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Steven Mikulan / Frying Pan News:
LA Times: Layoffs, Sabotage and Suicides? — Ed Padgett was driving in the rain to a union meeting when the L.A. Times called to tell him he was fired. The pressman, a third-generation Times employee, listened in shock last December to an HR woman's voice explain he was being dismissed for …
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Matthew Fleischer / FishbowlLA:
Suicides and Sabotage at the LA Times — Frying Pan News' Steven Mikulan just posted quite the exit interview with recently fired LA Times blogging pressman Ed Padgett. The Times cited Padgett for “suspicion of sabotage” among other reasons for letting him go. Which sounds absolutely insane.
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Meena Hart Duerson / NY Daily News:
Facebook Subscribe exposes journalists to spam, pornography, some users complain — Some women say they are overwhelmed by inappropriate content — Journalists have begun to voice complaints about Facebook's Subscribe feature. — When the Travel Channel's Nisha Chittal launched …
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Richard Huff / NY Daily News:
Fox News Channel set to make ratings milestone with 10 years atop the Nielsen charts — Shepard Smith says the station can stay No. 1 as long as it takes care of its product — Fox News Channel anchor Shepard Smith. — Amid the day-long coverage of the Florida primary vote Tuesday …
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Ben Fenton / Financial Times:
New Sunday newspaper on hold after Sun arrests — Plans for a new Sunday newspaper to replace the News of the World have been put on hold after the arrest of four senior journalists from its sister paper, The Sun, according to three senior insiders. The plans, known as Project X …
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Viacom's Philippe Dauman Says “Mob Mentality” Doomed SOPA and PIPA — The “mob mentality” and “unfortunate rhetoric” around the protest of SOPA and PIPA earlier this month unnecessarily polarized the copyright debate between the technology and entertainment industries, said Viacom President …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Amazon: Big Kindle sales, but sales and outlook fall short — Summary: Amazon's fourth quarter sales and outlook fall short of expectations. Kindle sales surge. — Amazon's fourth quarter sales missed projections, but earnings were ahead. The big wild card was Kindle device sales, which tripled over the holidays.
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Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
Amazon Blows Q4 Revenue, Stock Drops 8% After Hours
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
As Sky Growth Slows, Can Internet Defend It From Downturn And New Rivals? — BSkyB's financials are still improving, but the company is now flaunting a range of new internet upgrades to try containing subscriber growth slow-down and potential threats from newcomers.
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Jonathan Browning / Bloomberg:
BSkyB to Start Movie Service Rivaling Netflix
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Barry Leibowitz / CBS News:
Backpage.com targeted by Wash. lawmakers over escort ads, child sex trade — (CBS/AP) OLYMPIA, Wash. - Washington state lawmakers on Friday heard impassioned pleas to clamp down on classified-advertising companies that don't require ID, before allowing sex-related ads to be posted online.
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Nikhil Pahwa / MediaNama:
Amazon To Launch In India As Junglee.com — MediaNama has learned from multiple, reliable sources that Amazon is launching in India as Junglee.com. At the time of writing this report, Junglee.com doesn't load, but sources in at least two Amazon partners have confirmed the development.
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Dara Kerr / CNET:
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo talks censorship — The question on many people's minds since last week is why Twitter announced that it would remove tweets on a country-by-country basis as per local governments' requests—a plan that some people called censorship.
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Sorry Dick, but Twitter is definitely a media entity
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Sarah Maslin Nir / The Caucus:
Colbert's Super PAC Raises More Than $1 Million — Stephen Colbert's quasi-satirical presidential bid has raised serious cash — over $1 million, as of Tuesday morning, the comedian announced. — An announcement on the Web site of Mr. Colbert's political action committee said the “super PAC” …
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Clear Channel to Invest in Company Run by TV's ‘Idol’ Host — Ryan Seacrest, who already is a host, producer and spokesman for Clear Channel, will soon be an investment partner as well. — On Tuesday, the radio conglomerate is expected to announce its acquisition of a minority stake …
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Steve Myers / Poynter:
Patriot-News submits Sara Ganim's Penn State sex abuse reporting for Pulitzer — Daily News columnist John Baer reports that The Patriot-News has submitted Sara Ganim's stories about the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse allegations for a Pulitzer Prize. (The deadline to enter was last week.)
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama finds virtual end-around to bypass the White House press — President Obama is finding ways to get his message to the public without going through the White House press corps. — Obama on Monday held his “first completely virtual interview” as part of an event hosted by Google+ …
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Neil Young and the Sound of Music — You know what the biggest problem with music today is? — Sound quality. — That's Neil Young's take on the issue, anyway. For years, the musician has been obsessed with improving the way modern music sounds, sonically speaking.
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Barnes & Noble Won't Sell Amazon's Imprints in Stores — Barnes & Noble Inc. said today that it has decided not to sell in its stores any titles published by Amazon.com Inc.'s various publishing imprints. — However, the nation's largest bookstore chain said that it will continue …
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Jon Mitchell / ReadWriteWeb:
Why Goodreads Gave Up on Amazon
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Guardian:
Julian Assange to appear on The Simpsons — The WikiLeaks founder will play himself in the show's 500th episode, which airs on 19 February — Julian Assange will be a guest character and voice on The Simpsons, playing a neighbour of the family after they move from their home in fictional Springfield.
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Kevin Lincoln / Business Insider:
One Of Demand Media's Founders Left With An Amusingly Slim Payout — On Monday afternoon, news got out that Demand Media was parting ways with three of its founders and EVPs at once — though the timing, they said, was “just coincidence.” — According to SEC filings by the company …
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Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
Three Founders Are Out At Demand Media
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