Mediagazer: Intellectual power and responsibility in an age of superstars (Daniel W. Drezner/Foreign Policy)

8:25 AM ET, August 24, 2012

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Digital Chief Jon Miller Leaving News Corp. — According to sources close to the situation, News Corp.'s Chief Digital Officer Jon Miller will soon be leaving the media giant. — It seems to be a cordial, although perhaps inevitable, parting — sources said Miller will remain …

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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Exit Interview: Jon Miller On Transforming News Corp., Launching The Daily And What Comes Next — After three years as chief digital officer of News Corp. Jon Miller is leaving. It was an eventful few years, encompassing the sale of MySpace, the launch of The Daily, Hulu's addition of a subscription tier …

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Elisabeth Murdoch turns on her father and brother in MacTaggart lecture — Tensions within the world's most powerful media family were dramatically laid bare on Thursday when Elisabeth Murdoch set out her own vision of media leadership, emphasising humanity over profit and criticising …

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Katherine Rushton / The Daily Telegraph:
Elisabeth Murdoch distances herself from family

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Benjamin Shors / MediaShift:

At Rural Newspapers, Some Publishers Still Resist Moving Online — In 1968, Dick Graham bought a small weekly newspaper in Ferry County, Wash., one of the most remote and sparsely populated counties in the Pacific Northwest. — Forty-four years later — give or take a few months — broadband Internet is arriving.

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Daniel W. Drezner / Foreign Policy:

Intellectual power and responsibility in an age of superstars — In the last few weeks, Fareed Zakaria and Niall Ferguson have found themselves at the centers of controversy. As someone who has written a thing or two about public intellectuals, I confess to finding it all very fascinating.

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Curtis Brainard / CJR:

Candidates clam up on climate — Reporters call out Obama and Romney's silence — Nary a word has been spoken about climate change on the presidential campaign trail, and it's a silence that some journalists find deafening. — In the last few weeks, a variety of reporters have called …

Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:

Current TV to Turn Half the Screen Over to Twitter During Conventions — Networks Have Shown Tweets Before, But Current is Going Bigger — Current TV is handing over half its screen to Twitter during the conventions. — The cable news network, co-founded by former vice president Al Gore in 2005 …

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Alicia Calzada / NPPA:

NYPD Returns NY Times Photographer's Press Credentials — Today (8/23/12) the New York Police Department (NYPD) returned the press credentials of a New York Times photographer who had his equipment and credentials seized following his arrest on August 4th. Robert Stolarik …

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David Freedlander / Politicker:

Romney Forbids Questions on Akin, Abortion-UPDATE — A Denver TV reporter scored a rare interview with Mitt Romney today, although the terms were more limited than she may have liked. — Political reporter Shaun Boyd of CBS4 told an anchor, “The one stipulation to the interview …

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Ricardo Bilton / VentureBeat:

Amazon announces September 6 press event: Is the 10-inch Kindle Fire incoming? — Is the 10-inch Kindle Fire finally on its way? — Amazon has sent an email to media outlets inviting them to an event on September 6 in Santa Monica, Calif. Details on the event are slim so far, but we have a pretty good idea of what to expect.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Minority employment up in TV and radio, widening gap with print — Radio Television Digital News Association — Television and radio employed more minority journalists last year than the year before, according to the latest release from RTDNA's annual survey.

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Josh Voorhees / Slate:

Gawker Publishes Trove of Bain Docs, Financial Reporters Yawn — Gawker is looking for help sorting through nearly 1,000 pages of documents from Mitt Romney's tenure at Bain Capital, which the site published Thursday in bid to encourage crowdsourcing. — (It looks like they're going to need …