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How Mother Jones won a defamation lawsuit filed by GOP super PAC donor Frank VanderSloot and his company, Melaleuca Inc. — We Were Sued By A Billionaire Political Donor. We Won. Here's What Happened. — Today we are happy to announce a monumental legal victory for Mother Jones …
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Peter Sterne / Politico:
As Gawker traffic stalls, writers told to work faster — “Traffic is flat,” Gawker Media's acting executive editor John Cook wrote in a memo to staff on Wednesday. “In prior iterations of this organization, that fact would have served as evidence of an abject editorial failure.”
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Gawker gets one-third of its revenue from native and e-commerce
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@lmoses, @cbmatthews and @digiday
Barton Gellman / The Century Foundation:
Purdue University deletes video of keynote speech about national security journalism because it included classified documents related to Snowden leaks — Scholarship, Security, and ‘Spillage’ on Campus — This is an adventure in classified speech at an academic conference.
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Poynter, Chicago Sun Times, @bartongellman, Purdue Exponent, Freedom to Tinker, WRTV-TV, Journal and Courier, Inside Higher Ed, @snowden, Techdirt, Ars Technica UK and RT
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Twitter announces new offering for automatically matching 6-second ads to publishers' videos; Twitter takes 30% of revenue, with publisher retaining 70% — Twitter's Video Ad Strategy Now Looks Like YouTube's Ad Strategy — Earlier this week, Twitter showed off Moments, a new way of organizing content on the social network.
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The Next Web, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, @pkafka, AdExchanger, Business Insider, Adweek, Forbes, USA Today, The Twitter Blog, TechCrunch, Variety, VentureBeat, @jyarow and Digiday
Sam Stecklow / The Awl:
How Aggrego's Sun Times Network, which tried to cover 70 cities through aggregation, led to the slow decline of the Chicago Sun Times' reputation — The Chicago End-Times — Sometime between early February and late May, the proprietor of a yoga studio read a “Best Yoga Studios” …
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@pitchaya, @davemckinney, @kurtgessler, @samstecky, @dan_bernstein, @robertfeder, @keithecker, @alenevince and @johnbonazzo
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
What Gannett gets by getting bigger and why newspaper consolidation will continue — For three different reasons, Gannett's surprise acquisition Wednesday of Journal Media (the former Scripps papers and the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel) makes a lot of sense: — In the era of digital transformation, bigger is better.
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New York Times and Florida Today
Brendan James / International Business Times:
Some digital journalists are embracing unions, but not the terms of old newspaper contracts — Unions Wage Turf Battle For Millennial Newsrooms, But What Will A New Labor Look Like? — For all the think pieces written about disruption in new media, not one “thought leader” …
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The Huffington Post, Vanity Fair, The Nation, Poynter, The Wrap and ThinkProgress
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix raises price of most popular plan to $10 a month in US, Canada, and Latin America for new customers, existing customers see no increase for 12 months — Netflix Hikes Price of Standard Streaming Plan to $10 per Month — Increase for new subscribers in U.S., Canada and Latin America follows 10% price rise in Europe
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Bloomberg Business, TechCrunch, Engadget, Mashable, Tech Times, Android Authority, Consumerist, moviepilot.com, Re/code, The Wrap, VentureBeat and TIME
Robin Pogrebin / New York Times:
Art media properties controlled by Peter Brant, including Art in America and ARTnews, to be consolidated online at ARTnews.com — Peter Brant to Consolidate Art Media Properties at ARTnews.com — The art media properties controlled by Peter Brant, including the century-old magazine Art …
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Business Wire and The New York Observer
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Tribune Media puts Tribune Tower, headquarters of the Chicago Tribune, up for sale — Tribune Tower is up for sale — Tribune Tower, the iconic headquarters of the Chicago Tribune, is on the market. Tribune Media, the owner of the 36-story Michigan Avenue landmark …
Piya Sinha-Roy / Reuters:
InStyle to send branded cardboard VR headsets to subscribers for its November 360-degree cover — InStyle, Jaunt VR target fashion audience with virtual reality cover — As makers of virtual reality content get ready to enter the mass market next year, one company is hoping to appeal …
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