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Nick Davies / Guardian:
Wall Street Journal circulation scam claims senior Murdoch executive — Andrew Langhoff resigns as European publishing chief after exposure of secret channels of cash to help boost sales figures — One of Rupert Murdoch's most senior European executives has resigned following Guardian inquiries …
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Steve Myers / Poynter:
Dow Jones calls Guardian allegations of WSJ Europe circulation scheme ‘inflammatory’ — Dow Jones is refuting allegations by the Guardian that The Wall Street Journal Europe paid a third party, through other companies, to buy its newspapers as part of a scheme to boost its circulation.
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Future of Journalism
Jesse Holcomb / Journalism.org:
Occupy Wall Street Drives Economic Coverage — The economy reclaimed its perch at the top of the news agenda as the No. 1 story last week, largely driven by dramatically increasing media attention to the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. — Overall economic coverage accounted for 22% …
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
A News Story Is Growing With ‘Occupy’ Protests — ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Splashed across the front page of the local newspaper here on Tuesday was the story of a 24-year-old Occupy protester named Keith Cuesta. He was not in New York, where some have been living in a park near Wall Street …
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
ProPublica's Pulitzer winners: Media did not understand the banking crisis
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Forbes, The New York Observer, Rolling Stone, Future of Journalism and Talking Biz News
Reuters:
AOL CEO pitches investors on Yahoo deal: sources — (Reuters) - AOL Inc CEO Tim Armstrong has been meeting with top shareholders in the past couple of weeks to push the idea of a sale to Yahoo Inc that could wring up to $1.5 billion of cost savings, according to sources with knowledge of the discussions.
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Forbes, Guardian, CNET News, Deadline.com and Electronista, more at Techmeme »
Ben Fritz / Company Town:
Apple prepping movie cloud service — Apple Inc. is preparing to put movies in the cloud, entering a market in which it may be both competitor and ally to a similar offering backed by most Hollywood studios. — Representatives of the iPhone and iPad maker have been meeting with studios …
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Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, TUAW, SlashGear, Engadget, Gizmodo and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Reader's Digest Parting Ways with Rachael Ray — Reader's Digest Association doesn't want to be in the Rachael Ray business anymore. — A month after replacing its CEO, the publisher just announced that it intends to sell Every Day with Rachael Ray, a cooking magazine launched five years ago in partnership with the TV host.
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Folio, MinOnline, Media Decoder, AdAge, Adweek, Media & Entertainment, AdAge, Adweek, rbr.com and FishbowlNY
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
The Next Big Media Technology: Paper? HP Thinks So — Eat your heart out, iPad. — This may come as a shock to some people, but not everyone's an early adopter. Even in the United States of America in the year 2011, there are still people who use candy bar phones, watch cathode ray TVs and buy compact discs.
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Steve Myers / Poynter:
Homicide Watch D.C. uses clues in site search queries to ID homicide victim — Laura Amico, editor of Homicide Watch D.C., describes how she used site analytics to identify a homicide victim — again. Early Sunday morning, she saw a police department news alert stating that a juvenile male had been killed.
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Future of Journalism and One Reporter's Notebook
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The contribution conundrum: Why did Wikipedia succeed while other encyclopedias failed? — The guys behind Wikipedia weren't the first to experiment with creating a crowd-sourced online encyclopedia. They were just the first ones to do it successfully, on a worldwide scale.
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Berkman Center
Lindsay Rubino / Broadcasting & Cable:
Broadcast Network Chiefs: We Need to Rethink Our Business Models — Upfronts, content distribution among discussion topics during HRTS panel — With the entertainment business changing as rapidly as it has in the past several years — content that was once limited to one screen …
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The Wrap and Company Town
Rosa Ramirez / MediaShift:
Can Mainstream and Ethnic Media Collaborate? — While investigative collaborations are blossoming in newsrooms across the country, few are taking place between mainstream and niche media. As a result, news organizations could be missing the opportunity to reach a wider audience …
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
For The Towns With No Newspaper, Online Upstarts Try Filling A Gap — A TV producer, a rugby club and and a university are the latest players to try filling a content gap in Neath and Port Talbot, the south Wales towns left without a local newspaper when Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) folded its Neath and Port Talbot Guardians in 2009.
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
‘Food & Wine’ to Translate ‘Top Chef’ Into Print — Can Food & Wine go where Food Network Magazine and Every Day With Rachael Ray have gone? In the latest effort to parlay a TV brand into print, Food & Wine will publish a 24-page section in its January issue called Top Chef Magazine.
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FishbowlNY
Somini Sengupta / Bits:
Stanford Researcher Finds Lots of Leaky Web Sites — The Web is porous. Remarkable information trickles in from everywhere. It also sometimes spills out without its users knowing exactly where or how. — Take for instance these findings, released on Tuesday by computer scientists at Stanford University.
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Nextgov.com, Softpedia News, PC Magazine and AdAge
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Bloomberg TV's First Debate A Home Run — There may be some argument over who was the winner of last night's Bloomberg/The Washington Post Republican Presidential Debate, but from a media perspective, one victor is crystal-clear: Bloomberg TV. Hosting their first-ever televised debate …
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The New Yorker Blog and On Media's Blog
Sue Shellenbarger / Wall Street Journal:
In Weather Forecasting, Expect High Pressure — Meteorologists Cope With Anxiety, Backlash When Calls Go Wrong, Even as Predictions Are More Accurate — Weatherman Jay Trobec has been giving the forecast to 90,000 viewers of his Sioux Falls, S.D., TV station for 14 years, and he is usually right.
CNET News:
How Gizmodo escaped indictment in iPhone prototype deal — The great iPhone prototype caper of 2010 has finally ended, with the two men accused of shopping the device to gadget blogs sentenced to probation yesterday. — Last year's investigation began with a raid on Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's Fremont …
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AppleInsider, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, SlashGear, Threat Level and 9to5Mac
J. Harry Jones / SignOnSanDiego.com:
Borrego Sun editor killed in murder-suicide — BORREGO SPRINGS — The voice of Borrego Springs has died, the apparent victim of a murder-suicide at the hands of her estranged husband, and the small, unincorporated desert community is reeling. — Judy Winter Meier, 61 …
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