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Nancy Gibbs / TIME:
New Editor Nancy Gibbs Maps Out What's Next For Time — Every new editor of TIME gets the chance to reimagine it, and there has never been a more exciting time to do that. — TIME now reaches an audience its founders could have only dreamed of: 50 million people around the world, in print, online, on mobile.
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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Talking To Nancy Gibbs, Time Magazine's New Managing Editor — Time magazine has a new top editor: Nancy Gibbs, a 28-year veteran of the title. She was named to the job of managing editor on Tuesday, succeeding Richard Stengel, who's leaving to join the State Department as under secretary for public diplomacy and public affairs.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Nancy Gibbs to replace Stengel at ‘Time’
Nancy Gibbs to replace Stengel at ‘Time’
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Christine Haughney / New York Times:
A Magazine for Farm-to-Table — HUDSON, N.Y. — When a fledgling magazine gets former President Bill Clinton to contribute an article, you would think he would be featured on the cover. But the cover model for the current issue of the quarterly Modern Farmer is a sleepy-looking goat.
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John Paul Titlow / Fast Company:
iTunes Radio: Smart For Apple, “Meh” For Users and Harmless For Pandora — On Wednesday, the Bubble Wrap officially comes off of iOS 7, and with it Tunes Radio. For consumers, iTunes Radio might feel like little more than a Pandora clone with different guts and a polished interface.
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Paul Sloan / CNET:
Major labels want iTunes radio to succeed; streaming is more lucrative than broadcasting
Major labels want iTunes radio to succeed; streaming is more lucrative than broadcasting
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Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Hulu Lines Up New Video Content — After Months in Limbo, Streaming Site to Add 144 Titles From the BBC — Hulu LLC is once again making significant investments in content, after months in limbo on the auction block. — The video-streaming website has struck a pact with BBC Worldwide North America …
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Marie Beaudette / Wall Street Journal:
Penthouse Publisher FriendFinder Files for Bankruptcy Protection — Company Plans to Exit Chapter 11 by Jan. 31 as Privately Held Entity — Penthouse magazine publisher FriendFinder Networks Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection under a deal that would see it return to the hands of its founders …
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Nathan Olivarez-Giles / The Verge:
Google reportedly building in-house ad-tracking tool called ‘AdID’ — Google is reportedly developing its own system of tracking our activity online. According to a report from USA Today, Google is building an identification method for advertisers, called AdID, that would replace third-party HTTP cookies.
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Randy Furst / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
KSTP anchor's driver's license data snooped 1,380 times, suit says — Jessica Miles, a KSTP-TV midday anchor and reporter, became the news herself on Monday. Miles filed a federal lawsuit claiming that her private driver's license information was illegally searched about 1,380 times …
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Kelly McBride / Poynter:
How the entertainment cycle brings out the best & worst journalism — First something crazy happens. It could be DeAndre Jordan making a big dunk, or Miley Cyrus twerking. On Sunday, it was the first Indian-American woman winning the Miss America pageant. — Second, the Internet reacts.
Edward Schumacher-Matos / NPR Ombudsman:
The Patriotism of NPR and Its Sponsor Al Jazeera America — Al Jazeera America, the new cable news network owned by the Emirate of Qatar, has been running sponsorship ads on NPR for the last month as part of its launch campaign. Some listeners are upset, accusing NPR of being unpatriotic or naïve.
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Jim Edwards / Business Insider:
Twitter's IPO Will Reveal How Many Fake Or Inactive Users It Has — And It May Not Be Pretty — When Twitter files its S-1 papers for its IPO, it will answer a simple question that has been a bit of a mystery for observers and fans of the company: How many users are on Twitter?
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The Verge and Fast Company
Michael Rondon / Folio:
Johnson Publishing Gets Credit Infusion — Johnson Publishing has secured a line of credit as it continues to “reposition” itself in the marketplace. The company behind popular African-American titles Ebony and Jet announced it has agreed to a revolving credit facility with Gibraltar Business Capital.
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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Cable News Far More Hawkish On Syria Than Public: Pew — A Pew study on Monday attracted attention for its assertion that Al Jazeera America, which promised a different take on the world than its cable news counterparts, mostly mirrored their approach when it came to the debate over Syria.
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