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Marin Cogan / New Republic:
House of Cads — The psycho-sexual ordeal of reporting in Washington — e've all done it," begins one of the spicier dialogues in the new Netflix political thriller, “House of Cards. ” Janine Skorsky, a veteran political reporter, is revealing to her young colleague, Zoe Barnes …
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Matthew Creamer / AdAge:
Built for Newsprint, The Onion Finds New Life In Social, Video — Why The Satirical News Brand Is Getting the Last Laugh — “Area Writers Choose Life of Poop-Smeared Bum Rather Than Move to Chicago” — So maybe it's not up to snuff as an Onion headline, but you can't blame a guy for trying …
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CJ Lotz / BuzzFeed:
Former Onion Staffers Denounce CEO's Apology For Quvenzhané Wallis Tweet — Editorial freedom and the “c” word. — Image by Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times/MCT — Former Onion staffers Monday reacted with dismay to the satirical newspaper's apology for calling a 9-year-old a …
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The Onion, Hollywood Reporter, Reluctant Habits, Forbes, Mediaite, NPR, mediabistro.com, FishbowlDC, Guardian and The Huffington Post
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune Co. listening to offers for its 8 newspapers — JPMorgan Chase and Evercore Partners hired to manage potential offers … Tribune Co. has hired two investment banks to manage offers to buy its newspapers, executives confirmed Tuesday, saying no decisions have been made about whether to sell any properties.
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Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:
FCC delays vote on media ownership rules — Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski said on Tuesday that he will postpone a vote to revise media ownership regulations so that a nonprofit group can study the potential impact on women and racial minorities.
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NetNewsCheck Latest, Adweek, Broadcasting & Cable and Radio & Television …
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Authors face change as Amazon tightens affiliate policy on free Kindle books — Amazon is changing a policy on affiliate links to free Kindle books, and the changes are likely to have a big effect on the way some self-published authors achieve success online.
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Free Kindle Books and Tips, ecommercebytes.com and GalleyCat
Lenka Ponikelska / Bloomberg:
CME 4Q Net Loss Widens on Weak TV Ad Spending, Impairment — Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. (CETV), the eastern European broadcaster co-owned by Time Warner Inc. (TWX), said its fourth-quarter net loss widened as TV ad markets continued to weaken and the company's impairment charge increased almost eightfold.
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Reuters and Digital TV Europe
Jillian Stonecipher / Nieman Journalism Lab:
A proposed Florida law targets mugshot sites, but hits journalists' First Amendment rights — Editor's note: We've talked before about the rise of (and backlash against) mugshot sites — those skeezy sites that get mugshots through public records, post them online for Google to find …
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NetNewsCheck Latest
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Pig Rescues Goat, and the Video Is Really Cute, but Totally Faked — It seemed too adorable to be fake, but it was too good to be true. — On Sept. 19 a 30-second video appeared on YouTube, depicting a baby goat that had become stuck in the pond of a petting zoo and that was heroically rescued …
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Media Decoder, ABCNEWS and The FJP
David Carr / New York Times:
Giving Viewers What They Want — In the television business, there is no such thing as a sure thing. You can have a gold-plated director, a bankable star and a popular concept and still, it's just a roll of the dice. — Or is it? — In any business, the ability to see into the future …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Maybe You'll Get the Pay TV You Want, After All: Cablevision Sues Viacom to Break Up the Bundle — Pay TV has a simple model: If you want to watch one channel, you have to pay for dozens — or hundreds — of others, whether you watch them or not. That model drives lots of consumers nuts, but it has looked very, very hard to dislodge.
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Chandni Doulatramani / Reuters:
AMC Networks profit misses estimates on Dish blackout — (Reuters) - Cable network AMC Networks Inc (AMCX.O), which airs popular shows such as “The Walking Dead” and “Mad Men,” reported a quarterly profit way below analysts' estimates on a temporary blackout of its channels by Dish Network Corp (DISH.O) and higher programming costs.
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Home Media Magazine and Business Insider
Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:
Nickelodeon Targets ‘Post-Millennials’ in Upfront — Children's Net Moves Beyond TV, Rolls Out App Along With New Shows — Nickelodeon's motto for its upfront presentation appears to be “in with the new.” — As the children's cable network looks to revive sagging ratings …
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Broadcasting & Cable
Erik Wemple:
NASCAR explains wreck-video blockage — On Saturday afternoon, a crash at a Nationwide Series race at Daytona International Speedway injured at least 30 NASCAR fans. As the media swarmed the scene and questioned authorities on the fallout, a secondary story line emerged …
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Trust But Verify and Kempton
Tim Carmody / The Verge:
Variety will kill its daily print edition and online paywall, keep weekly magazine — Three editors-in-chief will head coverage of movies, television, and digital content in new web-first approach — The iconic entertainment publication Variety will discontinue its daily printed edition on March 18th.
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paidContent, Adweek, Media Decoder, LA Observed, LA Observed, @variety_dscohen, Mashable!, Hollywood Reporter, FishbowlLA, Mediaite, @edmundlee, Variety, Deadline.com and @lfung
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