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David Remnick / New Yorker:
Donald Graham's Choice — “The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of ‘Black Beauty,’ ” A. J. Liebling wrote. “Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner …
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Chris Hughes / New Republic:
What Jeff Bezos Is Thinking — His purchase of the Washington Post makes perfect sense — It turns out Silicon Valley does give a damn about Washington. With Jeff Bezos's purchase of the Washington Post and the efforts of Mark Zuckerberg's FWD.us, the Internet's enormous riches are showing …
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Laura Bennett / New Republic:
Author of Bezos Book: 'He's Buying a Lot of Political Influence' — Businessweek senior writer Brad Stone has written a book about Amazon—titled The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon—that will be released by Little, Brown in October. Stone spent several years reporting the book …
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Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
'This Isn't Rupert Murdoch': Bob Woodward Praises ‘Innovator’ Jeff Bezos, Predicts ‘Renaissance In Reporting’
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Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
If Anyone Can Save the Washington Post, It's Jeff Bezos
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David Carr / New York Times:
The Washington Post Reaches the End of the Graham Era
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff to Co-Anchor ‘NewsHour’ — The PBS “NewsHour,” which was co-anchored for decades by the two men who created it, will soon be co-anchored by two women. — PBS announced on Tuesday that Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff would take over the nightly newscast in September …
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Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Google's new search feature makes it easier to find seminal articles on big topics — When big news breaks, readers clamor for updates — but they also yearn for context. For example, when word got out Monday afternoon that Jeff Bezos had spent $250 million to become the new owner of The Washington Post …
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘New York’ magazine and ‘The New Yorker’ buck downward newsstand trend with stronger digital sales — New York's hometown weeklies are bucking one of the bleaker trends of the magazine industry, which as a whole faced a roughly 10-percent drop in newsstand sales during the first half of 2013, according to a report issued this morning.
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Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Magazine Newsstand Sales Down, Digital Subscriptions Up
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Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:
Disney Earnings Flat as Film Studio Weighs Down ESPN, Theme Parks — Disney reported little change in its third quarter earnings, as the strong performance of ESPN and the company's theme parks division were stymied by the wearker performance of the company's film studio.
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Andrea Peterson / The Switch:
SOPA died in 2012, but Obama administration wants to revive part of it — You probably remember the online outrage over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) copyright enforcement proposal. Last week, the Department of Commerce's Internet Policy Task Force released a report on digital copyright policy …
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Wall Street Journal:
FBI Finds Holes in System Protecting Economic Data — FBI finds ‘operational vulnerabilities’ involving ‘black boxes’ used to control the release of sensitive economic data — By - BRODY MULLINS and - DEVLIN BARRETT - — The Federal Bureau of Investigation has discovered vulnerabilities …
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Quartz
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Comcast Developing Anti-Piracy Alternative to ‘Six Strikes’ (Exclusive) — Cable operator pitching TV industry on plan to convert illegal downloads to legal transaction opportunities — Comcast Corp. is developing a new approach to fighting piracy in the U.S., and wants other major content companies and distributors on board.
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Tony Maglio / The Wrap:
21st Century Fox Reports Q4 Revenue Gain — The company split into two publicly traded firms on June 28, 2013 — 21st Century Fox Tuesday on Tuesday reported a revenue gain for its fiscal fourth quarter and a narrowing of its loss from the similar period a year ago.
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Broadcasting & Cable, Variety and NetNewsCheck Latest
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Andrew Morse Expected to Leave Bloomberg TV for CNN — Bloomberg LP head of U.S. television Andrew Morse is planning to leave the financial news channel for CNN, TVNewser has learned. — At CNN Morse is expected be in a high-level role related to newsgathering, though his exact title isn't yet clear.
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Lost Remote and FishbowlNY
Zoe Fox / Mashable:
Top 10 U.S. Newspapers Ranked by Digital Circulation — When news broke on Monday that Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, had purchased The Washington Post, Twitter users and media pundits alike were quick to analyze what the purchase meant for the premiere newspaper of the nation's capital
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Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:
Twitter adds two-step verification to iOS and Android apps with latest update — After Twitter finally offered its users a more secure way to log into their accounts on the web, the social network has updated its iOS and Android apps today with two-step verification support.
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