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Tim Molloy / The Wrap:
NBC Chief Says Strategy Worked, Talks Newtown Shootings, Notes Aging CW Audience — A year to the day after he had to announce that his network had had “a really bad fall,” NBC entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt returned to the Television Critics Association winter press tour Sunday to talk …
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
NBC execs say it's not a 'shoot-'em-up' network — PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — NBC executives said Sunday they are conscious about the amount of violence they air in the wake of real-life tragedies like the Connecticut school shooting, but have made no changes in what has gone on the air or what is planned.
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Editors upset at government's change of mind over Leveson statute — Hacked Off is living up to its title. It is hacked off about what it regards as the “subversion of Leveson”. It does not trust the government and has therefore published its own draft bill.
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blogs.telegraph.co.uk and standard.co.uk
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:
Times Internet CEO Satyan Gajwani Discusses His Company's New Alliance With Gawker Media — Gawker Media, which already has a presence in eight countries, is expanding its international reach even further. Nick Denton, the founder of the company and blog network, announced yesterday …
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Mathew Ingram / paidContent:
Gawker expands into India as part of Nick Denton's plan for world domination
Gawker expands into India as part of Nick Denton's plan for world domination
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JIMROMENESKO.COM, PandoDaily, MediaNama and nbcmiami.com, Thanks:@mathewi
Janet Morrissey / Fortune:
The beginning of the end for Hulu? — The video streaming service is losing its charismatic CEO at a spectacularly bad time. — FORTUNE — It came as little surprise when Hulu's maestro Jason Kilar confirmed long-time speculation that he would be leaving his post as the video streaming giant's chief executive.
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Reuters gutting web infrastructure for ‘Reuters Next,’ its big online retooling — Over the past few years, the media arm of Thomson Reuters has been trying to polish its 160-year-old brand to a more contemporary sheen by recruiting A-list journalists and pundits and expanding into areas like blogging, Internet TV and magazines.
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Reuters and Talking Biz News
Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:
Lance Armstrong to give ‘no-holds-barred’ interview with Oprah Winfrey amid confession claims — Lance Armstrong, the disgraced US cyclist stripped of his seven Tour de France titles last year, will breaks his silence on the doping allegations that destroyed his career in a “no-holds-barred” interview with chat show host Oprah Winfrey.
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Yahoo! News, Sky News, Telegraph, Guardian, Huffington Post UK, Financial Times, New York Magazine, BBC, Inside TV and Softpedia News
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
How the TV Business Got Rich Off the Thing That Was Going to the Kill It: The Internet — In TV Land, the dinosaurs still rule the world — Surely, you've heard the news: The cable business is broken, the end of TV is nigh, and it's only a matter of time before the Internet does to television …
David Dishneau / Associated Press:
Judge: Army GI in WikiLeaks illegally punished — FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — An Army private suspected of sending reams of classified documents to the secret-sharing WikiLeaks website was illegally punished at a Marine Corps brig and should get 112 days cut from any prison sentence he receives if convicted, a military judge ruled Tuesday.
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New York Magazine and Fast Company
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Does aiding WikiLeaks equal aiding Al Qaeda?
Does aiding WikiLeaks equal aiding Al Qaeda?
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Wired, Guardian, VentureBeat, rt.com, U.S. News, Techdirt, Associated Press and The Independent
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Glenn Beck Relaunching The Blaze As Global Libertarian News Network — Beck takes a shot at Fox as he expands his news network with foreign bureaus and a new show. “I consider myself a libertarian... I'm a lot closer to Penn Jillette than I am to Chuck Hagel.”
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mediabistro.com, The Week, The Huffington Post and New York Magazine
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Nate Silver on Reddit: Pundits are ‘very delusional people’ — Superstar blogger Nate Silver took questions on Reddit Tuesday. One user asked him whether he found sports or politics “more frustrating to analyze.” Politics, Silver replied: “Between the pundits and the partisans, you're dealing with a lot of very delusional people.”
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Fast Company, Politico, Talking Points Memo, TIME, The Huffington Post, Salon, Mediaite, New York Times and FishbowlNY
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
Was a Reporter's Role in a Government Prosecution a Reason to Recuse Him? — It's a generally accepted rule in journalism that if you're involved in a newsworthy situation, you shouldn't cover it. Most of the time that makes excellent sense. — The Times made an exception to that rule …
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Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The AP is selling ads in its tweets, but Twitter doesn't mind — The Associated Press is selling ad space in its 1.5 million-follower main Twitter feed. The wire service is sending out two sponsored tweets per day for the duration of this week's International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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