Mediagazer: ‘Journal’ rankles sister paper ‘Post’ with poachings (Joe Pompeo/Capital New York)

5:20 PM ET, June 25, 2012

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Nat Ives / AdAge:

Wired and The New Yorker Pull Back on Flipboard — Some magazines are developing Flipboard fatigue. Wired and The New Yorker are suspending efforts to sell ads on the platform and replacing their robust Flipboard feeds next month with spartan versions that summon their own websites if readers want whole articles.

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

The New York Times Gets All the News That's Fit to Print — All of It — Into Flipboard — Like the New York Times? Like Flipboard? Here's a corporate mashup for you: The Times' subscribers will soon be able read the entire paper on the aggregation/recommendation app.

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Why the NYT-Flipboard deal is a smart move — The New York Times hasn't exactly been free-wheeling with its digital content in the past: the only way you could get it was through the newspaper's apps or via excerpts on a site like The Huffington Post or Google News — which is why the deal …

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Nitasha Tiku / Betabeat:
TechCrunch Blogger Is Mad as Hell

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Dan Rather / Gawker:

Dan Rather Reviewed The Newsroom for Us and Liked It — A note from Dan Rather: I'm aware that my musings run counter to some of the more prominent early reviews in high-profile publications such as The New Yorker and the New York Times. But with all due respect (and I have a lot of it for those reviewers) …

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David Carr / New York Times:

HBO's ‘Newsroom’ as a Map for CNN — CNN, which has long struggled to locate an anchor for its 8 p.m. hour, may have finally found him. — Will McAvoy is handsome, forthright and authoritative, with just enough irascibility and skepticism to seem provocative.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Marcus Brauchli confirms Liz Spayd is leaving The Washington Post — In a memo, Washington Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli confirms a report by Politico's Dylan Byers that Liz Spayd is leaving the Washington Post. … Spayd is the first woman to be a managing editor at the Washington Post.

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Eric Johnson / AllThingsD:

ScraperWiki Tries to Turn Journalists Into Hackers — More and more, regular people are learning how to program: Codecademy is drawing hundreds of thousands of students; hackathons have become a seemingly everyday happening across tech-savvy cities like San Francisco; and now some are even calling …

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Telegraph:

Julian Assange asylum bid: ambassador flies into Ecuador for talks with President Correa — Anna Alban is travelling to meet Ecuador's President Correa in the capital Quito, where she will personally brief him on Mr Assange's application. She will also hold a series of meetings at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Emily Allen / Daily Mail: Assange demands diplomatic assurances he will not be extradited to U.S. over WikiLeaks revelations …

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

‘Journal’ rankles sister paper ‘Post’ with poachings — At the end of May, Stefanie Cohen, a features writer for the New York Post, told her bosses she would be leaving the paper to take a new job: Arts & entertainment reporter for The Wall Street Journal's Friday Journal section.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Ex-GOOD staffers were funded for Tomorrow magazine issue within 5 hours — Earlier this month the fired staff of GOOD magazine announced it would start a magazine called “Tomorrow.” Monday at around noon, the magazine's editors asked for donations to fund the first issue on the website Kickstarter.

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Dan Primack / Fortune:

Exclusive: Zinio puts itself up for sale — FORTUNE — Zinio, a digital magazine reading platform that competes with Amazon's (AMZN) Kindle app and Apple's (AAPL) Newsstand, is seeking a buyer, Fortune has learned. The San Francisco-based company has hired investment bank Montgomery & Co …

Gordon MacMillan / The Wall:

Is the Guardian planning to ditch print for digital future sooner rather than later? — There are rumours flying around that the Guardian is planning widespread redundancies and possibly even closing all or some of its print editions in a radical move to turn itself into an entirely digital operation in 2013.

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Another Reuters magazine, this time targeting the Aspen Ideas set — The second installment of Reuters' semiregular glossy magazine is scheduled to land this week. — As a follow-up to its inaugural issue, which was published in January and handed out at the World Economic Forum's annual Davos conference …