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Roger Ebert / Roger Ebert's Journal:
A Leave of Presence — Thank you. Forty-six years ago on April 3, 1967, I became the film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. Some of you have read my reviews and columns and even written to me since that time. Others were introduced to my film criticism through the television show …
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Mark Caro / Chicago Tribune:
Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert cuts workload after cancer recurrence — Roger Ebert announced late Tuesday night that he is stepping back from some duties as the Chicago Sun-Times' film critic after a recurrence of cancer. — Calling the move a “leave of presence,” Ebert wrote on his online journal …
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Bill Carter / New York Times:
Leno Blesses ‘Tonight Show’ Succession Plan — “The Tonight Show” will begin a new era in February when Jimmy Fallon succeeds Jay Leno as host of the most storied and successful program in late-night television. — NBC plans to announce on Wednesday its plan to install Mr. Fallon …
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Felix Salmon:
How paywalls are evolving — Last week, I hypothesized that the publishing industry was going to informally settle on a single management-consultancy company to ask for paywall advice from. That consultancy, having seen everybody's internal figures, could then tell everybody else what “industry best practice” was.
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Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
With New Weather Channel Deal, Twitter Aims to Make It Rain for Brands — Forecast: Cloudy, with a chance of promoted tweets. — Aiming to attract more big-brand ad dollars, Twitter and the Weather Company have a new deal to create custom content around weather-related Twitter activity.
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Dara Kerr / CNET:
Twitter adds more ‘Cards’ for app and photo gallery embeds
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Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Are You A Teenager Who Reads News Online? According to the Justice Department, You May Be a Criminal — During his first term, President Barack Obama declared October 2009 to be “National Information Literacy Awareness Month,” emphasizing that, for students, learning to navigate the online world …
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Jamal Osman / The Daily Beast:
Fake Somali Pirates Scam Western Journalists — Time magazine, Danish filmmakers among the outlets apparently fooled by Kenyan actors pretending to be Somali pirates. … The story begins in the slums of Eastleigh, a sprawling suburb of Nairobi in Kenya and home to a huge Somali community.
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Politico Puts Web Show On Hold To Retool As Washington Post Staffs Up Video — Politico has quietly placed its thrice-weekly web show “Politico Live” on hold while retooling the format, perhaps to a weekly show featuring its marquee writers, according to newsroom sources.
Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:
Extra! Print newspaper reports politicians' arrest before it happens — Arrested: Independent Democrat Malcolm Smith, Republicans Dan Halloran, Jay Savino and Vince Tabone — In the predawn hours of this morning, as the yellow trucks carrying today's editions of the New York Post …
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Daily Download, Capital New York, Politicker, Gothamist and Mother Jones
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Four years in the making, Vdio finally opens up to Rdio subscribers in the US and UK — Vdio, the premium video service founded by Skype co-founder Janus Friis, emerged from private beta Tuesday night with an offering that looks more like Vudu or iTunes than Netflix.
Reuters:
Google to sell second-gen Nexus 7 tablet from July: sources — (Reuters) - Google Inc will launch a new version of its Nexus 7 tablet powered by Qualcomm Inc's Snapdragon processor around July, two sources told Reuters, as the software giant pushes deeper into the cut-price mobile hardware market.
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Times Internet Is Bringing Business Insider To India, Adding To Its Gawker Media Partnership — Today, Times Internet, the digital arm of Times of India, is announcing a strategic partnership with Business Insider, the online business news site founded by Henry Blodget, for the launch of Business Insider India.
Brent Lang / The Wrap:
Netflix's ‘House of Cards’ Getting DVD, Blu-ray Release — “House of Cards” may be upending the way viewers watch television by releasing all of its episodes in one binge-friendly gulp, but Netflix's series will have a rather conventional afterlife. — The glossy, 13-episode political thriller …
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Home Media Magazine, Cinema Blend Television, Pocket-lint and The Verge
Leslie Meredith / TechNewsDaily:
Instagram and Vine Shake Up News Industry — News as we know it is poised to change, and it's in the hands of smartphone users. — On March 31, the New York Times ran a photo of New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez taken by sports photographer Nick Laham — on his iPhone and edited in Instagram.
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Say Media:
Say Media Appoints Owen Thomas as Editor-in-Chief of ReadWrite — San Francisco, CA, April 3, 2013 - Say Media, pioneer of Point-of-View Publishing, today announced the appointment of Owen Thomas as editor-in-chief of ReadWrite. He brings nearly 17 years of editorial experience covering …
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TechCrunch and ReadWrite
Lara Sinclair / The Australian:
Fairfax Media in another major reshuffle — FAIRFAX has restructured its business into five divisions in a move it says will allow it to maximise digital growth opportunities. — The restructure will see the former head of the Metro Media division, Jack Matthews, leave the company …
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Web discovery engine Trapit launches publisher tools, with Here Media as first client — Trapit, a discovery engine for web content from the team behind Siri, is rolling out a set of publisher tools on Wednesday. The tools allow publishers to serve up their content through white-label iOS …
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