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Bloomberg:
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
Discussion:
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 …
Discussion:
TVNewsCheck and Variety, more at Techmeme »
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Mirror EIC says company will face deeper job cuts if it fails to close deal with Express and Star, warns of upcoming gender pay gap report worse than BBC report — Lloyd Embley says failure to buy Richard Desmond's papers would lose cost-savings and admits looming gender pay gap data could be ‘embarrassing’
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
Discussion:
@kathviner, The Drum, @jayrosen_nyu and Press Gazette
Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:
Maria Contreras-Sweet, who led SBA under Obama, has submitted bid for Weinstein Company and is pitching majority-female board; lawyer Gloria Allred supports bid — Surprise offer from businesswoman Maria Contreras-Sweet has support of attorney Gloria Allred
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.
Discussion:
@sriramvasan and @andreas212nyc
April Glaser / Slate:
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects websites from liability for user posts, has enabled both website growth and hate speech — But also made the internet what we have today. — The internet didn't have to turn out this way. There is an alternative future …
Discussion:
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 …
Discussion:
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 …
Discussion:
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.
Discussion:
@mcfaul, @_zakali, @danschwerin, @neal_katyal and @cjcmichel
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