Mediagazer: Variety Taps Entertainment Journalist Ramin Setoodeh as New York Film Editor (Variety)

11:25 PM ET, September 9, 2013

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Adi Robertson / The Verge:

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
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Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

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Sara Morrison / The Wrap:

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John Plunkett / Guardian:

BBC's ‘squabbling’ executives slammed by MPs amid payoffs scandal — Performance by seven senior staff in front of MPs ‘can only damage reputation of the BBC’, says Margaret Hodge — BBC governance is not fit for purpose and its senior managers are not up to the job or more interested in …

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Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:

Businessweek Partners with Netflix for Henry Paulson Documentary — It has been five years since Wall Street suffered its melt down, and Businessweek wants to celebrate. In an interesting way, of course. The magazine has partnered with Netflix to produce Hank: Five Years From the Brink …

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Jason Leopold / Al Jazeera America:

FBI continues to investigate Hastings for ‘controversial reporting’ … The FBI released a heavily redacted document on Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings, Monday, which revealed the law-enforcement agency is continuing to investigate what it characterized as “controversial reporting” …

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Vindu Goel / NYT Bits:

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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

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Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:

TV Ad Spending Up 6.4% In 2nd Quarter — Cable jumps 14.9%, according to Kantar Media — Ad spending on TV jumped 6.4% to $18.4 billion in the second quarter. — The gain boosted first half ad spending growth to 3.3%, according to new figures from Kantar Media.

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Michael Rondon / Folio:

People Tries New Tiered-Subscription Model — More price points, more exclusive digital content. — People is revamping its subscription model, putting a premium on its digital products and adding new entry points. — Readers can go print- or digital-only for $112 per year …

Michael Wolff / USA Today:

Tech journalist Kara Swisher is a feared player — In every journalism generation, there are various re-enactments of the 1957 movie Sweet Smell of Success, in which Burt Lancaster plays J.J. Hunsecker, the powerful and vindictive Broadway gossip columnist whose self-interest shapes everything he writes.

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Variety:

Variety Taps Entertainment Journalist Ramin Setoodeh as New York Film Editor — Newsweek/Daily Beast alum to cover all aspects of film biz and make regular TV appearances — Entertainment journalist Ramin Setoodeh has joined Variety as New York film editor, covering all aspects of the movie business and other media.

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