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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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@davidfolkenflik, @craigsilverman, MinOnline, WWD Media Headlines, @nycjim, Guardian, @kaysteiger and @edpilkington
Rem Rieder / 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 …
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Tina Brown to leave Daily Beast, start new company
Tina Brown to leave Daily Beast, start new company
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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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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
BuzzFeed puts in new polices for “community” posts: an uneasy attempt at control — Political and activist groups are using BuzzFeed's self-publishing tools to promote controversial messages. On Wednesday, the site put out new policies and guidelines to govern “community” submissions.
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Ryan Jacobs / The Atlantic Online:
Israel and BuzzFeed: When Government PR Goes Viral
Israel and BuzzFeed: When Government PR Goes Viral
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@moneyries, @hamishmckenzie and @lisang
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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Press Gazette:
Former Sun deputy news editor Ben O'Driscoll charged under Operation Elveden — Former Sun deputy news editor Ben O'Driscoll has been charged with conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office. He is alleged to have authorised payments of at least £5,000 to public officials …
Janet I. Tu / Seattle Times blogs:
MSN cutting number of contractors, increasing full-time employees — Microsoft is cutting the number of contractors who work at MSN as part of the large company-wide reorganization announced in July. — The company did not say how many contractor positions are being cut but did say that different vendors …
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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
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
ABC executive: second screen apps can be a distraction — Second-screen apps used to be all the rage with TV executives just a few years ago, but Disney's Digital EVP Albert Cheng's network is moving away from the idea to complement shows with second screen experiences.
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@lucas_shaw and @awallenstein
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Vietnam's Internet Censorship Bill Goes Into Effect — Internet freedom has gone from bad to worse in Vietnam as an online censorship law known as Decree 72 went into effect this month. It bans bloggers and users of social media from quoting, gathering, or summarizing information from press organizations or government websites.
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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Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:
Netflix, Amazon drive up price for Hollywood content, conferees told — The effects of Netflix and Amazon are felt throughout the market, Shawn Strickland, chief executive of Redbox Instant by Verizon, said at the Broadcasting & Cable's NextTV Summit. (Netflix)
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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Marie Mawad / Bloomberg:
Vivendi Edges Closer to Split With Bollore as Deputy Chairman — Vivendi SA (VIV) moved closer to a long-discussed plan to split its telecommunications business from media assets, marking another sweeping reorganization of the former French utility. — Bowing to investor pressure to overhaul …
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Guardian:
Mirror investigated over criminal liability for alleged phone hacking — Publisher of Daily and Sunday Mirror says Met is investigating if it is ‘criminally liable’ for alleged hacking by previous employees — The publisher of the Sunday Mirror has said it is under investigation …
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Press Gazette and Hollywood Reporter