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Christine Haughney / New York Times:
A Downsized Boston Globe Opens Its Space for Community Uses — BOSTON — Among the many changes that Christopher M. Mayer wanted to make when he became publisher of the Boston Globe in 2010 was to transform a particularly unattractive section of the newsroom.
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Media Nation, @counternotions, @pottsmark and @zimbalist
Julie Moos / Poynter:
Inauguration front pages combine Obama's second term, Martin Luther King Jr. legacy — President Obama's inauguration on Monday, January 21, 2013 coincides with the federal holiday celebrating the life of Martin Luther King Jr. Many inauguration front pages combined the two.
Discussion:
Capital New York, New Yorker and The New Yorker Blog
Leslie Kaufman / Media Decoder:
An App to Sift Through Books — How do you find out what books friends and family are reading and loving? — One answer is a conversation face to face — but that is so old-fashioned. Another is to join social media sites devoted to books, like Goodreads.com or Shelfari.com — but that takes time and commitment.
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Random House's new Facebook app: If you liked Evelyn Waugh, you'll love the Berenstain Bears — Online book discovery doesn't work very well. Random House is attempting to address that problem with a new Facebook app, BookScout, that gives users book recommendations from multiple publishers, not just Random House.
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Hail the independent directors of The Times for living up to their remit — I owe the independent national directors of The Times (INDs) a big apology. I called for their resignation 10 days ago, at the very moment when they were justifying their independent description.
Discussion:
Media News, Media Week and Guardian
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
NI chief to hold meeting with Times directors over new editors
Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
Washington Post launches social trending feature — The Post Pulse feature gives 15 minute updates on the latest stories receiving ‘the most traction’ on social media — Copyright: dionhinchcliffe on Flickr. Some rights reserved. — The Washington Post has launched a new social trending feature …
Shalini Ramachandran / Digits:
Despite Media Companies' Best Efforts, ‘TV Everywhere’ Is Nowhere — People are streaming online video more than ever before but only 17% of pay TV subscribers have watched cable programming online using so-called “TV Everywhere” services, according to a new study.
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Los Angeles Times and Beet.TV
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
How M.I.T. Ensnared a Hacker, Bucking a Freewheeling Culture — In the early days of 2011, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology learned that it had an intruder. Worse, it believed the intruder had been there before. — Months earlier, the mysterious visitor had used …
Discussion:
Media Nation and emptywheel
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Condoleezza Rice joins CBS News as contributor — Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has joined CBS News as a contributor, appearing Sunday on “Face the Nation” to launch her new gig. — Host Bob Schieffer made the announcement at the start of a roundtable discussion.
Discussion:
Media Decoder, MiamiHerald.com, Chickaboomer and The Huffington Post
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
TMZ video backlash gathers strength — Advertising pulled and online petition reaches 200,000 after gossip website refused to take down video of man being shot — US gossip website TMZ is facing fresh criticism for refusing to take down a video of a man being shot dead in a brawl outside a Hollywood nightclub.
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RumorFix
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Katie Couric to Interview Manti Te'o — 1:42 p.m. | Updated Katie Couric has landed the first television interview with Manti Te'o, the Notre Dame football star who said he was tricked into believing first that he had a girlfriend and then that the girlfriend died of leukemia. The girlfriend never existed.
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Deadspin, Chickaboomer, Digital Spy, Reuters, @david_schwab, SBNation.com, TVLine and Rolling Stone
Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times:
A Young Publisher Takes Marx Into the Mainstream — When Bhaskar Sunkara was growing up in Westchester County, he likes to say, he dreamed of being a professional basketball player. — But the height gods, among others, didn't smile in his favor. So in 2009, during a medical leave …