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Jason Del Rey / Recode:
Jim VandeHei says his yet-to-launch media startup Axios may charge $10K+ for some subscriptions eventually, but will launch ad-supported and free to readers — Advertising to start, then big-money subscriptions. — We still don't know a lot about Axios, the yet-to-launch media startup founded …
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Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
Condé Nast's Self magazine is going all digital; its February issue will be its last regular print production and roughly 20 to 30 jobs will be cut — Condé Nast is said to make bigger restructuring moves around the new year. — Condé Nast is closing Self magazine in print, WWD has learned.
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman apologizes for editing user comments and says the company is working to combat abuse by taking action against “toxic users” — Reddit will start issuing warnings, timeouts and permanent bans to its most abusive trolls, but will also limit …
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Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo:
Some high-ranking Reddit moderators say they're losing hope in the site's future as users from the pro-Trump subreddit harass others, inflate vote counts, more
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YouTube Blog:
YouTube announces support for 4K live streams of 360-degree and standard videos; first 4K stream will be Game Awards on December 1 — Back in 2010, we enabled 4K video support for the very first time. Since then, millions of videos have been uploaded at that eye-popping resolution …
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Breitbart launches a boycott against Kellogg's after the cereal company pulls its ads from the site — Breitbart News is going to war with Kellogg's after the cereal maker decided to pull its advertisements from the far-right news site in protest of its political views.
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Roy Greenslade / The Guardian:
The Financial Times says it earns more revenue from digital than print; three quarters of its 843K subscribers are digital-only — Business paper claims a first by earning more revenues from digital than print — The Financial Times has passed another significant milestone by securing more revenues from digital than print.
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Politico's national editor, Kristin Roberts, is leaving and says she plans to focus on work that “reminds me that journalism is a public service” — Kristin Roberts, Politico's national editor, is leaving for an as-yet unannounced job in journalism, she told Poynter Wednesday.
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Reporters Without Borders:
Bahrain sentences Faisal Hayyat, a journalist who hosts a YouTube channel, to three months in jail for a tweet deemed to insult a religious symbol and group — Reporters Without Borders (RSF) denounces the conviction of Bahraini journalist and blogger Faisal Hayyat for allegedly insulting religion in a tweet.
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Hugh McIntyre / Forbes:
Spotify unveils Singles, a new weekly series featuring exclusive recordings, replaces Sessions with Live — Throughout the year, Spotify has seemingly focused its vast resources on several areas: playlists, acquisitions, and original content. The latter of the three has only been a topic …
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Mia Shanley / Reuters:
Spotify could start to become profitable as early as next year, says board member and early investor Par-Jorgen Parson — Music streaming service Spotify, one of Europe's most valuable tech start-ups, could start to become profitable as early as next year, said a board member who was also one of the company's first investors.
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Avery Hartmans / Business Insider:
Report: ad tech company AppNexus has filed confidentially for an IPO, expected around Q2 2017, valuing the company between $1.5B and $2B — AppNexus' long-awaited IPO is about to happen. — The ad tech company has filed paperwork confidentially for an initial public offering …
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Andrea Peterson / Washington Post:
CBC journalist Edward Ou was denied entry to the US and had his mobile phones briefly confiscated, as he travelled to cover the Dakota Access Pipeline protest — Award-winning Canadian photojournalist Edward Ou has had plenty of scary border experiences while reporting from the Middle East for the past decade.
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