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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
A Struggling CNN Worldwide Is Said to Be Drawn to Jeffrey Zucker — In the days to come, when Time Warner appoints a new leader of CNN Worldwide for the first time in a decade, that person will face an identity crisis unlike any other in corporate America. — Though CNN over all is on track …
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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Analysis: Why Jeff Zucker is right for CNN — Stagnant news cabler needs leader willing to take big risks — Hate Jeff Zucker if you must, but there's a lot to like about CNN hiring him. — That's not an easy thing for anyone to hear on the West Coast, where his popularity ranks somewhere between smog and wildfires.
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Jill Abramson's dream epitaph: She kept The New York Times ‘straight’ — With a team of New York Times reporters aggressively investigating the BBC scandal in which their parent company's brand new C.E.O., ex-BBC chief Mark Thompson, has been implicated, you'd think there might be some awkwardness between Thompson and the newsroom.
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Bloomberg, Business Insider, FishbowlNY, The Wrap, Capital New York, @ryanchittum and @will_bunch
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Alex Weprin / FishbowlNY:
The New York Times Wants To Keep Nate Silver, ‘Expand On What He Does’
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mediabistro.com and AdAge
Dylan Byers / Politico:
NPR affiliate launches drone program — Missouri NPR affiliate KBIA has launched a “Drone Program” in the hopes of building drones to collect media, the station tells POLITICO. — “A lot of people are predicting that drone technology is going to really big when commercial and security applications are available.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
TMZ denies it is seeking a drone — TMZ, the Hollywood gossip site, is denying a report that it is seeking a drone from the Federal Aviation Administration in order to track celebrities. — The San Francisco Chronicle reported this weekend that the FAA “has been flooded with applications …
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Politico, TMZ.com, Forbes, Mediaite, @stefanjbecket, @michaelroston, The Raw Story, @graubart, Gawker and The Huffington Post
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
“Post-Industrial Journalism”: A new Columbia report examines the disrupted news universe — There's a big new report out from Columbia Journalism School this morning, entitled “Post-Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present.” Its authors are a sort of Justice League of New York journalism schools …
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Poynter, CJR and Columbia University …
Nieman Journalism Lab:
What kinds of local stories drive engagement? The results of an NPR Facebook experiment — Editor's note: In February, our friends at NPR Digital Services told you about an experiment they were trying to localize content on the network's Facebook page, which has a massive 2.5 million fans.
AFP:
Student avoids US extradition over TV website — LONDON — A British student who created a website that let people watch films and television shows for free has struck a deal with the United States to avoid extradition, London's High Court heard on Wednesday.
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BBC
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
News International must pay Andy Coulson legal fees, appeals court rules — Ex-News of the World editor wins appeal over bills arising out of investigations into phone hacking and payments to officials — Andy Coulson's legal fees relating to criminal investigations into alleged illegal activity …
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Telegraph, Hollywood Reporter, The Lawyer, London News and BBC
Peter Vigneron / Boston Magazine:
What Happened To The Phoenix? — Thirty years ago, the Phoenix was the essential paper for a new generation of readers: those interested in a smart, countercultural alternative to the offerings of the mainstream press. Its writers and editors, many of whom are now among the most distinguished …
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Media Nation
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
Why Washington Post journalist first wrote about her rape, 28 years later — Twenty eight years after being raped, The Washington Post's Melinda Henneberger decided to share her story publicly for the first time. — She did so after hearing one of the many politically-charged rape comments made this election season.
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Publishers brace for authors to reclaim book rights in 2013 — The book publishing industry, already facing disruption from Amazon and e-books, will confront a new form of turbulence in 2013. Starting in January, publishers face the loss of their back lists as authors begin using …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Dick Costolo says Twitter is a reinvention of the town square — but with TV — Twitter chief executive Dick Costolo gave a lecture earlier this week at his alma mater — the University of Michigan — where he talked to students from the Ford School of Public Policy about how the real …
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Softpedia News
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Tom Ricks: Fox News ‘is making it up’ — Author Tom Ricks on Tuesday said Fox News is “making it up” that he apologized after slamming the network during an on-air interview as “operating as a wing of the Republican Party” and hyping Benghazi for political reasons.
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Amazon's Kindle Family: Weekend Sales More Than Double On Last Year, Cyber Monday Biggest Of All — Amazon has released some detail on Kindle sales over Thanksgiving Weekend: as usual, it's giving no hard numbers but instead providing general buying trends.
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Softpedia News, CNET, Amazon.com, VatorNews, ZDNet, Home Media Magazine, The Next Web, Fast Company and PublishersWeekly.com
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Guardian:
Julian Assange expresses surprise over EU WikiLeaks decision — EU commission says credit card company blockade of whistleblowing website unlikely to have broken anti-trust rules — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has expressed surprise after the European commission said a block …
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