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Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
Exclusive: IAC And Daily Beast Editor Tina Brown To Part Ways — A source with direct knowledge of the situation says IAC does not plan to renew Tina Brown's contract when it expires in January. A decision has not yet been made on the future of The Daily Beast. — Jason Kempin / FilmMagic
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Tina Brown to leave Daily Beast, start new company — Daily Beast editor Tina Brown will split with parent-company IAC next year and launch her own company, Tina Brown Live Media, according to sources with knowledge of her plans. — Brown will not renew her contract in January, the sources said.
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The Atlantic Wire, FishbowlNY and Mashable
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
NAA will stop releasing quarterly figures on ad revenues, which have consistently declined — The Newspaper Association of America has reported a decline in industry ad revenues every three months since a modest gain in the second quarter of 2006. That adds up to six-and-a-half years …
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Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
For Politico ‘High Traffic is Overrated’ — On Monday, Politico owner Robert Allbritton bought Capital New York, a New York-focused digital-only publication. Jim VandeHei, a Politico founding editor and former reporter at the Washington Post, has been tasked to serve as the new president of Capital New York.
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@_arianna, @digiday, The Atlantic Wire and Nxtblog
Hadas Gold / Politico:
National Review to sue Cory Booker — Rich Lowry, National Review's editor announced Wednesday they will be suing Newark Mayor Cory Booker along with the Newark Police Department and the City of Newark. — National Review is suing for records they have been trying to obtain related …
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Mediaite, Business Insider, @businessinsider, @justincsnow, @nickbaumann and TheBlaze.com
Larry Rohter / New York Times:
A Copyright Victory, 35 Years Later — In the lucrative world of music copyright, it may be something of a watershed moment: on Friday, after six years of legal wrangling and decades after he wrote the lyrics to the hit song “YMCA,” Victor Willis will gain control of his share of the copyright …
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Techdirt, @jamie_love, Plagiarism Today, @willfriedwald, @nytimes and @charlesleerhsen
David Bauder / Associated Press:
CBS News says it almost gave up on Assad interview — NEW YORK (AP) — CBS News had essentially given up its pursuit of Syrian President Bashar Assad for an interview because he would not agree to go on “60 Minutes,” until Charlie Rose suggested airing it on PBS.
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Poynter and Hollywood Reporter
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
That Apple TV Refresh Is Coming Next Week — Nope, Apple didn't show off new Apple TV hardware yesterday. — And Apple didn't talk about new software for its Web video box, either. But it's still coming. — People familiar with the company's plans say that Apple TV is scheduled …
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Ryan Jacobs / The Atlantic Online:
Israel and BuzzFeed: When Government PR Goes Viral — User-generated content isn't just for everyday people anymore. — Two weeks ago, Israel expanded its robust “public diplomacy” efforts, which include an active Twitter presence and a popular military Instagram, with a post written …
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@hamishmckenzie, @moneyries, @lisang and Big News Network.com
Colin Freeman / Telegraph:
Why prosecuting journalists for paying for stories is bad news for all of us — Barely a week goes past these days without a journalist from one tabloid newspaper or another appearing in court on suspicion of paying public officials for stories. It's become such a ritual now that there is even an informal …
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Kirk LaPointe's …
Sharon Terlep / Wall Street Journal:
Dish Director Quit Amid Flap — Director Was on Special Committee to Vet LightSquared Deal — A Dish Network Corp. director who resigned in recent weeks did so amid a disagreement over the company's handling of a bid for a telecommunications firm that could deliver hundreds of millions …
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MoneyBeat, NASDAQ.com and Bloomberg
Guardian:
Maria Miller issues final warning to BBC Trust after ‘annus horribilis’ — Culture secretary says action is needed after string of controversies including £60m payoffs and Jimmy Savile scandal — An exasperated culture secretary has issued a final warning to the BBC Trust in the aftermath …
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Sky News, Reuters and @marksweney
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
An auto-tuned remix of Bill Deedes? What Telegraph journalists can expect from their new editor-in-chief — The website manager of a US TV network best known for children's programmes like Sesame Street is at first glance a surprising choice as new editor-in-chief of Britain's best-selling broadsheet newspaper.
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Guardian, Hollywood Reporter and Guardian
Bill Adair / Poynter:
Ebooks without enough ‘e’ offer lessons for news organizations — I did my vacation reading from pixels instead of paper. — I read ebook versions of “Bruce,” a Springsteen biography by Peter Ames Carlin, and Dan Brown's bestselling novel “Inferno.” Both had great potential for extra audio …
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