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Amazon Makes Murmurs About Its Video Business — Netflix added a bunch of streaming video subscribers in the last quarter. How did rival Amazon do? — Who knows? Amazon is fiercely dedicated to the notion that it won't say squat about its business, and things stayed true to form during yesterday's earnings call.
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Bezos: With ebook sales up 70% in 2012, Amazon has hit “transition” it expected — Amazon announced fourth-quarter earnings slightly below investor expectations Tuesday afternoon — but operating income, widely viewed by investors as an important measure of the company's overall health, rose, driving shares up in after-hours trading.

Amazon rides a razor-thin wave back to profit in first full quarter of new Kindles
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ZDNet and The Next Web


Why I hate Twitter — The social sharing tool was once a vision. Now it's a prison — S — oren Dayton and Rob Bluey — two conservative tech geniuses — talked me into joining Twitter during a lunch Ed Morrissey organized at an Iraqi restaurant in Minneapolis during the 2008 Republican convention.
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The Daily Caller, @mikeisaac, @mlcalderone and @juliemmoos


Unsolicited advice for New Republic owner Chris Hughes — For more than a century, rich guys who think they're smarter than the rich guys who came before them have been buying money-losing publications under the impression that by spending more money than their deep-pocketed predecessors, they'll turn the red ink black.
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@jayrosen_nyu, Canadian Magazines and WorldViews
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The New Republic Takes Manhattan
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FishbowlNY and New York Magazine


Kill the pageview: 29th Street Publishing looks to profit off small and good — Maura Johnston, founding editor of Gawker's now-defunct Idolator and more recently the music editor at the Village Voice, is now a micro-publisher. The independent writer is four issues into her new periodical …
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magCulture.com/blog


This Is Jeff Zucker's CNN Overhaul — As news arrives today that some of its most familiar (and familiarly loud) faces are on the way out and some new (and potentially household-name) anchors may be on the way in, the future of CNN is starting to take shape under its powerful new boss, Jeff Zucker.
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mediabistro.com, RedState, Forbes, The Huffington Post and All Things CNN
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CNN's managing editor Whitaker to leave network
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Hollywood Reporter, TVNewser and Politico


Washington Post's Truth Teller and the future of robots doing journalism — At some point in the history of letters, fact-checking went from a foundational part of journalism to a specialization practiced by few to a buzzwordy media trend, alternately praised and dismissed depending on what politician was getting called out.
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As Music Streaming Grows, Royalties Slow to a Trickle — Like plenty of music fans, Sam Broe jumped at the chance to join Spotify two summers ago, and he hasn't looked back. — Spotify, which began streaming music in Sweden in 2008, lets users choose from millions of songs over the Internet free …
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Quartz and Business Insider
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Rdio opens up free music streaming to the U.K., Canada, Australia, & 11 other countries
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mUmBRELLA, TMTI Group, Rdio Blog, hypebot, Media Decoder, CNET and TechCrunch


Fox News Ratings Hit 12-Year Demo Lows In January Cable News Figures — At the end of each month, cable news ratings are released to the public. And, like clockwork, Fox News dominates the top 13 or so programs, far outstripping its competitors. — January was ... a little different.
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TVNewser and The Raw Story


Ukraine Gongadze case: Court convicts journalist's killer — Olexiy Pukach is a former police general — A Ukrainian court has convicted a former police chief of murdering journalist Georgy Gongadze in 2000, a crime which rocked the country. — The court in Kiev found that Olexiy Pukach …
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New York Times, Jon Slattery, LNR Journalism, The Newspaper Guild and Committee to Protect …


Murdoch faces more uncertainty over Times and Sunday Times appointments — Independent directors will not meet again until March to discuss Rupert Murdoch's choice for editor roles — The independent directors who refused to endorse Rupert Murdoch's choices as editors of the Times …


Reed Hastings on Arrested Development, House of Cards, and the Future of Netflix Movies — The quirky little start-up that once printed money by mailing you DVDs is hell-bent on morphing into the HBO—and the network, and the any-show, any-time streaming service—of tomorrow.
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Guardian, Business Insider, Fortune, @netflix and The Verge


Now recording: Knight funds an app for collecting oral histories — Most friends and family have oral histories — they just don't realize it. That time as a kid your uncle ate so many waffles he cried? Or the time your best friends had to break into their apartment so they could move out?

Why an ‘average’ journalism grad's salary might not be an average salary where you work — After I blogged Monday about a survey that said 2012 j-school grads' average starting salary was $40,900, lots of Poynter readers took to Twitter or emailed me to complain about how out of line that number …
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Columbia Journalism Review and Poynter