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Dylan Byers / Politico:
CNN names Jeff Zucker president — Jeff Zucker, the former chief executive of NBCUniversal, has been named president of CNN Worldwide, the network announced today. — “After a careful search process, I picked Jeff because of his extensive experience and track record in broadcast and cable news …
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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
New CNN chief Jeff Zucker wants more passion, vitality from network — New CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker said his priority is to make the cable news channel “relevant, vibrant and exciting.” — In a conference call with reporters Thursday, Zucker stressed that he did not want to copy Fox News …
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Rebecca Dana / The New Republic:
Jeff Zucker Is Just What CNN Needs: A Theatrical Tyrant
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TVNewser, Vanity Fair and Chickaboomer
Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
It's Official: Jeff Zucker Tapped to Lead CNN
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Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post:
Jeff Zucker CNN President: Network Officially Hires Former NBC Universal Chief
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James Ball / Guardian:
Leveson's distinction between web and print news ‘will undermine regulation’ — Academics say Lord Justice Leveson has missed opportunity by devoting just one page of report to internet — Online journalists and academics have warned that the Leveson report's attempts to draw a distinction between …
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BBC, New York Magazine, currybetdotnet and Tech Europe
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Leveson: Social media and blogs aren't popular enough to carry proper news — The UK's big inquiry in to the culture, practice and ethics of the “press” has recommended a new body to better self-regulate news media — but has overlooked blogs and social networks because they are neither popular nor newsy enough.
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Guardian:
Leveson report calls for new press law — Lord Justice Leveson has recommended the introduction of the first press law in Britain since the 17th century - proposing that a statutory body such as Ofcom should take responsibility for monitoring an overhauled Press Complaints Commission.
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John Cook / Gawker:
A Conversation With Julian Assange — We've called him a “seed-spilling sex creep,” a “pale nerd king,” and “a real-life The Matrix extra,” so we figured it was about time to talk to Wikileaks founder and megalomaniacal Bond villain Julian Assange. In order to promote his new book …
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Now It's a Race: ComScore Adds Up Web, Mobile and App Eyeballs for the First Time — Big news for Web publishers whose users are increasingly visiting them on their phones: They're going to start getting credit for those eyeballs, via a new scoring system from comScore.
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CNET and comScore, Inc.
Greg Sandoval / CNET:
Pandora's Web radio bill is doomed — well, for now — If yesterday's hearing on Capitol Hill was any indication, Internet Radio Fairness doesn't have enough Congressional support. — Linda Perry, the song writer who penned Christina Aguilera's hit tune ‘Beautiful,’ saw the song played …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
National Journal announces major reorganization — The National Journal will send a memo to staff and hold a meeting today at the Watergate to announce a major reorganization of its newsroom, including news previously confirmed by POLITICO that editor-in-chief Ron Fournier is stepping down.
Bryan Bishop / The Verge:
New Comcast IPTV set-top box hits the FCC, could be released next year — Products like Dish's Hopper and Joey are letting customers watch programming on multiple TVs without the need for full DVRs in every room, and a new set-top box has hit the FCC that could represent Comcast's latest move in that same direction.
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wirelessgoodness.com, Cable Television News and Engadget
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Scoop: Key pricing and launch details of Redbox Instant revealed — The online video joint venture Redbox Instant by Verizon is set to launch sometime before the end of the year. The service is currently being tested in private beta, and Verizon and Redbox have kept mum on some key details.
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
SCOTUSblog tries again to get credentialed to cover the Supreme Court — SCOTUSblog has again applied for press credentials to the U.S. Senate's Daily Press Gallery, the first step for the blog gaining its own press credentials to cover the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Opinionator and Business Insider
Publishers Weekly:
Random House Launches New Digital-Only Imprints — Random House moved to expand its digital publishing program with plans to launch three new digital-only imprints: Alibi, a mystery-thriller line, Flirt, a YA/New Adult list and Hydra, a new digital-only science fiction line …
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paidContent, GalleyCat and mediabistro.com
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
NYT: Jodi Rudoren's social media arrangement not a punishment — Tasking an editor to review Jerusalem Bureau Chief Jodi Rudoren's social media output in advance will “capitalize on the promise of social media's engagement with readers while not exposing The Times to a reporter's unfiltered …
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GigaOM, FishbowlNY, Erik Wemple, Mediaite, Guardian, Media News, Gawker and WWD Media Headlines
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