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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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FishbowlNY, Talking Biz News, JIMROMENESKO.COM and Media Decoder
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, NPR, CJR, NetNewsCheck Latest, Street Fight, mediabistro.com, eMedia Vitals and Poynter
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
Reuters:
Mexican court passes Slim TV bid to next government — (Reuters) - A court on Thursday denied billionaire Carlos Slim's bid to enter the lucrative television market, handing Mexico's new president the task of opening up the country's most powerful companies to more competition.
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Radio & Television …
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
Huge: Reddit's largest subsections command more than 100 million monthly impressions — Yes, Reddit is big, but did you know how big? As it turns out, the social links and news site is likely larger than you imagined. Released today is a pile of traffic data from several of the sites largest ‘subreddits,’ or subsections.
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Daily Dot
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) …
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, Fortune, @jayrosen_nyu, @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
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
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 …
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
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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Adweek, Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, The Wrap, AdAge, TVWeek.com, DealBook, paidContent, Mashable!, Reuters, Business Insider, the Econsultancy blog, mediabistro.com, Venture Capital Dispatch, The CIO Report, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, Reuters, AdExchanger.com, @reuters, Deal Journal, MediaPost, VentureBeat, CNET and @rafat
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 …
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.
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FishbowlDC and The Daily Caller