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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
NYT interview with Obama: No surveillance questions? — Jackie Calmes and Michael D. Shear's interview with President Obama packed in enough news to fill three New York Times articles and one media story: “It was the paper's first exclusive chat with the president in nearly three years,” The Huffington Post's Jack Mirkinson writes.
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Mediaite, The Huffington Post, @dangillmor, @sarahkendzior, Wonkette, @trevortimm, The Daily Caller, The Newspaper Guild, New York Times and Forbes
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
A Blow for the Press, and for Democracy
A Blow for the Press, and for Democracy
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Firedoglake, Kirk LaPointe's … and The Huffington Post
Ruth Margalit / The New Yorker:
The Israeli Answer to Al Jazeera — Timing could not have been more fortuitous for i24 News. Two weeks ago, as the Israel-based news channel was preparing to launch its first broadcast, reports started trickling in that a chain of people had resigned from Al Jazeera in protest …
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@tnynewsdesk, @mjayrosenberg, @fridagcolumns, @newyorker, @arubenfire and @asmaark
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Why the time is right for The Washington Post & others to boost video initiatives — The Washington Post will formally launch PostTV today — a big gamble that it can widen audience and win significant advertising revenue by producing digital video programs and distributing the segments to various partners.
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Journalism.co.uk, Washington Post, @poynter, NetNewsCheck Latest and @abeaujon
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Washington Post Launches New Political Web Shows
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Media, left out of the relationship — Note who's missing in Tanzina Vega's New York Times story today about the monster merger of ad agencies Publicis and Omnicom. — Media — TV, radio, magazines, newspapers, online — are nowhere to be seen. This merger, they all say …
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Globe and Mail, iMediaConnection Blog, AdAge, GigaOM, @davidapatton, MediaNama and Wall Street Journal
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
ESPN confirms it will hire bloggers to cover every NFL team — ESPN will hire bloggers to cover every NFL team, Rob King confirmed by phone Monday afternoon. “If you're going to place a bet anywhere, place it on the NFL,” said King, ESPN's senior vice president for content, digital & print media.
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eMedia Vitals, @jamiemottram, @brianmfloyd and The Insider
Dylan Byers / Politico:
CNN to produce Hillary Clinton film — CNN Films has tapped documentary filmmaker Charles H. Ferguson to direct a film about former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, POLITICO has learned. — “CNN is very pleased to be working with Academy-Award winner Charles Ferguson on the film …
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Reuters, New York Times, Broadcasting & Cable, TVNewser, New York Magazine, Associated Press, @jonlovett, The Huffington Post and Variety
Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
Bradley Manning judge to release verdict on Tuesday in WikiLeaks trial — Army private faces sentence of life in military custody with no chance of parole if convicted on ‘aiding the enemy’ charge — Bradley Manning, the self-confessed source of the massive WikiLeaks trove of US state secrets …
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New York Times, Reason, @xeni, @kgosztola, @xeni, @mgsledge, @kgosztola and www.wnyc.org
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Hearst Poaches Todd Haskell From New York Times to Lead Digital Revenue — And Names Publisher For Still-Untitled Dr. Oz Magazine — Hearst Magazines has hired Todd Haskell away from The New York Times, where he had been group VP-advertising since 2007, to become senior VP and chief revenue officer …
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FishbowlNY, Folio and Capital New York
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FBI sued for keeping secret their file on journalist Michael Hastings — Two investigative journalists are suing the FBI after the government failed to respond on time to a pair of Freedom of Information Act requests filed for details on the death of reporter Michael Hastings.
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Freedom of the Press …, @cethomson, The Daily Caller and @tragedyandhope
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Your Poor Couch! Netflix Viewers Don't Cut Back on Regular TV. — Are you watching a ton of Netflix? — Then you had better make sure you're getting fresh air and exercise. Because you're probably not cutting back on your regular TV habit. — That's according to a new study …
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Variety, TiVo, VatorNews, WebProNews and Home Media Magazine
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Why the New York Times is moving on from the Herald Tribune — We are in the run-up to the transformation of the International Herald Tribune into the International New York Times. The grey lady is to become la dame grise. — Romantics, which means those who saw Jean Seberg selling …
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Google's New Zagat Is Much More Limited (For Now), but It's Free — Google today put out a gussied-up version of the Zagat website, Android and iOS apps. — Regular users of Zagat's famous local ratings might be disappointed to find that the new site features just nine cities: San Francisco …
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Engadget, Android Police, GeekWire, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, CNET and VentureBeat