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4 Minute Roundup: Media Company Layoffs; Omidyar Startup
Here’s the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. In this week’s edition, I look at the deep layoffs that are planned at AOL, the AP and BusinessWeek. In the case of AOL, the company plans to shed...
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Mediatwits #101: Twitter Goes to Wall Street; Omidyar and Greenwald’s New...
Though Twitter has never turned a profit in its seven years of existence, its public debut on Thursday valued the company at a whopping $31 billion dollars. Twitter’s inaugural day on the New York...
View ArticleSpecial Series: Year in Review 2013
This was a year of great consternation and great exuberance, marked indelibly by the revelations about wide and unregulated surveillance by the NSA, brought by Edward Snowden. And the exuberance came...
View ArticleDaily Must Reads, October 29, 2014
1. FCC kicks off push to regulate Internet TV services like cable (Amy Schatz / Re/code) 2. “Ed Snowden taught me to smuggle secrets past incredible danger. Now I teach you.” (Micah Lee / The...
View ArticleDaily Must Reads, December 4, 2014
1. Half of online Americans don’t know what a privacy policy is (Aaron Smith / Pew Research Center) 2. As new viewing options gain ground, live television viewership is slipping (Frank Pallotta / CNN...
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The Problem With Media Patronage
The following opinion piece is a guest post. Read more about MediaShift guest posts here. Chris Hughes and Pierre Omidyar have quickly fallen from grace as the saviors of independent media, as storied...
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Mediatwits #140: Billionaires Gone Bad: New Republic, First Look Hit Major Bumps
Could billionaires become the grand patrons who save traditional media from self-destruction? That was the thinking when Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes bought the New Republic, Amazon founder Jeff...
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Why it Matters that Pierre Omidyar is Launching a News Startup
Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, is launching a for-profit news startup in Hawaii, where he and his family live. This is important news, and not just because he’s involved. A few months ago Pierre and...
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MediaShift Podcast #228: Omidyar Commits $100 Million for Journalism,...
In the news this week, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar one-ups himself, allocating $100 million to fund investigative journalism, and the fight against hate speech and misinformation. A Pew Research study...
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