Mediagazer: Capitol Hill Is Obsessed With “House Of Cards” (Rebecca Berg/BuzzFeed)

11:55 AM ET, February 12, 2013

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Ezra Klein: The Wise Boy — A tale of striving and success in modern-day Washington. The first time I interviewed Ezra Klein, the 28-year-old prince of D.C. media, he brought me a sandwich: prosciutto on a poppy-seed baguette. (Also, chips and a beverage.)

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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Dish Chairman Ergen Doesn't Want To Kill Ads, He Wants To Make Them Better — Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen is no stranger to controversy, so it should be no surprise that he has a controversial plan for the future of advertising. At the D: Dive Into Media conference today …

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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Dish's Charlie Ergen: “I think people are cutting the cord” — Cord cutting is real, argued Charlie Ergen, Chairman and co-founder of Dish Network at All Things Digital's Dive into Media conference in Dana Point, California Wednesday. “think people are cutting the cord,” Ergen said …

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Jared Newman / TechHive:
Dish Network's Hopper with Sling now available, combines ad-skipping and streaming

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Culture Sec Maria Miller publishes plans for Royal charter to implement Leveson Report principles to create “toughest press regulation”

BBC:

Conservatives publish draft royal charter on press regulation — Lord Leveson's report was published in November — Prime Minister David Cameron rejected Lord Justice Leveson's recommendation, backed by Labour and the Lib Dems, that a new system be underpinned by statute.

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

Washington Post erroneously reports Sarah Palin joining Al Jazeera — The Washington Post has erroneously reported that Sarah Palin, the former vice presidential candidate and former Fox News contributor, is joining the Qatari-owned news network Al Jazeera.

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Shara Tibken / CNET:

Inkling takes on Amazon, Apple with new e-book publishing tool — The startup, founded by a former Apple executive, also has allowed users to search via Google within titles made using its technology. — The launch of Amazon's first Kindle e-reader in 2007 upended the publishing industry.

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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

James Harding in talks on senior BBC role — Former Times editor could join corporation in one of several vacant positions, including director of news — James Harding, the former editor of the Times, has been in talks with the BBC's incoming director general, Tony Hall …

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

Jake Tapper's new show: ‘The Lead’ … CNN has announced the name of Jake Tapper's new show. — The program will be called “The Lead.” CNN has started promoting the show and Tapper confirmed the title via Twitter. — CNN announced yesterday that it had hired MSNBC's Federico Quadrani …

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Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:

Univision and Disney Give Details of Fusion, a Channel for Latinos — Brendan Smialowski/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images — Univision's Jorge Ramos and María Elena Salinas interviewed President Obama in Coral Gables, Fla., during the campaign. — A new 24-hour news and entertainment channel has a name, Fusion.

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Rebecca Berg / BuzzFeed:

Capitol Hill Is Obsessed With “House Of Cards” — A fictional show set in Congress spurs a minor cultural zeitgeist among Hill staffers and journalists. — Image by Netflix, Melinda Sue Gordon / AP — WASHINGTON — On Sunday night, Beau Willimon, the showrunner, co-creator …

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Alice Baghdjian / Reuters:

BBC journalists to strike over job cuts: union — (Reuters) - Journalists at the British Broadcasting Corporation are planning to go on a one-day nationwide strike next week over job cuts, the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) said on Monday. — NUJ members at the BBC will walk …

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