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Claire Peracchio / The Atlantic Online:
Why Facebook and Twitter Are Fighting Over Your Television — Inside the campaign to take over your living room, screen by screen — When the new season of ABC's hit political thriller Scandal premiered Thursday night, fans cataloged each moment of melodrama in the worldwide living room of Twitter and Facebook.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Nielsen and Twitter Unveil Social TV Metrics, Showing How Little Tweets Line Up with Ratings
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Reed Albergotti / Digits:
Facebook to expand TV data report initiative to networks in eight countries
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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Can Twitter Save TV? (And Can TV Save Twitter?)
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Businessweek, @forbes and Wall Street Journal
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... As described in a New York Times story on the weekend — one that for some reason chose to save this information until the end — Google has tweaked its search algorithm and downgraded the Page Rank of so-called “mugshot” websites …
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WebProNews, @trevortimm, The Huffington Post, Businessweek and Forbes, Thanks:@mathewi
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Don't say the B word: DVRs, VOD, ratings and the binge viewing threat — New York Times writer Brian Stelter penned an interesting piece this weekend about the growing delay between the time an episode of a TV show is broadcast and the time people actually get around to watching it.
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Bloomberg:
iTunes Radio to reach UK and Canada before Pandora, also expanding to Australia and NZ in early 2014 — Apple Said to Expand ITunes Radio to U.K. Before Pandora — Apple Inc. (AAPL) plans to expand iTunes Radio to English-speaking countries outside the U.S. by early 2014 …
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, Pocket-lint, App Advice and Engadget
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Judge Allows Broadcasters to Examine Aereo's Patents — The plaintiffs suing for copyright infringement want to find out why Aereo's patent applications state there is no simple way to access TV programming on digital devices. — Over objections made by Aereo's lawyers …
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Hillicon Valley and Courthouse News Service
Dave Davies / NewsWorks:
Philadelphia Inquirer editor Bill Marimow ousted … Philadelphia Inquirer editor Bill Marimow was suddenly ousted on Monday morning, but sources at the paper say the company owners are divided on the move, and it may be challenged. — A morning email to staff said that “effective immediately …
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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@dcsportsbog and @jfdulac
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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Capital New York and @joepompeo
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Media Matters Gets Some Right-Wing Competition — A new group called TruthRevolt, run by radio host Ben Shapiro, launched Monday with calls to boycott Ritz Crackers if it doesn't stop its sponsorship of Al Sharpton's show on MSNBC. — A nonprofit group that bills itself as a right-wing version …
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FishbowlDC and The Huffington Post
Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:
Bloomberg Media CEO Outlines 100-Day Strategy — The relatively new CEO of Bloomberg Media Group, Justin Smith, has sent out a memo announcing a “100-day strategy.” He doesn't reveal exactly what that strategy is, but says employees will be hearing more specifics on it in the next few weeks.
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Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times:
EveryBlock founder advises Twitter not to hire NBC News digital chief — EveryBlock founder Adrian Holovaty advised Twitter not to hire Vivian Schiller for its Head of News opening. — It seems there are still sore feelings about the closing of hyper-local news start-up EveryBlock.
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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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
NAHJ leaders cite Unity's ‘financial disorganization,’ ask board to vote to leave — National Association of Hispanic Journalists representatives on Unity: Journalists for Diversity's board “are asking the NAHJ national board to vote in favor of leaving UNITY,” they write in a statement on NAHJ's site.
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Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
wpe13: Guardian boss discusses paywalls and privacy — ‘We are not anti-paywall,’ Andrew Miller, chief executive of the Guardian says, but adds that ‘we are going to have to ask our readers for more money in the future’ — Read more — Other top stories — Also on Journalism.co.uk...
Leslie Picker / Bloomberg:
Twitter's Valuation Seen Exceeding $20 Billion After IPO — Twitter IPO Falls Between Zynga, Facebook: Thompson — Twitter Inc.'s user growth is slowing and it shows no sign of turning a profit. Some fund managers say that's not going to stop the microblogging service's $12.8 billion valuation from treading higher.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
NYT Washington reporter: 'This is the most closed, control-freak administration I've ever covered' — Sanger: 'This is the most closed, control-freak administration I've ever covered' — David Sanger, the New York Times reporter who has spent two decades reporting in Washington …
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@dylanbyers
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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