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Josh Laurito / Gawker Data Team:
Gawker.com site metrics, from launch to closure: over 202K posts peaking at over 70 per day in 2008, 7B pageviews, more — As you may have heard, this week marks the end of gawker.com's operations. If you didn't read it here, you may have read about it in the bushel of eulogies …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Univision's Isaac Lee on how buying Gawker Media, with brands iconic to millennials, is important to Univision's “young, digital and diverse” future
Univision's Isaac Lee on how buying Gawker Media, with brands iconic to millennials, is important to Univision's “young, digital and diverse” future
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David Ferguson / Raw Story:
CNN's Trump commentator Corey Lewandowski is still being paid by the presidential candidate's campaign, received $20K in July while working for the network — New filings with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) reveal that Corey Lewandowski is still being paid by Republican presidential …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Profile of Viacom's interim CEO Tom Dooley, seen as an ally of Philippe Dauman who was also close to Sumner Redstone — Interim CEO may ultimately get the top job permanently — 'He's a very capable, well-liked guy. He knows the business' — After decades at Viacom Inc. …
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Liz Spayd / New York Times:
The New York Times should pause in its rush to Facebook Live video and reinstitute its traditional standards of quality control — IT'S been just over four months since The New York Times started producing live video for Facebook, but already the scoreboard is flashing. A few earned gold medals.
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Sean Hannity, with a primetime Fox audience of 2.5M, veers into the role of Trump adviser, says he “never claimed to be a journalist” — During major inflection points in Donald J. Trump's campaign, the advisers, family members and friends who make up his kitchen cabinet burn …
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
The New York Times has created a newsroom-wide team to cover race, with a biweekly newsletter, forthcoming multimedia projects, more — More than a decade ago, The New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize for “How Race is Lived In America,” a series of stories exploring attitudes toward race across the United States.
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Max Willens / Digiday:
Facebook cuts off new sign-ups to traffic performance tool Domain Insights, creating a headache for new publishers — On the last day of June, Facebook dammed up a stream of audience data that publishers once used to see how their content performed inside Facebook.
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Ellen Huet / Bloomberg:
Ad tech startup Media.net, which powers contextual ads offered by Yahoo, sells to group of Chinese investors for $900M — The startup, which powers contextual ads offered by Yahoo! and Microsoft's Bing, plans a move akin to a reverse merger that would make it a public company in China.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Melania Trump takes legal action against Daily Mail for defamation; Charles Harder, her attorney, represented Hulk Hogan in Gawker case — Melania Trump has started legal action against the Daily Mail and other outlets for what she claims is a defamatory article about her past.
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Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Sources: Time Inc. is facing new round of cuts across its US titles, including Don Banks of Sports Illustrated; one source says it's around 40 editorial staff — THE TRUMPINGTON POST CHANNEL? — The drumbeat about whether Donald Trump is planning to start his own media operation after Nov. 8 is getting louder.
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Bustle says its 20-25K daily app users average six minutes per session, above average rates, according to UK study; TV coverage in particular attracts readers — It's a hard time for publisher apps. There was more evidence of that last week when The New York Times announced it would shut down NYT Now …
Richard Deitsch / SI.com:
Ryan Lochte robbery story was initially broken by Fox Sports Australia presenter Ben Way after a chance meeting with the swimmer's mother — - The reporter who discovered—and broke—the Ryan Lochte story from the Rio 2016 Olympics details how he stumbled upon on the news.
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Terry McDonell / Columbia Journalism Review:
Remembering David Carr, 18 months after his death: reporter, junkie, and mentor — A year after he died suddenly in the newsroom of The New York Times, David Carr still pops up several times a day on the Google Alert I set for him back in 2005, when he first explained to me what that was.
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