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Jim Romenesko:
Gawker Media sets traffic record with Deadspin's Manti Te'o blockbuster — For the first time ever, Gawker Media drew more than 10 million U.S. visitors in one week. The memo to Gawker staff: … * Te'o story is still on top of the Gawker Media Big Board (gawker.com/stats)
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JIMROMENESKO.COM
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Jason Del Rey / AdAge:
With All Eyes on Manti Te'o Hoax Story, Deadspin Doesn't Immediately Cash In — Scoop Highlights Difficulty Publishers Face When Traffic Spikes — Deadspin's blockbuster article revealing that the girlfriend of star Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o never existed eclipsed 3.5 million views Thursday evening.
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Poynter, Adweek, blogs.bostonmagazine.com, L.A. NOW, The Wrap, UPROXX and Politicker
Simon Dumenco / AdAge:
So the Manti Te'o Scandal Is Some Sort of Indictment of Online Culture? Nonsense!
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The Buttry Diary, Sports Illustrated and Adweek
Jen Doll / The Atlantic Wire:
Manti Te'o and the New Burden of Internet Truth
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Forbes, The New Yorker Blog and NPR
Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:
John Geddes, Managing Editor, Is Leaving The New York Times — John M. Geddes, left, with the executive editor of The New York Times, Jill Abramson, and a fellow managing editor, Dean Baquet. — 2:37 p.m. | Updated John M. Geddes, a managing editor for The New York Times for the last decade …
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JIMROMENESKO.COM, FishbowlNY, Politico and The Huffington Post
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Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:
Alice DuBois Takes Times Buyout to Go to BuzzFeed
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Politico and FishbowlNY
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Armstrong Confession Draws 4.3 Million Viewers to Oprah's Network — The first part of Lance Armstrong's doping confession to Oprah Winfrey drew about 4.3 million viewers to OWN on Thursday night, according to preliminary Nielsen ratings released on Friday.
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Andrew Pugh / PressGazette:
Sunday Times: £1m fraud claim ‘strengthened’ after Lance Armstrong's Oprah confession — Sunday Times: 'We watched Lance Armstrong's interview with interest' Paper seeking to recoup 2006 costs plus interest Case is ‘stronger’ after Oprah confession The Sunday Times today warned Lance Armstrong it will …
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Forbes, AdAge, Yahoo! News, TVNewser, The Wrap, Broadcasting & Cable, Adweek, Guardian and FishbowlNY
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Winfrey's Low-Rated Channel Is Poised to Break Through
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The Huffington Post and Media Decoder
John R. MacArthur / Harper's:
Google's Media Barons — I had to cheer when I read the news the other week about a French company that's selling an ad-blocking service on the Internet. Xavier Niel, the entrepreneurial owner of the web-service provider Free, is threatening to smash the advertiser-supported “free-content” model.
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@alexismadrigal, New York Magazine, @waxpancake, The Verge, @waxpancake, @clarajeffery, Hit & Run, paidContent, Boing Boing and Beyond Search
Dean Starkman / Columbia Journalism Review:
Major papers' longform meltdown — No one equates story-length with quality. Let's start with that concession. — But still. Story-length is hardly meaningless when you consider what it takes to explain complex problems, like say, the financial crisis, to the broader public.
Discussion:
JIMROMENESKO.COM and NetNewsCheck Latest
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Publicist sues FishbowlDC for libel — Washington, D.C., publicist Wendy Gordon has filed a lawsuit over a series of unflattering photos that the media-gossip site FishbowlDC ran of her, Zoe Tillman reports. … Gordon's complaint says she isn't a public figure, and the posts …
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The BLT, Politico, The Huffington Post and The Daily Caller
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
POLITICO interview: Piers Morgan — To Piers Morgan, the answer is simple: pro-gun advocate and conservative radio show host Alex Jones was the best guest he ever had. — “The best thing about Alex Jones is that 8 million people watched that video on YouTube,” Morgan told POLITICO …
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Chickaboomer, Guy Fawkes' blog, Mediaite, New York Magazine, The Huffington Post, Capital New York and The Daily Dish
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Journal News removes gun map, citing New York's new gun law — Ed Tagliaferri, the executive vice president of DKC Media, forwards this statement from Janet Hasson, Publisher of the Journal News, the New York state-based newspaper that published the “gun map” featuring the names and addresses …
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
How news organizations can sell sponsored content without lowering their standards — Advertisers want to be let out of the box. — They want to break out of the constrained 300-pixel display ad box that everyone's eyes have learned to ignore, and leap into the stream of engaging content that readers actually pay attention to.
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Kirk LaPointe's …, SPEAKEASY and Gawker
Mike Farrell / Multichannel News:
Time Warner Cable Bans Some Gun Ads — Company-wide Initiative Comes Weeks After Sandy Hook Tragedy — Just weeks after the mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Con., Time Warner Cable has initiated a company-wide ban on certain gun ads.
Discussion:
Mediaite
Al Jazeera English:
Al Jazeera reporter killed by sniper in Syria — Qatar-based media network says freelance journalist Mohammed al-Horani was killed by a sniper in the province of Deraa. — A sniper has shot dead Al Jazeera freelance reporter Mohamed Al-Massalma in the southern Syrian province of Deraa, the Qatar-based media network has said.
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Guardian:
John Witherow named acting editor of the Times — Publishing directors refuse to endorse appointments amid a standoff with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp over merger plans — John Witherow has been named acting editor of the Times after a bizarre standoff between Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation …
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The Times, pressgazette.co.uk and Telegraph
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