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Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
Verizon reportedly pushing for $1B price cut on pending $4.8B Yahoo deal after recent report of 2014 hack — Verizon may not have bailed out of its deal to purchase Yahoo for $4.8 billion, but amid a growing case of bad news at the search engine company, the telecommunications giant …
Jackson McHenry / Vulture:
Gimlet Media cut Starlee Kine's Mystery Show as she was working on its second season; she is in discussions with Gimlet to produce the podcast independently — This might explain why you haven't heard much news about that podcast you love: Mystery Show, the podcast that charmingly investigated …
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Mystery Show, @juddzeez, @taffyakner, @toddvanluling, Gimlet Media and The New York Observer
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
ProPublica's Data Store, which has pulled in $200K since 2014, is now selling datasets for other news orgs, building on first partnership with the Daily News — When Sarah Ryley, an investigative reporter at the New York Daily News, filed a records request with the city's police department earlier …
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@shansquared and @niemanlab
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet on calling out lies, embracing video, and building a more digital newsroom — How long is two years in editor years? — Leading any daily newspaper in this age is challenging, but leading The New York Times is an exercise unto itself.
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@ylichterman, @poniewozik, @jonathanmahler, @michaelroston, @carlosmonteiro, @shansquared, @lauraelizdavis, @schlemmer, @ngjennings, @ericaalyssa, @ericaeve, @michaelkruse, @kath_krueger, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, @jayrosen_nyu, @jbenton, @jamestaranto, @anthony, @ggreenwald, @palewire, @ericboehlert, Heat Street and @toughloveforx
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Oculus announces exclusive deal for Blade Runner 2049 movie content and a deal with Disney — The newly announced “Blade Runner 2049” will extend beyond the movie screen when it is being released in October of 2017: sci-fi fans will also step into the world of a movie with virtual reality experiences …
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/Film, Forbes, NetNewsCheck Latest, The Next Web, CNET, Hollywood Reporter and VentureBeat
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
The Economist is joining Snapchat's Discover feature, publishing 14-17 snaps each weekend; the partnership could help Snapchat appeal to older users — Snapchat is bringing more serious news to its Discover section, adding a new channel from The Economist this weekend.
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@deanroper, @jeremymbarr, @meena_thiru, @margarita, @digiday, @deniselaw_ and @tomstandage
Numbers / Pew Research Center:
Pew study: about 40% of American adults under 50 prefer reading news, mostly online; more than half of Americans over 50 opt for watching the news on TV — When it comes to technology's influence on America's young adults, reading is not dead - at least not the news.
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Nieman Lab, TechCrunch, FishbowlNY, @mattdpearce, @stevesilberman, @yappelbaum, @mtdukes, FishbowlDC, @pewresearch, @brianboyer and @robinkwong
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Daybreak is a new morning briefing for Bloomberg's roughly 325K terminal subscribers; three separate editions are produced by teams in NY, Hong Kong, and London — A year and a half ago, Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait got some editors together around an idea: Could Bloomberg be grabbing its readers earlier in the day?
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@journalism, @streetfightmag and @cmarieharvey
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Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times:
China's Dalian Wanda Group faces scrutiny for Hollywood investments as US Rep. John Culberson asks for Justice Department review — Billionaire Wang Jianlin, chairman of Dalian Wanda Group, has set his sights on Hollywood in recent years with the acquisition of several entertainment companies.
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The Wrap, Deadline, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Variety and The Wrap
J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Bill de Blasio's public snub of a NY Post reporter was unique in the history of discord between City Hall and the press, escalating a long war with the tabloids — For weeks, Mayor Bill de Blasio has barely disguised his disgust for the coverage of his administration in The New York Post.
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New York Post, Mediaite, @pbump, @katie_honan, @grynbaum, @mcelarier, @mlcalderone, @dchangnyt, @jdavidgoodman, @susannecraig, @azi, @jdawsey1, @ericboehlert, @azi, @dchangnyt, @nytimes, Politico and FishbowlNY
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Matt Drudge's habit of hyping stories that sow distrust of the media helps explain his skepticism regarding Hurricane Matthew warnings — There's a lot of irony in Matt Drudge accusing someone else of overly hyping a threat for political purposes. — On Thursday afternoon …
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@pbump, The Daily Caller, People.com and Boing Boing
Daniel Holloway / Variety:
Former MTV exec Andy Schuon forms Every Day Networks, focused on over-the-top digital brands like Fuel TV, which it has acquired from Fox — MTV veteran Andy Schuon has teamed with a number of longtime television, radio and digital-media executives to form Every Day Networks.
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