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With ads hard to sell and VC hard to raise, sources say media startups like Defy Media and Uproxx consider, like Mashable, selling to bigger companies — Defy Media, Uproxx also weigh sale as capital to grow dries up — Web publishers that made ‘pivot to video’ struggle to sell ads
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Sources: IAC is exploring selling The Daily Beast, but the company has no formal sales effort in place — Digital media is facing a reckoning. — The start-ups that were once the darlings of the industry are facing budget shortfalls and revenue declines as they struggle to survive …
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Simple Justice and @dylanbyers
Jenna McLaughlin / Foreign Policy:
A look back at coverage of WikiLeaks, Assange, and Guccifer 2.0 documents in Jared Kushner's New York Observer — The New York Observer, owned by Trump's son-in-law, was a friendly outlet for the 2016 Russian hackers. — In the fall of 2014, Julian Assange, the embattled head of WikiLeaks …
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Mashable, @jennamc_laugh, @mikestaresinic, @aarongell, @anthony, Daily Mail, Mother Jones and Fast Company
David Shepardson / Reuters:
FCC approves ATSC 3.0 TV broadcast standard, dubbed “Next Gen TV”, with interactive features, UHD support, and geotargeted emergency alerts and advertisements — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Thursday approved the use of new technology that will improve picture quality …
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TVNewsCheck and Variety, more at Techmeme »
Katharine Viner / The Guardian:
Katharine Viner on the history of the Guardian and its mission for the future: collaborate with readers to empower them, diversify, offer fair reporting, more — In a turbulent era, the media must define its values and principles, writes Guardian editor-in-chief Katharine Viner
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@kathviner, The Drum and Press Gazette
Harry McCracken / Fast Company:
How The Washington Post built Arc, its suite of digital publishing tools, and started offering the software to other newsrooms as a paid service — The newspaper created a platform to tackle its own challenges. Then, with Amazon-like spirit, it realized there was a business in helping other publishers do the same.
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@sriramvasan and @andreas212nyc
April Glaser / Slate:
Communications Decency Act, section 230 protects websites from liability for users' posts and has enabled both website growth and hate speech, disinformation — But also made the internet what we have today. — The internet didn't have to turn out this way.
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Simple Justice
New York Times:
With $600M stake in Meredith's offer to buy Time Inc., the Kochs inch closer to becoming media moguls — Four years ago, Charles G. and David H. Koch seemed poised to control some of the country's biggest newspapers. Known for using their vast wealth and network of donors to advance …
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Publishing Executive
Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian:
Records released Friday show congressman Greg Gianforte misled police in May after assault of reporter Ben Jacobs, claiming Jacobs initiated physical contact — US congressman Greg Gianforte misled police after his assault of Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs in May, falsely stating that Jacobs …
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New York Magazine, @brianklaas, Axios, @jmartnyt, Washington Post and @mattdpearce
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Interview with Funny or Die CEO Mike Farah on partnering with AMC, remaining independent, scale, and how most virality is driven by Facebook — Mike Farah discusses the evolution of digital content, partnering with AMC and charting an independent path: “I don't like to chase.
Rick Stengel / Politico:
Former US under secretary of state describes the Russian disinformation campaign on Crimea in 2014 and how the same tactics were used in the 2016 US election — Russian disinformation around Ukraine set the stage for the Kremlin's election meddling here. Clinton saw it coming, but couldn't stop it.
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@mcfaul, @_zakali, @danschwerin, @neal_katyal and @cjcmichel
Mike Eckel / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Virginia radio station owner registers as a foreign agent at DoJ direction and discloses Sputnik pays the station $900K to broadcast Sputnik's audio stream — WASHINGTON — A Washington, D.C., area radio station that recently took over broadcasts of the Russian state-funded news outlet Sputnik …
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Los Angeles Times, @mike_eckel, The Hill and The Daily Beast
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