CNN restricts access to its Facebook Pages in Australia after a ruling that makes news organizations legally liable for comments on their Facebook posts
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal :
Tinder CEO Jim Lanzone will be the next CEO of Yahoo following the closure of Apollo's acquisition of Yahoo on September 1
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Google will pay publishers $1B+ through 2023 to create and curate high-quality journalism for the new Google News Showcase, starting in Germany and Brazil
to help convince governments not to take a whole lot more than that Sundar Pichai / The Keyword : Our $1 billion investment in partnerships with news publishers Byron Kaye / Reuters : Google drops Aus...
The Chernin Group buys a majority stake in Food52 for $83M, valuing the ecommerce and media startup which offers recipes and home-improvement tips at $100M+
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Luminary Media raises $40M; sources say it plans to launch subscription service for premium podcasts, has begun to strike licensing deals with podcast creators
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal :
Luminary Media raises $40M; sources say it plans to launch subscription service for premium podcasts, has begun to strike licensing deals with podcast creators
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Cheddar raises $22M Series D and is now valued at $160M, plans to expand to UK and build a second news network as it abandons its paid subscription model
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Snapchat is launching a tool to let TV networks pipe snippets of live broadcasts directly into the app, starting this Saturday with NBC's Olympics coverage
Deal could forge closer ties between traditional TV networks and Snapchat's parent company Snap Inc. — Georgia Wells and Benjamin Mullin
The New York Times begins using Alphabet's machine-learning powered Jigsaw to weed out toxic comments, increasing the number of articles that allow comments
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Sinclair bought Circa assets for $800K in August, plans to hire 70 journalists, relaunch in spring 2016
Fresh useful insights … Mike Brown / International Business Times : Circa News Is Returning: Sinclair Broadcast Group Acquires Site For $800,000 Alex Heath / Tech Insider : One of the iPhone's first g...