Mediagazer: It's Official: Sharpton Gets MSNBC Hosting Gig (The Huffington Post)

2:25 PM ET, August 23, 2011

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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

Journalists Kept in Hotel as Battle Rages Outside — With an 18,000-square-foot spa, helicopter service upon request and a self-described “culture of service perfection,” the Rixos is Tripoli's premier hotel. — But over the weekend, the 120-room oasis in the center of the war-torn Libyan capital became …

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Tim Cuprisin / onmilwaukee.com:

OnMedia: The courage of CNN's Tripoli reporters — It's hard to imagine more thrilling live news coverage than CNN's reporting from the Libyan capital of Tripoli starting Sunday night and continuing into the week. Most compelling were the live reports from the besieged Rixos Hotel …

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Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
Covering Libya: Who Was There, Who Wasn't, And Who Aired Caught On Tape

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Heather Kelly / VentureBeat:

The Daily Dot wants to be a small town paper for the entire Internet — The biggest hurdle to enjoying The Daily Dot, a fun new online news site that launches today, is that its premise is based on a bad metaphor: The Internet is a community and The Daily Dot is its local paper.

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

U.K. Tabloid Daily Mail's U.S. Web Boss Out After Less Than a Year — The man who is supposed to help British tabloid The Daily Mail establish itself in the U.S. has left, after less than a year on the job. — Matthew Kearney, whose title had been CEO of U.S. for MailOnline …

The Huffington Post:

It's Official: Sharpton Gets MSNBC Hosting Gig — Al Sharpton has been officially named the host of the 6 PM hour on MSNBC. The network announced Tuesday that Sharpton will host “PoliticsNation” on weeknights starting August 29. — Sharpton has been the de facto host of the hour for many weeks …

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Bloomberg:

Billionaire Slim Boosts Stakes in NYT as Market Slumps — Mexican Tycoon Pays $6.83 to $7.09 for 553,000 Times Co. Shares — Billionaire Carlos Slim spent $8.8 million to boost his stakes in Saks, Inc. and The New York Times Co., adding to his biggest U.S. holdings as the stock market slumped last week.

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Amy Wicks / WWD:

People Bets on Kardashian Ka-Ching — WILL KK GO KA-CHING? Kim Kardashian might have been Glamour's top-selling cover girl of the year so far, but will her upcoming People cover, for which the title is said to have paid $1.5 million to the reality star and her new husband, do as well?

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Teresa Novellino / Portfolio:

Social-Media Mags Want to Friend Business Readers — Why is there no magazine focused on using Facebook or Twitter to build business? Exactly, thought GSG WorldMedia, whose founders say their four social-media magazines will debut with 5 million subscribers, thanks to Office Depot.

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Matt Kinsman / Folio:

American Printer Magazine Folds After 128 Years; American Press Closes Shop — Penton mag saw no model of profitability; printer closes due to economy. — Started in 1883 as Inland Printer, Penton Media's American Printer magazine will be stopping production after 128 years.

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Elizabeth Jensen / Media Decoder:

Bill Moyers Returns to Public Television, but Not PBS — Bill Moyers says he is returning to public television in January, but he won't be found on the PBS lineup. — His new hourlong weekly show, called “Moyers & Company,” will focus on one-on-one interviews with people not often heard on television …

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Elizabeth Olson / New York Times:

A Magazine Bets That Readers Play Tag — IS a cellphone the key to a Glamour reader's heart? — The Condé Nast magazine is hoping that readers will use their cellphones to connect to additional digital content through mobile codes. For example, readers intrigued by the pop star Rihanna …

Lynne Russell / MediaShift:

Teaching Journalism in an Age When News Comes to You — Does it matter where a story comes from, as long as it makes the news? Apparently it doesn't matter at all, to many of the latest crop of journalism students who believe their smart phones hold the keys to truth.

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Jonathan Stempel / Yahoo! News:

Spitzer sued for libel over his Slate column — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was hit with two libel lawsuits seeking $90 million by former Marsh & McLennan Cos executives over a column posted on Slate.com about an insurance bid-rigging scandal.

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Robert Peston / BBC:

Coulson got hundreds of thousands of pounds from News Int — Mr Coulson resigned from News International in January 2007 — Andy Coulson, the former editor of the News of the World who has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in phone hacking and bribing the police …

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Brooks Boliek / The Politico:

FCC finally kills off fairness doctrine — The FCC gave the coup de grace to the fairness doctrine Monday as the commission axed more than 80 media industry rules. — Earlier this summer FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski agreed to erase the post WWII-era rule, but the action Monday puts …

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