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Kif Leswing / Business Insider:
Yahoo confirms data from 500M+ accounts was stolen in 2014 by “state-sponsored actor”; info includes email addresses, hashed passwords, security questions, more — Yahoo on Thursday revealed a massive data breach of its services. — Yahoo “has confirmed that a copy …
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Conservative columnist Glenn Reynolds, aka Instapundit, temporarily suspended from Twitter after tweeting “Run them down” in reference to protesters on I-277 — As protests in Charlotte descended into chaos and violent outbreaks on Wednesday night, a conservative columnist …
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Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post:
CNN correspondent Ed Lavandera was knocked to the ground on live TV covering Charlotte protests; he says the perpetrator came back later to apologize — CNN correspondent Ed Lavandera, reporting live from protests against police violence in Charlotte, North Carolina, was knocked over in mid-sentence Wednesday night.
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Peter Sterne / Politico:
Sources: The Guardian US lost $15.85M on revenue of $15.5M in 12 months ending April 2016 — The Guardian's U.S. operation took in $15.5 million in revenue but suffered a $15.85 million net loss in the 12 months ending April 2016, POLITICO has learned. It initially believed …
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Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Alex Graham, founder and former chief exec of TV production company Wall to Wall Media, has been appointed as chair of The Guardian's owner, The Scott Trust — Former chief executive of TV production company Wall to Wall Media succeeds Liz Forgan to oversee Guardian Media Group
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Politico and @alexgspence
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Univision begins adapting content from Gizmodo Media Group blogs like Lifehacker for Spanish speakers — Univision is moving fast. — Since agreeing to buy Gawker Media Group in August, the company has already begun to refashion the blogging empire in its image, shutting down Gawker …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Raju Narisetti, senior vice president of strategy at News Corp, is named CEO of what was Gawker Media; company to be renamed Gizmodo Media Group
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Interview with media lawyer Charles Harder, who represented Hulk Hogan in Gawker suit, on Peter Thiel, representing Melania Trump, libel reform, and more — After getting Gawker to fork over an extra $40 million on behalf of Hogan, Harder, arguably the highest-profile media lawyer in America …
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@eriqgardner, @thrmattbelloni, @csmcdaniel, @hadas_gold and @thr
Hannah Kuchler / Financial Times:
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Thomas E. Patterson / Shorenstein Center:
Harvard study: negative news reports without context outnumberd positive reports 82% to 18% during 2016 Republican and Democratic national conventions — A new report from Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy analyzes news coverage of the 2016 Republican …
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Los Angeles Times, @shorensteinctr, The New York Observer, @palewire, The Week, Media Matters for America and Mother Jones
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Inside Shareblue, David Brock's pro-Clinton site that takes credit for injecting the idea of false equivalence into a critique of the media's election coverage — Just before 9:30 p.m. on Sept. 13, the first Twitter post appeared, directing users to an obscure article about a remark Donald J. Trump …
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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Hardwick Gazette owner Ross Connelly extends essay contest deadline to October 10, launches Kickstarter with $100K goal to make contest financially viable — So far, no one has wanted to buy a weekly newspaper in Vermont outright, and not enough people have submitted essays for the contest seeking a new owner.
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Kickstarter, @niemanlab, @kristenhare, @poynter, @profdauber and @poynter
Kerry Flynn / Mashable:
Digital media entrepreneur Jason Calacanis discusses his newly launched Inside.com, a network of eight email newsletters with topics chosen by readers — Jason Calacanis, who sold his company Weblogs to AOL for $30 million in 2005 and was an early investor in Uber and other tech startups, said he doesn't need to work again.
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