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Philly.com:
Phila. Newspapers sold to lenders — NEW YORK - Brian P. Tierney, CEO of Philadelphia Newspapers L.L.C., announced Wednesday afternoon that the company that owns the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News has been sold to its senior lenders for $135 million.
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Gillian Reagan / The Wire:
Bankrupt Philadelphia Newspapers Sell For $135 Million — We told you billionaires have been bidding for bankrupt Philadephia newspapers since the early dawn. Well, it's all over and a committee of senior lenders won the auction. — They purchased Philadelphia Newspapers LLC for $135 million …
Tim Wu / Slate:
Don't Prosecute Gizmodo for the iPhone That Walked Into a Bar … - The Senate Tries To Get Goldman Sachs To Admit They're a Bunch of Jerks- Now Doulas Are Assisting During Abortions as Well as Childbirth- The Incredibly Unfair Trial of Muslim Activist Syed Fahad Hashmi- Troy Patterson: Is Happy Town the Next Lost?
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Silicon Alley Insider, All Things Digital, Daring Fireball, CNET News, Journalism.co.uk and Swampland
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New York Times:
Director Is Elected at Times Co. — Carolyn Greenspon, a fifth-generation member of the family that controls The New York Times Company, was elected as a director. — Ms. Greenspon, 41, a psychotherapist, was approved by shareholders to serve on the board at the company's annual meeting on Tuesday.
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Gillian Reagan / The Wire:
Arthur Sulzberger Jr.: NYT's Metered Paywall Is About Building …
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The New York Times Company, paidContent, FishbowlNY, Media News International, The Daily Beast and Romenesko
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:
How News Organizations Hope to Benefit from Facebook's New Features — Facebook's new plugins, which help integrate the social networking site with the rest of the Web, have presented news organizations with an opportunity to think more creatively about how they can use social media to meet their audiences' needs.
Matea Gold / Company Town:
ABC News concludes wrenching round of cuts with fewer involuntary layoffs than expected — A brutal round of cuts at ABC News came to a close this week when executives laid off 22 employees Tuesday, a far smaller number than they had expected. — The final tally was less than anticipated …
Reuters:
Why reporters are down on Obama — One of the enduring storylines of Barack Obama's presidency, dating back to the earliest days of his candidacy, is that the press loves him. — “Most of you covered me. All of you voted for me,” Obama joked last year at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
U.S. Subpoenas Times Reporter Over Book on C.I.A. — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is seeking to compel a writer to testify about his confidential sources for a 2006 book about the Central Intelligence Agency, a rare step that was authorized by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.
Michael Cieply / Media Decoder:
More Members of Congress Oppose Trading of Movie Box-Office Futures — Political opposition to a pair of proposed exchanges that would trade futures contracts keyed to the movie box office grew on Wednesday, as 10 members of the House of Representatives sent the Commodity Futures Trading Commission …
Joe Pompeo / Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo! News Hires Newsweek's Former White House Correspondent Holly Bailey (YHOO) — Yahoo! News has recruited yet another high profile journalist. — We hear that Holly Bailey, a former Newsweek White House correspondent, has taken a job as senior politics writer for Yahoo's politics, national affairs and media blog, The Newsroom .
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New York Observer
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Edmund Lee / AdAge:
More Publishers Trying Outsourced Journalism — Established News Shops Running Articles From Pool of Freelancers for as Little as $5 a Story — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — More major media companies are looking for ways to find cheap content. Thomson Reuters, Cox Newspapers and Hachette Filipacchi …
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Center for Sustainable …
cyber.law.harvard.edu:
A Tale of Two Blogospheres: Discursive Practices on the Left and Right — Authored by Yochai Benkler, Aaron Shaw, Victoria Stodden — Abstract — Discussions of the political effects of the Internet and networked discourse tend to presume consistent patterns of technological adoption and use within a given society.
Meg James / Company Town:
Fox likes its Fuel after all — Fox is hanging on to its Fuel. — Late last year, media conglomerate News Corp. tried to sell its tiny Fuel TV cable channel to Viacom Inc. The rationale was that the extreme sports channel geared toward young guys between 13 and 34 might make a better fit within Viacom's youth-centric MTV universe.
blogs.journalism.co.uk:
Coders meet journalists; journalists meet coders — Do journalists need to learn to code? Probably not, but those who can are likely to find themselves quickly snapped up by news organisations with interactive and data teams. — I have no grand hopes of learning to code properly …
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Journalistopia
Cyn / All Things CNN:
Michael Ware leaves CNN — We won't be seeing any more of Michael on CNN... In addition to having taken a break recently in order to work on his book, it is no secret that he has been grappling with PTSD, brought on from the hellish years he worked in Baghdad.
Natalie Zmuda / AdAge:
Ann Taylor Investigation Shows FTC Keeping Close Eye on Blogging — Commission's Scrutiny of Retailer for Rewarding Posts About Collection Is a Warning to Marketers — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The Federal Trade Commission has made public its first investigation into a company's relationship with bloggers …
Fern Siegel / MediaPost:
FTC Uses Game Site To ‘Ad-ucate’ Kids — To help kids understand advertising, the Federal Trade Commission is launching an ad literacy campaign at the game site Admongo.gov. Geared to 8-to-12-year-olds, the Admongo curriculum helps teachers and parents “ad-ucate” kids, using fictional spots as teaching tools.
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AdFreak
Kevin Woster / Rapid City Journal:
KOTA anchorman temporarily sidelined after tea party appearance — KOTA TV newsman Shad Olson will be back on the air soon, following a disciplinary suspension from his news anchor duties in the Rapid City coverage area because of his speech at a tea party rally.
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