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Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:
Matt Lauer Finally Talks — The Today host tells Howard Kurtz that NBC mishandled Ann Curry's ouster and describes how the network is rebuilding the show. Plus, his secret talks with Katie Couric. — One day last fall, Matt Lauer walked out of his 30 Rock office and took the elevator …
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TVNewser, Guardian, @brianstelter, Chickaboomer, The Huffington Post, @bobbymacreports, @moorehn, @steph_griff, @howardkurtz and Softpedia News
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
The Danger of Suppressing the Leaks — IMAGINE if American citizens never learned about the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Imagine not knowing about the brutal treatment of terror suspects at United States government “black sites.” Or about the drone program that is expanding under President Obama …
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Bill Keller / New York Times:
Private Manning's Confidant — In early 2010, Pfc. Bradley Manning methodically uploaded a digital mother lode of classified United States military and diplomatic documents to the Internet insurgents of WikiLeaks. As everyone knows, WikiLeaks made these secret archives available to a few major news outlets, including this one.
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Poynter, Pressing Issues and @mlcalderone
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Hyperlocal cooties — Another hyperlocal venture is struggling, and each time this happens, I fear hyperlocal gets more cooties. But I refuse to give up hope because there's a reason for each fall, there's much still to do, and it's still early. — The latest: Carll Tucker's Daily Voice …
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NJ News Commons
Tim Peterson / Adweek:
YouTube Co-founder Prepping Possible Rival — YouTube has had its share of competition over the years. Companies like Vimeo and DailyMotion (plus copyright lawsuits and crushing overhead costs) led Chad Hurley and the video-sharing site's co-founders to sell YouTube to Google.
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Fast Company, NetNewsCheck Latest, The Next Web, T3, WebProNews, Gizmodo and App Advice
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Mail Online expands, has bigger audience in U.S. than in U.K. — The Daily Mail's Web presence is “putting more firepower behind expanding its international digital media empire, hiring teams of reporters and ad executives across the US,” Emily Steel and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson report.
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Financial Times
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Where WordPress is headed: Longform content, curation and maybe even native ads — WordPress is a content company, CEO Matt Mullenweg stressed in a panel Saturday at SXSW Interactive — and longform content is an area that the company is especially interested in. That could include native ads.
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AllThingsD, AllThingsD and TechCrunch
Mayer Nissim / Digital Spy:
Ceri Thomas named BBC News head of programmes — Ceri Thomas has been promoted to head of programmes at BBC News. The current editor of Radio 4's Today programme will assume the role from March 18, taking over from Stephen Mitchell who is leaving the corporation.
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Guardian, Radio Today and MediaTel
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
“Zero TV” Households Now At 5 Million, Says Nielsen, Up From 3 Million In 2007, But Still Just 5% Of Market — Nielsen today released new data which examines trends in the “Zero TV household” - a definition which refers to those who no longer watch traditional television offered by cable …
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Nielsen, Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel, Deadline.com, Mashable! and Los Angeles Times
Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Revenge of the sources — I understand why a professional journalist like Nate Thayer would be frustrated at being asked to work for “exposure” rather than work for pay, though I think it's unprofessional to vent that frustration by publishing the e-mails and the name of the junior editor who made the request.
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Poynter, Media Channel, @mathewi, @jayrosen_nyu, Mediaite and EJC
Jim Romenesko:
WSJ staffers told to ‘stay the course - and accelerate’ — From: Narisetti, Raju — On an average weekday in the last 12 months, our total circulation was 2.3 million for all three print editions of The Wall Street Journal combined. We should all be very proud of the great print offerings we provide …
Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon's Quest for Web Names Draws Foes — Large and small companies are vying for control of an array of new Internet domain names, but Amazon.com Inc.'s plans are coming under particular scrutiny. — Two publishing industry groups, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers …
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Fast Company, Betabeat, Forbes, VentureBeat, CNET, GeekWire, Electronista, Good E-Reader, Engadget, Marketing Land and Gizmodo
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