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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Daily Beast drops Howie Kurtz — From Tina Brown, editor in chief, The Daily Beast: — “The Daily Beast and Howard Kurtz have parted company. Under the direction of our newly named political director John Avlon we have added new momentum and authority to our Washington bureau with columnists …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Howard Kurtz's Daily Download Connection Raises Questions
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Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Al Jazeera America to open Detroit bureau — Al Jazeera America will open a Detroit bureau ahead of the channel's launch later this year, the network announced on Thursday. — The Detroit bureau for Al Jazeera America, which will replace Current TV, will focus on “telling the stories …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
The first 12 Al Jazeera America bureaus — Al Jazeera executives have been touring the country and rolling out announcements of new bureaus ahead of Al Jazeera America's launch later this year. First it was a bureau in Chicago, today it is a bureau in Detroit.
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Getting Away With Murder — CPJ's 2013 Impunity Index spotlights countries where journalists are slain and the killers go free — Rocked by militants in the north and politically inspired aggression nationwide, Nigeria has become one of the worst nations in the world for deadly …
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Cablevision Picks Up Glenn Beck's Internet Channel — Glenn Beck's Internet channel TheBlaze has been picked up by the cable system operated by Cablevision, giving Mr. Beck television distribution in the New York metropolitan area for the first time since he left Fox News in 2011.
Erik Holm / MoneyBeat:
Warren Buffett Joins Twitter … Pigs aren't flying, lambs aren't lying down with lions, and hell isn't getting any cooler. But Warren Buffett is joining Twitter. … Buffett, the chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. who once admitted he didn't know how to check his voicemail …
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Ann Friedman / Columbia Journalism Review:
Branded but ‘independent’ media — The pros and cons of trying to do real journalism at a non-media company — Jessica Bennett worked for seven years at journalistic stalwarts like The Boston Globe, the Village Voice, and Newsweek. But after years of sleeping on couches when she went …
Aswini Anburajan / BuzzFeed:
Where Did All The Search Traffic Go? — Traffic from Google to digital publishers dropped 30% over the past eight months. — Referrals from Facebook and Google to publishers on the BuzzFeed Network — Search traffic to publishers has taken a dive in the last eight months …
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Former Federated Media CEO Deanna Brown joins Byliner as president — E-singles startup Byliner has a new president: Deanna Brown, who was previously the CEO of Federated Media and before that held executive roles at Scripps, Yahoo and AOL. She also founded Inside.com and Gaming Industry News and cofounded CondéNet.
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Bloomberg Pays Tribute to The Financial Times, Reigniting Speculation on a Bid — Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Wednesday night stoked speculation about his interest in acquiring The Financial Times at a breezy Upper East Side reception celebrating the newspaper's 125th anniversary.
Ayako Mie / Japan Times:
Huffington Post looks to weave new Web in Japan — The Japanese version of the Huffington Post will offer a website that spurs more interaction between the media and the public and empower Generation Y, the children of the baby boomers, said Shigeki Matsuura, editor-in-chief of Huffington Post Japan …
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Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
Vox Wants to Make Ads — Many publishers bemoan how badly produced the ads are on their sites. Add Vox Media to the growing list of publishers looking to create them themselves. — The parent company of sports site SB Nation, tech site The Verge and gaming site Polygon has taken …
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Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Condé Nast Introduces Web Series for Magazines — Last year, the latest innovation every magazine wanted to release was an iPad edition. This year, it's online video content. — Condé Nast's Entertainment Group introduced 30 programs at its first presentation made during the Digital Content NewFronts.
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