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Sources: Denton sought advice and possible financial backing from Mark Cuban and Pierre Omidyar as he considers diluting his financial risk in Gawker — Is This Nick Denton's Exit Strategy From Gawker? — Today the controversy-beset website moved to new offices.
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Capital New York, Jezebel, @jyarow and Newsworks.org
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Leah Finnegan to leave Gawker amid buyouts
Leah Finnegan to leave Gawker amid buyouts
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WWD, @leahfinnegan, @yesasingenghis, @leahfinnegan and @choire
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
William Arkin, founder of Gawker's national security site, first staffer to take buyout
William Arkin, founder of Gawker's national security site, first staffer to take buyout
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Cryptome, @warkin, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, The Wrap and New York Times

How New York magazine used Instagram and Tumblr to promote and share its Bill Cosby story after a DDoS attack — So a hacker brought down your news site. Now what? New York magazine found out today — So let's say you're a New York-based publication which has just published the words …
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Quartz, Subtraction.com + Feed, Detroit Free Press, Gothamist, Mediaite and Fusion
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New York Magazine's site is down, Twitter user claims he launched DDOS attack on it; Update: the site is now up — Anti-NYC hacker takes New York Magazine offline — On Sunday night, New York Magazine released a groundbreaking new cover featuring 35 victims of alleged assault from Bill Cosby.
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Increasing competition on the web, pressure to break scoops led to mistakes on Clinton story — A Clinton Story Fraught With Inaccuracies: How It Happened and What Next? — The story certainly seemed like a blockbuster: A criminal investigation of Hillary Rodham Clinton by the Justice Department …
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USA Today, Washington Post, Mediaite, Business Insider, Hit & Run, AlterNet.org, The Buttry Diary, @ahmed, FishbowlDC, @jayrosen_nyu, Talking Points Memo, The Wrap, Fox News, Poynter and The Week

Disney CEO Bob Iger says ESPN could one day be sold direct to consumers, but not within next five years — Disney CEO Iger: ESPN could one day be sold direct — Walt Disney chief Bob Iger said Monday he sees ESPN as a media property that could be eventually sold directly to consumers …

Snapchat Adds BuzzFeed, iHeartRadio to Discover Lineup After Dropping Yahoo, Warner Music — Snapchat has slotted in BuzzFeed and music-streaming service iHeartRadio to its Discover media section, after removing launch partners Yahoo and Warner Music Group from the lineup.
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Ad Age, WWD, The FADER, Business Wire, Adweek, Re/code and The Next Web

Podcasts, which aren't regulated by the FCC, are blurring the line between sponsors and stories — Ads for Podcasts Test the Line Between Story and Sponsor — For the last several months, Lisa Chow, a reporter for and co-host of “StartUp,” a podcast about starting a business, has been interviewing engineers at Ford Motor.
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Nieman Lab, @kjblank80 and @gracehood

Today Show co-anchor Al Roker's production company to launch three new shows about cooking on Meerkat this week — Al Roker Offers Forecast of TV's Future With Trio of Meerkat Programs — Al Roker is reaching from the solid ground of NBC's “Today” to the shakier terrain of TV's future.

Africa's biggest media group, Naspers, has finally apologized for its role during Apartheid — This past weekend, South Africa's biggest media group, Naspers, did something it should have done 19 years ago: apologize for the key role it played during Apartheid.
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@lilkuo

Google is splitting Google+ from all its products, starting with YouTube; Google account is all you will need to log in — Google+ and YouTube are finally splitting up — Google is officially divorcing Google+ profiles from its other, more popular services.
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YouTube Blog, Variety, Official Google Blog, Digiday, TechCrunch, USA Today, CNET, VentureBeat, Business Insider and Ars Technica

Newsweek hires Time's Europe editor, Matt McAllester, to oversee new EMEA edition — Newsweek hires Time's Europe editor — The competition between Time and Newsweek ain't what it used to be, but apparently there's still some fire left in the old rivalry.
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Media Wire Daily, FishbowlNY and @joepompeo

Daily Dot kills comments but remains committed to interactions on social platforms; may resurrect comments later, most likely through Facebook — Why we're killing our comments section — This afternoon we put the Daily Dot's commenting system on indefinite hiatus.