Mediagazer: Al-Jazeera host: The solution to what's wrong with American cable news (Ali Velshi/Quartz)

1:50 AM ET, May 29, 2013

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Circa hires Anthony De Rosa away from Thomson Reuters to expand its editorial ambitions — Circa, the San Francisco-based startup that creates news summaries for mobile users, says it has hired Thomson Reuters social-media editor Anthony De Rosa as its new editor-in-chief to expand its journalistic reach.

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Chris Frates / National Journal:

Is Marty Baron the Man to Fix The Washington Post? — The paper's new executive editor avoids new-media buzzwords, abhors self-promotion, and espouses traditional journalistic values. In a changing world where Web is swiftly displacing print, is that what The Post needs?

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Reuters:

News Corp promises “relentless” cuts at newspapers — Robert Thomson, chief executive of the new News Corp, said there will be “relentless” cost cuts in store for the newspaper business as it prepares to separate from Rupert Murdoch's entertainment empire. — The cornerstone of the company …

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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
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Winnie Hu / New York Times:

At School Papers, the Ink Is Drying Up — The Clinton News used to be the source for everything that mattered to its readers in the northwest Bronx. It published 10,000 copies every other week in the 1930s and even circulated overseas among Bronx residents fighting in World War II.

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Ali Velshi / Quartz:

Al-Jazeera host: The solution to what's wrong with American cable news — Lately I've been giving a lot of thought to changing viewer tastes and habits. After 12 years at CNN, I needed to better understand why doing more of the obvious isn't helping to grow an audience, even for long-standing brands.

Daniel Klaidman / The Daily Beast:

Holder's Regrets and Repairs — It was Friday, May 17, and officials at the Department of Justice had gotten word that The Washington Post was working on an explosive story: a reporter had obtained an affidavit for a search warrant to seize a Fox News journalist's personal emails.

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Nieman Journalism Lab:

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

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Ryan Graff / Knight Lab:

Chase Davis on data-driven decision making for news projects — If a model exists for the type of young journalist everyone's talking about and pining for these days, Chase Davis is probably it. He graduated from the University of Missouri in 2006 with a journalism degree …

Frank Catalano / GeekWire:

The future of news, as viewed from 1993: What we got right, and very wrong — Memo from 1993: A discussion about the future of news from CompuServe's JForum. — For journalism, the future isn't what it used to be. Especially when viewed from two decades ago.

Colin Daniels / Digital Spy:

BBC iPlayer viewing falls as radio requests rise — BBC iPlayer viewing requests fell to 257 million in April, despite strong numbers watching coverage of Margaret Thatcher's funeral. — The catch-up service saw its lowest number of requests since December 2012, having received a record-equalling 272 million requests in March.