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Reed Albergotti / Digits:
Facebook to expand TV data report initiative to networks in eight countries — Facebook Adds TV Partners Overseas — The rivalry between Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. over social conversations around television shows is moving overseas. — Facebook Monday will disclose plans …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Nielsen and Twitter Unveil Social TV Metrics, Showing How Little Tweets Line Up with Ratings — Nielsen and Twitter have released their first rankings of TV shows, designed to show the reach of TV-related conversation on Twitter. — And one thing is immediately clear …
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Hilary Mason:
What Mugshots Mean For Public Data — The New York Times has a story this morning on the growing use of mugshot data for, essentially, extortion. These sites scrape mugshots off of public records databases, use SEO techniques to rank highly in Google searches for people's names …
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
First they came for the mugshot websites, but I said nothing...
First they came for the mugshot websites, but I said nothing...
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Ted Leonsis: Washington Post must admit it's ‘not that important anymore’ — Ted Leonsis, the Washington sports team owner and former AOL executive, said Monday that if he had bought the Washington Post he would have made them admit they have a problem and are “not that important anymore.”
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Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
Can Jim Impoco Save Newsweek? — Jim Impoco, the new editor-in-chief of Newsweek, is either the bravest man in journalism - or the most self-destructive. Now owned by International Business Times Media, the notoriously embattled publication has changed hands four times in three years.
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T.C. Sottek / The Verge:
Fox News debuts bizarre, giant tablets in its outrageous new newsroom — If you can't make the news better, make it bigger — Fox News has just unveiled a breathtakingly ridiculous newsroom, complete with novelty-sized Windows-based touchscreens, a Twitter wall, and a wannabe Minority Report style display …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
NYT's Jill Abramson: Horse-race media trivializes politics — NEW YORK — New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson says she worries about the trivialization of politics by publications like POLITICO, but offered no defense when asked about the Times' own coverage of the political horse race.
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Gawker, The Wrap, @mlcalderone, @jayrosen_nyu and The Huffington Post
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Fox host apologizes for reporting fake news — Fox News host Anna Kooiman apologized on Sunday for reporting a story from a satirical news site. — On Saturday, the co-host of Fox & Friends Saturday was talking about the government shutdown when she said President Barack Obama had offered …
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
The Quartz Way — Quartz, a web-only business publication, just turned one year old. On both editorial and business dimensions, Quartz features all components of a modern media venture. Is this a formula for the long run? To answer the question, in the first of two articles, we take a closer look at the editorial product.
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Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Michael Rooney Departs Dow Jones, Trevor Fellows Joins as Head of Global Ad Sales — Michael Rooney, chief revenue officer of Dow Jones since 2007, is leaving the company. According to a memo from Lex Fenwick, Dow Jones' CEO and publisher of The Wall Street Journal, Rooney is departing to …
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MinOnline, @edmundlee, @rupertmurdoch and @rajunarisetti
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
SCOTUSblog still lacks Supreme Court credentials — SCOTUSblog still lacks its own press credentials to cover the Supreme Court, whose new term began Monday. Reached by email, SCOTUSblog Publisher Tom Goldstein said that after his organization in April received a credential to cover the U.S. Senate …
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Broadcasting & Cable, @massnewspapers, @jeffjohnroberts and @jonathanstray
Sam Biddle / Valleywag:
Tumblr's Editorial Director Christopher Price quits — Another Major Tumblr Employee Quits — Editorial Director Christopher Price, who joined Tumblr a week after it launched and has been part of its inner circle ever since, is jumping ship. — Price, who goes by Topherchris on this here internet, said only the following:
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Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:
Reuters CEO Andrew Rashbass talks about Reuters Next at staff meeting — Reuters CEO Andrew Rashbass Speaks to Staff During Town Hall Meeting — ReutersReuters Chief Executive Officer Andrew Rashbass addressed Reuters staff during an hour-long town hall meeting at the New York Reuters building this morning.
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New York Times:
Publisher of Philadelphia Inquirer Fires Editor — The editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, William K. Marimow, was fired on Monday, according to a brief e-mail sent to staff members by the newspaper's publisher. — A Pulitzer Prize winner and former investigative journalist …
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Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
The New Yorker Names Jonathan Shainin Online News Editor — Jonathan Shainin has been named news editor of Newyorker.com. Shainin comes to The New Yorker from The Caravan, where he served as senior editor since 2010. This will be Shainin's second stint with The New Yorker …
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