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Philip Bump / The Atlantic Wire:
This Year's Yemen Leak Isn't Angering Congress as Much as Last Year's — Someone in the government told the press confidential details of a terror operation centered on Yemen. In 2012, that meant broad outcry, with members of Congress calling for investigations and criminal charges. In 2013: crickets.
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
McClatchy Editor Defends Publishing Al Qaeda Detail CNN, NY Times Held Back — On Sunday, McClatchy reported that the decision to close U.S. embassies and issue a travel warning last week was prompted by an intercepted communication between Al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri and Nasir al-Wuhayshi …
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TIME, @mitchellreports, Techdirt, Guardian, BBC and New York Times
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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OpenSecrets.org, @jayrosen_nyu, National Review, msnbc.com, Wonkblog and Digital Media Wire
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 …
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.
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Mediashift, News Desk and Business Insider
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
‘NewsHour’ Appoints First Female Anchor Team — 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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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, Variety, Radio & Television …, Page-Turner, Home Media Magazine, The Wrap, Wall Street Journal and Digital Spy
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Cord-Cutting No Longer an ‘Urban Myth’: Pay TV Operators Drop 316,000 Subs in Past Year — Industry faces steeper losses even as housing market shows signs of recovery, according to Wall Street analyst Craig Moffett — The number of Americans jettisoning pay TV is still fairly small …
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Multichannel.com 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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The Raw Story, Consumerist, WebProNews, @tagallagher, BGR and Techdirt
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
BBC introduces cautions for user-generated content — Research finds three quarters of amateur footage used in coverage of the Arab spring was not accompanied by warnings — The BBC has started issuing on-air cautions for user-generated material it broadcasts, following research showing …
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@tvnewslab, @cward1e and @chrishams
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, Folio, Adweek, WWD Media Headlines and MinOnline
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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New York Times, Broadcasting & Cable and Variety
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