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David Cay Johnston / Newsweek:
Glenn Greenwald and the Future of Leaks — Glenn Greenwald, the lawyer-turned-journalist-turned- global headline for his reporting on leaked NSA documents, says there is about to be a revolution that will radically change how news organizations cover governments and other big institutions.
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AllThingsD:
Pinterest Does Another Massive Funding — $225 Million at $3.8 Billion Valuation (Confirmed) — According to several sources, Pinterest has completed another enormous funding, this time nabbing $225 million with late-stage investor Fidelity Investments in the lead.
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Forbes, TechCrunch, DealBook, Business Insider, PandoDaily, CNET, @felixsalmon, The Next Web, Mashable and Marketing Land
Erik Maza / WWD:
Condé Nast Discontinuing Internship Program — INTERNSHIPS ENDING: Condé Nast has decided to discontinue its internship program starting in 2014, WWD has learned. The end of the program comes after the publisher was sued this summer by two former interns who claimed …
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Virginia Governor, Senators To Honor Fired AP Journalists — In a display of bipartisan support for two fired Associated Press employees, several of Virginia's top elected officials are hosting a post-election gathering in their honor. — Republican Governor Bob McDonnell and Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling …
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Noah Hurowitz / Columbia Journalism Review:
Petition protests firing of AP staffers
Petition protests firing of AP staffers
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The Huffington Post and Talking Points Memo
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
AP reporter's mistake: Did the punishment fit the crime?
AP reporter's mistake: Did the punishment fit the crime?
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Gawker, FishbowlNY, @lpolgreen, @lisamillar, The Newspaper Guild, @timmydoe, @stefanjbecket, @jayrosen_nyu, @davidnakamura and New York Magazine
Jack Shafer:
Move over Bezos, ESPN can do news better than you — The pompous slogan, “The Worldwide Leader in Sports,” actually undersells ESPN's ultimate potential. — If the Bristol behemoth were a stand-alone company instead of a Walt Disney Co./Hearst Corporation co-venture …
Elizabeth Jensen / New York Times:
A Liberal Parts Ways With Fox — Sally Kohn, one of the Fox News Channel's most visible liberal pundits, parted ways with the network this week and turned up almost immediately on one of its rivals — MSNBC. — MSNBC wasted no time booking her Tuesday evening to discuss a commentary …
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Mediaite, @romenesko and TVNewser
Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:
BBC Global News, Latest Twitter Partner, Starts Series of Original In-Tweet Video Reports — ‘#BBCTrending’ Will Give Viewers the Story on News and Memes Circulating on Social Media — BBC Global News has struck a deal to serve sponsored video clips inside paid tweets via Twitter's growing …
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Gigaom, Variety, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, Engadget, The Wrap, Softpedia News, bizjournals and Mashable
Carol Loomis / Fortune:
Buffett: Why I didn't buy the Washington Post — Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett reveals why he passed on the deal that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos stepped up to. — FORTUNE — As the Graham family exits emotionally from the Washington Post newspaper, and new owner Jeff Bezos stays mum about his plans …
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USA Today and FishbowlNY
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Walmart's VUDU And Sony Pictures Introduce Online Extras For Digital Movies — Sony Pictures has teamed up with Walmart's Vudu to start offering additional content and features to viewers who buy movies through the streaming video service. The partnership is designed not just to provide …
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Brent Lang / The Wrap:
Sony, Vudu to Let Customers Share Clips of Films They Buy on Facebook, Twitter
Sony, Vudu to Let Customers Share Clips of Films They Buy on Facebook, Twitter
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Broadcasting & Cable
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Pulse Will Become A One-Stop Content Shop For LinkedIn, Using LinkedIn Profile Logins For Curated Content — LinkedIn, the social network for the working world now with over 238 million members globally, is presenting an update on its mobile strategy today.
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Official LinkedIn Blog, NYT Bits, AllThingsD, MarketWatch and @mathewi
Alex Pham / Billboard:
YouTube preparing a $10/month premium on-demand music service, may come this year — YouTube to Launch Subscription Music Service (Breaking) — YouTube is preparing a premium on-demand music service — akin to a Spotify, but with video — to launch later this year, according to several sources familiar with the plans.
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The Next Web and The Verge
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
A.J. Daulerio out at SpinMedia — A.J. Daulerio is leaving SpinMedia, he confirms to Poynter in an email. The company named the former Gawker editor-in-chief to the role of editorial director in August. — CEO Dale Strang told staffers Wednesday the company would be making “a number of structural adjustments,” including layoffs.
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Sara Morrison / The Wrap:
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Promises ‘Disciplinary Action’ for Racist Tweet (Updated) — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has apologized for a tweet that linked to its story about lottery winner Willie Lynch — saying the money could buy “40 acres and a whole lotta mules.”
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@ajc, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Mediaite, News & Views …, Poynter, @nolanolegal and The Huffington Post
Johana Bhuiyan / Capital New York:
Jonah Peretti: Don't worry about traffic — Buzzfeed founder Jonah Peretti kicked off the Association of Magazine Media's two-day American Magazine Media Conference Tuesday afternoon with a message to warm the hearts of toilers in digital media everywhere: Don't be a slave to the numbers.
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FishbowlNY
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
“We want people to do their own thinking”: What Nate Silver's looking for at the new, ESPN-housed FiveThirtyEight — What will the new FiveThirtyEight look like when it debuts next year? More politics, more sports, and, according to Nate Silver, all the other data they can get their hands on.