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Jim Roberts / Mashable:
Jim Roberts Is Mashable's Executive Editor and Chief Content Officer — Today is an exciting day for me. I'm joining a new family, as executive editor and chief content officer at Mashable. — To some it might seem a bit of a departure. You might imagine a headline like …
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@nytfridge, @magicandrew, @webjournalist and @raju
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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Reuters:
Three ex-Murdoch journalists plead guilty to phone hacking — (Reuters) - Three former senior journalists from Rupert Murdoch's British tabloid the News of the World have pleaded guilty to charges relating to phone-hacking, the trial of two of the media mogul's former editors heard on Wednesday.
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Politico, Globe and Mail, BBC and Telegraph
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Michael Holden / Reuters:
British justice on trial in phone-hacking trial, jury told
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Guardian and Hacked Off
AllThingsD:
Intel May Turn Over Its Web TV Project to Verizon — Intel's efforts to break into the TV business may be coming to a close. — Sources say the chipmaker is close to a deal to hand over control of Intel Media, the unit that has been trying to build a Web-based subscription TV service …
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The Verge, Variety, Electronista, Gizmodo, @jyarow, Engadget, CNET, FierceOnlineVideo News and Softpedia News
Olivia Petersen / Politico:
POLITICO to Launch ‘POLITICO Magazine’ — POLITICO, the country's dominant political news source, announced today that this November it will launch POLITICO Magazine, a new print and online publication that will convene the most interesting, provocative and important thinkers and writers around …
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Wayne Friedman / MediaPost News:
NBCU Revs Sink, But Cable Up 4% — Comcast's NBCUniversal had a modest financial gains for its third quarter — when excluding Summer Olympic comparisons of 2012. Overall revenue for NBCUniversal sank 14.2% to $5.9 billion. Without the London Olympics some $1.2 billion in revenue for the third quarter of 2012, revenue was up 3.9%.
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Capital New York and Los Angeles Times
Rachel Donadio / New York Times:
Greeks Question Media, and New Voices Pipe Up — ATHENS — Late on a recent evening, crowds gathered at the Radio Bubble cafe in downtown Athens, drinking beer and talking politics. The cafe, in the trendy yet rough-around-the-edges Exarchia neighborhood, funds a small leftist online radio station …
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
AP's new Lingofy plugin is like a robot copy editor — Lingofy is a browser plugin that “checks website content for AP Stylebook's spelling, language, punctuation, usage and journalistic style guidelines,” the Associated Press says in a press release. The for-purchase plugin also checks …
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Newspapers' bid for injunction against press regulation royal charter fails — Publishers take their case to court of appeal after high court refuses to grant them last-minute ‘stay’ — Newspaper and magazine publishers have failed in their application for an injunction to prevent …
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The Independent, Telegraph and Press Gazette
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
Not even two weeks after shutdown, BitTorrent search site isoHunt is back — New anonymous creators tell TorrentFreak the site is a “file-sharing icon.” — Less than two weeks ago, IsoHunt, the notorious search engine site for BitTorrent files, agreed to shut down and pay $110 million …
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Guardian and Digital Trends
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 …
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.
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@hofrench, @evgenymorozov, @nybooks, @smithsam and Kirk LaPointe's …
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 …
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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USA Today, Fast Company, Good E-Reader, CNET, Associated Press, Mashable, ZDNet, Gizmodo, Engadget, TechCrunch and The Verge
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
New York Times Ad Chief: Branded Content Units Coming Soon — Redesigned Times Website Will Include New Ad Units — The New York Times is planning to step off the sidelines and into the world of native advertising online, where a growing list of traditional publishers have thrown their arms around sponsored or branded content.
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Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
New York Times Struggles to Replace Print Ads With Digital Sales
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