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Nellie Bowles / New York Times:
Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson are starting The Markup, a news site to cover big tech using data science, with a $20M gift from Craig Newmark and other funding — The Markup, dedicated to investigating technology and its effect on society, will be led by two former ProPublica journalists.
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Spriha Srivastava / CNBC:
UK broadcaster Sky says it has accepted $39B takeover offer from Comcast, urges shareholders to accept the offer immediately — - Comcast outflanked rival Twenty-First Century Fox after submitting a much higher bid in a three-round auction on Saturday. — Comcast offered £17.28 per share …
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Michael Sheetz / CNBC:
Satellite radio company SiriusXM to acquire music streaming service Pandora in a $3.5B all-stock deal — Satellite radio company SiriusXM is acquiring music streaming service Pandora in a $3.5 billion all-stock deal, the companies announced Monday. — Pandora shares rose 14.4 percent …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: digital publisher Vox Media will struggle to achieve double-digit percentage revenue growth this year, likely missing its goal by more than 15% — Other digital-media firms have struggled to live up to ambitious growth goals in a challenging online ad market
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed News:
Ian Rylett, co-founder of YouTube tween channel SevenAwesomeKids, arrested for allegedly molesting a minor; YouTube demonetized the channel but left it up — For weeks now, SevenAwesomeKids, part of one of YouTube's biggest and most active tween/teen girl channel networks, has been suspiciously dormant.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: WPP is considering a merger between its digital-ad firm VML and Young & Rubicam, which WPP bought in 2000 for $4.7B — New CEO Mark Read is preparing to consolidate some of the ad giant's major properties to keep pace with the industry's digital shift
Douglas Busvine / Reuters:
Study: spending on digital marketing grew by 44% last year in the US and Britain to $52B, with global spending on “martech” estimated to near $100B — FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Spending on digital marketing grew by 44 percent last year in the United States and Britain to $52 billion …
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
TicToc, Bloomberg's 24/7 streaming video network, now has nearly 400K Twitter followers, 2.2M average daily views, 1.4M average daily viewers, and 60+ employees — Bloomberg Media is trying to turn its Twitter network TicToc into a full-fledged media brand.
Robert Silverman / The Daily Beast:
A look at how Barstool Sports employees, fans regularly harass female reporters, with founder Dave Portnoy once asking if a woman “kind of deserves to be raped” — Multiple female sportswriters recount the ugly harassment they received from Stoolies—and place much of the blame …
Sugandha Rawal / The News Minute:
During India's 2019 election campaign, the BBC will run a fact-checking service, BBC Reality Check, to debunk fake news circulating on WhatsApp, other platforms — BBC News has also come out with special Indian coverage, putting forward its own solutions to the country's rising fake news crisis.
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Ali Dukakis / ABC News:
An email recently obtained by ABC News shows Roger Stone seemed to attempt to make contact with Wikileaks following DNC leaks — As the special counsel's office appears to be focusing in on President Donald Trump's longtime political ally Roger Stone, an email recently obtained …
Hanna Kozlowska / Quartz:
Chartbeat: when Facebook experienced a 45-minute outage on August 3 in many parts of the world, direct traffic to news websites spiked by 11%, search was up 8% — What happens when internet users can't go on Facebook? Some turn to other social media platforms to joke about it.
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