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Bloomberg:
New York Times Co. Faces Leadership Vacuum — The departure of New York Times Co. (NYT) Chief Executive Officer Janet Robinson last month leaves the company with a leadership vacuum amid falling revenue, profit squeezed by pension costs and pressure from family members to restore a dividend once worth more than $20 million a year.
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The New York Observer, Future of Journalism, @edmundlee and Business Insider
Murray Weiss / DNAinfo:
Greg Kelly Accuser Claimed She Got Pregnant From Alleged Rape, Sources Say — MANHATTAN — The woman who accused Greg Kelly of raping her also claims she became pregnant as a result of the alleged sexual assault, sources told DNAinfo. — Kelly, a local TV news anchor and son …
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New York Times, New York Magazine, Business Insider, PolitickerNY, Newsday, Gothamist, The New York Observer and Daily Mail
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Richard Huff / NY Daily News:
Greg Kelly, ‘Good Day New York’ co-host accused of rape, ‘has requested some time off’: station
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New York Magazine, The Huffington Post, New York Post and Chickaboomer
Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
Dan Abrams On Rape Allegation Against Greg Kelly: DA Knows Very Well That ‘The World Is Watching’
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FishbowlNY and New York Times
Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:
Former FNC White House Reporter Accused of Rape
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Capital New York, Mediaite, New Jersey Online and rbr.com
David Lipke / WWD:
Bloomberg to Launch Luxury Lifestyle Magazine — A design spread from the first issue of Bloomberg Pursuits. — Photo By Courtesy Photo Photo By Courtesy Photo — BLOOMBERG'S FASHIONABLE PURSUITS: Users of the Bloomberg Terminal are among the richest demographic in the world …
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Media Buyer Planner
KPLU News for Seattle and the Northwest:
Facebook wanted journalists to sign non-disclosures before news conference — What they DID want us to see: Facebook attorney Craig Clark, right, talks to reporters with Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna, second from right, at the press conference in Seattle on Thursday.
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FleetStreetBlues, Future of Journalism, ShortFormBlog, JIMROMENESKO.COM and 10,000 Words
Kevin Lincoln / Business Insider:
Facebook Just Hired A Bloomberg Journalist To Be Its Managing Editor — In what could be a sign of things to come, Facebook has hired Dan Fletcher, former social media director at Bloomberg, to be its managing editor. — Both Fletcher and sources at Facebook confirmed that Fletcher will make the move …
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ZDNet, eMedia Vitals, Forbes, The Wall Blog, The Atlantic Wire, Future of Journalism and Talking Biz News
Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:
Twitter Now Able To Censor Tweets, If Required By Law, On A Country-By-Country Basis — Until now, Twitter's not had the ability to censor certain tweets or accounts, to prevent them from being seen — if legally required — by users in particular countries.
Bobbie Johnson / GigaOM:
How the Daily Mail became the web's biggest newspaper — It's official. According to figures from comScore, Britain's Daily Mail has become the biggest newspaper on the web, hauling its way past everybody else... even the grand old New York Times. — And although the Gray Lady both disputes …
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Jon Slattery and Editors Weblog
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Richard Horgan / FishbowlLA:
The Problem with the Daily Mail's Latest Internet Brag
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eBookNewser and @pressgazette
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Acta protests break out as EU signs up — MEPs of 21 EU states, including the UK, have signed off on the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement — The UK and 21 other European Union member states on Thursday signed an international copyright agreement treaty called Acta …
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Michael Geist Blog, Mashable!, Techdirt, WebProNews, Boing Boing, Associated Press, Fortune, Wired.co.uk and BBC, more at Techmeme »
Janet Paskin / CJR:
The Velvet Rope — Why do journalists still care about seeing their name in print? — If print media is truly in an advanced stage of decline, if journalism's great hope is online, why do journalists still like so very much to see their names in print? By now, it ought to be like …
Steve Myers / Poynter:
New York Times releases code to help journalists collaborate on WordPress, other platforms — More and more journalists use blogging platforms to write and edit stories, but those text editors are pretty basic: It's not easy to see what changes others have made to a post.
Discussion:
Future of Journalism and Nieman Journalism Lab
Steve Myers / Poynter:
NYT publishes Chinese translation of story about workers who make Apple products — The New York Times has published a Chinese translation of its story about worker conditions inside the Chinese factories that make Apple products. “The goal was twofold: to share the content of the article …
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The Verge, Betabeat, Gizmodo, PC Magazine and KPLU News for Seattle …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Apple in China: The New York Times goes for the Pulitzer
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Poynter, VentureBeat, msnbc.com, ZDNet, parislemon, Mother Jones, CNET, The Next Web, The Wrap and New York Times, more at Techmeme »
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Memo to media: Supply and demand are out of your hands — There are plenty of reasons why the traditional media business — including the advertising industry — is in the shape it is in, including a failure to move quickly enough to adapt to changing market conditions.
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eMedia Vitals and Poynter
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Gingrich admits ABC claim was false — After nearly a week on the defensive, CNN's John King reports tonight that Newt Gingrich's claim about offering witnesses to ABC News in his defense — to rebut the network's interview with his second wife, Marianne Gingrich — was not true.
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National Review, The Politico, Big Journalism, Mother Jones, @eggerton, Guardian, Riptide 2.0, Gothamist, The Daily What, New York Magazine, Hot Air and Mediaite
Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:
Thompson to step down after Olympics — Director general will quit at the end of 2012 or early in 2013 after eight years in charge of public broadcaster — Mark Thompson, the BBC's director general, has signalled to senior colleagues that he is ready to step down, with insiders believing …
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Daily Mail, BBC, Marketing Week and Guardian
Aziz Ali / PSFK:
Why The Graphic Novel Will Save Business Journalism — Caleb Melby recently graduated and joined Forbes Magazine. As an intern, he took on the responsibility of writing The Zen of Steve Jobs, which we wrote about last month. — The big take away point is the fact that journalism remains an industry in crisis.
Tim Bradshaw / FT Tech Hub:
Spotify hits 3m subscribers to improve conversion rate — High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail.
Discussion:
Future of Journalism and Fast Company
Tim Currie / Nieman Journalism Lab:
How a tightly paywalled, social-media-ignoring, anti-copy-paste, gossipy news site became a dominant force in Nova Scotia — Every morning, the business and political elite in the biggest province on Canada's East Coast turns to an unlikely source of information about their own world.
Jeff Roberts / paidContent:
Bleacher Report To Hire More Real Writers To Lead Amateur Army — Bleacher Report is using part of the $22 million cash infusion it received last summer to hire twenty bona fide writers. The move will likely improve the quality of the popular site which now relies almost exclusively …
Discussion:
Future of Journalism, eMedia Vitals and Media Buyer Planner
Gordon Rayner / Telegraph:
Leveson inquiry: Google asked to remove dozens of web pages for national security — Google received 65 requests from the Government to remove web pages from its database in the first half of last year, the Leveson Inquiry has heard. National security was “the single biggest category” …
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Press Gazette and Journalism.co.uk, more at Techmeme »
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