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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
New York Times Co. Reports Gain in Net Income — The New York Times Company reported on Thursday a large gain in first-quarter net income, driven largely by the sale of its regional newspapers, the sale of part of its stake in a New England sports group and an increase in circulation revenue at its flagship newspaper.
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Ryan Chittum / CJR:
The New York Times Company in 2015 — Trendlines—as of right now—don't point to its demise — Will The New York Times Company survive as a stand-alone firm past 2015? — That's unknowable, of course. A lot can happen between now and then. But extrapolating from current trends can give us an idea of where things are going.
Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
New York Times Staffers Protest Contract Negotiations, Pensions (VIDEO) — New York Times staffers have put out a new video speaking out against the ongoing contract negotiations with the paper's management — particularly proposed changes to their pension plans.
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
New York Times Sees Digital Ads Droop — The New York Times says its digital paywall strategy is a success with consumers. But its digital advertising business stumbled last quarter, and dropped by 2 percent. — Times CEO Arthur Sulzberger Jr. blamed an “uneven U.S. economic environment …
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Will Sulzberger be the next Times Company C.E.O.? He doesn't quite say ‘no’ — Arthur Sulzberger Jr. has been serving as interim C.E.O. of The New York Times Co. ever since the resignation of Janet Robinson late last year. As a member of the Times controlling family, the Sulzbergers …
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Storm clouds form over strong quarter at New York Times Company
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Jason Deans / Guardian:
Leveson inquiry: Rupert and James Murdoch to give evidence next week — Rupert Murdoch is to give evidence to the Leveson inquiry into phone hacking and media ethics next week, with a day and a half set aside for the News Corporation founder. Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of News Corp …
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Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
Murdoch's News Corp facing growing legal threat in US
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Final Numbers Make It Official: ‘GMA’ Beat ‘Today’ Last Week — The final score is in for last week's ratings race between NBC's “Today” show and ABC's “Good Morning America,” and the winner is ABC. — ABC's morning program surpassed NBC's by 31,000 total viewers for the week, marking its first full-week victory over NBC since 1995.
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Mona Zhang / 10,000 Words:
Newton to Journalists: Focusing on the Story Isn't Enough Anymore — In the digital age, journalists are required to don different hats; from multimedia to social media, there is an increasing amount of tools available for telling the story and sharing it. Still, it may not be enough.
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Rohin Dhar / Priceonomics:
The Kindle Index — “No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” — Some people like to read. Other people do not. Since the age of Confucius, the people in the former camp have been judging those in the latter harshly.
Jim Romenesko:
‘God Hates Fags’ group to speak to journalism classes — Four members of the Westboro Baptist Church will speak Monday to three Central Michigan University journalism classes taught by Prof. Timothy Boudreau. — “I try to bring [controversial speakers] in because students routinely claim …
Robert-Jan Bartunek / Reuters:
Sony-led group wins EU approval to buy EMI publishing — (Reuters) - A Sony-led consortium won EU approval on Thursday to buy EMI's music publishing business for $2.2 billion, on the condition that it sell the worldwide publishing rights of artists including Robbie Williams and Lenny Krativz.
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Media Decoder, Bloomberg and Billboard.Biz
Daniel Denvir / Philadelphia City Paper:
Why Philly will suffer if new owners close the Daily News — The sign welcoming visitors to the Inquirer and Daily News' new building's marquee on Market East will not, KYW Newsradio reported last week, include the logo of the embattled Daily News. — Or, maybe it will, it turns out.
Paul McNally / Journalism.co.uk:
Starmer: Charging advice ‘likely’ for more journalist cases — Director of public prosecutions says he expects more cases relating to arrested journalists to be referred to the CPS, following first batch this week — Keir Starmer: ‘These are simply the first batch of cases’
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