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New York Times:
The Last Temptation of Tina Brown — On Nov. 12, 2010, Tina Brown gathered the staff of her Web site The Daily Beast in the third-floor conference room at its Chelsea offices with its commanding views of the Hudson. Brimming with the fervor she has brought to all her endeavors …
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Mediaite, Gawker, Poynter, The Wrap, NetNewsCheck Latest, AdAge, @howardkurtz, FishbowlNY, Hollywood Reporter, New York Magazine, @billsimmons, @drudge_report, Business Insider, @pkafka, @bgrueskin, @jayrosen_nyu, @sissenberg, @edmundlee, @mlcalderone, eMedia Vitals and The Huffington Post
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Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:
Newsweek has been sold to IBT Media, publishers of International Business Times; will remain ‘100% digital’ — Earlier today, IAC Interactive reached a deal to sell Newsweek, the remains of the old magazine in digital format, to the owners of the International Business Times.
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AdAge, BuzzFeed, The Daily Beast, Capital New York, TVNewser, New York Times, Christianity Today, Forbes, TechCrunch, @jdgalarneau, Bloomberg, MinOnline, The Huffington Post, @jeffbercovici, Guardian, @michaelroston, @antderosa, @jeffjarvis, Wall Street Journal, FishbowlNY, Deadline.com, The Verge, New York Magazine, The Wrap and Talking Biz News
Beth Healy / The Boston Globe:
3 groups say they topped Henry's bid for Globe — Three of the groups that lost out in the bidding for The Boston Globe say their offers were higher than Red Sox owner John W. Henry's winning $70 million bid — prompting them to question the New York Times Co.'s sales process.
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Boston Globe, The Huffington Post and Poynter
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Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The newsonomics of John Henry buying The Boston Globe — It was a big auction — on paper. Literally. The storied Boston Globe, the 141-year-old Globe that has won 21 Pulitzers and dominated its region's reporting for so long, went for a song: $70 million.
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Columbia Journalism Review, Associated Press, Street Fight, Media Nation, WGBH News, The Buttry Diary, LA Observed, @howardkurtz, JIMROMENESKO.COM, MinOnline, Boston Herald, Bloomberg, eMedia Vitals, The New York Times Company, WebProNews, Guardian, The Boston Globe, TechCrunch and Globe and Mail
Peter May / New York Times:
Red Sox Owner's Purchase of Boston Globe Worries Journalists — BOSTON — As the list of potential purchasers of The Boston Globe leaked out, the newspaper's longtime sportswriter and columnist Bob Ryan said his only thought was: please, let it be anyone but John Henry.
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The New Yorker Blog and The Daily Caller
Bill Carter / New York Times:
Viewers Wait for CBS and Time Warner to Make Up — The two sides in the fee dispute between CBS and Time Warner Cable stayed in their respective corners Sunday, and may not engage in further direct confrontation for some time. — As a result, CBS's stations, and cable networks owned by CBS …
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GigaOM, Forbes, TIME, FishbowlNY, Wall Street Journal, @brianstelter, The Week, TVSpy and TVNewser
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David Carr / New York Times:
Parodying Cable News With a Talk About Race — On Tuesday night on MSNBC's “All In,” Chris Hayes had a very direct conversation about race with the Gawker writer Cord Jefferson. Prompted by a news report of a group of young people in Huntington Beach, Calif., who looted and vandalized property …
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@mattdpearce, @the_fjp, @katrinanation and @alexisgoldstein
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Katharine Weymouth Takes Charge at the Washington Post — WASHINGTON — On the eve of the 2012 White House Correspondents' Dinner, this city's annual media-politico-Hollywood love fest, Katharine Weymouth convened the sort of Washington power dinner for which her grandmother, Katharine Graham …
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New Republic, @froomkin, @froomkin, @alecmacgillis, @danrschwarz and @rachelwwilner
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Al Jazeera America sets own course — Weeks ahead of its debut, Al Jazeera America is doing things the old-fashioned way. — AJAM, as it's referred to by staff, is investing heavily in investigative journalism. It is opening bureaus in cities across the country.
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@jayrosen_nyu and @mattgertz
Bob Cohn / Folio:
Good Comment, Bad Comment: Fixing a Broken System — Either commit to aggressive moderation or reconsider commenting's utility. — One of the great promises of digital journalism is that it breaks down barriers between publications and readers. — Consider print: You publish a story …
Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:
For Twitter, Free Speech Is a High-Wire Act — As Micro-Blogging Site Expands Globally, It Gets Flak From Many Sides — Twitter Inc.'s growing ambitions are making it harder to carry the Internet's free-speech banner. — Chief Executive Dick Costolo promotes Twitter as a protector …
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Kirk LaPointe's …, Sky News, @digiphile, Guardian, BelfastTelegraph.co.uk, eMedia Vitals and BBC
Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
Native Ads: The Digg Way — For most publishers entering the world of sponsored content the concern is keeping editorial separated from the creation of the advertising content. — Not so much at Digg, the social-news platform bought and revived by digital media holding company Betaworks.
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@bmorrissey and eMedia Vitals