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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Microsoft upgrades Xbox Live with 40 entertainment services, live TV, and Kinect voice control — Xbox Live isn't just an online gaming service anymore. Microsoft is announcing today that the new version of its Xbox Live user interface will help transform entertainment on the television.
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Xbox Live Challenges the Cable Box — The old-fashioned cable television set-top box — long the hub of living-room entertainment for most people — is about to become less relevant. — Beginning on Tuesday and continuing through the month, Microsoft will give a face-lift …
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Multichannel News, PopWatch and Forbes
Indiewire:
Exclusive: ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Producer Scott Rudin Replies To David Denby's Upcoming New Yorker Review Embargo Break — “They reviewed what?” — If you follow movie insider baseball news you may have heard the embargo on Sony's “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” is about to break tomorrow …
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Steve Pond / The Wrap:
Sony Furious Over New Yorker's Plan to Break ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Review Embargo
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Company Town, NY Post, Poynter and New York Magazine
Linda Holmes / NPR:
Honor Among Thumbs: A ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Spat And An Imperfect System
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AllThingsD and Gothamist
Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Media business chiefs brace for bleak 2012 — (Reuters) - Top media executives across North America and Europe are bracing for a global economic slowdown in 2012, and are already surrendering to demands by advertisers that they offer shorter-term, flexible deals in case of another crisis.
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Future of Journalism
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Aaron Sorkin's HBO Cable News Series To Be Called ‘Newsroom’ — Exclusive: The upcoming HBO drama about cable news from “The West Wing” creator Aaron Sorkin finally has a name. TVNewser has learned that HBO is expected to call the series “Newsroom.” — Sorkin's series follows fictional …
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The Huffington Post
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Romney campaign doesn't appreciate unscripted appearance by reporter — Fox News allowed the Times' Jim Rutenberg to roam backstage Saturday night during a GOP candidates forum. Upon seeing Rutenberg, “Mr. Romney's aides sprang into action, asking where he worked and what he was doing there …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Mitt Romney's media blowback
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American Journalism Review, Media Decoder and The Huffington Post
Elana Zak / 10,000 Words:
78 Percent Of U.K. Newspaper Articles Are Written By Men. Is U.S. Media Any Better? — A writer for the United Kingdom's the Guardian recently conducted an informal analysis and found that in an average month, 78 percent of newspaper articles are written by a man.
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Guardian and FleetStreetBlues
Jordan Valinsky / Daily Dot:
Fox News's Facebook whine: unfair and imbalanced — You can add Facebook to Fox News's growing enemies list. — The News Corp.-owned channel called out Facebook for not including any of its online output in the social network's list of most shared stories in 2011—and suggested Facebook was acting “unsocially.”
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@poynter, Thanks:owenthomas
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Wall Street Journal Releases Kindle Fire-Only App — Add the Wall Street Journal to the list of publishers releasing apps exclusively for the Kindle Fire. — The Wall Street Journal (NSDQ: NWS) app is free in the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Appstore. Users can purchase a WSJ digital subscription …
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Five tough questions for newspaper organizations as they face investors this week — It is time again for the annual December media conference for investors in New York City, starting today. And once again, borrowing the well-worn line from “I Love Lucy,” executive teams …
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Future of Journalism
Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:
Bronfman Is Stepping Down as Warner Music Chairman — 4:15 p.m. | Updated Edgar M. Bronfman Jr., who has been a major player in the music industry since the mid-1990s, is stepping down as chairman of the board of the Warner Music Group, effective Jan. 31.
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AllThingsD, Variety, New York Post, AllAccess.com, Rolling Stone and The Wrap
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Magazines Gird for USPS Nixing Saturday Delivery — Weeklies That Try to Reach Subscribers Before Weekend Would Have Even More Problems Staying Timely — It's tough enough for weekly magazines to stay timely when TV and the web churn out news constantly.
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Home Media Magazine, BusinessJournalism.org … and The Atlantic Online
Guardian:
Julian Assange can take extradition case to supreme court, judges rule — High court says Assange case raises question of ‘general public importance’ that should be decided as quickly as possible — The high court has paved the way for the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange …
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rbr.com, Mashable! and Future of Journalism
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Martin Evans / The Telegraph:
Leveson inquiry: editors 'could have been prosecuted over private detective's blagging' — Journalists who commissioned a private detective to illegally obtain personal information and their editors could have been prosecuted but were never pursued, the Leveson inquiry heard today.
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Telegraph and The Independent
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