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Martin Bekkelund / bekkelund.net:
Outlawed by Amazon DRM — A couple of days a go, my friend Linn sent me an e-mail, being very frustrated: Amazon just closed her account and wiped her Kindle. Without notice. Without explanation. This is DRM at it's worst. Linn travels a lot and therefore has, or should I say had …
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Boing Boing, Techdirt, @leolaporte, @jeffjarvis, The Raw Story, Guardian, Forbes and Joe Wikert's Publishing …
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Simon Dumenco / AdAge:
Would You Rather Own a Magazine or a Digital Startup? — On the evening of Sunday, Oct. 14, Ad Age Editor Abbey Klaassen and I stood on a small, remote-controlled boat — one not much bigger than a queen-size bed — floating in the pool at the Tonga Room & Hurricane Bar at the historic Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.
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Betabeat, Capital New York and AdPulp
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Felix Salmon:
Magazines vs digital startups — Simon Dumenco has a question: would you rather own a magazine, or a digital startup? He notes that some magazines are making real money these days, including Marie Claire, even as most digital startups fail. Old Media isn't sexy, he says, but …
PressGazette:
Newsnight editor steps aside as BBC faces ‘worst crisis for 50 years’ over Savile documentary — Newsnight editor Peter Rippon has stepped aside “with immediate effect” while the BBC reviews its response to the Jimmy Savile sex scandal, the corporation said today.
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Guardian, New York Times, BBC, The Independent, @lucymanning, @tomjharper, @lucymanning, @grainnemaguire, fleet street fox, @tomjharper, @themediatweets and @davidleigh3
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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Did The Daily Beast Eat Newsweek? — The shutdown of the venerable print edition of Newsweek is yet another step in the long, inexorable march of all things print to digital — a familiar storyline. Except when it's not. Many pundits will proclaim Newsweek as simply the latest …
Matthew Belloni / The Hollywood Reporter:
Ex-L.A. Times Editors Join BuzzFeed in Push to Cover Hollywood (Exclusive) — Richard Rushfield will head a new Los Angeles bureau for the social news site as Kate Aurthur joins to cover television, film and celebrities. Social news website BuzzFeed is going Hollywood …
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LA Observed and FishbowlLA
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Jayson Blair on the first time he plagiarized: 'I can't believe no one caught that' — In the course of a wide-ranging report on plagiarism, Lee Cowan talked with disgraced New York Times reporter Jayson Blair about how he got his start as journalism's most famous plagiarist.
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CBS News
Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:
Without Arianna, the Huffington Post mafia is taking Manhattan — “Do you know the moment I knew it was over?” Jonah Peretti says, with a half-nostaligic, half-stockholm-syndrome smile looking across the table at Ken Lerer. — Lerer doesn't know. — “That last Christmas party we had as an independent company,” Peretti says.
Jim Romenesko:
Tampa Tribune's new owner cuts salaries, offers buyouts — The Tampa Tribune — recently sold by Media General to a California private equity investment firm for $9.5 million — is cutting employees' wages and offering buyouts. — “I haven't yet heard what percentage the cuts are averaging,” my tipster writes.
Jim Romenesko:
New York Times staffers mull byline strike — A Sunday dispatch from the Newspaper Guild of New York says hundreds of New York Times staffers have in recent days “quietly signed pledges to withhold their bylines, photo credits, and producing credits” and “have also pledged to work strictly to the terms of the contract.”
Discussion:
The Huffington Post and New York Magazine
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
New ‘Observer’ hires include Faye Penn, Duff McDonald — The New York Observer's masthead is continuing to take shape under the paper's latest editor, Aaron Gell. — The weekly's new managing editor is Emily Anne Epstein, who was most recently a reporter for the Daily Mail's U.S. web operation.
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
With Low Expectations for Q3, Wall Street Hoping for New Yahoo CEO Mayer to Shine a Light at End of Tunnel — Later today, new Yahoo CEO and latest savior Marissa Mayer is expected to debut in her first major turn as a public company CEO, as the company reports its third-quarter earnings.
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Noreen Malone / The New Republic:
The Critic Wall Street Loves to Lunch With — Felix Salmon's foppish war on the banks. — THERE AREN'T MANY people who can get the Treasury secretary on the phone—and fewer still who can get away with yelling at him on the call. His wife, sure. Probably the president.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Weather Channel's Parent Company Is Renamed — In a move it compared to Apple Computer's shedding of the word computer, the Weather Channel Companies has dropped “channel” from its name. — It's not ridding itself of the actual Weather Channel, a staple of cable lineups across the country.
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Media Decoder and The Huffington Post
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