Mediagazer: NPR Planet Money Host Adam Davidson Under Fire from Rogue Media Ethicists (Foster Kamer/The New York Observer)

12:55 PM ET, August 10, 2012

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

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AllThingsD:

With Billions Burning a Hole in Her Pocket, Here Are Some Companies Yahoo's Mayer Might Be Eyeing (and Buying) — Now that she could have $4 billion more to play with from the proceeds of Yahoo's sale of its Chinese assets, here's a fun new Silicon Valley parlor game to enjoy: “What will Marissa Mayer buy?”

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
GMG chief executive takes pay cut

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Andrew Tyndall / Hollywood Reporter:

How CNN Can Benefit From Being Bland (Analysis) — Andrew Tyndall writes for THR that its appealing online presence internationally should have it chasing YouTube, not Fox News. — When it was invented about 30 years ago, CNN solved one of the major shortcomings of television news in the broadcast era: It was on all the time.

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Foster Kamer / The New York Observer:

NPR Planet Money Host Adam Davidson Under Fire from Rogue Media Ethicists — The NPR host and New York Times Magazine contributor gets panned for ethical misgivings. What—and how real—are they? — NPR's Planet Money—which was born out of the Peabody award-winning This American Life episode …

David Wagner / The Atlantic Wire:

David Rakoff, Essayist and ‘This American Life’ Contributor, Has Died — David Rakoff, a writer known for his funny, cynical essays and frequent appearances on This American Life, has died at 47. He had been battling a malignant tumor since 2010. — According to an essay he wrote …

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Shalini Ramachandran / Digits:

Barrydriller.com Claims to Compete Against Barry Diller's Aereo — Lots of entertainment executives might aspire to follow in media mogul Barry Diller's footsteps. Few would go as far as Alki David. — The chief executive of FilmOn, an online video site, has started a new service …

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Howard Finberg / Poynter:

Knight report on training shows journalists want technology, multimedia, data skills — A new study by the Knight Foundation released today summarizes the state of journalism training. Some findings from “Digital Training Comes of Age”: … The report was authored by Eric Newton …

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Alexander Abad-Santos / The Atlantic Wire:

Fareed Zakaria's Take on Gun Control Strikingly Similar to The New Yorker's — Fareed Zakaria reads The New Yorker. We can only assume that because his latest column for Time on gun control, reads a lot like Jill Lepore's lengthy New Yorker article on the NRA from April.

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Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:

Dish Chairman Says Subscribers Don't Like AMC Shows That Much, Anyway — Nor Has Anyone in Charlie Ergen's House Ever Watched WE TV — Nobody at Dish Network Chairman Charles Ergen's house has ever watched IFC, Sundance Channel or WE TV, Mr. Ergen said Wednesday as he discussed dropping AMC Networks …

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Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

Publishers Turn to the Crowd — It's not everyday that a publisher is sold for $175 million. That's why Turner's purchase of Bleacher Report raised some eyebrows. — The lesson of Bleacher Report's success, and that of Huffington Post's as well, is it pays for publishers to take a page …

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

BBC: Thompson didn't criticise GB coverage — Director general forced to issue clarification after news chief said he was ‘increasingly unhappy’ at focus on British success — BBC director general Mark Thompson has denied claims he ordered news executives to focus less on Team GB's Olympics success in bulletins.

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