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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
Sony Furious Over New Yorker's Plan to Break ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Review Embargo
Discussion:
Company Town, Poynter, NY Post and New York Magazine
Linda Holmes / NPR:
Honor Among Thumbs: A ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Spat And An Imperfect System
Honor Among Thumbs: A ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Spat And An Imperfect System
Discussion:
AllThingsD, Gothamist and Carpetbagger
New York Times:
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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PopWatch, Multichannel News and Forbes
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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.
Discussion:
GigaOM, MediaPost, GeekWire, Home Media Magazine, MediaPost, Microsoft Advertising Blog, Microsoft, The Tech Trade, Digits, Pocket-lint, paidContent, CNET News, Guardian, TechCrunch, GeekWire, Multichannel, Engadget and TechNet Blogs
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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Media Matters for America, CNET News, FT Tech Hub and eMedia Vitals
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Kindle Fire Offers ‘Disappointingly Poor’ Experience; ‘Miserable’ Magazines
Kindle Fire Offers ‘Disappointingly Poor’ Experience; ‘Miserable’ Magazines
Discussion:
Electronista, AllThingsD, Daring Fireball, Kindle Review and Alertbox, more at Techmeme »
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 …
Discussion:
The Huffington Post
Will Bunch / Philly.com:
What the media can learn from Occupy — In 30 years of reporting, I've never covered a story quite like Occupy Wall Street, the cacophonous drum line of a leaderless protest against greed and inequality (and a bunch of other stuff) that started in New York on Sept. 17 and spread quickly to Philadelphia on its path from coast to coast.
Discussion:
Online News Association, @romenesko and Erik Wemple
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.
Discussion:
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.
Discussion:
Variety, New York Post, AllAccess.com, AllThingsD, Rolling Stone and The Wrap
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.”
Discussion:
@poynter, Thanks:owenthomas
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.
Discussion:
Guardian and FleetStreetBlues
Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
Cox is latest to bring live TV to the iPad — Cox Communications is making live TV available on the iPad, with the release of a new app that lets subscribers watch shows and movies while in their homes. The Cox TV Connect app makes it the latest in a series of pay TV operators to extend their services to new devices.
Discussion:
Multichannel, Lost Remote, Electronista, MediaPost and Broadcasting & Cable, more at Techmeme »
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
Mitt Romney's media blowback
Discussion:
American Journalism Review, New York Magazine, Media Decoder and The Huffington Post
Julie Moos / Poynter:
How Twitter's top news stories compare to Yahoo, Bing — As part of its Year in Review, Twitter lists six world news stories as hot topics. With international stories comprising two-thirds of Twitter's list, it skews more toward global news than Yahoo's list of top news stories.
Discussion:
Twitter Blog
Merrill Knox / TVNewser:
CBS's Clarissa Ward Sneaks Into Syria: ‘I Was Fortunate That I Really Did Slip Under The Radar’ — For her first assignment since joining CBS News, foreign correspondent Clarissa Ward secretly visited Syria, where foreign journalists have been banned in an ongoing attempt by President Bashar al-Assad to quell opposition.
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.
Discussion:
Telegraph and The Independent
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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 …
Discussion:
Crikey, rbr.com, Mashable! and Future of Journalism
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Kellie Tranter / ABC News:
Julian Assange: he's not the messiah, he's just my boy