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BuzzFeed:
Hillary Clinton Aide Tells Reporter To “F**k Off” And “Have A Nice Life” — On Sunday morning, BuzzFeed correspondent Michael Hastings emailed Philippe Reines, Hillary Clinton's longtime aide and personal spokesman at the State Department, asking a series of pointed questions about State's handling …
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Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:
Print Sex Ads Will Remain at Newly-Formed Voice Media Group — Backpage.com may be gone, but sex ads are here to stay at the alt weeklies formerly owned by Village Voice Media. Over the weekend, Village Voice Media announced it had reshuffled and separated its 13 newspapers from Backpage.com …
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New York Post and Capital New York
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Michael Wolff / Guardian:
The Village Voice's synthetic solution to a synthetic sex ad scandal
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Gawker
Mallory Russell / AdAge:
Village Voice Management Buyout Leaves Backpage.com Behind
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The Atlantic Wire, voicemediagroup.com, FishbowlNY and The Raw Story
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Village Voice spins off Backpage.com
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New York Magazine, Deadline.com and NYConvergence.com
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Canadian columnist accused of plagiarism — One of Canada's leading newspaper columnists has been accused of plagiarism. After extensive and detailed research by a blogger, Globe & Mail writer Margaret Wente was alleged to have reproduced other people's work in several columns (see here).
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John Gordon Miller's Blog, Plagiarism Today and Macleans.ca
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Chris Selley / National Post:
On Margaret Wente, plagiarism, and the Globe's public editor-cum-union rep — It's tough to pick the most discreditable aspect of Globe and Mail Public Editor Sylvia Stead's train wreck response to serious allegations of journalistic malpractice against columnist Margaret Wente. There are so many contenders.
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Macleans.ca and Plagiarism Today
Liana B. Baker / Reuters:
Broadcasters get unlikely support from Cablevision in Aereo case — Cablevision has thrown its support behind major U.S. broadcast networks in their bid to stop Aereo Inc, an online television start-up backed by billionaire Barry Diller, from broadcasting TV programming over the Internet.
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Willie Geist to Co-Host Third Hour of ‘Today’ — Willie Geist, a co-host of the rollicking MSNBC morning show “Morning Joe,” is moving over to NBC's flagship “Today” show as a co-host of the franchise's 9 a.m. hour. — The promotion is expected to be announced by NBC this week …
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Broadcasting & Cable, TVNewser, The Wrap, Deadline.com, Mediaite and The Huffington Post
Craig Silverman / Poynter:
Exit interview: Brisbane says New York Times Public Editor job is ‘not a conversation’ — Arthur Brisbane's New York Times email address has been shut off, and he sounds pretty happy about it. — “I'm trying to decompress,” he told me two days after his stint as the fourth public editor of The New York Times came to an end.
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FishbowlNY
Ben Fritz / Los Angeles Times:
Deadline owner Penske likely to buy Variety — Daily Variety will soon be acquired by Penske Media, the owner of Deadline.com. (Variety website / September 24, 2012) — Hollywood's 107-year-old industry trade publication Variety and 6-year-old online competitor Deadline …
Robert Feder / Time Out Chicago:
Konkol leaves Sun-Times to write for DNAInfo Chicago — Mark Konkol, the Chicago journalism superstar who won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting last year, is leaving the Sun-Times to join the startup of a hyperlocal digital news service covering city neighborhoods.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Quartz Shoots for Tablet and Mobile Readers, but Doesn't Arm Itself With an App — After a summer of buzz, Quartz, Atlantic Media's new business news site, lights up today. — Pro Tip 1: If you want to see what the fuss is about, head over to qz.com, not quartz.com.
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Poynter, @jaredbkeller, @laureni and Talking Biz News
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Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
Homicide Watch DC wins Online Journalism Award for public service — Crime reporting site Homicide Watch DC, which recently crowdfunded more than $40,000 to secure its survival through the creation of a student reporting lab, was named as one of the winners of the Online Journalism Awards at the weekend.
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MediaShift and Big News Network.com
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Sherrina V. Navani / The Trentonian:
The Trentonian unveils Homicide Watch
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Digital First Media
Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:
Lyor Cohen Resigns From Warner Music — Lyor Cohen, the dominant creative executive at the Warner Music Group for the last eight years, has resigned from the company, Warner announced on Monday. His departure adds another piece to the chess game of top music executives who are now free agents …
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
A broadband levy to fund journalism? Now that's a very clever idea — Has David Leigh cracked it? We have been puzzling for years about how to subsidise journalism once it makes the final transition from print to net (see here and here and here). One obvious model is the funding of the BBC through its licence fee.
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The Wall Blog, GigaOM, Techdirt, @digidickinson, AndyDickinson.net, @benedictevans and paidContent
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Paul Carr / PandoDaily:
Taxing Broadband to Save Journalism is One Big, Stupid Idea — We Need a Thousand Small, Smart Ones
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on, Charlie Beckett, Forbes and Guardian
Cynthia Cotts / The New York Observer:
The New York Times Union Contemplates a Collective Chant in the Lobby — or a Public Demo — Just before noon today, a stream of about 200 New York Times staffers left the company's headquarters at 620 Eighth Avenue, heading for the local hotel workers union a few blocks north.
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Yahoo's Top Lawyer Says Leaked Internal Memos Are “Uncool” (According to — Oops — A Cool Leaked Internal Memo) — At Yahoo's Friday regular weekly FYI meeting for employees, one of the topics for its Q&A moderation system that got read in front of the crowd was that there should be a …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘Observer’ ropes old talent (Cynthia Cotts, George Gurley, Nina Burleigh) and new into its bullpen — Following a string of recent staff departures, recently-installed New York Observer editor Aaron Gell has announced some new talent grabs. — We'll start with Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke …
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