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Jeff Roberts / paidContent:
Rep. Lamar Smith Says He Will Remove Controversial SOPA Item — In a late Friday press release, the Congressman leading the much-maligned Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) said he would remove a key part of the bill until further study takes place. — Lamar Smith (R-Tx) said he intends to remove …
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Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:
Fighting Antipiracy Measure, Activist Group Posts Personal Information of Media Executives — The online activist group known as Anonymous, which has targeted opponents of the Occupy Wall Street movement and businesses that stopped providing services to WikiLeaks, has set its sights on a new adversary: media executives.
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Deadline.com and The Snitch
Felicia Pride / FishbowlNY:
Arianna Huffington Says Media Needs More Good News, Launches Vertical — What seems to be dominating headlines these days? War. Political mudslinging. Economic distress. Prejudice diatribes. Pure foolishness. — Does media need more feel-good stories? — Arianna Huffington thinks so.
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Josh Stearns / Groundswell:
The Missed Opportunity of HuffPost's “Good News” — Today the Huffington Post introduced a new section of its website called “Good News.” In her introduction to the new feature Arianna Huffington wrote: … Trying to emphasize positive news rooted in “what is working” is good …
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The Huffington Post
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Piers Morgan's 2012 Resolution: Be More Like Bill O'Reilly — One nice thing about success is the way it shuts up critics. One year ago, Larry King had ended his 25-year run as CNN's marquee interviewer, and Piers Morgan was gearing up to replace him. How could Morgan, a former gossip reporter …
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Inside Cable News and TVNewser
Rebecca McPheters / AdAge:
Magazines and Newspapers Need to Build Better Apps — Viewpoint: Significant Glitches Trouble Too Many Publishers' Apps — While it is still early in the migration process, Apple's iPad and other tablets appear to be a very good thing for the publishing industry, allowing publishers …
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Poynter
Robert Andrews / mocoNews:
The Sun Newspaper Going Premium In Mobile App For £4.99 A Month — The UK's highest-circulating newspaper may not yet be going ahead with web fees but it has introduced a subscription smartphone app, priced £4.99 ($7.65) a month. — News International's mass-market The Sun launched …
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The Next Web
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘Rolling Stone’ to drop big Julian Assange interview next week by Michael Hastings, the guy who blew the lid off Gen. McChrystal — Michael Hastings is in the news this week for his latest book, The Operators, a 379-page follow-up to the journalist's explosive June 2010 Rolling Stone profile …
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
What would a Google News Plus Your World look like? — How soon until we get a Google News “Plus Your World?” — With the introduction of the oddly extraterrestrial-sounding Google “Search Plus Your World”, the company proclaimed their latest experiment is “transforming Google …
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Ed Strapagiel / INMA:
Newsmedia executives cautious about 2012 — 2012 study finds North American newspapers pessimistic about ad revenues, looking to digital for growth. — Newspapers — and many other industries — expected at least some economic recovery in 2011. This simply did not happen.
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Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Deal Would Lead Letterman to a Late-Night Milestone — David Letterman as a guest on “The Tonight Show” with his idol, Johnny Carson. It appears that he will extend his contract, and surpass Mr. Carson's 30 years as a late-night host. — PASADENA, Calif. - It appears increasingly likely …
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Bloomberg:
Bloomberg View Expands Editorial Board — New Board Members to be Based in New York, London and Washington — NEW YORK — Bloomberg View is adding five new members to its editorial board as the section continues to expand, Bloomberg View executive editor David Shipley announced today.
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The New York Observer and DealBook
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