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Oprah's Highest Hurdle — BEFORE Oprah Winfrey jetted off this month to Washington for the Kennedy Center Honors, then to Sydney for overseas tapings of her talk show, she had a simple request for the security staff at her house near Los Angeles: — “Can you all make sure that I have the capabilities …
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Mediaite

Post's problems with anonymous-source rules get worse online — Post readers constantly complain about the excessive use of anonymous sources in the newspaper. But the problem is even worse online. — Staff-written news blogs are replete with violations of The Post's long-established …


Interview with Garance Franke-Ruta of The Atlantic — Garance Franke-Ruta has been a Senior Editor at The Atlantic since Monday, where she manages online politics coverage and the politics news channel. — She was previously a Who Runs Gov blogger and the national web politics editor …


Amazon Brings Newspapers, Magazines to Kindle Apps, Starting With Android — Amazon's expanding the capabilities of its Kindle apps, starting with Android, to include digital newspaper and magazines singly or in subscription form. Just in time for the iPad “Daily” newspaper.
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Gawker, Digital Trends and The Next Web


On the Media: Patch.com clicks with veteran California journalists — Seasoned reporters in California are stamping their mark on the online news' community sites, a trend that can help bolster Patch.com's credibility as it continues its explosive growth into hyper-local reporting.
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The Big Picture


GROUPON CLIPPING — The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars.
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John Battelle's Searchblog and broadstuff

Memo: 'Gawker tech team didn't adequately secure our platform' — “On several fronts — technically, as well as customer support and communication — we found ourselves unprepared to handle this eventuality,” says Gawker chief technology officer Thomas Plunkett's memo to staff.
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Runnin' Scared


Google To Expand And Market Movie Streaming Service In 2011 — Google is expanding its feature film streaming service, says a source who's been briefed on the product. The service will likely be an expansion of the current movie rental/streaming test launched by Google earlier this year.

Study: Some Viewers Were Misinformed by TV News — News organizations can educate voters about public policy and economic conditions, but they can also misinform voters. As if to prove the point, a study released Friday found that “substantial levels of misinformation” …
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Los Angeles Times, BLTv, TPM LiveWire, Mediaite, ThinkProgress, The Huffington Post, Gawker, The Informer, TVWeek.com, The Wire and Inside Cable News


Data journalism central — The folks at the Guardian have been doing inspired work with data for several years. Now, they've added a new data store-one stop shopping for anyone interested in making data more meaningful. In addition to the data blog that highlights the British newspaper's own analysis …
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Editors Weblog


Mike Bloomberg's New Megaphone — The New York City mayor is going into the op-ed business. Howard Kurtz on what Bloomberg wants—and how his new venture will keep hope alive for fans who want to see him in the White House. — Michael Bloomberg is already fabulously wealthy …
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Journalism.co.uk


Exclusive: Another Executive Exits Disney Digital: Paul Yanover — It's over for Paul Yanover at Disney (NYSE: DIS) Online. The chief architect behind the rebuilding of Disney.com is leaving to “pursue new opportunities outside the company,” as he told staffers Friday morning in an internal e-mail (full memo below).
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MediaPost, Company Town and The Wrap