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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, @juliemmoos and The Daily Caller
Dylan Byers / Politico:
James Carville, Mary Matalin leaving CNN — CNN contributors and political power couple James Carville and Mary Matalin are leaving the network, Carville told POLITICO today. — The decision was CNN's, Carville told POLITICO: “I was told that they wanted the contributors to be more available …
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Alexander Abad-Santos / The Atlantic Wire:
This Is Jeff Zucker's CNN Overhaul
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mediabistro.com, RedState, Forbes, All Things CNN and TVNewser
Liana B. Baker / Reuters:
CNN's managing editor Whitaker to leave network
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TVNewser, Hollywood Reporter and Politico
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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Canadian Magazines, WorldViews and Mediaite
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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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.
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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
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion:
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
Drew Grant / The New York Observer:
Elizabeth Spiers Now Editorial Director at Flavorpill.com — Elizabeth Spiers, who ran The New York Observer as EIC from January 2011 to August 2012, has announced the first of her new gigs after leaving the paper: She'll now be the editorial director for Flavorpill.com …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Hitler Alive and Well, Owning Liberal Magazine — The Washington Free Beacon has a report, sourced to “Washington Free Beacon Staff,” that Chris Hughes is purging Jews from The New Republic. (Occasionally the Free Beacon publishes stories too embarrassing for any staffers to be associated with by name.)
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The Huffington Post, @juliaioffe, @jayrosen_nyu, @juliaioffe and The Daily Dish
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