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Christine Haughney / New York Times:
New York Times Company Sells Boston Globe — The New York Times Company said on Saturday that it had agreed to sell The Boston Globe and its other New England media properties to John W. Henry, principal owner of the Boston Red Sox, returning the paper to local ownership after two decades …
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Steve Buttry / The Buttry Diary:
Boston Globe lost 97 percent of its value in 20 years — In the past 20 years, a great American newspaper has lost 97 percent of its value. — The New York Times bought the Boston Globe in 1993 for $1.1 billion. The Times today announced the sale of the Globe and related New England properties …
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Forbes, The New York Observer and @eclisham
Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
New York Times Sells Boston Globe to John Henry for $70M — New York Times Co. (NYT), which put its Boston Globe newspaper up for sale this year, agreed to sell the publication to John Henry, owner of the Boston Red Sox baseball team, for $70 million in cash.
Lisa Richwine / Reuters:
CBS retaliates, blocks online shows for Time Warner cable customers — (Reuters) - U.S. broadcast network CBS took its dispute with Time Warner Cable to the Internet, blocking access to shows on the CBS.com website for the cable operator's customers in New York and Los Angeles.
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Roger Yu / USA Today:
Time Warner Cable drops CBS in New York, LA, Dallas — CBS, Time Warner Cable, Leslie Moonves — CBS said Friday afternoon that it has failed to reach an agreement with Time Warner Cable by their Friday, 5 p.m. deadline and the cable company has dropped the No. 1 primetime network in key markets.
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Hollywood Reporter:
Modern Seinfeld Twitter Account Lands Creator a Sitcom Job — Jack Moore joins Fox's “Us & Them” on the strength of the fantasy mashup account, which he said “was basically pitching storylines.” — Twitter often costs people jobs, not helps land them. — Former BuzzFeed writer Jack …
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SocialTimes, @davidwolinsky, @lenkendall, @netgarden and @andreahong
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Apple calls the DoJ's ebook remedy a draconian and punitive intrusion into its business — Apple has today filed a brief in opposition to the Department of Justice's proposed ‘remedy’ in the ebook price fixing case. The statement speaks out against changes which the DoJ suggested earlier today …
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Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:
Feds say Apple must give access to Amazon and Barnes & Noble e-bookstores
Feds say Apple must give access to Amazon and Barnes & Noble e-bookstores
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Ben Popper / The Verge:
A month after Google killed its beloved Reader, the market for paid RSS tools is booming — Without the search giant strangling the market, will RSS actually evolve? — It's been a month since Google Reader shut down, breaking users' hearts and bringing an end to a nearly eight-year run of RSS dominance.
Stephen Battaglio / TVGuide.com:
The Biz Exclusive: Chris Hansen to Leave NBC — Chris Hansen, the veteran Dateline NBC correspondent whose “To Catch a Predator” investigations became a TV news sensation, is parting ways with the network. — An NBC News spokeswoman confirmed Friday that Hansen's contract was not being renewed.
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The Huffington Post, Mediaite and Variety
Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
Google Glass for publishers: Silica Labs makes it as easy as an RSS tap — The app platform for Google Glass is still in its utter infancy - remember, there only about 8,000 people out there who even own the wearable device - but we're already getting an idea of how it will add an entirely …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
NYT journalist fights ruling nixing reporter's privilege — A New York Times journalist whose claim he shouldn't have to testify in a leak prosecution was rejected, 2-1, last month by a federal appeals court panel asked Friday that the full bench of that court rehear the case.
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New York Times, Hullabaloo and @froomkin
Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
Medium isn't the message: Be careful how you read what's published on platforms — Yesterday, my Twitter feed was lit up with outrage over a post on Medium in which the writer, Michele Catalano, described an unexpected visit from men with badges and guns after she and her husband had Googled …
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