jeffjohnroberts, @weinbergrrrrr, @elongreen, @gabydunn and New York Magazine
David Bond / Financial Times:
Reuters Institute: 53% of online news consumers prefer sites like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter over traditional media sites; 44% use Facebook for news each week — More than half of all online news consumers are turning to social networking sites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter ahead …
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Nieman Lab, @liahaberman, NewsWhip and @risj_oxford
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Facebook executive: Your News Feed will likely be “all video” in five years
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Business Insider, kottke.org, Mashable, Forbes, TechCrunch, @bbhlabs, @danprimack, Fast Company, Globe and Mail, Fortune, Mother Jones, New York Magazine, Mediaite, @ericjackson, @therightsteph and Variety
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