Top News:
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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Variety, Deadline.com, JIMROMENESKO.COM, @jimmykimmel, Forbes, Inside TV, The Huffington Post, Mediaite, BuzzFeed, The Wrap, Guardian, Tampabay.com, Fast Company, FishbowlLA, The Week, Los Angeles Times, @huffpostmedia, Business Insider, The Verge, Grantland, The Atlantic Wire, USA Today, Newsday, Reuters, Daily Mail, The Daily Caller and www.wnyc.org
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Tim Molloy / The Wrap:
NBC's ‘Tonight Show’ Succession: Third Time's the Charm? — Kimmel helped do what his hero Letterman couldn't: cost the top man in late-night his job — If third time is the charm in NBC's quest for a smooth “Tonight Show” transition, much of the charm comes courtesy of Jimmy Fallon.
Discussion:
Broadcasting & Cable and Variety
Emily Yahr / Washington Post:
It's official: Jimmy Fallon to replace Jay Leno on ‘The Tonight Show’
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Broadcasting & Cable
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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GigaOM and Guardian, Thanks:@ianchaffee
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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AdExchanger and Mashable
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Dara Kerr / CNET:
Twitter adds more ‘Cards’ for app and photo gallery embeds
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Digital Trends, Twitter Developers, SocialTimes, 9to5Google, memeburn, Mashable, VatorNews, Digits, SlashGear, The Slanted, GigaOM, Engadget and The Verge
Mike Shields / Adweek:
Warner Bros. Consolidates Digital Sales — Warner Bros. is consolidating its digital sales operations as it looks to build out an entertainment-focused ad powerhouse on the Web. — The company plans to announce the formation of the Warner Bros. Digital Entertainment Group …
Beth J. Harpaz / Associated Press:
Arthur Frommer gets Frommer brand back from Google — NEW YORK (AP) — Travel guru Arthur Frommer said Wednesday that he has reacquired rights to his travel guidebook brand from Google, and that he intends to resume publishing Frommer guidebooks. — Google acquired the Frommer brand …
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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The Reliable Source, Los Angeles Times, @mcetera, @mickimaynard, @cosmicamericana, @fromedome, @aliarikan, nbcchicago.com, @davidaxelrod, Guardian, Hollywood Reporter, ArtsBeat, FishbowlNY, WebProNews, The Wrap, JIMROMENESKO.COM, @esills, @brian_tallerico, @jayrosen_nyu, @peterhowellfilm, @shawnlevy, @tvoti, @embeedub, @scottfilmcritic, @mattzollerseitz, @bensherwoodabc, KMBZ, @anythingbutfifi and @williamfleitch
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Mark Caro / Chicago Tribune:
Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert cuts workload after cancer recurrence
Discussion:
The Huffington Post and Daily Mail
Philip Bump / The Atlantic Wire:
It's a Crime for 12-Year-Olds to Read The New York Times Online — The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a word of warning: many teenagers are wantonly breaking the law every day by reading news sites on the web because the Department of Justice's weird implementation of vague laws has left …
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Intercontinental collaboration: How 86 journalists in 46 countries can work on a single investigation — On Thursday morning, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists will begin releasing detailed reports on the workings of offshore tax havens.
Discussion:
icij.org
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 …
Discussion:
Daily Download, Daily Download, Capital New York, Mother Jones, Gothamist and NY Daily News
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.
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 …
Discussion:
TechCrunch, Digital Trends and VentureBeat, Thanks:@dmfreeman
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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ReadWrite and TechCrunch
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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AdNews and Sydney Morning Herald
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