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Guardian:
Newsnight: executives could face disciplinary action — A BBC internal inquiry has concluded that there had been ‘unacceptable’ editorial failings involved in the broadcast — Two BBC executives involved with the Newsnight broadcast that wrongly linked a “senior Conservative” …
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National Updates
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Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
As Mark Thompson Starts New Job, the BBC's Implosion Is Felt in New York
As Mark Thompson Starts New Job, the BBC's Implosion Is Felt in New York
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New York Times, National Updates, New York Magazine and FishbowlNY
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Mark Thompson, the BBC Scandal and the Future of The New York Times
Mark Thompson, the BBC Scandal and the Future of The New York Times
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TheMediaBriefing, Guardian, AdAge, mediabistro.com, Broadcasting & Cable and Telegraph
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Times Company chairman welcomes Mark Thompson as BBC scandal widens
Times Company chairman welcomes Mark Thompson as BBC scandal widens
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Guardian and The Daily Beast
Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:
The New York Times and the Thompson Effect: Blow Over or Blowback?
The New York Times and the Thompson Effect: Blow Over or Blowback?
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Guardian
Nancy Tartaglione / Deadline.com:
NYT Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. Welcomes Former BBC Chief Mark Thompson As New CEO
NYT Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. Welcomes Former BBC Chief Mark Thompson As New CEO
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Washington Post and GigaOM
Hélène Mulholland / Guardian:
George Entwistle's BBC payoff is tough to justify, says government
George Entwistle's BBC payoff is tough to justify, says government
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Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day and Digital Spy
Aja Romano / Daily Dot:
Businessweek ranks schools on girls' hotness — Why did Businessweek think it was a good idea to poll its users about which college campuses have the hottest female students? — Easy: It has done it before and no one noticed. — This year, however, coming just after an election season full …
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mediabistro.com, FishbowlNY, Jezebel, The Huffington Post and Talking Biz News
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Businessweek: Polls of student attractiveness were “in poor taste” — Bloomberg Businessweek unpublished a feature over the weekend that asked the question “Which business school has the most attractive female students?” — “We regret issuing two online polls last week that asked our readers …
Gordon Rayner / Telegraph:
BBC turmoil worsens as Helen Boaden and Stephen Mitchell hire lawyers to deny they willingly ‘stepped aside’ — The BBC's turmoil worsened yesterday as two senior executives hired lawyers to refute a statement that they had decided to step aside from their jobs.
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BBC:
BBC head of news ‘steps aside’
BBC head of news ‘steps aside’
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BBC, BBC, Reuters, Guardian, BBC, Guardian, UK News and Opinion, Sky News, Guardian, Digital Spy, Deadline.com, CJR, Guardian and Guardian
Boris Johnson / Telegraph:
Smearing an innocent man's name is the real tragedy here
Smearing an innocent man's name is the real tragedy here
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Guardian
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
NBC Moves to Shake Up ‘Today’ Leadership — NBC is finalizing a plan to change the leadership at the “Today” show, the longtime first-place morning show that slid to second place this year amid the controversial removal of Ann Curry. — Alexandra Wallace, a senior vice president of NBC News …
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TVNewser and Broadcasting & Cable
John Koblin / Deadspin:
How ESPN Ditched Journalism And Followed Skip Bayless To The Bottom: A Tim Tebow Story — In October, Doug Gottlieb, a radio host and basketball analyst who'd decamped for CBS the previous month after nine years with ESPN, went on The Dan Patrick Show and dropped something of a truth bomb about his time in Bristol:
Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
MTV Hires New President of Programming — MTV made a significant management change Monday, naming Susanne Daniels, an experienced television executive, to the position of president of programming. — Ms. Daniels, who is best known for leading the WB network during its most popular period …
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The Wrap and Broadcasting & Cable
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Vernon Loeb, Washington Post Editor And Co-Author Of Petraeus Biography, Silent On Scandal — NEW YORK — Vernon Loeb, a high-ranking Washington Post editor who served as Paula Broadwell's co-author for a favorable 2012 biography of Gen. David Petraeus, would presumably know something about her reporting on the now-former CIA director.
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The Onion, The Wrap, Politico, Poynter, @mlcalderone, Capital New York, City Desk and BuzzFeed
Shara Tibken / CNET:
Google makes more money from ads than print media combined — The search giant generated $10.9 billion in ad revenue in the first six months of 2012, while newspapers and magazines in the U.S. made $10.5 billion, according to Statista. — Google makes more money from advertising …
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Smarter Investing
Jessica Roy / Betabeat:
Look Out, New York: Randi Zuckerberg Is Casting for a New Techcentric Bravo Show Set in the Big Apple — With 634,000 viewers tuning in for last week's premiere of Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, newly-minted Bravo TV producer Randi Zuckerberg already has her sights set on New York.
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Digits and PC Magazine
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Google presses fair use case in book scanning appeal — Google renewed its claim that scanning 20 million books counts as a “fair use” under copyright law, and asked a federal appeals court to throw out a May ruling that let the Authors Guild go forward with a long-running class action case.
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CNET and WebProNews
Anna Heim / The Next Web:
The Wall Street Journal launches The Accelerators and Startup Journal to cover entrepreneurship — The Wall Street Journal is launching two new digital offerings to cover entrepreneurship and startups: The Accelerators and Startup Journal, the newspaper announced today.
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The Wrap
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Demand Media Finally Breaks Away for Good From Lance Armstrong — In the midst of last week's earnings call, after the company had released strong results, Demand Media CEO and co-founder Richard Rosenblatt made an unusual declaration about its once-tight affiliation with now-disgraced professional racing cyclist Lance Armstrong.
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Forbes, Yahoo! News and VatorNews
Dylan Byers / Politico:
MSNBC rebuts Ezra Klein rumors — One rumor floating around town is that Ezra Klein, the Washington Post columnist and blogger, is going to get his own show on MSNBC. — Sources have floated the idea that Klein, an occasional guest host on the network, will take over in the 8 p.m. hour, which is currently occupied by Ed Schultz.
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Mediaite and New York Magazine
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
The Anti-Fox Gains Ground
The Anti-Fox Gains Ground
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Mediaite, The Stranger …, The Week, Chickaboomer, FishbowlDC, Deadspin, Capital New York, TVNewser, The Huffington Post, Business Insider, @gabrielsherman and @jayrosen_nyu
Jim Romenesko:
New York Times union members ‘deeply divided’ on contract vote — New York Times union members are voting tomorrow on a new contract, and “the membership is deeply divided,” writes Times reporter Donald McNeil. He shares staffers' comments from his email list. — A PROBABLE YES VOTE:
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
YouTube Preps Big New Round of Content Investments — Some Partners Will Get Another Check; Others May Quietly Go Away — Nearly a year after YouTube sprinkled $100 million across the online video ecosystem to create more than a hundred new “channels,” it's doubling down.
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GigaOM, The Next Web, WebProNews, C21Media, paidContent and CNET
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
Wikipedia's for-profit cousin Wikia unveils its new Lightbox video player and a slew of syndication deals — One week after Wikipedia launched its HTML5 video player, its for-profit counterpart Wikia has released its very own new multimedia streaming player, and a slew of content syndication deals.