Mediagazer: As Tribune Nears Exit From Three-Year Bankruptcy, Big Papers Could Sell (Bloomberg)

4:50 AM ET, June 8, 2012

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Chuck Klosterman Is The New York Times Magazine's New Ethicist — Update (2:04 p.m. EDT): Klosterman, a music and culture critic best known for his Esquire column Chuck Klosterman's America and the book Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, confirmed via email that he starts his new gig this weekend.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: New York Times' new Ethicist Chuck Klosterman: 'I always prefer discussing other people's problems'

Dylan Byers / Politico:

The New York Times: Barack Obama's not leaking to us — Caught in the crosshairs of a contentious dispute between the White House and Congress, The New York Times is vowing to charge ahead with its coverage of developments in U.S. national security - and denying that the paper is on the receiving end …

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The Huffington Post:
Dianne Feinstein, Saxby Chambliss Promise To Crack Down On National Security Leaks

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Dean Baquet Defends New York Times Amid Leak Controversy: 'We Can't Edit A Paper For Our Critics'

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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
New York Times Leak Controversy Escalates

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Josh Stearns / CJR:

New Orleans and the future of news — Media policy matters, and journalists ought to weigh in — Last week's announcement that the New Orleans Times-Picayune would be slashing its staff and cutting its print run to just three days a week has sparked a new round of debates about the future of news.

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Julie Moos / Poynter:
'I'm not going to read the paper online': New Orleans photographer documents locals reading the Times-Picayune

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Harry Shearer / CJR:
The Sometimes Picayune — Want to damage New Orleans (again)?

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

One year in, Bloomberg View still ‘fairly fluid’ — David Shipley's been Bloomberg View's top editor since last September, when Jamie Rubin left the organization after reportedly clashing with colleagues. The opinion site, launched on May 25, 2011, earned its first Pulitzer Prize nominations this spring …

Leonard Downie Jr / Washington Post:

Forty years after Watergate, investigative journalism is at risk — Investigative reporting in America did not begin with Watergate. But it became entrenched in American journalism — and has been steadily spreading around the world — largely because of Watergate.

Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:

Columbia Accepts Assad Aide Who Was Helped by Barbara Walters — The young aide to President Bashar al-Assad of Syria who received an endorsement from the longtime television correspondent Barbara Walters was accepted into a prestigious graduate program at Columbia University, the school said on Thursday.

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Economist:

Reporters without orders — Can journalism funded by private generosity compensate for the decline of the commercial kind? — from the print edition — BANDITS, terrorists, clan rivalries, lawless security forces and corrupt officials make Russia's north Caucasus the murkiest part of an often opaque country.

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Felix Salmon:

Blogonomics: Syndication — Last week, the Economist's Ryan Avent sparked a storm in a Twitter teacup with this tweet: … It turned out, over the course of the ensuing conversation, that Business Insider's material from the Economist — and from Reuters, for that matter …

Daniel Frankel / paidContent:

Why HBO is once again TV's most relevant network — It was just one more small step for TV Everywhere. HBO Go will now be available on yet another tablet, the Kindle Fire, through eight out of the top 10 pay TV services in the U.S. — And it was just one more incremental move for HBO …

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Bloomberg:

As Tribune Nears Exit From Three-Year Bankruptcy, Big Papers Could Sell — Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune Most Likely to Attract ‘Vanity Buyers’ — Tribune Co. begins its last big court fight today, one of two steps remaining before the publisher exits bankruptcy into a newspaper market where values have dropped by half.

Discussion: Media News, Guardian and Los Angeles Times

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Ray Bradbury wasn't a digital dinosaur; e-backlist coming — Ray Bradbury was right about so many things and spellbinding about so many others that it almost hurts to write this: Ray Bradbury was wrong when it came to reading. But then I also get to tell you this: he changed his mind.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Chicago Reader and PSFK

Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Wilson Quarterly is ending print publication, moving to digital — The Wilson Quarterly — the sometimes wonky Washington-based public affairs magazine — will apparently put out its final print edition this summer. With that same issue, WQ will make its debut on Apple's Newsstand …

Emma Bazilian / Adweek:

‘Entertainment Weekly’ Cuts Staff — Time Inc.'s Entertainment Weekly has cut three editorial staffers in recent weeks, Adweek has learned. A spokeswoman said three junior-level positions were eliminated over the past six weeks and their responsibilities absorbed by existing editorial staffers.

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Don't just liquidate your newspapers — reinvent them — As newspaper owners like Newhouse-owned Advance Publications try to stem the cash flowing out of their businesses by shutting down the presses, there are a number of ways to look at their decision. On the one hand, it can be seen …

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