Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
2:50 PM ET, January 20, 2016

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
Jayne Mountford / Fashion Times:
Vogue magazine's Creative Director Grace Coddington steps down after 28 years, will become Creative Director at large  —  Grace Coddington Is Leaving Vogue: Legendary Creative Director Steps Down After 28 Years  —  It has been announced this morning that Grace Coddington …
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Gawker sells minority stake to Columbus Nova Tech Partners to fund video and e-commerce growth, lawsuit defense; Columbus Nova's Jason Epstein to join board  —  Gawker Media Sells Minority Stake to Investment Company  —  Gawker Media has sold a minority stake to the investment company …
Discussion: Business Insider and TechCrunch
RELATED:
Wall Street Journal:
Q&A with ESPN president John Skipper on cord-cutting, streaming TV, and niche sites like The Undefeated and FiveThirtyEight  —  ESPN's John Skipper Plays Offense on Cord-Cutting  —  President of sports network says no reason to abandon cable, even as it tests “over the top” options
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Verizon Wireless to begin selling data cap exemptions to content providers January 25 with beta trial of its new FreeBee Data 360 service  —  Verizon Wireless selling data cap exemptions to content providers  —  Video, music, app downloads, and ads can be exempted from caps for a fee.
RELATED:
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:   UN body says Iran's detention of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian violated international law
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
The Guardian appoints AOL UK's Hamish Nicklin as chief revenue officer  —  Former Google executive to be responsible for Guardian News & Media's advertising revenues, its jobs operation and its branded content division  —  The Guardian has appointed Hamish Nicklin, the managing director …
Discussion: FishbowlNY
TechCrunch:
Spotify Buys Cord Project And Soundwave To Expand Messaging And Social Features  —  On the same day that streaming rival Deezer announced a new cash injection of €100 million, Spotify has confirmed two new acquisitions, Cord Project and Soundwave.  The startups are based respectively …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Nielsen to add Facebook discussions to its Twitter TV Ratings, to be renamed “Social Content Rankings”, eventually will include Instagram  —  Nielsen Wants to Watch You Talk to Your Facebook Friends About What You Watch on TV  —  It is a little hard to remember now …
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
AJ+ launches on Apple TV after success on Facebook and despite demise of Al Jazeera America  —  Al Jazeera's AJ+ Gets Its Own Apple TV App  —  Al Jazeera America may be shutting down, but Al Jazeera's digital offspring AJ+ is alive and well: AJ+ launched an app on Apple TV Tuesday.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
After Cancelling Its IPO, Deezer Raises Another $109M From Access And Orange  —  Deezer, the Paris-based music and other audio streaming service with 6.3 million users that planned but ultimately cancelled an IPO last year, has now tapped existing investors for more funding …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Starbucks Now Lets You Save The Songs You Heard In-Store To Spotify  —  Starbucks and streaming service Spotify are expanding their relationship today with the launch of a new digital music experience for Starbucks customers which will allow them to identify songs being played in stores …
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 2:50 PM ET, January 20, 2016.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
Erin Griffith / Fortune:
How Buzzfeed's fastest-growing Facebook page, Proper Tasty, amassed 3.7M followers and 190M video views in one month: niche content tailor-made for the platform
Thanks:@steverubel
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Agence France Presse to open bureau in North Korea, will join Associated Press, Japan's Kyodo, and China's Xinhua in having a permanent base in Pyongyang
 Earlier Picks: 
Robert Frank / New York Times:
Forbes family claims $65M loan to new Forbes Media owners is in default due to one late $46K interest payment, demands full repayment, $35M breach-of-sale fee
Discussion: @mgsiegler
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
BuzzFeed launches in Japan, with some help from Yahoo Japan
Discussion: bookforum.com and BuzzFeed
Stephen Galloway / Hollywood Reporter:
Academy President Issues Lengthy Statement on Lack of Oscars Diversity
 

 
From Techmeme:

Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

David Pierce / The Verge:
Google announces a new Platforms and Devices team overseeing Pixel, Android, Chrome, Photos, and more, to integrate AI across its products, led by Rick Osterloh

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview
 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page