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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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David Freedlander / The Daily Beast:
Tina Brown's Next Big Move — After five years at The Daily Beast, the irrepressible editor is leaving to build her own company. David Freedlander reports. — The Daily Beast's editor-in-chief Tina Brown announced to the newsroom on Wednesday afternoon that she will be leaving the five-year-old online outfit.
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USA Today:
Rieder: The lost magic of Tina Brown — I'll never forget the advice about putting out magazines I got from Tina Brown. It was more than 20 years ago, and I had just become editor of American Journalism Review. We had an annual readers' poll, and in their infinite wisdom the AJR subscribers …
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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Pandora:
Pandora Names Brian McAndrews Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman — Pandora (NYSE:P), today announced that the company's Board of Directors has appointed Brian McAndrews, formerly of Madrona Venture Group, Microsoft and aQuantive, to succeed Joe Kennedy as Chief Executive Officer …
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Guardian:
How Lord Patten fell from grace as BBC Trust chairman — This time last year he was pre-eminent, but the former Hong Kong governor now faces criticism over a string of scandals — With a CV that includes prominent roles with the Conservative party, Oxford University …
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Tim Molloy / The Wrap:
Steve Burke: NBC ‘Significantly’ Lags in Profits, Needs More Ads, Higher Ratings — NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke said Wednesday that NBC “is significantly behind” its rivals in profitability and needs higher ratings and more ad sales. — Burke said ABC, CBS and Fox all are making …
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Broadcasting & Cable, Variety and Home Media Magazine
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
USA Today Sports goes Quickish with The Q — The USA Today Sports Media Group is out with a new sports news and analysis aggregator called The Q. It's human-backed aggregation, with a focus for now on NFL news from beat writers and columnists from around the sports journalism world. As they put it:
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Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider:
Vladimir Putin Writes Intense New York Times Op-Ed — Calls Out American Exceptionalism — This is a surprise. Russian President Vladimir Putin is the author of a new op-ed in the New York Times titled: A Plea For Caution From Russia. — The piece urges against a strike in Syria …
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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The Daily Caller, @_arianna, The Atlantic Wire, Nxtblog and @digiday
Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Fight with CBS cost Time Warner Cable subscribers — Time Warner Cable says it lost subscribers after CBS pulled the signals of its local TV stations in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas. (Bloomberg) — Time Warner Cable lost subscribers when CBS pulled the signals of its local TV stations in New York …
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Deadline.com, @greavespg, @jbflint and Hollywood Reporter
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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National Review, @businessinsider, The Week, Business Insider, @justincsnow, Mediaite, @nickbaumann and TheBlaze.com
Dena Levitz / Mediashift:
Donation, Patron Services Help Fans Support Their Favorite Authors — Jack Conte has upwards of 160,000 subscribers to his YouTube page. Each of his uploaded music videos are viewed at least 100,000 times, which comes to a whopping million monthly views. Yet advertising revenue …
Pax Dickinson / Medium:
On Being @paxdickinson … I'm Pax Dickinson, founder of Glimpse, a forthcoming encryption based ephemeral picture messaging app. Preregistration is up at MyFOIA.com and I'm really excited about starting something new, it's going to be... But that's not what you're here for.
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Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:
Music service Piki.fm to shut down, founders to concentrate on revamped Turntable instead — The team behind Piki.fm, the music recommendation radio service, announced today via e-mail that the service would be shutting down, a move that's effective as of the end of September.
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Valleywag, hypebot and The Next Web
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
WSJ op-ed writer Elizabeth O'Bagy fired for resume lie — The Syria researcher whose Wall Street Journal op-piece was cited by Secretary of State John Kerry and Sen. John McCain during congressional hearings about the use of force has been fired from the Institute for the Study of War for lying …
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