Mediagazer: Dunbar Family Forced To Discontinue Print Edition Of Christmas Newsletter (The Onion)

10:30 AM ET, December 4, 2012

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Fox News chief's failed attempt to enlist Petraeus as presidential candidate — Roger Ailes, the longtime Republican media guru, founder of Fox News and its current chairman, had some advice last year for then-Gen. David H. Petraeus. — So in spring 2011, Ailes asked a Fox News analyst headed …

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Taylor Berman / Gawker:

Roger Ailes Tried to Convince David Petraeus to Run for President in 2011, Said Rupert Murdoch Would “Bankroll” It — It appears as though the Petraeus affair isn't quite over, after all. In today's Washington Post, Bob Woodward broke the news that in spring of 2011, Fox News head Roger Ailes attempted …

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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Why ‘The Daily’ Failed — Jeff Sonderman, writing for Poynter: With the benefit of hindsight, there seem to be at least two other major lessons from The Daily's failure: Audience clarity. It was difficult to grasp who exactly was the intended audience of The Daily.

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The Onion:

Dunbar Family Forced To Discontinue Print Edition Of Christmas Newsletter — PAULLINA, IA—In an e-mail to readers on Monday, editors of the Dunbar Family Annual Christmas Update announced that due to logistical constraints, they had decided to cease print publication of the newsletter, which will move to a web-only distribution model.

Jack Shafer:

The Daily didn't fail-Rupert gave up — When you're as wealthy as Rupert Murdoch ($9.4 billion) and you control a company as resource-rich as News Corp (market cap $58.1 billion), shuttering a 22-month-old business like The Daily doesn't signify failure as much as it does surrender.

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Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
3 Theses About The Daily's Demise

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Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:
Nine Questions on the News Corp Split: The Rise of Twenty-First Century Fox and The Daily's Demise

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Jeff Jarvis / Guardian:
The Daily closes shop: why the news app was doomed from the start

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Jim Romenesko:
Why The Daily Failed — Trevor Butterworth, who wrote about tech …

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Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

John McAfee confirms he is in Guatemala after all, and is planning a press conference tomorrow — It was only yesterday that we reported that man-on-the-run fugitive John McAfee was claiming to have falsified the metadata of a photo that placed him in Guatemala.

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Jeremy A. Kaplan / Fox News: Magazine editors helped John McAfee flee Belize

John McAfee / Who is McAfee?:
Another Apology. — I openly apologize to Vice Magazine …

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Guido Fawkes:

Who Has Been Naughty and Nice This Year? MPs on Each Side of the Leveson Debate — It's that time of year again: Guido has drawn up his Christmas naughty and nice list. The naughty column of MPs who will be lucky to receive any seasonal goodwill are made up of those who signed George …

Reuters:
Cameron: clock ticking for newspapers to clean up act

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BBC:
David Cameron tells editors to set up regulator quickly

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Hans Nichols / Bloomberg:

Vogue Editor Wintour Said to Be Possible Appointee as U.K. Envoy — President Barack Obama is considering nominating Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue, as his next ambassador to either the U.K. or France as he looks to reward his biggest fundraisers with embassies never out of fashion …

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Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Forecast: Internet ad spend will outstrip all print in 2015 — 2015 is the year when internet advertising spend will overtake combined newspaper and magazine ad spend globally, according to ad group ZenithOptimedia's latest forecast. — That mark has already been passed in some countries, but not on a worldwide basis.

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Julie Moos / Poynter:

Cleveland Plain Dealer tells Guild it plans to cut about one-third of newsroom staff — In a note posted on Facebook, Guild members say the Advance-owned Cleveland Plain Dealer has told them it plans to eliminate about one-third of the staff in 2013. The changes would come after the latest contract …

Josh Gerstein / Politico:

Lawyer: Military treatment of Bradley Manning ‘criminal’ — Military commanders committed a crime by keeping Bradley Manning in unnecessarily strict conditions at a Marine Corps brig for nearly nine months, the alleged WikiLeaks source's defense attorney charged Monday in his first public speech about his client's case.

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg Tech Blog:

Apple's ITunes Would Be One of World's Biggest Media Companies — Google, Facebook and even Yahoo have been hailed as visionary companies that aren't just disrupting old media, they're replacing it. That conjecture hasn't applied as readily to Apple, which after all deals in high-end hardware, not eyeballs or advertising.