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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Koch Brothers Could Buy Tribune Papers To Add Media Division … David and Charles Koch control what is believed to be the nation's largest privately held company, Koch Industries. They share a strong libertarian bent against high taxes and government regulation.
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Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
Why Big Cities Make Media Liberal—and Why the Koch Brothers Can't Do Anything About It — On Sunday, the New York Times reported that the Koch brothers — yes, those Koch brothers, of dumping mad cash into elections fame — are considering buying the Tribune network of newspapers in a bid …
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
White House Correspondents' Association dinner isn't costly, but the parties are — Figure on paying big time for a semi-glamorous locale; an embassy will do (but only one for a major country). Then, add in food and booze — about $100 a head. Plus entertainment, security, cleanup, insurance.
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Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
Why the New York Times has set up a newsroom analytics team — The team was set up by Aron Pilhofer, who already runs the interactive news team, social media team and communities team, to introduce editorial-focused analysis of data — Copyright: By DaveBleasdale on Flickr. Some Rights Reserved.
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Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:
The New York Times Releases Its Headline-Reading Google Glass App
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Reuters:
Amazon's success formula: move bits instead of boxes — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc appears to have figured out the secret to being more profitable: sell less physical stuff. — The company reported slowing revenue growth and offered a disappointing outlook for this quarter on Thursday …
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Kindle TV: why does Amazon need a set-top box?
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Tom Lavell / Bloomberg:
Murdoch to Get $28.3 Million Pay When News Corp. Splits — Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire founder of News Corp., will receive $28.3 million in combined compensation next year from the two businesses created by the breakup of his media empire. — Murdoch's base pay in 2014 will amount to $8.1 million …
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Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine:
New York Times Going Back to Not Caring About Blogs — As part of its looming redesign, the New York Times is moving away from what the Internet calls “blogs,” starting with the Media Decoder section of the site, home to the quicker, sassier musings of Bill Carter, Brian Stelter, David Carr …
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Marco Arment / Marco.org:
The next generation of Instapaper — When I launched Instapaper in 2008, it was a very basic web app. It quickly expanded to define the pillars of the read-later market: a one-click “read later” bookmarklet, a web sync service, an adjustable text view optimized for reading, and an iPhone app with offline saving.
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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Digg Owner Betaworks Buys Instapaper To Go Big On Social Reading And Discovery
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Financial Times faces weak advertising market, says parent company — Pearson predicts difficult first quarter for newspaper, with total group revenues down 1% year on year to £1.2bn — Pearson has said that the Financial Times faced a “weak” advertising market in the first quarter of this year …
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Sarah Lyall / New York Times:
New Law Makes Suing for Libel Harder in England — LONDON — London's reputation as the libel capital of the world, “a town called sue,” is poised to end. — A new law enacted Thursday strengthens the position of people sued for libel here and puts an end to most cases of so-called libel tourism …
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Nature
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
New York Times paywall growth slows — But it remains to be seen whether that's a one-quarter blip or the new normal — The torrid growth in digital-only subscribers to The New York Times slowed sharply in the first quarter. Worse, advertising fell so sharply that the paper's overall revenue declined slightly.
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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
YouTube Drops Price for Upfront Packages to Lure TV Dollars — Lessons From Last Year: Be More Flexible — YouTube is taking a novel approach to winning TV ad dollars during this year's Upfront season: lowering prices. — Google's video platform — the world's biggest …
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