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Matt K. Lewis / The Week:
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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@mikeisaac, @mlcalderone, The Daily Caller and @juliemmoos
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
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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Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:
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.
Tim Carmody / The Verge:
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
Jack Shafer:
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, WorldViews and Mediaite
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
The New Republic Takes Manhattan
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FishbowlNY and New York Magazine
Alexander Abad-Santos / The Atlantic Wire:
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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Liana B. Baker / Reuters:
CNN's managing editor Whitaker to leave network
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Hollywood Reporter, TVNewser and Politico
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
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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Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:
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
Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
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
BBC:
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 …
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
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 …
Nancy Hass / GQ:
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
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
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?
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
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
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Tribune taps former FCC official Edward Lazarus as general counsel — Tribune Co. has named Edward Lazarus, a former ranking Federal Communications Commission official and one-time federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, as its executive vice president and general counsel.
Discussion:
LA Observed, Broadcasting & Cable, Free Press and PR Newswire
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘New York Post’ getting a web overhaul from the team that brought you the new ‘New Republic’ — The New York Post's website will soon be getting a much-needed makeover. — Design firm Hard Candy Shell is working on a sweeping overhaul of nypost.com that's expected to debut sometime in the coming months …
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