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Guardian:
Lionel Barber's email to FT staff outlining digital-first strategy — Editor's email to staff outlines detailed proposals for reshaping the paper for the digital age — In my New Year message, I said 2013 would test our resolve to move further and faster to support top quality journalism in a rapidly changing media landscape.
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paidContent and NetNewsCheck Latest
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Financial Times editor announces digital-first strategy — Lionel Barber to cut 35 jobs in ‘big cultural shift’ for business daily — The Financial Times editor, Lionel Barber, has announced plans to move the title to a digital-first strategy in a move he described as a “big cultural shift” for the business daily, and cut 35 jobs.
Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:
The Financial Times to axe staff in digital shift — The Financial Times is to axe 35 jobs as part of plans to make “a big cultural shift” from a traditional print news organisation to a digitally focused “networked business” in a bid to compete with social networks and information-gathering services like Google.
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Politico
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Hail the independent directors of The Times for living up to their remit
Hail the independent directors of The Times for living up to their remit
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Media News and Media Week
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
NI chief to hold meeting with Times directors over new editors
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.
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Capital New York, New Yorker, The Daily Beast and The New Yorker Blog
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Danny Yadron / Wall Street Journal:
Meet Ethan Sattler, 13 Years Old, White House Reporter — Perhaps no reporter faced more scrutiny from guards at the White House gate Monday morning than Ethan Sattler. — Mr. Sattler, 13 years old, does not have a driver's license. His Virginia child ID card lists his height at 4 feet 3 inches …
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 …
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Media Nation and emptywheel
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Simon Dumenco / AdAge:
Why the Prosecution of Internet Activist Aaron Swartz Matters to You, Personally
Why the Prosecution of Internet Activist Aaron Swartz Matters to You, Personally
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Betabeat
Jim Romenesko:
Sinclair Broadcasting ‘owns’ social media accounts of its on-air talent — WHAM-TV (Rochester, NY) reporter Rachel Barnhart tells her followers that Sinclair Broadcasting, which recently acquired WHAM, has a policy of “owning” the social media accounts of its on-air talent.
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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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
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, @zimbalist, @pottsmark and @counternotions
Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Dodgers TV deal could mean another sports channel for Los Angeles — Dodgers co-owner Magic Johnson, right, with new team acquisition Zack Greinke. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times) — Get ready, Angelenos, another regional sports network may be headed your way!
Felix Salmon:
Are annotations the new comments? — I'm in Munich, for the DLD conference, where Ben Horowitz took the opportunity to introduce the Rap Genius guys to the European digital-media crowd. But it's actually Horowitz's partner, Marc Andreessen, who has the best explanation of what the investment is all about: