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Bloomberg:
Tribune Said to Seek Bankers for Newspaper Sale — Tribune Co., the bankrupt owner of the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and six other daily newspapers, is interviewing bankers about selling its papers, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
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@thematthewkeys, Poynter and The Huffington Post, Thanks:@jaredbkeller
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Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:
BuzzFeed apologizes (sort of) for smear of The Oatmeal cartoonist — Popular viral news site BuzzFeed this week slammed a popular cartoonist as an amoral hypocrite. Unfortunately, the story turns out to have been based on a grievous factual error — leading the cartoonist to issue …
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The Oatmeal and Betabeat
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Slade Sohmer / HyperVocal:
Why This BuzzFeed v. The Oatmeal Fight Actually Does Matter — “I think that we are more like the New York Times than we are like Reddit. We're a news organization, basically.” -Ben Smith, BuzzFeed editor-in-chief — The New York Times, to its credit, and to our delight, goes out of its way to correct the most trivial of errors.
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@jayrosen_nyu and CJR
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Late shift ap-Piers likely for CNN host — CNN host Piers Morgan could join the late-night crowd. — The slumping cable news network is considering moving his hour-long interview show from the prized 9 p.m. slot back to 10 p.m. — or even later, The Post has learned.
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Los Angeles Times, Chickaboomer and The Huffington Post
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Ed Sherman / The Sherman Report:
Sporting News prints final magazine after 126 years; web site still continues — It was inevitable. — After the 126 years, The Sporting News is printing its last magazine. One of the great traditions in sports is yet another casualty of the modern news era. — The Sporting News, though, isn't going away.
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Sporting News Feed RSS, Poynter, LA Observed, FishbowlNY, The Wrap and Deadspin
Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:
Leveson report: editors seeking legal advice on third-party complaints — Alan Rusbridger says five clauses of report will only be accepted by counterparts subject to ‘being scrutinised by lawyers’ — Alan Rusbridger spoke of widespread opposition to how third-party complaints should be handled
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
For employees of Bloomberg LP, a megabonus deferred — The thousands of employees of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's eponymous media and finance company will have to wait longer than they thought for the megabonuses dangled in front of them two years ago, Capital has learned.
Elizabeth Jensen / Media Decoder:
PBS Names Beth Hoppe as Programming Chief — PBS has a new head of programming. — Beth Hoppe, who joined PBS in August 2011 as a vice president in the programming department, has been promoted to the top programming job, according to an internal memo distributed Tuesday.
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Hollywood Reporter
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
CIA Forbids ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Agent From Speaking To Journalists — NEW YORK — The Washington Post ran a front-page story Tuesday about the CIA agent who serves as the model for Maya, one of the the main characters in “Zero Dark Thirty,” a much-anticipated film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
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Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
Zero Dark Thirty: new torture-glorifying film wins raves
Zero Dark Thirty: new torture-glorifying film wins raves
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Wired, Slate, New Yorker, The Daily Dish, CNN, The Week, Washington Post, The Daily Beast and Mother Jones
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
After rapid growth, ebook readers set for collapse with shipments plummeting 36% in 2012 — In 2011, dedicated ebook readers saw shipments of 23.2 million units, a number that now appears to have been the peak of the ebook reader market. By the end of 2012, sales are expected to fall a whopping 36 percent to 14.9 million units.
Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:
Angus Stickler resigns from Bureau of Investigative Journalism over Newsnight documentary — Angus Stickler, the journalist behind the disastrous Newsnight programme implicating Lord McAlpine with child sex abuse claims, has resigned from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Lena Dunham Wages War with Gawker — Despite what most would think, Lena Dunham is not a fan of Gawker. In fact, she had her lawyer contact the site after Gawker published her book proposal, which fetched her a cool $3.7 million. Gawker did take down the proposal, but that wasn't enough for Dunham.
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Inside TV, Deadline.com and Publishers Lunch
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
David Walsh ‘humbled’ by recognition of 13-year investigation into Lance Armstrong — David Walsh accepts the Journalist of the Year Award. Picture: JB Young Photography — David Walsh was given a rapturous reception at the first British Journalism Awards on Tuesday night as he picked …
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Media Week