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Beth Healy / Boston Globe:
New York Times exec outlines Boston Globe sale process to employees — New York Times Co. vice chairman Michael Golden told Boston Globe employees Friday that the company has a duty to seek the highest bidder in a sale but hopes to leave the newspaper in responsible hands.
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JIMROMENESKO.COM, Nieman Journalism Lab and Smartertimes.com
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Christine McConville / Boston Herald:
‘Scared’ Globe staffers press for sale answers — Blindsided Boston Globe employees — still reeling after The New York Times Co. put the Hub paper up for sale again — are slated to come face-to-face this morning with a top Gray Lady exec for the start of what could be a messy split …
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The Boston Globe, Boston Herald, FishbowlNY, The Huffington Post, Nieman Journalism Lab and Poynter
Alexander C. Kaufman / The Wrap:
Will Rupert Murdoch Buy the Boston Globe?
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NetNewsCheck Latest and Media Nation
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Print advertising revenue at Washington Post was down 14% in 2012 — Revenue at the Washington Post Co.'s newspaper operations was down 7 percent over 2011, the company said in a release of its fourth-quarter and year-end earnings Friday. Revenue from print advertising was down 12 percent …
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Broadcasting & Cable and City Desk
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Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
Washington Post Co. reports fourth quarter 2012 loss
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Business Wire and RTTNews
Quartz:
Here's the secret list of journalists who start judging the Pulitzer Prizes today — Today at Columbia University in New York, deliberations begin to determine which works of American journalism published last year are deserving of Pulitzer Prizes, the most coveted award in news.
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LA Observed, FishbowlNY, Adweek, @ledbetreuters and Poynter
Jaikumar Vijayan / Computerworld:
An inside look at Google's news-ranking algorithm — Patent application seeks to refine algorithm for third time since 2003 — A patent application filed by Google last year provides a detailed look at some of the metrics the company considers when ranking news stories and deciding …
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WebProNews and Kirk LaPointe's …
BBC:
BBC Savile inquiry: Who said what — The BBC is publishing thousands of emails and interview transcripts gathered by former head of Sky News, Nick Pollard, in his review of why BBC Newsnight axed a report into abuse by Jimmy Savile.
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Guardian, Telegraph, Sky News, @benfenton, @steven_swinford, @joshhalliday, @julian5news and @legalbrat
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
BBC Moves Former Head of News Show That Dropped Jimmy Savile Abuse Report to Archive Post
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Daily Mail and @skynewsniall
Jack Marshall / Digiday:
What Online Ads Really Cost — Publishers love to talk about the rate card prices, but in reality agencies pay nowhere near the figures listed publicly or fed to the trade press. Everything in the world of online media is open to negotiation, and things like package deals, upfront commitments …
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MarketingVox News & Trends
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
NBCU Spent $195 Million To Buy Back Half Of MSNBC.com — Thanks to Comcast's 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, we now know how much NBCUniversal spent to buy back the 50% of MSNBC.com that was owned by Microsoft. — The total purchase price for Microsoft's stake was $195 million …
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GeekWire and NetNewsCheck Latest
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Ben Smith sets off Andrew Sullivan's ‘Orwell bells’ in Flatiron fracas — A standing-room-only crowd packed the hang-out area on the 11th floor of Buzzfeed's Flatiron District headquarters last night, draining plastic wine glasses and beer bottles, but tasting blood.
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Adweek, The Atlantic Online, City Desk, Poynter, Business Insider and The Dish
David Folkenflik / NPR:
CNBC Adopts Tougher Tactic In Booking Wars … CNBC is far and away the television ratings leader in the financial cable news business. Now, evidence arrives that its executives, producers and reporters are going to great lengths to maintain its status. — The channel has adopted a policy …
Discussion:
Politico, TVNewser and Talking Biz News
Erik Maza / WWD:
Ken Kurson Staying Busy at The New York Observer — SHIFTING SLOWLY: A few weeks ago, Ken Kurson, the new editor in chief of The New York Observer, was at the party for the redesigned New Republic. He had come to the soiree as his boss and friend Jared Kushner's guest.
Discussion:
New York Magazine and Capital New York
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Former CBS Exec Lurie Joins Former Yahoo Levinsohn at Guggenheim Digital Media — Well-known digital media exec Zander Lurie has been hired by former Yahoo exec Ross Levinsohn to become one of his key lieutenants at Guggenheim Digital Media. — Lurie will be an EVP there …
Mat Honan / Wired:
Zendesk Security Breach Affects Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest — Customer service software provider Zendesk announced a security breach that allowed attackers into its system, where they could access data from three customers this week. Wired learned those three clients were Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr.
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Zendesk.com, The Wrap, mediabistro.com, TechCrunch, ReadWrite, SocialTimes, Telegraph, CNET, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Daily Dot, Electronista, Mashable!, The Next Web, The Verge, AllThingsD and Softpedia News
Neal Ungerleider / Fast Company:
Egypt Crowdsources Censorship — Egypt's communications ministry is asking citizens to report web pages showing blasphemous content. — The Egyptian government is now crowdsourcing censorship efforts. A new web page created by the country's National Telecommunications Registry Agency …
Discussion:
@emilydparker and CNET
Dylan Byers / Politico:
ABC News in final-stage talks with N.Y. Times reporters Jeff Zeleny, Susan Saulny — ABC News is in the final stages of job negotiations with New York Times reporters Jeff Zeleny and Susan Saulny, and is expected to make a formal announcement early next week, sources familiar with the negotiations tell POLITICO.
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox Asks Judge to Stop Dish's New Ad-Skipper (Exclusive) — Six weeks after Dish adds place-shifting to its Hopper service, now called “Dish Anywhere,” Fox files new court papers in another attempt at an injunction. — Fox Television is again making an attempt to shut down Dish Network's advertising-skipping DVR services.
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Bloomberg, Reuters, The Verge, multichannel.com/rss and Adweek
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