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New York Times:
Tribune Company Ousts Randy Michaels as Chief — The Tribune Company's board of directors resolved on Friday what had been its preoccupation for most of the week: sealing the fate of Randy Michaels, the controversial chief executive who became a dark sideshow to his bankrupt company's financial struggles.
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Trib Nation, Gretawire and Mixed Media
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Reuters:
Tribune to detail bankruptcy plan, but fights loom — Newspaper publisher Tribune Co. is expected to unveil a plan on Friday to settle billions of dollars in debts and end its two-year bankruptcy, but it still faces some potentially nasty legal fights. — The owner of the Los Angeles Times …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
There is No New Media: It's All New Consumption — “The most ominous of fallacies-the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.” -Freyda Stark — So, now television broadcasters are blocking Google TV from getting access to the content they're putting online.
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TeleRead, NewTeeVee and New York Magazine, more at Techmeme »
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
NPR's Schiller Says Juan Williams Was Fired Because of Ethics Guidelines — The timing might not have been perfect. But firing Juan Williams was the right decision, the NPR chief executive, Vivian Schiller, said in an interview Friday. — NPR found itself under fire on Friday for the decision …
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The Huffington Post, New York Times, Hot Air, The Maynard Institute, Opinionator, Reason and ThinkProgress
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Jon Bershad / Mediaite:
The Weekend Of WikiLeaks Begins: Embargo Ends And The Torrent Of Classified Info Starts To Seep Out — And, with that, the release of 400,000 classified military documents, dubbed The Iraq War Logs, has begun. WikiLeaks, the organization that previously released 70,000 documents …
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BuzzMachine, Guardian, BlogPost, Datablog, International Media, The Daily Dish, New York Times and CJR
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
OpenFile Wants to Re-Invent Local Journalism — When OpenFile founder and CEO Wilf Dinnick was still working as a foreign correspondent for CNN in the Middle East, he was summoned to the network's London office where the senior executives showed off iReport, CNN's citizen journalism project.
Dwight Garner / New York Times:
Paris Review Editor Frees Menagerie of Wordsmiths — The first issue of The Paris Review under its new editor, Lorin Stein, hit newsstands recently, and it's a thing of sober beauty. The issue doesn't contain many surprises — there's fiction from Sam Lipsyte, poetry from Frederick Seidel …
Tom Foremski / IMHO Blog| ZDNet:
Tynt: A business built around online copy and paste — Who would think that there is a business in providing an online copy and paste service? Tynt believes that there is a very large opportunity even though it hasn't yet figured out how best to monetize it.
Andrew Alexander / Washington Post:
Post's Amazon links in stories raise ethical questions — When you're reading a Post review online, click on a highlighted book title and you'll likely be directed to Amazon.com, where you can purchase it instantly. It's convenient for readers. But is it costly to credibility?
Steven Zeitchik / Los Angeles Times:
Hollywood's little secret: movie purgatory — Sometimes, studios change their minds about releasing a movie, even if it has already been completed. Films with big stars such as Matt Damon, John Cusack, Eddie Murphy and Mel Gibson have all been there. — ‘CASE 39’: Even though RenEe Zellweger starred …
Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:
Media Moves: Doree Shafrir to Rolling Stone — Doree Shafrir — who was responsible for, among other things, being one-half of the author of the blog-to-book phenomenon that was Postcards from Yo Momma and being responsible for the “Hipster Grifter” story during her tenure …
Discussion:
The Doree Chronicles
Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat:
‘South Park’ Apologizes for Lifted Material in ‘Inception’ Parody — Updated — The creators of “South Park,” the animated Comedy Central series, apologized on Friday to the creators of a Web comedy video satirizing the summer blockbuster “Inception”, following a recent episode of …
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Runnin' Scared, New York Magazine and Movieline
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