Mediagazer: Twitter's New Media Evangelist Needs More Than 1,200 Tweets (Ruth Bazinet/Medium)

8:30 AM ET, October 10, 2013

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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

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Ruth Bazinet / Medium:

Twitter's New Media Evangelist Needs More Than 1,200 Tweets … Twitter's attrition rate is hindering its ability to adequately grow its user base, and ultimately its revenue. Twitter is currently losing money, and its losses are accelerating as it heads towards an IPO.

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Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

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Laura Bennett / The New Republic:

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Stuart Elliott / New York Times:

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Ted Johnson / Variety:

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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Al Jazeera will launch a dedicated online channel, bring videos back to YouTube — Quatar-based TV news network Al Jazeera will launch a dedicated online video channel within the next few months. The channel was announced at the MIPCOM industry convention in Cannes this week …

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Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:

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Guardian:

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Jodi Enda / Pew Research Center:

In print, newspapers cut opinion — Much has been written about newspapers cutting staffs, news pages and bureaus in response to financial pressures in recent years. But a growing number of dailies also have reduced the amount of newsprint they devote to editorials and commentary …

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Katherine Rosman / Wall Street Journal:

In Digital Era, What Does ‘Watching TV’ Even Mean? — Study Suggests More Time Spent on Smartphones, Computers, Tablets Than Television — We spend a full five hours and 16 minutes a day in front of a screen, and that's without even turning on a television.

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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Al Gore Tried To Buy Twitter And Merge It With Current. What If He'd Succeeded? — Don't you just love all the stuff that comes out when a hot tech company declares it's going public? I'm thinking in particular about a tidbit from Nick Bilton's piece in the Times magazine about the intrigue and betrayals in Twitter's early years.