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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Why the NYT announced Obama's win 49 minutes after Obama did — Last night, as the results of the 2012 election rolled in, millions of Americans were glued to their TVs, computers and smartphones. But depending on what they were watching and reading, some of them were either breaking …
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Capital New York, Speakeasy, The Wrap, BBC, Guardian, The New York Observer and Rolling Stone
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Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:
The US election was a wake up call for data illiterate journalists — So Nate Silver won in 50 states; big data was the winner; and Nate Silver and data won the election. And somewhere along the lines some guy called Obama won something, too. — Elections set the pace …
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AdAge, Poynter, PandoDaily, Newsday, The Wrap, Mashable!, CNET, Forbes, Gawker, Globe and Mail, TechCrunch, Charlie Beckett, @sulliview and The New Republic
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
How Karl Rove Fought With Fox News Over the Ohio Call — Megyn Kelly in Fox's decision room. — Shortly before 5 p.m. yesterday, Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes assembled his network's election team in a second floor conference room at Fox's midtown headquarters to discuss the night's coverage.
Trevor Butterworth / The Daily Beast:
Revenge of the Nerd: Nate Silver Is 2012's Other Winner — Like him or loathe him, Nate Silver is the election's other big winner. Trevor Butterworth on what that means for political reporting—and why Silver's reign might be short-lived.
Dan Rowinski / ReadWrite:
Nate Silver's Model Proves To Be Stunning Portrait Of Logic Over Punditry
Nate Silver's Model Proves To Be Stunning Portrait Of Logic Over Punditry
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Slate and The Huffington Post
Will Oremus / Slate:
The Five Stages of Fox News Grief — In Fox News' election coverage Tuesday night, there was little pretense of fairness or balance. What there was, from the start, was a glum tone that turned downright funereal by the time Mitt Romney finally conceded, near 1 a.m. To watch the network's anchors …
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New York Times, Capital New York, Poynter, The Huffington Post and Tampa Bay Times
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Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
Rachel Maddow Rips Karl Rove On Fox News
Rachel Maddow Rips Karl Rove On Fox News
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Baltimore Sun, New York Times and Chickaboomer
Amy Willis / Telegraph:
Republican Karl Rove calls Barack Obama Fox News projection ‘premature’
Republican Karl Rove calls Barack Obama Fox News projection ‘premature’
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The Huffington Post, www.wnyc.org and @huffpostmedia
Julie Moos / Poynter:
25 election front pages let pictures speak louder with words — Photography dominated most of today's front pages, with very few words announcing President Obama's re-election. Several of the papers below illustrate the power of a single word. A few papers (shown at bottom) …
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New York Times
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Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
TV Ratings: NBC News Wins Broadcast Net Election Night Coverage — The first network to call the race for President Obama has a significant margin of victory over ABC and CBS in fast affiliate returns. — NBC News looks like it notched two wins last night.
Frazier Moore / Associated Press:
ABC's Diane Sawyer spurs jokes from Twitterverse
ABC's Diane Sawyer spurs jokes from Twitterverse
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Gawker, The Atlantic Wire and Los Angeles Times
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
On Election Day 2012, Twitter Kills the Great White Fail Whale — In one pithy, three-word sentence, Twitter creative lead Doug Bowman summed up the microblogging service's election day perfectly: — “RIP Fail Whale.” — Indeed, all throughout Nov. 6, that cutesy, once-ubiquitous cartoon …
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Media Decoder, Twitter Blog, Betabeat, Gizmodo, VatorNews, SocialTimes and Venture Capital Dispatch
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Sam Youngman / Reuters:
Move over, Obama; Twitter had a big night too
Move over, Obama; Twitter had a big night too
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PC Magazine, Mashable!, SocialTimes and Gizmodo
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Arrested Sun journalists are between a rock and a hard place — Arrested Sun journalists are finding themselves caught between a rock and hard place as they contemplate their dilemma while on police bail. Some of them would like to help Scotland Yard police who are investigating …
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Guardian:
Mirror Group journalists questioned by company lawyers over alleged hacking — Journalists at Mirror Group Newspapers are being formally interviewed by company lawyers in response to legal action launched last month over alleged phone hacking. Several journalists working …
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
DC Comics Announces Deals To Sell Digital Comics In Big Three E-Bookstores, Says Digital Sales Have Grown 197% — DC Comics is announcing the next big step in its digital plans today, saying it will sell monthly comics in the Kindle Store, iBookstore, and Nook Book Store.
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CNET
Samuel Rubenfeld / Wall Street Journal:
News Corp Takes $67 Million Charge on Phone-Hacking Scandal — News Corp . said Tuesday that it took a $67 million charge on its quarterly results related to an ongoing investigation into a series of scandals that it initiated when the company closed its weekly tabloid, News of the World.
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Wall Street Journal
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Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
News Corp. Boosts Profit After Making Gains in TV Advertising
News Corp. Boosts Profit After Making Gains in TV Advertising
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Cable Television News, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, Agence France Presse and Fox Business
John Jannarone / Wall Street Journal:
News Corp. Earnings Boosted by Gain
News Corp. Earnings Boosted by Gain
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AllThingsD and Sydney Morning Herald
Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:
Cable Networks Help Time Warner's Quarterly Profit — A strong quarter at Time Warner's suite of cable networks contributed to the company's 1.9 percent increase in third-quarter net profit, but revenue was offset by continued weakness at its magazine and movie divisions.
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Guardian, MediaPost, Reuters, Home Media Magazine and The Wrap
Felix Salmon / Reuters:
The FT in play — This will come as a surprise to absolutely no one, but the Financial Times is going up for sale, according to Bloomberg, with an asking price of £1 billion. (Pearson has denied the story, in less than convincing terms.) — That's big number.
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Bloomberg:
Pearson Said Exploring Financial Times Sale as CEO Leaves
Pearson Said Exploring Financial Times Sale as CEO Leaves
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Guardian, Quartz, CJR, Telegraph, Bookseller news, @felixsalmon, Reuters, @dansabbagh, @dansabbagh and FT Alphaville
Michael de la Merced / DealBook:
F.T. Up for Sale, Report Says, but Pearson Says Not So Fast
F.T. Up for Sale, Report Says, but Pearson Says Not So Fast
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Quartz and Talking Biz News
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
If Facebook isn't thinking about buying Tumblr, it should be — It might seem a little early to start talking about potential Facebook acquisitions considering the social network just completed its $736-million purchase of Instagram, and its share price is still 40 percent lower than it was when the company went public.
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PandoDaily and Forbes
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Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:
With Mobile Impressions, Tumblr Pushes Past 20 Billion Pageviews A Month
With Mobile Impressions, Tumblr Pushes Past 20 Billion Pageviews A Month
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Click Here Blog, Betabeat, Softpedia News and The Verge
Bloomberg:
Fewer Cords Cut but Higher Customer Acquisition Costs for Dish — Blames Subscriber Losses on Telecom Rivals, Poor Economy — Dish Network, the second-largest U.S. satellite-TV provider, reported a surprise third-quarter loss and revenue that trailed analysts' estimates.
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Cable Television News
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