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Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:
Senate confirms Wheeler to lead FCC — The Senate unanimously confirmed Tom Wheeler, an investor and former industry lobbyist, to be chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Tuesday. — The vote was delayed for two weeks by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who expressed concern about Wheeler's views on political disclosure rules.
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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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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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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.
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
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Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:
Consumers Remain Indifferent To Smart TVs — A majority of consumers aren't interested in buying a new smart TV over the next 12 months — but advertising its strong attributes could help turn that indifference around. — Some 73% of consumers have given a thumbs down to buying a new smart TV …
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.
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.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
No Amazon TV Box for Christmas — Amazon is going to sell a lot of stuff in the next couple of months. * But it is very unlikely to be selling its own Web video box. — Jeff Bezos and company have been prepping a set-top box meant to compete with Roku and Apple's Apple TV device …
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Karen Fratti / 10,000 Words:
On the Media Asks Listeners to ‘Be the Journalist,’ With Web Tool — On The Media, the NPR podcast, is part media reporting, part commentary, and part investigative journalism organization. And I'm not just saying that because the pledge drive is going on. — Sometimes they just fall into it.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast to Stream 35 Live TV Channels to Mobile Apps Outside the Home — Renamed Xfinity TV Go app lineup includes live feeds of ESPN, CNN, Fox News and other cablers — Comcast has inked deals to let subscribers tune in to 35 live cable channels through its updated video-player app …
Harry McCracken / TIME:
With New Nook GlowLight, Barnes & Noble Gets Back in the E-Reading Game — The last twelve months have been a heck of a roller-coaster ride for venerable bookseller and gadget-maker-come-lately Barnes & Noble. A year ago, it released nice new Nook HD tablets which offered, among other things, movies from B&N's own new video store.
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Dru Sefton / Current:
Bill Moyers ending Moyers & Company in January — Bill Moyers announced today to his colleagues in public TV that the last broadcast of his Moyers & Company public-affairs show will air Jan. 3, 2014, when current funding commitments end. — He also said that his production company is …
Alex Halperin / Salon:
Chartbeat CEO Tony Haile wants to change the metrics editors and advertisers care about — This man decides what you read — Miley Cyrus gave us so much that night. Just trying to count her blessings smacks of ingratitude, like regifting manna. — But two months later …
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Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
New BBC reporting unit tracks stories taking off on social — BBC Trending will report on social media stories from around the world using in-tweet video, the BBC magazine news site and radio — Read more — Other top stories — Also on Journalism.co.uk...
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Mobile Video App Snapverse Raises $3.5M And Announces Deals With Universal, Warner Bros, And Sony — Snapverse is an iPhone app that combines 20-second user videos with licensed music. The amount of licensed music available is about to grow significantly, thanks to partnerships with Universal, Warner Brothers, and Sony.
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