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DEAR JOURNALISM STUDENTS: Don't Mean To Intrude, But Your Professor Doesn't Get It — We had a good laugh in the (virtual) newsroom this weekend when folks started passing around this letter-to-students from a journalism professor at the University of Tampa.
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Poynter and College Media Matters
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Roger Ailes, the head of Fox News, made up a story about his victimization by the New York Times. — Seriously. “Made it up” is not too strong a term. As best we can determine, it never happened. But it's important to understand that he thinks it happened. Because this expresses so well what Fox sells: resentment news.
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JIMROMENESKO.COM, Erik Wemple, Gawker, Inside Cable News, @jayrosen_nyu and The Huffington Post
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Chicago Tribune to leap over pay wall — The Chicago Tribune is mulling a plan to charge online readers premiums for different kinds of content, a structure similar to the fee it charges for the print literary magazine it introduced this year. The city's largest newspaper is charting …
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Amid Tweets and Slide Shows, the Longform Still Thrives — In the age of 140-character tweets, aggregated blog posts and throwaway slide shows, common sense says you can't expect the Web generation's ADD-addled minds to spend more than a few minutes with any sort of content.
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Free Press and eMedia Vitals
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Media General execs realized in 2011 newspaper decline wasn't cyclical — Media General President and CEO Marshall Morton tells Michael Schwartz that the company didn't realize until 2011 that its newspaper revenue declines were not simply due to the recession:
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Richmond BizSense
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Atlantic Media business website, Quartz, staffs up and strategizes — Atlantic Media's forthcoming digital business title is taking shape with new hires and a clear editorial strategy. — Two months ago, Chris Batty, the former Gawker sales boss who'd just been tapped as publisher …
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FishbowlDC, FishbowlNY and Talking Biz News
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Doing It Wrong: Irish Newspaper Licensing Organization Asks Women's Charity To Pay For Links — An Irish women's charity, Women's Aid, linked to some articles on the Irish Examiner (like this, this, and this) and thought that all was right with the world. Heck, that's how the Internet works, right?
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Betabeat
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Anthony Bourdain to Join CNN for Weekend Show — Anthony Bourdain is about to take a television trip. The chef and author will host a weekend program on CNN beginning early next year, once his shows for the Travel Channel end, CNN announced on Tuesday. CNN said in a news release that the program …
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TVNewser, The Wrap, Multichannel and Adweek
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DirecTV's EVP of Content Strategy to Step Down; Ex-AT&T Exec to Replace Him — DirecTV's executive vice president of content strategy and development Derek Chang is stepping down from his position, and will be replaced by ex-AT&T executive Dan York, the company said Tuesday.
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Multichannel and Home Media Magazine
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Promising writer, Yale grad Marina Keegan dies in weekend car accident — Marina Keegan died Saturday in a car accident in Dennis, Mass. She was 22. Keegan had just graduated from Yale University and was due to start a job at The New Yorker in early June.
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Los Angeles Times, DealBook, The New Yorker Blog and newsfeed.time.com
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Just In Case You Were Starting to Respect Henry Blodget... Just when it looked like Henry Blodget was heading toward redemption with his Facebook coverage, his latest Business Insider troll bait is so over the top he's lost whatever goodwill he might have accumulated, and then some.
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Coming Soon: A New Spanish-Language Evening Newscast From Fox — 2012 is shaping up to be a big year for Hispanic news outlets, with Univision and ABC News preparing to launch a new English-language cable news channel, and Telemundo and Univision preparing to cover the 2012 election.