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New York Times:
This Story Stinks — IN the beginning, the technology gods created the Internet and saw that it was good. Here, at last, was a public sphere with unlimited potential for reasoned debate and the thoughtful exchange of ideas, an enlightening conversational bridge across the many geographic …
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Prof Chris Daly's Blog, @jondenunzio, @bill_gross, Gawker and @jeffjarvis
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Dennis Rodman in North Korea, With Vice Media as Ringleader — Imagine being the HBO executive who hears this from one of the channel's producing partners: “We think there's an opportunity for us to get into North Korea.” — The executive was Michael Lombardo, and the partner was Vice Media …
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Reuters:
Hackers attack Czech news websites in latest media assault — (Reuters) - Hackers attacked some of the Czech Republic's main news websites on Monday, slowing or crashing their homepages in the latest in a series of cyber assaults on media outlets across the world.
Chi Chi Izundu / BBC:
Film to be distributed via games console for first time — An independent British film is being released and distributed via a digital games console platform, rather than through the cinema, for the first time. — Pulp, a comedy about a struggling comic book publisher recruited by the police …
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Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:
Tesco gears up for online fight with Amazon — Tesco has hired one of Facebook's most senior European executives and is launching a slew of online entertainment stores as it gears up for battle with Amazon. — Blinkbox's sales model allows it to offer recent box office hits, such as Skyfall, much earlier than its rivals
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Erik Wemple:
Ann Romney blames campaign and media for the same thing — Here's a sound bite that's sure to get all kinds of rotation over several news cycles this week. “I'm happy to blame the media.” That's what Ann Romney said to Chris Wallace in a much-anticipated Fox News interview.
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Yochai Benkler / New Republic:
The Dangerous Logic of the Bradley Manning Case — After 1,000 days in pretrial detention, Private Bradley Manning yesterday offered a modified guilty plea for passing classified materials to WikiLeaks. But his case is far from over—not for Manning, and not for the rest of the country.
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paidContent, @antderosa and New York Times
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Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The newsonomics of selling Main Street — Main Street is finally going digital. With the digitization of smaller business, newspaper companies believe they've found that elusive third leg of a business model — a model that could keep them standing, maybe even taller, into the second half of this decade.
Alex Kantrowitz / Digiday:
The Banner Industrial Complex Under Threat — If you love the sight of Web pages packed with banner ads, take a good look and savor the moment; it may not last for long. Today, the unit is at its peak, ubiquitous and ugly, traded by the trillions, and propelling the indirect-sales ecosystem …
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Columbia Journalism Review, paidContent, FM Signal and AdPulp
Patrick B. Pexton / Washington Post:
Signing off as Post ombudsman — My two-year term as The Post's independent ombudsman has run out. It has been both a privilege to serve Post readers as a pipeline to the staff and an honor to work in a newsroom of such distinguished journalists. I hope I succeeded even a little in explaining …
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Kirk LaPointe's …, @jbrodkin and Washington Post
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Greg Gilman / The Wrap:
Washington Post Eliminates Ombudsman Position
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Guardian:
A history of media streaming and the future of connected TV — We're close to broadly available HD streaming which could trigger mass adoption of connected TV. Alex Zambelli gives the story so far — On 5 September 1995, ESPN SportsZone streamed a live radio broadcast of a baseball game between …
Clay Shirky / Columbia Journalism Review:
Dark shadows — In Washington, murder turns out to be color-coded — It's been a big year for Homicide Watch. Last summer's Kickstarter campaign succeeded admirably, raising $47,450. The website went from an almost-fatal hiatus to hiring its first staff members, who could continue …
Andrés Cala / Christian Science Monitor:
Spain's economic crisis has an unexpected victim: journalism — The Spanish media has been ravaged by the country's recession, and not just economically. The crisis has also sparked serious challenges to its credibility. — MADRID — In Spain's transformational economic crisis, no industry has escaped unscathed.
Felix Salmon:
Content economics, part 2: payments — Apologies for the delay between part 1 and this: I wanted to wait until Amanda Palmer's TED talk appeared online, because it's an important part of the other big aspect of content economics. Part 1 was about the ability of publishers to sell readers to advertisers …
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