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4:55 PM ET, May 30, 2013

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Jeff Jarvis / Medium:   In the End Was the Word and the Word Was the Sponsor's
Richard Edelman / Edelman:
Show Me (a Little of) the Money
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Chicago Sun-Times lays off its photo staff  —  The Chicago Sun-Times has laid off its entire photography staff, and plans to use freelance photographers going forward, the newspaper said.  About 20 full-times staffers received the news Thursday morning, according to sources familiar with the situation.
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US media execs rebuff Holder's closed-door wiretap scandal meeting  —  Several significant US news organizations reject the Department of Justice's proposal to discuss off-the-record ‘new guidelines’ in light of the reporter wiretapping scandal.  Last week President Obama urged the DOJ to search a consensus with the media.
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Which Media Outlets Will Be At DOJ's Off-The-Record Meeting?  —  Media executives and editors are divided over whether to attend an off-the-record meeting this week with Attorney General Eric Holder to discuss guidelines for dealing with journalists in leak investigations …
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Spin lets its editor-in-chief go  —  Spin has parted ways with Editor-in-Chief Caryn Ganz.  Jeff Leeds, the editorial boss of parent company SpinMedia, gave the news to staffers in a meeting Wednesday night in Spin's New York office.  —  Reached by phone, Ganz confirmed her departure …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Netflix boss: BBC is holding back UK children's shows  —  Ted Sarandos says corporation restricts UK licensing for up to five years, forcing streaming service to buy US shows instead  —  Ted Sarandos, Netflix's content chief, has accused the BBC of stifling the potential of homegrown children's shows …
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BBC accused of acting like a ‘thug’ towards local papers
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Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
Social media editor role is ‘more about an evolution than a contraction’  —  Is the role of the social media editor really “dead”?  Rob Fishman thinks so.  In a widely circulated BuzzFeed piece published Wednesday, Fishman argues that newsrooms don't need social media editors like they used to.
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BuzzFeed:
The Social Media Editor is Dead
Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
Is Quartz the Very Model of a Modern Publisher?  —  Eight months ago, Atlantic Media placed a bet that a digital-first, mobile-oriented publication geared to business executives on the go would be a hit.  The results, so far, point to a publication on the rise.
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Jeff Zucker on Cable News Rivals: ‘CNN Gets Held to a Higher Standard’  —  The new head of CNN also defends the network against the charge that anchors didn't correct a mistaken Boston Marathon report quickly enough.  —  Jeff Zucker inferred Wednesday that he might be willing to cede …
Terry Heaton / Street Fight:
Report: Pureplays Using Legacy Media as a Farm System for Sales Staff  —  Local media companies need to do something to protect their digital sales assets or run the risk of losing them to pureplay* web companies.  That's just one of the findings of a new study being released tomorrow by Borrell Associates …
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
How the Guardian built multimedia interactive Firestorm  —  A look at the process behind creating the narrative and ‘rich article pages’ which make up the Guardian's new interactive feature about Tasmanian bushfires  —  Firestorm, the Guardian's multimedia interactive centred around …
 
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