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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Sports Editor Joe Sexton Leaving The New York Times — New York Times sports editor Joe Sexton is expected to leave the paper for ProPublica as a voluntary buyout deadline approaches Thursday afternoon, sources tell The Huffington Post. (Update: It's official.) Sexton did not respond to calls and emails seeking comment.
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JIMROMENESKO.COM, @mlcalderone, New York Times and The Huffington Post
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Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
New York Times Buyout Deadline Hours Away, Joe Sexton Leaves — The next few days are going to be rough at the New York Times. Not only is the deadline for editors to accept buyouts today at 5 pm, Jill Abramson said in a memo that staffers will have to wait “a day or two after that” to know if there are going to be layoffs.
Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:
New York Times Classical Music Critic James Oestreich Takes Buyout
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JIMROMENESKO.COM, The Huffington Post, Politico, The New York Observer and Slipped Disc
Guardian:
Julian Assange attacks new WikiLeaks movie — Speaking during an Oxford Union debate, the WikiLeaks founder described The Fifth Estate as a ‘massive propaganda attack’ — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has described a forthcoming Hollywood film about him as a “massive propaganda attack” …
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Media Decoder, Guardian, Sky News, The Independent, Telegraph, Mirror Online, Australian Times and Huffington Post UK
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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Netflix Shares Jump 30% After Hours, As It Beats The Street With Revenues Of $945M And 2M New Subscribers — Netflix had a stellar fourth quarter, posting revenues and subscriber numbers well above analyst estimates. That has got investors excited again, driving the stock up 25 percent in after hours trading.
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Forbes, New York Times, GigaOM, Home Media Magazine, Quartz, The Verge, Broadcasting & Cable and Fortune
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Netflix Talks a Little Trash About the Competition
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The Verge, Media Decoder and Home Media Magazine
Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
McGraw-Hill Acquires 20% Stake In Area9, The Adaptive Learning Company Behind Its New Smart eBooks — As a 95-year-old publishing company primarily known for its textbooks, McGraw-Hill is not usually the type of exhibitor one finds at the Consumer Electronics Show, let alone one to make a splash.
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Robot news curator NewsCred launches human editorial team — NewsCred, a tech-intensive news aggregator, is an up-and-coming force in the media industry thanks to licensing agreements with elite publishers like the Economist and Bloomberg. The company relies on these partnership deals …
Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:
Rolling Stone Lays Off Two Noted Staff Members — 6:02 p.m. | Updated Rolling Stone, amid a variety of magazines responding to a troubled advertising environment by trimming staff, laid off two of its bigger names this month. — Eric Bates, the magazine's executive editor who had worked …
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FishbowlNY
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
New Managing Editor at ABC News — Jon Williams is leaving the BBC where he was World Editor to join ABC News as the Managing Editor for International News. Williams will begin in March and will be based in New York. — Marcus Wilford, who has overseen the international desk for the last several months …
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10,000 Words and ABC News
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Robin Roberts Returns To ‘GMA’ Studios For First Time Since Bone Marrow Transplant — Robin Roberts returned to the “Good Morning America” studios on Thursday for the first time since her bone marrow transplant in September. Roberts is undergoing a delicate process of re-entry into her normal routine …
Jim Romenesko:
More than 70 newspapers respond to reality series casting call — More than 70 editors and publishers have responded to NBC Peacock Production's casting call for a reality series about a small-town newspaper. Producer Cara Biega “noted that she was impressed with how amazing their stories are …
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10,000 Words and The Newspaper Guild
Russell Brandom / The Verge:
Journalists and activists report having their Skype calls tapped — EFF and others call out the service for lack of transparency and collaborating with Chinese censors — In an open letter this morning, a group including EFF, Greatfire.org and Reporters Without Borders called out Skype for …
Janko Roettgers / paidContent:
Global TV platform Viki widens its reach with Amazon Instant partnership — Somewhere in Turkey, someone is working on a hit TV show right now — a show that viewers in the U.S. could fall in love with, if they only had the chance to see it. That's the core belief behind Viki …
Eliza Kern / paidContent:
Quora gets into the publishing business with new blogging platform — Newspapers might be dying, but there is no shortage of companies who want to get into the publishing business. Or the blogging business, at least. Quora plans to announce Wednesday that it's rolling out a new blogging platform …
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TechCrunch, Columbia Journalism Review, CNET, The Next Web, SocialTimes, VentureBeat, Fast Company, AllThingsD, The Verge and WebProNews
Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Phone-hack saga: Cops cuff ex-health worker in pre-dawn swoop — A 59-year-old ex-healthcare worker was arrested today by cops probing allegations of bribes paid to public officials and police alongside an investigation into phone-hacking by journalists. The Met said its officers cuffed …
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Battling Kobo, Amazon launches Kindle e-readers and store in Canada — Toronto-based Kobo is Canada's leading e-reading company, but Amazon hopes that won't be the case for long as it ramps up its Canadian presence. Canadians have long been able to buy the most basic Kindle from across the border …
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Amazon.com, CNET, Melville House Books, Softpedia News and The Next Web
Jason Del Rey / AdAge:
Gawker Expects at Least 10% of Revenue From E-Commerce This Year, Says Denton Memo — Seeking ‘Commerce Specialists’ for Gawker Sites — Apparently, Gawker Media is serious about its e-commerce business. In a memo to his employees today outlining some business-side promotions and departures …
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eMedia Vitals
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
iPads replace newspapers in Boston Globe's school donation program — Many newspapers let readers donate the proceeds of their subscriptions to an education fund when they go on vacation. These funds have gone to provide newspapers and digital subscriptions to local classrooms …
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X-Surface: Don't believe everything you read. — I am a gamer. I don't work for Microsoft. — I, like most other gamers, am sick of seeing endless rumours and speculation citing “anonymous sources” or “insiders” with no evidence, no proof, no guarantee that they've been fact-checked or can be relied on.
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VentureBeat, Pocket-lint, Gizmodo UK and VG247
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