Mediagazer: Why Jon Stewart Almost Bailed on the Daily Show (Howard Kurtz/Daily Download)

8:35 AM ET, December 11, 2012

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William Turvill / Press Gazette:

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Jeff Wise / New York Times:

In Pursuit of McAfee, Media Are Part of Story — Late last month, the editor in chief of Vice magazine, Rocco Castoro, joined by a photographer, Robert King, managed to secure a plum exclusive: an invitation to travel along with the fugitive tech millionaire John McAfee.

Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter:
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Howard Kurtz / Daily Download:

Why Jon Stewart Almost Bailed on the Daily Show — America, we almost lost Jon Stewart. — Or to put it more precisely, the Jon Stewart we love on the Daily Show might not have been if he had followed his original instinct. — Which was to quit. — “What I did not realize is …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Third Beat and The Raw Story

Keith Coffman / Reuters:

Lawyers for accused Colorado shooter to subpoena Fox News reporter — (Reuters) - An attorney for accused Colorado theater gunman James Holmes said in court on Monday he will subpoena a Fox News reporter to reveal her source for a news story about the massacre, setting up a potential First Amendment showdown.

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Michael Wolff / Guardian:

Can Jeff Zucker fix what ails CNN? — CNN is struggling, and doesn't understand the job in hand. But new president Jeff Zucker could be just what it needs — People who have worked with Jeff Zucker, the just-appointed president of CNN, are said to adore him and to be incredibly loyal to him.

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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.

James Ball / Guardian:

Washington Post appears to be a dinosaur - but has already evolved — Its core, influential - and paying - print audience in the US capital is backed up by a forward-thinking online presence — British journalists have a bit of a habit of sneering at our American counterparts.

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Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:

Blogging with Medium, the odd new product from Twitter's founders — Can Ev Williams and Biz Stone build a better blog? — Blogging was once heralded as a great equalizer, seizing power from big media gatekeepers and redistributing it to the common internet user.

Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

DirecTV adds local sports surcharge for some new subscribers — Satellite broadcaster DirecTV has quietly added a surcharge to some customers for sports channels separately on several of its most popular programming packages. New DirecTV subscribers who live in areas where there are more …

Lynne Marek / Crain's Chicago Business:

The end of Trib's bankruptcy means new legal pain for shareholders — Tribune Co. will exit the mire of its four-year bankruptcy within weeks, but thousands of former employees and shareholders likely will remain stuck in litigation with the company's creditors for years.

Brian Alvey / TechCrunch:

What The Daily Got Right From Day One — Editor's note: Brian Alvey is Chief Scientist and founder of Ceros. Brian is obsessed with the “brand publishing” phenomenon and talks about it endlessly on Twitter and in-person at companies around the world. — “Everything you read online …

Matthew Flamm / Crain's New York Business:

Magazines ramp up publishing in 2012 — Magazine publishers are still tightening their belts three years after the nightmare of the advertising recession shook the industry to its toes. But the itch to launch new magazines shows no sign of going away. In 2012, veteran publishers …

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BBC:

Labour reveals its Leveson plan — Opinion is divided over how to proceed with the findings of Lord Justice Leveson — Labour has published details of how it would like to see the press regulated in the wake of Lord Justice Leveson's report on press standards.