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Craig Douglas / Boston Business Journal:
Judge orders NY Times to set aside all Globe proceeds until class action is resolved — The New York Times Co.'s celebration after selling The New England Media Group to John Henry was likely short-lived yesterday, as a Worcester judge has ordered the Gray Lady to set aside all proceeds …
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Beth Healy / Boston Globe:
John Henry's purchase of Boston Globe is completed after Worcester judge lifts injunction — Boston businessman John Henry's purchase of the Boston Globe became official Thursday afternoon, ending 20 years of ownership by the New York Times Co. — Henry, the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox …
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Vivian Schiller to Leave NBC News for Twitter — In a bid to reinforce Twitter's mutually beneficial relationships with the news industry, the social networking giant on Thursday appointed Vivian Schiller to a newly created position, head of news and journalism partnerships.
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Sara Morrison / The Wrap:
Nikki Finke Claims to Be Leaving Deadline, Announces NikkiFinke.com — Nikki Finke says she is set to leave the website she founded and start over again at NikkiFinke.com, announcing it on Twitter on Thursday. — “I am building out NikkiFinke.com and will unveil it right after the new year,” she tweeted.
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Gawker, BuzzFeed, The Atlantic Wire, Vulture, @thewrap and LA Observed
Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
YouTube Takes on The News — Much like the Google News homepage, YouTube's news channel aggregates video news content from some of the biggest - and smallest - broadcasters on earth. Also, like Google News, the channel does not actually produce its own journalism.
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Tim Wu / New Yorker:
Is Ad Avoidance a Problem? — Back in the twentieth century, people were roughly equal in their power to avoid advertising. Only desert hermits and commune dwellers could truly live ad-free. But today, many people cheerfully claim to be total ad-avoiders, and it has become possible …
Karl Bode / DSLreports:
Source: Comcast Launching HBO Broadband Bundle Aimed at Netflix — An insider familiar with Comcast's promotional plans tells DSLreports that the company is preparing a new broadband and HBO streaming bundle aimed squarely at Netflix. The new promotion will be called “Internet Plus,” …
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Engadget, SlashGear, Digital Trends, The Verge and Gigaom
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
NSA chief: Stop reporters ‘selling’ spy documents — The head of the embattled National Security Agency, Gen. Keith Alexander, is accusing journalists of “selling” his agency's documents and is calling for an end to the steady stream of public disclosures of secrets snatched by former contractor Edward Snowden.
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Washington Post, New York Times and New York Magazine
Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:
Amazon Publishing reportedly retreating in NYC. Thank (or blame) Barnes & Noble — When Amazon Publishing launched its general trade imprint in New York in 2011, the goal was to go head-to-head with the big traditional publishers here. The company announced in May of that year …
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Former News Int chief exec Tom Mockridge said News of the World hacking scandal costs could rise to £1bn — The final cost of the News of the World hacking scandal could rise to £1bn, according to a private assessment made by former News International chief executive Tom Mockridge.
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Exaro, Press Gazette, @domponsford and The Huffington Post
Brian Fung / The Switch:
Inside former NSA chief Michael Hayden's ‘interview’ with an Amtrak live-tweeter — He should've taken the quiet car. — But that's not what Michael Hayden did on Thursday afternoon as he boarded Acela No. 2170, bound for New York. — Instead, the former NSA director nestled …
Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review:
The Decline of Wikipedia — The sixth most widely used website in the world is not run anything like the others in the top 10. It is not operated by a sophisticated corporation but by a leaderless collection of volunteers who generally work under pseudonyms and habitually bicker with each other.
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Gigaom, The Verge, SlashGear, @bryanappleyard, The Next Web, Techdirt, The Raw Story and Business Insider
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Publishers Confront Digital at Conference: ‘Magazines Are the Original Native Ads’ — Real Competition Isn't Each Other but ‘Other Sources of Distraction’ — Joe Ripp, the newly installed CEO at Time Inc., has spent the first eight weeks on the job firing up his troops for the company's spinoff from Time Warner next year.
Matthew Flamm / Crain's New York Business:
I'm the reporter Fox News conned — There are six steps to perpetrating a classic con, according to the 1923 book Confessions of a Confidence Man. My favorite—the one that best summarizes how in 2008 Fox News duped me in order to discredit my reporting—is the third in the list, known as the “Build-up.”
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Gawker, @erikwemple, Washington Post, @mflamm_reporter, @davidfolkenflik, Erik Wemple and The Huffington Post
Jason Deans / Guardian:
Press regulation: seven global groups urge Queen not to sign ‘toxic’ charter — Letter claims royal charter would have a chilling effect on UK journalism and could lead to muzzling of press in other countries — Seven international newspaper industry trade bodies and media freedom organisations …
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Ian Burrell / The Independent:
Press announces timetable for ‘toughest regulator in the world’
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Josh Kron / New York Times:
Kenya Assails Coverage Of an Attack On a Mall — NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan journalists came under threat this week from the authorities over their coverage of last month's Westgate mall attack, after video suggesting possible looting by Kenyan forces was broadcast on national television.
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