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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sumner Redstone removes five members of Viacom's board of directors, including Philippe Dauman, who remains CEO for now — Among those ousted are Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman — Sumner Redstone's National Amusements on Thursday replaced five board members of Viacom Inc. …
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Emily Steel / New York Times:
Viacom warns of earnings shortfall, is paying legal bills for CEO Dauman during struggle for company control — As he wages legal battles in multiple states to keep his position in Sumner M. Redstone's media empire, Philippe P. Dauman's legal bills are being paid by Viacom.
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@emilysteel and Recode
Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:
How Marissa Mayer's spending at Yahoo to spur growth, in defiance of deals with activist investors to cut costs, led to auction of core assets, board shakeup — Embattled CEO failed to produce pledged savings, plunged deeper into turnaround; more room in the parking lot
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@rafat, @harrymccracken, @nicktimiraos, CNBC and Business Insider
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Seth Fiegerman / Mashable:
Behind the scenes at Tumblr after the Yahoo acquisition: new competition, a $240M writedown in February, and an uncertain future
Behind the scenes at Tumblr after the Yahoo acquisition: new competition, a $240M writedown in February, and an uncertain future
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Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:
Snapchat is launching Real Life, a post-per-day digital publication about living with technology, on June 27, with Nathan Jurgenson as editor in chief — Snapchat doesn't just care about video. — The company is behind a new online magazine called Real Life, which will publish roughly …
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Corey Hutchins / The Colorado Independent:
Fearing more layoffs after buyout offers, Denver Post journalists organize a rally against hedge fund owner Alden Global Capital — DENVER — As a cops reporter for a corporate-owned newspaper in South Carolina, Noelle Phillips had already survived multiple rounds of layoffs before moving across …
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Ellen Gamerman / Wall Street Journal:
As its famous hosts leave the airwaves NPR seeks a younger audience but is having trouble keeping up with innovative podcasters — With both its stars and audience aging, NPR is struggling to adapt to the digital age: ‘The most innovative people are doing podcasts’ — Old hosts die hard in public radio.
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Ted Johnson / Variety:
Appeals Court Hands Vimeo a Victory in Liability for Copyright-Infringing Videos — A federal appellate court has ruled that Vimeo has limited liability over users' uploading of almost 200 videos with infringing music recordings, rejecting claims from record companies and publishers …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Sports Illustrated incoming editorial director Chris Stone on premium digital content, website redesign plans, and new verticals — Much has changed since Chris Stone first joined Sports Illustrated in 1992. — While SI was once focused solely on publishing a weekly magazine …
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Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic:
Interview with Medium's Ev Williams on corporate web consolidation, the open web, and centralized platforms — To a certain kind of nerd, Ev Williams is the Forrest Gump of internet media. Williams helped write the software that made us call blogs blogs. He founded a podcast company years before most people listened to them.
Steven Zeitchik / Los Angeles Times:
VR startup Vrse changes names to Within and announces $12.56M funding round, led by Andreessen Horowitz and including Fox, WME, and Vice — A shot from Chris Milk's ‘Evolution of Verse’ (Within) — For virtual-reality entertainment, the money keeps coming.
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Within, Road to VR, Bloomberg, Wired, The Verge, SlashGear, Recode, CNET, Hollywood Reporter, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, Indiewire and Fortune
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
Politico tests using Apple Wallet to send notifications with its EU Referendum Tracker tool, avoiding developing and maintaining its own app — Of all the possible applications of Apple Wallet — coupons, boarding passes, event tickets — news seems an unlikely one. And yet Politico is giving it a try.
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Digiday, MacRumors, Politico, 9to5Mac and AppleInsider
Matt Graves:
The history of Napster from rebel file-sharing software in 1999 to a legal music service in 2016 — Yesterday afternoon, the Rhapsody music service announced that it will retire the Rhapsody name, and re-brand its service (and the company) under the Napster brand.