Mediagazer: Hearst's New CEO Steve Swartz Talks Business, Succession (Erik Maza/WWD)

11:25 AM ET, April 1, 2013

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Columbia's New Journalism Dean Looks Ahead in a Digital Era — Entering Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism on the Upper West Side of New York, there is academic majesty wherever you look. — Past the lamps with the iron claws and the statue of Jefferson ("Our liberty depends …

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Cary Spivak / American Journalism Review:

Solving the Hyperlocal Puzzle — Joe Ricketts doesn't think small. Ricketts helped revolutionize online stock market trading by creating TD Ameritrade. More recently, he has been using his money to torment President Barack Obama and — with family members — buy the Chicago Cubs.

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Henry Blodget Is Quietly Planning a Stunning Return to Wall Street — Kind of! — Business Insider's co-founder and editor is the subject of a Ken Auletta profile in this week's New Yorker, which means Henry Blodget is now in some rarefied media mogul air (see: Rupert Murdoch, Bill Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, etc.)

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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:

TV Service Providers Held Talks With Aereo — Aereo Inc., the Web television startup backed by media mogul Barry Diller, has discussed partnerships with major pay-TV distributors and Internet service providers, including AT&T Inc. and Dish Network Corp., as it looks to roll out its fledgling service …

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Lizzie Widdicombe / New Yorker:

The Vice guide to the world. — Late in February, in the Ryugyong Chung Ju-yung Indoor Stadium, in Pyongyang, North Korea, ten thousand stiff-looking spectators in gray Mao suits gathered to watch a basketball game. Vice Media, the Brooklyn-based company, had arranged to have members …

Kim Christensen / Los Angeles Times:

O.C. Register's university ad deals pose credibility questions — UC Irvine, Cal State Fullerton and Chapman University each agreed to pay $275,000 for ads in weekly sections packed with positive news about their schools. — Some Register staffers have expressed concerns …

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Erik Maza / WWD:

Hearst's New CEO Steve Swartz Talks Business, Succession — NEW YORK — Frank Bennack Jr. had some advice for Steve Swartz. It was 2000 and Swartz was the editor in chief of Smart Money magazine, which he founded eight years earlier after a career that had been on fast-forward at The Wall Street Journal.

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

HuffPost Live Thrives on Tape — Late last summer, Huffington Post launched a streaming video news service, backed by 100 employees, lots of cash and a heap of hype. — So how's it going? — Pretty good, says HuffPost Live boss Roy Sekoff. Especially if you choose to look at HuffPost Live …

Richard Horgan / FishbowlLA:

EXCLUSIVE: Richard Rushfield Out at BuzzFeed — If you look at the masthead for BuzzFeed Entertainment, there's a rather conspicuous name missing. That's because LA bureau chief Richard Rushfield is no longer part of the operation. — “Indeed, I have parted ways from BuzzFeed,” …

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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

The Big Roundtable Rethinks The Editorial Model For Long-Form Journalism, Hits Its Kickstarter Goal — Michael Shapiro isn't the sort of person I'd expect to circumvent the gatekeepers of traditional journalism. He's a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism, and he said he's …

Ernie Smith / Medium:

The Future of Local News — Why We Shouldn't Settle For Ad-Covered Wire Copy — Yesterday, I ran into a story that stopped me dead in my tracks. — It wasn't the words that threw me off — it is a serviceable wire story that about a million other news outlets were running — really, it was the advertising that irked me.