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Video News Curator Newsy Sells to E.W. Scripps for $25 Million

10 Dec 2013 / Andy Plesser

Newsy, a  creator of short video segments, pulled from various news sources, which are then voiced, produced and syndicated across the Web, has been purchased by E.W.Scripps for $35 million, the companies announced.    In March of 2011, we interviewed founder and CEO Jim Spencer who explained the platform.  We have republished that interview today.

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