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New York Magazine's site is down, Twitter user claims he launched DDOS attack on it — 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. — But you can't see it.
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William Arkin, founder of Gawker's national security site, first staffer to take buyout — William Arkin critiques Gawker story on the way out — William Arkin, the founder of Gawker Media's national security site, announced on Twitter Monday he is leaving the company during a round …
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Gawker's Future: A Conversation With Nick Denton — Earlier this month, the news and gossip website Gawker, a pioneer in web journalism, partly responsible for its tone and sensibility, published an article that accused a married male media executive of seeking, via text message, to pay for sex with a gay escort.
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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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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 …
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Podcasts, not 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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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

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.

Beacon Reader launches Bounties to let readers crowdfund and choose which stories get covered — Readers, not journalists, decide what's news with Bounties — Last week Beacon Reader launched Bounties, a service that lets readers crowdfund and choose which stories get covered.
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After Arab Spring, journalism briefly flowered and then withered — CONTROLLING THE STORY: This is the second installment in an ongoing series examining the human cost of reporting the news around the world. — MANAMA, Bahrain — Just three miles from the gleaming center of town …
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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.

DraftKings Raises $300 Million, Promises to Spend Much of It With Fox Sports — Attention sports fans: Prepare to see a lot more DraftKings advertising over the next few years. — DraftKings, one of the top daily fantasy sports companies, has raised $300 million in new funding led by 21st Century Fox's Fox Sports unit.
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