Mediagazer: California newspaper defies industry wisdom to stay alive

5:30 PM ET, July 23, 2013

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Reid Cherlin / New Republic:

End the White House Press Briefing! — It's an unholy charade — It is an accepted fact in Washington that the Obama administration and the press corps that covers it—once considered essentially two units of the same team—are now bitter enemies. After four years of smoldering disenchantment …

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Erik Wemple:

New York Times's Brian Stelter to guest-host CNN's ‘Reliable Sources’ — Brian Stelter, a New York Times reporter covering television and digital media, will guest-host an edition of CNN's Sunday program “Reliable Sources,” the media-watchdog show that longtime host Howard Kurtz recently left for a job with Fox News.

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Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Not Just for Mobile Anymore: Flipboard Magazines Come to the Web — The social magazine app Flipboard made a name for itself by being one of the first reading apps to take advantage of the iPad's form factor upon its debut. — Three years later, it's making its way to the Web.

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

Joie Chen to host Al Jazeera America's ‘America Tonight’ — Al Jazeera America has signed Joie Chen, the former CNN anchor and CBS News correspondent, to host its flagship primetime program “America Tonight”, sources familiar with the deal tell POLITICO. — Chen will anchor …

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Matthew Lynley / BuzzFeed:

Google Reader Died Because No One Would Run It — No one took ownership of Google Reader internally because it wasn't a top priority for Larry Page and inner circle of lieutenants. And if you aren't working on something that the boss cares about, then what's the point? — Via: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images

Discussion: Capital New York and WebProNews

Rory Carroll / Guardian:

California newspaper defies industry wisdom to stay alive - and prospers — Orange County Register shocked the crisis-stricken industry with an ambitious experiment. One year later, the paper is celebrating — Conventional media wisdom posits several ways for a newspaper to commit suicide.

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

More Hispanics getting their news online & in English — Internet news sources have vastly outpaced newspapers among Hispanics, a new Pew Research study of news consumption finds. — 56 percent of Hispanics surveyed by Pew said they get news from the Internet on a typical weekday.

Discussion: Pew Hispanic Center, Nieman Journalism Lab, NetNewsCheck Latest, New York Times, Politico and The Huffington Post

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

New media site The First Bound launches — Nicholas Jackson's media site The First Bound, which he once described as “a smarter version of MediaBistro,” launched Monday. — Jackson originally planned to call the site The Feature Well. Reached by Instant Message (I've lightly edited …

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Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Time Inc.'s New CEO Says He's Open to Selling Titles — Time Warner decided earlier this year to spin off its publishing arm, but Joe Ripp, Time Inc.'s newly named CEO, hinted at more possible deals by the publisher of Time and People. — Rip said the company needed to stay open …

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Wall Street Journal:

Alibaba Joins Smart-TV Race — Chinese E-Commerce Firm to Compete With Samsung, Apple, Lenovo — BEIJING—Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. became the latest technology company to take aim at the living room, unveiling a smart-TV operating system and a set-top box that will allow couch potatoes …

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Patrick Wintour / Guardian:

Press regulation: public prefers government's plan to industry's — Poll finds 50% back parliamentary charter while 13% support alternative drawn up by press — • Press regulation plans: the key differences — The public now supports the royal charter on press regulation endorsed …

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Eriq Gardner / Billboard:

Aimee Mann Files Huge Copyright Lawsuit Over Digital Music — Aimee Mann Rocks (and 'Charm's) Carnegie Hall

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Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg:

Twitter Expands TV-Ad Tool for Marketers Targeting Live Viewers — Twitter Inc., the microblogging site, expanded a service that lets advertisers direct promotions to viewers who tweet about shows they're watching on television. — The ad-targeting service, first introduced …

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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Penguin's Book Country plans store where self-published authors can sell their ebooks — Book Country, Penguin's online community for self-published authors, plans to launch a bookstore where authors can sell their ebooks directly. The site, which allows authors to post their writing …

Discussion: PublishersWeekly.com, Publishers Lunch and Bookseller news