Mediagazer: Ambassador Anna Wintour? (Erik Maza/WWD)

9:35 AM ET, December 5, 2012

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R. Umar Abbasi / New York Post:

Anguished fotog: Critics are unfair to condemn me — I was on an assignment, waiting for a train at the 49th Street subway platform, when I suddenly heard people gasping. The announcement had come over the loudspeaker that the train was coming — and out of the periphery of my eye …

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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

New York Post's Subway Death Photo: Was It Ethical Photojournalism? — When a news photographer witnesses a tragedy in the making, is his obligation to intervene or to document it? — That question has cropped up anew following the New York Post's publication, on its front page …

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Tom McGeveran / The New Republic:
The New York Post Was Tasteless. That's the Point.

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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:

Fox News Puts Karl Rove on the Bench — The post-election soul searching going on inside the Republican Party is taking place inside Fox News as well. Fox News chief Roger Ailes, a canny marketer and protector of his network's brand, has been taking steps since November to reposition Fox …

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Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Newspaper editors sign up to Leveson recommendations — Bosses of every significant Fleet Street paper back 40 out of 47 measures, but not proposals for statutory intervention — National newspaper editors signed up to implement all Lord Justice Leveson's non-statutory recommendations …

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Nick Allen / Telegraph:

Wikipedia, the 25-year-old student and the prank that fooled Leveson — An American man wrongly named in the Leveson Report as a founder of The Independent newspaper has expressed surprise that a judge would accept without question information on Wikipedia.

Rachel Pannett / Wall Street Journal:

Elisabeth Murdoch, Mother of News Corp. Chief, Dies at 103 — Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, mother of News Corp . Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch and one of Australia's most generous philanthropists, died Wednesday at age 103. — She had suffered a fall in September at her home southeast of Melbourne, in the Australian state of Victoria.

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Jason Del Rey / AdAge:

Why BuzzFeed Still Doesn't Cover Business News — Took Pitches From Business Journalists Earlier This Year — “The goal is to build the next great news organization.” — That's BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith reflecting this week on his first year at the social-news publisher and the future he sees for it.

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Erik Maza / WWD:

Ambassador Anna Wintour? — with contributions from Samantha Conti, Evan Clark, Lisa Lockwood — Wondering what Anna Wintour wants has become a cottage industry of its own. Does she want to be a diplomat? A theatrical impresario? A grand dame? Have a broader corporate editorial role?

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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

Verizon CEO: Redbox Streaming Video Venture Launch Pushed Back to Early 2013 — He says Redbox Instant by Verizon, which will compete with Netflix, will be available by early in the second quarter, after previous estimates for a late 2012 start. — Verizon and Redbox will bring …

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BBC:

Google Nexus and Amazon Kindle clinch new content deals — New content deal see the Nexus given away with a newspaper subscription and the Kindle offer unlimited child-focused apps and movies.

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Los Angeles Times:

Netflix takes Disney pay-TV rights from Starz — Netflix in 2016 will feature recently released movies from Walt Disney Studios. (Netflix) — Netflix has acquired the exclusive U.S. rights to movies from Walt Disney Studios films, beginning in 2016, in a three-year deal that catapults …

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Brad Reed / BGR:
Netflix signs deal with Disney to deliver movies to your living room while they're still in theatres

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Jordan Kurzweil / GigaOM:

Why I tried to buy The Daily — Closing The Daily was a mistake. It should have been saved. — The move to shutter follows the same battiness with which News Corp has been approaching digital ventures since its first foray into the web with iGuide in 1995: ahead-of-the-curve with a grand …

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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Why ‘The Daily’ Failed — Jeff Sonderman, writing for Poynter …

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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

UK literary agency partners exclusively with Amazon to break authors into US — U.K. literary agency Curtis Brown (which operates independently from the literary agency of the same name in the U.S.) will publish over 200 titles exclusively through Amazon, in a program designed to break U.K. authors into the U.S. market.

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Freek Vermeulen / Harvard Business Review:

Which Best Practice Is Ruining Your Business? — For many decades, newspapers were big; printed on the so-called broadsheet format. However, it was not cheaper to print on such large sheets of paper — that was not the reason for their exorbitant size — in fact, it was more expensive, in comparison to the so-called tabloid size.

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

Pandora Beats, Q3 2013 Revenue Up 60% To $120M, Net Income Of $2.1M; Q4 Forecast Much Lower Than Expected — Internet radio service Pandora released its financial results for the Q3 2013, ending October 31 2012. Revenue is up 60 percent compared to Q3 2012 to $120 million.

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