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Staci D. Kramer / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Don Graham on the sale of The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, and the pace of newsroom innovation — Washington Post Co. chairman and CEO Don Graham kept the decision to sell the heart of the family business exceptionally quiet for months, avoiding public drama and employee angst while he went white-knight shopping.
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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 …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
A new Babylon and the rise of the tech tycoon — Sometime soon after the most recent financial crisis that threatened to bring down the entire global economy, I was sitting with one of the scary smart guys — Bradford Cross, who is co-founder and chief executive of Prismatic.
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 …
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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Forbes, The Wrap, Variety, Home Media Magazine, Digital Spy, Radio & Television …, Page-Turner and Wall Street Journal
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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WebProNews, Consumerist, @tagallagher, The Raw Story, BGR and Techdirt
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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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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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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Alliance for Audited Media, New York Times, Adweek and Folio
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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Twitter Blog and Ars Technica
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