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Will Bunch / Philly.com:
Civic-minded billionaires like Omidyar and Bezos will save journalism, and that's not so bad — Like it or not, this is the future of American journalism — It I had a dime for every story that I've read over the last decade about how to save American journalism, I'd probably have as much money as this guy.
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Guardian, @adrianchen, Mashable, Press Gazette, BBC, @joseiswriting, Poynter and CNET
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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
The extraordinary promise of the new Greenwald-Omidyar venture (UPDATED) — Adversarial muckrakers + civic-minded billionaire = a whole new world — Make no mistake, news that Glenn Greenwald is leaving The Guardian to start a new publication funded by eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar is giant news …
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GigaOM, Wired, The New York Observer, The Huffington Post, The Monkey Cage, Kirk LaPointe's …, Washington Post and FishbowlNY
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Cameron's triple panics are responsible for the press regulation stalemate — The political attempt to appease regional publishers by tinkering with the cross-party royal charter on press regulation has failed to change their minds. — It looks as though the companies that own Britain's 1,200 regional …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Maker Studios Founder Danny Zappin Buys Website NewMediaRockstars — Danny Zappin, former CEO and co-founder of YouTube multichannel network Maker Studios, has acquired Internet video news website NewMediaRockstars, seeking to build it into what he envisions as an Entertainment Weekly for online entertainment.
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AllThingsD and YouTube News
Bloomberg:
Ziggo Turns Down Liberty Global's Takeover Bid as Too Low — Ziggo NV (ZIGGO), the Dutch cable-television provider, rejected a takeover proposal from shareholder Liberty Global Plc in a setback for billionaire John Malone's European expansion plan. — Calling Liberty Global's preliminary offer …
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Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Hollywood Reporter and DealBook
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Digital subscriptions to the Times and Sunday Times top 150,000 — News UK reveals that the two titles have a total of 350,000 subscribers to print and online editions — News UK has revealed that the number of digital subscribers to the Times and Sunday Times has topped 150,000.
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Journalism festival canceled due to funding problems — When revenue shrank, the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, didn't cut staff or send people on furloughs or panic or make everyone start a blog. — It just got canceled. — The festival, which would have taken place …
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Journalism Festival #ijf13, @emilydreyfuss and Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day
Steve Keenan / World Travel Market:
Amazon pulls Bill Bryson interview ebook reprint over copyright claim — Blogger beware - the battle over Bill Bryson's words — In 1994, freelance travel writer Mike Gerrard interviewed illustrious author Bill Bryson for a magazine called Passport. The article duly appeared.
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@101holidays, @matthewteller, @strwbilly and @stevenkeenan
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Apple Gets Its E-Book Antitrust Monitor — The federal judge who found Apple guilty of colluding with five of the six largest publishers in the U.S. in an e-book price-fixing scheme has chosen the external antitrust compliance monitors charged with making sure the company doesn't overstep the law again.
Discussion:
bizjournals and Fortune
Rem Rieder / USA Today:
Philly newspaper stars in ugly melodrama — An editor's ouster stirs controversy in the City of Brotherly Love. — CONNECT — The messy soap opera playing out at The Philadelphia Inquirer reads like a Harvard Business School case study of how not to run a company. — Consider:
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Philly.com, Philly.com, Philadelphia Magazine, Philadelphia Magazine and Philebrity.com
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
Times Reporter Plans to Take Fight to the Supreme Court — For James Risen, an investigative reporter for The Times, the bad news just keeps on coming. When I wrote about him in late July, a federal appeals panel had just ruled against him in a case related to a leak investigation.