Mediagazer: Gawker's owner Bryan Goldberg plans to spend at least $5M in the first year of its relaunch, mostly on hiring editorial staff, some toward media acquisitions (Benjamin Mullin/Wall Street Journal)

4:00 AM ET, September 18, 2018

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Cora Currier / The Intercept:

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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:

Gawker's owner Bryan Goldberg plans to spend at least $5M in the first year of its relaunch, mostly on hiring editorial staff, some toward media acquisitions — The company is planning to hire “dozens” of writers and editors ahead of next year's relaunch, and is scouting other acquisitions

Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:

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Nathan Ingraham / Engadget:

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Leaked email to Dubai ad agency shows Spotify plans to launch across the Middle East and North Africa in November with a new regional headquarters in Dubai — Spotify's next major global move is coming soon. — According to a leaked email, the service plans to launch across the Middle East …

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Hannah Frishberg / Columbia Journalism Review:

A look at the three profitable independent local news outlets, a bi-weekly and two blogs, in the New York neighbourhood of Roosevelt Island — Roosevelt Island, a thin, roughly two-mile sliver of land in the East River between Manhattan and Queens, is home to some 14,000 New Yorkers …

Jesse Brown / CANADALAND:

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Violet Blue / Engadget:

Female ASMR video creators have been permanently banned from PayPal and had funds frozen after 8chan harassment campaign; PayPal says it has no anti-ASMR policy — In June, China banned and excised videos of sound effects while claiming to cleanse its internet of pornography.

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