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CONFIRMED: ABC Family's Paul Lee Taking Over As President Of ABC Entertainment Group After Steve McPherson Resigns — 4TH UPDATE 6:30 PM: We've just confirmed that ABC Family President Paul Lee will take over as president of ABC Entertainment Group. Just like Steve McPherson, Lee will manage both ABC Entertainment and ABC Studios.
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Paul Lee to head ABC programming — Entertainment prexy Stephen McPherson has resigned — In a major shakeup at ABC, Stephen McPherson has resigned his post as ABC Entertainment Group prexy and will be replaced by ABC Family prexy Paul Lee. — In a statement issued late Tuesday …
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C.W. Anderson / Nieman Journalism Lab:
When do 92,000 documents trump an off-the-record dinner? A few more thoughts about Wikileaks — Sometimes you can spend an entire morning racing the clock to put together the perfect blog post, and once you're done, find a quote or two that would have let you sum up the entire thing in a lot less time.
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Some see red as Essence hires a white editor — Essence, a Time Inc.-owned monthly that is seen as the ultimate fashion and lifestyle title for black women, is wrestling with a controversy sparked by a former fashion editor who criticized the magazine's decision to hire a white woman as its new fashion director.
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Deborah Needleman Named WSJ. Editor
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Newspapers Hit New Low as an Information Source — The number of Americans who say that newspapers are an important source of information continues to decline, according to a survey by the The Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism.
Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Ex-Washington Post blogger David Weigel joins Slate — Journalist David Weigel, who resigned from the Washington Post last month after a leaked-email controversy, is joining Slate as a political reporter. — “I'm thrilled to be joining Slate, thrilled to be working with writers I've read …
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Karen Everhart / Current.org:
Uproar over Fresh Air in Mississippi — After Mississippi Public Broadcasting abruptly dropped Fresh Air from its radio schedule July 8, its explanation of “recurring inappropriate content” in the talk show didn't sit well with fans of the program. — Judith Lewis, executive director …
Mark Fitzgerald / EditorandPublisher.com:
New ABC Publisher's Statement Will Count ‘Branded Editions’ and Nonpaid ‘Verified’ Circulations — CHICAGO — The Audit Bureau of Circulations' board approved sweeping changes in the way newspapers report circulation. — Among the changes: Newspapers that publish so-called “branded editions” …
Daniel Frankel / The Wrap:
The Twitter Effect Isn't What Hollywood Thought — The Twitter Effect. — The term entered the lexicon last summer after Universal's Sacha Baron Cohen comedy “Bruno” tumbled more than 36 percent in its first 24 hours in theaters. — One year later, the social media trend …
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction:
Longlist announced for Man Booker Prize 2010 — Man Booker Dozen announced — The judges for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction today, Tuesday 27 July, announce the longlist for the prize, the leading literary award in the English speaking world. — A total of 138 books …
Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!:
MTV Releasing Facebook Game and iPhone App to Promote “Jersey Shore” — The second season of MTV's reality hit, Jersey Shore, will debut this coming Thursday. To build anticipation around the first episode fist-pump style, MTV is releasing a Facebook game and iPhone app that will feature …
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James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
On the Media: Let's put more public documents online — Thanks to WikiLeaks, we now know more about the war in Afghanistan than about how much public officials are paid in Los Angeles County. Some private companies and citizens are trying to change that. — How far have we come …
Anna North / Jezebel:
Self-Absorbed Columnist Redefines The Art Of Crap Emails — The names and events here are true: CBS legal analyst Andrew Cohen wrote a horribly self-centered open letter to his ex on her wedding day. Lizzie Skurnick called him out on it. So Andrew wrote Lizzie a very Crap Email.
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Federal Eye:
Shirley Sherrod to address black journalists — By The Post's Emi Kolawole and Lisa Rein — Former Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod on Thursday will address the National Association of Black Journalists, which is meeting in San Diego for its annual convention.
Adweek:
Spice It Up — The Old Spice campaign has certainly garnered attention, but did it work? — Isaiah Mustafa, the buff, bare-chested Old Spice guy in the shower, may be the man of the moment. But it was Bruce Campbell, the B-list cult movie actor, whose droll humor introduced the world …
Chris Palmer / The Huffington Post:
Shark Week — Education or Just Entertainment? — “Teeth of death,” “Shark feeding frenzy,” “The Worst Shark Attack Ever.” It is that time of year again, when the Discovery Channel brings out shows like these as part of its annual “Shark Week” programming.
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Study: Most Brands Still Irrelevant on Twitter — Marketers Are Certainly Tweeting, but Users Are Barely Listening — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Attention brands: Twitter users aren't talking to you or about you. In fact, they barely know you exist. — That's one of the conclusions …
Jon Friedman / MarketWatch:
The New Yorker elitist? Remnick: I don't see it — Commentary: ‘We do something that a lot of people want’ … NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — New Yorker Editor David Remnick bristles when someone saddles his magazine with the “e” word — elitist. — “Look,” he said, “this word 'elitist …
Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:
Hulu's sharp decline in viewership underscores inconsistency in measuring size of online audience — Contradictory data from competing measurement firms make it hard for advertisers to determine which websites should get their business. — Keith Richman, chief executive of Break.com …
Dominic Ponsford / Editor's Blog:
The paywall debate: At the Financial Times there is no debate, it works — Wherever you stand on the great paywall debate, you can't argue with the fact that one UK national newspaper publisher has proved that a paywall can work. — Figures released by the Financial Times yesterday revealed …
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