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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, @howardkurtz, AdAge, FishbowlNY, @profgalloway, New York Magazine, Business Insider, Hollywood Reporter, @pkafka, @bgrueskin, @jayrosen_nyu, @sissenberg, @edmundlee, @drudge_report, @mlcalderone, @billsimmons, 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’
Newsweek has been sold to IBT Media, publishers of International Business Times; will remain ‘100% digital’
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AdAge, Capital New York, The Daily Beast, TVNewser, Christianity Today, BuzzFeed, @jdgalarneau, New York Times, Forbes, Bloomberg, Guardian, MinOnline, TechCrunch, The Huffington Post, @jeffbercovici, @michaelroston, @antderosa, Wall Street Journal, @jeffjarvis, FishbowlNY, Deadline.com, The Verge, New York Magazine, The Wrap and Talking Biz News
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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New York Times, GigaOM, Forbes, TIME, Wall Street Journal, FishbowlNY, @brianstelter, The Week, TVSpy and TVNewser
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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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Peter May / New York Times:
Red Sox Owner's Purchase of Boston Globe Worries Journalists
Red Sox Owner's Purchase of Boston Globe Worries Journalists
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New Yorker and The Daily Caller
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The newsonomics of John Henry buying The Boston Globe
The newsonomics of John Henry buying The Boston Globe
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Columbia Journalism Review, Media Nation, LA Observed, @howardkurtz, Street Fight, Associated Press, MinOnline, Boston Herald, eMedia Vitals, WGBH News, WebProNews, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Guardian, The New York Times Company, The Buttry Diary, The Boston Globe, AdAge, TechCrunch and Globe and Mail
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
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
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
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, BelfastTelegraph.co.uk, @digiphile, Guardian, eMedia Vitals and BBC
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 …
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
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
David Levy Promoted to President, Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting — David Levy, the long-serving supervisor of ad sales, affilate relations and sports programming at Time Warner's Turner cable-network unit, is being upped to president in a move that brings an important player at the company closer …
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AdAge, Adweek, Broadcasting & Cable, The Wrap and Hollywood Reporter
Wall Street Journal:
Future of Cable Might Not Include TV — Predicting that transmission of TV will move to the Internet eventually, Cablevision Systems Corp. CVC +0.20% Chief Executive James Dolan says “there could come a day” when his company stops offering television service, making broadband its primary offering.
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Deadline.com, Betabeat, ABC News and Los Angeles Times