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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes Real Time:
News Corp. After the Split: Bright Outlook for WSJ; The NY Post, Not So Much — Employees of The Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and other News Corp.-owned newspapers are feeling nervous over the prospect of being severed from the parts of the media conglomerate responsible for the vast majority of its profits.
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Talking Biz News
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Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:
Murdoch Isn't the First to Consider Renaming The Wall Street Journal
Murdoch Isn't the First to Consider Renaming The Wall Street Journal
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FishbowlNY and JIMROMENESKO.COM
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
The future of media and forcing new content into old models — We've seen a ton of digital ink spilled over the implications of media startup Journatic faking bylines for some of its content, including a post from me at about the underlying economics that have forced newspapers …
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Media Nation, Street Fight, NetNewsCheck Latest, mediabistro.com and eMedia Vitals
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Anna Tarkov / Poynter:
Journatic CEO to staff: ‘Bumps are going to be part of the ride’
Journatic CEO to staff: ‘Bumps are going to be part of the ride’
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CJR, NPR, NPR, NetNewsCheck Latest and JIMROMENESKO.COM
MG Siegler:
“MG Siegler can't be trusted.” — Do you want an overview of the current state of the tech blogosphere? Click the link above. — I mean, that's seriously a story. A full story. On a site that purports to report about technology. (And congratulations: your click will undoubtedly lead to other stories just like it!)
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@edzitron, @jayrosen_nyu, Fortune, @dangillmor, Mashable!, Betabeat, 9to5Mac and The Verge
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Adrianne Jeffries / Betabeat:
Unreliable Narrators! TechCrunch Blogger Inserted ‘Random Information (Sometimes Even False)’ Into Posts
Unreliable Narrators! TechCrunch Blogger Inserted ‘Random Information (Sometimes Even False)’ Into Posts
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Poynter and NetNewsCheck Latest
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
NI pays £30m to end Johnston printing contract — Sun publisher denies decision to bring printing in-house is due to falling sales and News of the World closure — News International has paid £30m to terminate its printing contract with Johnston Press, with speculation …
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Guardian, Press Gazette and HoldTheFrontPage
Jessica Culshaw / BBC:
BBC warns of ‘unprecedented threat’ to independent news — The BBC has today warned of an ‘unprecedented global threat to impartial and independent news’ and called on relevant authorities worldwide to protect the rights of journalists to report freely. — The call follows news …
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Journalism.co.uk
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Yahoo CEO Search in Final Stages, With Levinsohn and Kilar in Lead — According to sources close to the situation, the search for a new CEO for Yahoo is closing in on key candidates. — But, said sources, it appears to be coming down to a contest between interim Yahoo CEO Ross Levinsohn and Hulu CEO Jason Kilar.
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The Wrap, AdAge, TVWeek.com, Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, paidContent, The CIO Report, the Econsultancy blog, mediabistro.com, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Venture Capital Dispatch, Guardian, MediaPost, Deal Journal, Business Insider, AdExchanger.com, @reuters, Reuters, Fortune, VentureBeat, CNET and @rafat
Kelly Clay / Ebyline Blog:
AP Social Media Editor Eric Carvin on Twitter Policies and More — During the past year, the AP has made three rounds of sweeping changes to its social media policy that impacts AP Staff. Ebyline recently had a chance to talk with the AP's social media editor, Eric Carvin (@EricCarvin) …
Vanity Fair:
The Late Marie Colvin: “I Feel Like I Am the Last Reporter in the YouTube World” — “My darling, I have come back in to Baba Amr, the besieged neighbourhood of Homs, and am now freezing in my hovel with no windows. I just thought, I cannot cover the modern day Srebrenica from the suburbs …
Guardian:
Sky News faces tweet reality — Sky News bosses battened down the hatches in February after implementing strict new rules on Twitter use, banning journalists from retweeting any news stories from rival organisations. There followed a couple of high-profile journalists leaving - coincidental …
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
The BBC unveils its first ‘Perceptive Media’ experiment - and you can try it now — The BBC's R&D department has just demoed the first public example of what it calls ‘Perceptive Media’, and has published it online so you can try it for yourself. — What is Perceptive Media?
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Research and Development
Tracie Powell / Poynter:
Where Joe Williams' departure leaves Politico's newsroom diversity — Reporter Joe Williams' departure from Politico is part of a longer story that began back in 2009 when the National Association of Black Journalists and others publicly chastised the publication for its lack of diversity.
Discussion:
FishbowlDC and The Daily Caller
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
BSkyB Study Finds U.K. Pay TV Giant Contributes $8.4 Billion to Economy — The company says it also supports 120,000 jobs as media regulator Ofcom continues to probe if it is “fit and proper” to own a broadcast license. — LONDON - British satellite TV giant BSkyB said Thursday …
Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
‘Esquire’ Takes a Page From Hollywood to Promote August Issue — You've probably seen a lifetime's worth of movie trailers for summer blockbusters this season, but what about a trailer for a summer magazine? For its August issue (on newsstands July 10) Esquire has put together a trailer …
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eMedia Vitals