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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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Washington Wire, Mediaite, @franklinfoer, @oknox, @noamscheiber, @ron_fournier, @froomkin, @samsteinhp and The Daily Caller
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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Gretawire, Mediaite, Politico, TVNewser, @brianstelter and @gretawire
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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@jayrosen_nyu and Hollywood Reporter
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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GigaOM, TechCrunch, Pocket-lint, Wired, Mashable, CNET, VentureBeat and Softpedia News
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.
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
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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.
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Pew Hispanic Center, NetNewsCheck Latest, New York Times, Politico, Nieman Journalism Lab and The Huffington Post
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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FishbowlNY and Wall Street Journal
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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The Next Web, Forbes, PC Advisor, TechCrunch, Tech in Asia, Engadget, Bloomberg, Financial Times, globaltimes.cn, ZDNet and AllThingsD
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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@megreenwell
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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Kirk LaPointe's …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Is Flipboard a partner or a competitor for publishers and content creators? Yes — Flipboard has always had a somewhat double-edged relationship with the publishers who create the bulk of the content that flows through its apps: it theoretically gets those content creators a larger audience …
Dan Farber / CNET:
CNN's Jeff Zucker trades analog dollars for digital quarters — “The truth is digital and people consuming news and information from all of our digital assets, that's the most important thing for us,” the CNN president said. — CNN Jeff Zucker believes that digital is the future of CNN.
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TVNewser, Fortune, Hollywood Reporter and Fortune
Ted Johnson / Variety:
John McCain's A La Carte Cable Bill Gains a Co-Sponsor — Connecticut's Richard Blumenthal Backs Legislation — Sen. John McCain's proposed legislation to force cable operators to offer channels a la carte gained new co-sponsor on Tuesday, as Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) announced that he would back the bill.
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Broadcasting & Cable and Hillicon Valley