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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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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, Stock Plunges 9% After Hours
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John Ellis / BuzzFeed:
Big Media Is About To Pull The Plug On Newt Gingrich — The suits are taking charge, and they're killing the travel budgets. Sorry Newt, Rick, Zeke! — Gingrich is about to lose his pack. — It's January 31st and it's over. Mitt Romney has blown away the field in the Florida primary …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
A new iPad app that promises a future for long-form journalism — Longform.org, one of the growing breed of aggregators and social sites spreading multi-thousand-word journalism around the web, announced today that it will debut an iPad app tomorrow. — And unlike some magazines …
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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
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Future of Journalism and WebProNews
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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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
The New Yorker's David Remnick: Paper Magazines Are “Pretty Good Technology” — Quality long-form writing has a place in the Internet age, says the New Yorker editor David Remnick — and it's worth paying for. — Asked whether print magazines would last another 20 years, Remnick said …
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Vevo CEO Rio Caraeff: We Made $150 Million Last Year — When it first debuted in 2009, Vevo aspired to be a “Hulu for music.” Today, it's exactly that: the second largest video property on the Web in the U.S., a title that — you guessed it — was once held by Hulu.
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Ben Fenton / Financial Times:
New Sunday newspaper on hold after Sun arrests
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Interview: David Karp, founder of Tumblr, on realising his dream — The chief executive of one of the fastest-growing startups on the internet says he lied about his age and experience to woo clients — David Karp, the founder of the blogging platform Tumblr, was 17 when he decided to cut the apron strings and move to Tokyo.
Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:
The secrets of Wolf's success: CNN anchor dishes to Yahoo News on debates, the ‘Magic Wall,’ and his rigorous exercise regime — Wolf Blitzer, anchor of CNN's political coverage and host of “The Situation Room,” is sitting in the network's Election Center in Atlanta, awaiting results of Tuesday's Florida Republican primary.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Jason Kilar: Hulu's 2011 Revenues Of $420 Million Was Actually Above The “Board Plan” — Last year, Hulu brought in $420 million in revenues, with was 60 percent above the year before. The news, however, was seen as a miss because Hulu earlier in the year suggested that it would make $500 million.
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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+ …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Sorry Dick, but Twitter is definitely a media entity — At the Dive Into Media conference on Monday, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said the company doesn't see itself as a media entity, although he admited it is in the media business. It's not surprising Twitter wouldn't want to come right …
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Dara Kerr / CNET:
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo talks censorship
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Future of Journalism, The Atlantic Wire, The Wall Blog, AllThingsD, The Next Web and GigaOM
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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Mashable!, JIMROMENESKO.COM and The Newspaper Guild
Jeff Roberts / paidContent:
Village Voice To Stop Suing Over ‘Best Of’ Lists — The Village Voice is giving up on a scheme to force rivals to pay for permission to use the phrase “best of.” — The one-time counter culture icon set off snorts of derision in November after it sued weekly magazine Time Out New York over its annual ‘best of’ issue.
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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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Home Media Magazine, Pocket-lint, Hollywood Reporter and Softpedia News
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Jonathan Browning / Bloomberg:
BSkyB to Start Movie Service Rivaling Netflix
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