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Glenn Greenwald / Omidyar Group:
Dan Froomkin and Liliana Segura join Glenn Greenwald's new news venture — Two New Journalists Join the Team — We're very excited to announce two new members joining our team: Dan Froomkin and Liliana Segura. Dan and Liliana will work alongside Laura Poitras, Jeremy Scahill …
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Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
New York Times Struggles to Replace Print Ads With Digital Sales — The New York Times Co.'s advertising department is struggling to replace its once-lucrative print ads with digital sales, as Google Inc. (GOOG) and Facebook Inc. gobble up increasingly large chunks of marketers' budgets.
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Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
New York Times Ad Chief: Branded Content Units Coming Soon
New York Times Ad Chief: Branded Content Units Coming Soon
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Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
Exclusive: CBS News In Talks With Distributors For 24-Hour Digital Video Service — The company's news and interactive units are developing a digital programming service to be distributed on mobile phones, tablets, game consoles and over-the-top TV distribution systems. — CBS headquarters.
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Deadline.com, TVNewser, Los Angeles Times, Variety and @brianstelter
Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
Aereo may have 100K subscribers in New York - that could be trouble — Aereo, the start-up that lets people watch over-the-air TV for $8/month, is giving broadcasters fits and delighting consumers looking to break free of over-priced cable bundles. But, until now, no has been quite sure how many people are actually using the service.
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Jim Romenesko:
Thomson Reuters beats Wall Street's expectations, plans to cut 3,000 positions — Thomson Reuters on Tuesday reported a third-quarter profit of 48 cents per share, beating Wall Street expectations by 4 cents. “Our Financial business achieved positive net sales for the first time in more than two years …
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Guardian, Reuters, @jeffjohnroberts, Talking Biz News, @ryanchittum, @james_dasilva, @mededitor and @edmundlee
Jim Romenesko:
Salt Lake Tribune retirees call for a U.S. Department of Justice probe of JOA revisions — Salt Lake Tribune retirees and other former employees have asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the recent Tribune-Deseret News joint operation agreement revisions.
Lou Carlozo / NetNewsCheck Latest:
Kroeger: BHM ‘Interested’ In Trib Co. Papers — Warren Buffett's BH Media Group could be eyeing some of the smaller newspapers in the Tribune Co. stable, possibly including titles such as the Allentown Morning Call, the Newport News Daily Press and the Hartford Courant.
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Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Twitter's Mobile Apps Begin to Look a Bit More Like Instagram — Continuing its trudge toward becoming a more media-centric service, Twitter on Tuesday announced a new version of its iOS and Android mobile applications, giving more prominence to photos and video in the stream.
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blog.twitter.com, Digiday, Gigaom, Poynter, TechCrunch, New York Times, @antderosa, @mikeisaac, @chrismessina, The Next Web and @mathewi
Alan Rusbridger / The New York Review of Books:
The Snowden Leaks and the Public — 1. — It is harder than you might think to destroy an Apple MacBook Pro according to British government standards. In a perfect world the officials who want to destroy such machines prefer them to be dropped into a kind of giant food mixer that reduces them to dust.
The Huffington Post:
New York Post Will Go To Trial Over Harassment, Wrongful Firing Lawsuit — In a setback for the New York Post, a district judge on Tuesday dismissed an effort to dispatch a lawsuit from a former employee alleging that she was harassed while at the paper and unlawfully fired.
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Politico, Capital New York and New York Magazine
Dan Kennedy / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Four takeaways from new owner John Henry's message to readers of The Boston Globe — John Henry's nearly 2,900-word message to readers of The Boston Globe could have been little more than an exercise in public relations, standing up for what is good and deploring what is bad. — There's a lot of that, of course.
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JIMROMENESKO.COM and NetNewsCheck Latest
Arti Patel / Folio:
In Keynote, Elisabeth DeMarse Addresses TheStreet Inc.'s Turnaround — The company has $60 million earmarked for acquisitions. — New York—Transitioning from one model to another is a difficult undertaking for any media publishing company. However, morphing within an industry in constant tumult is an entirely different situation.