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Tom Scocca / Gawker:
How Peter Thiel's covert bankrolling of Hulk Hogan's lawsuit effectively gaslighted Gawker's business and editorial sides — A lie with a billion dollars behind it is stronger than the truth. Peter Thiel has shut down Gawker.com. — This is the final act in what Thiel wished to present …
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Nick Denton / Gawker:
Nick Denton's farewell post, detailing the rise and fall of Gawker, as the site shuts down today — Gawker.com is shutting down today, Monday 22nd August, 2016, some 13 years after it began and two days before the end of my forties. It is the end of an era.
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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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Simon Dumenco / Ad Age:
Gawker's demise was self-inflicted, akin to “autoerotic asphyxiation,” despite Peter Thiel driving Gawker into bankruptcy — Think of It as an Autoerotic Asphyxiation — How are you supposed to feel about the fact that Gawker.com is shutting down this week?
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Ted Scheinman / Pacific Standard:
Interview with First Amendment Coalition's Peter Scheer: Gawker case could lead to journalists self-censoring in fear of people with huge financial resources — A conversation with Peter Scheer, executive director of the First Amendment coalition. — The immensely influential Gawker.com …
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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Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
Former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros sues Fox, claiming executives punished her for complaining about sexual harassment by Ailes — Andrea Tantaros, a former Fox News host, charged in a lawsuit filed Monday that top executives at the network, including the man who replaced Roger Ailes …
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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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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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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Sources: Amazon hopes to launch unlimited, ad-free, $4-$5/month Echo-only music streaming service in September, has yet to finalize deals with labels — Spotify, Apple Music and everyone else cost $10 a month. Amazon wants to charge half of that. — Amazon wants to launch …
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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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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 …
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Chris Buckley / New York Times:
Staff shakeup at liberal Chinese history magazine Yanhuang Chunqiu opens door to party hard-line writers — BEIJING — For most of its 25 years, the Chinese history magazine Yanhuang Chunqiu has been loved by moderate liberals and detested with equal passion by devotees of Mao Zedong …
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