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2:15 PM ET, February 4, 2011

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New York Observer:
Elizabeth Spiers Taking Over As Editor In Chief of The New York Observer  —  Elizabeth Spiers is taking over as Editor-in-Chief of The Observer today, overseeing both the print and digital content.  —  “I am very excited to be working with Elizabeth to further build on the great progress we have made over the past few years.
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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
EXCLUSIVE: New York Observer Editor Out After ‘Tension’ With Top Brass  —  The New York Observer's editor, Kyle Pope, is stepping down after clashing with his bosses over the direction of the paper, the Huffington Post has learned.  —  The paper announced Pope's exit on Friday.
Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:
The meaning of Elizabeth Spiers at The New York Observer  —  So what does everyone think of the news that just broke, that Elizabeth Spiers is to be the editor of The New York Observer?  —  In some ways there is an inevitability here.  From the mists of time, Nick Denton's original manifesto for Gawker:
World News:
We've compiled a list of all the journalist who have been in some way threatened, attacked or detained while reporting in Egypt.  When you put it all into one list, it is a rather large number in such a short period of time.  (UPDATED - send us more stories if you get them)
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Network Anchors Leave Egypt Amid Crackdown  —  Two of the most prominent television news anchors covering the protests in Egypt this week, Brian Williams and Katie Couric, have exited the country.  —  The anchors' departures came on a day of increasing violence and intimidation directed at journalists in Egypt.
Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Egyptian VP criticizes ‘unfriendly TV stations’
Discussion: Swampland, MediaShift and AOL News
New York Times:
Gangs Hunt Journalists and Rights Workers
Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:
Murdoch's Daily: post-Web innovation or CD-ROM flashback?  —  A decade ago, if you were a “digital” person — if you were interested in how computer technology was changing our culture and economy — then you were a Web person.  The Web, built on top of the Internet and ultimately eclipsing its source …
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Waxy.org:
The Daily: Indexed  —  Anybody else think it's weird that The Daily …
Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:
The Daily, a tablet newspaper for ‘everybody,’ is as much Apple as News Corp.
Discussion: Yahoo! News
Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
Fake, unofficial Daily Tumblrs terrorize Murdoch's iPad pub
Matt Kinsman / Folio:
Media Dealmakers Summit: “The Web Is Dead”  —  Panelists say torch has passed to the “app Internet.”  —  New York—There was a question during the morning session today at the DeSilva + Phillips Media Dealmakers Summit that crystallized what a lot of people are thinking about the future.
Kat Stoeffel / New York Observer:
Exclusive: Deborah Solomon Out at New York Times Magazine  —  Deborah Solomon will no longer interview, transcribe, condense and edit the “Questions For” page of The New York Times Magazine in its Hugo Lindgren incarnation.  She wrote to The Observer:
Discussion: The Awl and New York Magazine
Wall Street Journal:
Billboards Get Wired  —  Billboards and posters are one of world's oldest forms of advertising.  Now, some marketers and start-ups say wireless technology could revamp outdoor advertising by bringing interactivity and pay-for-performance models.  —  Super Bowl Fans Sing Same Song
Discussion: THINQ.co.uk
Sam Gustin / Threat Level:
Times Editor Alarmed By Prospect of WikiLeaks Prosecution  —  NEW YORK — New York Times executive editor Bill Keller may not regard Julian Assange as a journalistic peer, but he made clear Thursday that he doesn't think the WikiLeaks founder should face criminal prosecution in the United States.
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Zeke Turner / WWD Media Headlines:
Debating Wikileaks and the Law
Discussion: The Wire
Nick Bilton / Bits:
A Race Between Digital and Print Magazines  —  This morning I decide to try a little experiment: I opened up my iPad, clicked on the little Wired icon and purchased the magazine's latest digital issue.  After I agreed to fork over $4, it began downloading.  For the next phase of the experiment …
Discussion: NewsGrange and MacStories
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Magazines' Newsstand Struggles Continue, but Not Without Bright Spots  —  An Average of 27,000 iPad Edition Sales Helped Wired Improve ‘Newsstand’ 28%  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Rolling Stone increased newsstand sales nearly 19% in the second half of last year as its story on Gen. Stanley McChrystal …
Discussion: New York Observer and Poynter
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Too Lazy Or Busy To Read?  Topicmarks Summarizes Long Texts For You  —  Ever come across a lengthy Malcolm Gladwell New Yorker essay that all your unemployed friends will probably be talking about later, but you simply don't have time in between working to read?
Discussion: technosociology, The Awl and The Wire
Oliver Luft / Press Gazette:
Supreme Court allows reporters to use Twitter  —  Tweeting is allowed from hearings in the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, it was announced yesterday.  —  Supreme Court justices are “content” for journalists, members of the public and legal teams to use “live text based communications” …
Joe Flint / Company Town:
TMZ names new general manager, forgets to mention what happened to old general manager  —  TMZ loves to get all the dirt on bad-behaving celebrities.  But when it comes to its own operations, full disclosure is not always standard operating procedure.  —  Take the release Warner Bros. …
Discussion: The Wrap
Mike Shields / Adweek:
Yap.TV Preps Product That Synchs Tablet and TV Ads  —  Yap.TV, a startup behind a fast-growing iPad application designed to make TV viewing more social, is close to launching an ad product that will be able to synch up tablet ads with live TV ads.  —  The Los Altos, Calif.-based company rolled …
Discussion: GigaOM
 
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