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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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BBC:
Press regulation: Privy Council grants royal charter — A new cross-party royal charter on press regulation has been granted by the Privy Council, the government says, after the newspaper industry lost a last-minute court challenge. — Court of Appeal judges refused newspaper publishers …
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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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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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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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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Comcast downplays Netflix talks, still adding broadband subscribers
Comcast downplays Netflix talks, still adding broadband subscribers
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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 said 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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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Digital subscriptions up 24% at Financial Times — The Financial Times “reached its highest circulation in its 125-year history,” owner Pearson PLC's nine-month trading report says. Circulation is up 5 percent over the same period in 2012, and digital subscriptions are up 24 percent, “to almost 387,000,” the statement says.
Taylor Soper / GeekWire:
ESPN mobile properties saw more unique visitors than ESPN.com in September for first time ever — Here's yet another sign of the movement toward mobile devices: ESPN, for the first time ever, saw more unique visitors on its mobile properties than on ESPN.com in September.
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David Zurawik / Baltimore Sun:
‘PBS NewsHour’ has lost 48 percent of its audience in last 8 years — By David Zurawik — Eight years ago this month, I did an interview with then anchor Jim Lehrer in connection with the 30th anniversary of the “PBS NewsHour.” — It was a laudatory piece, as I had long shared Lehrer's values about journalism and democracy.
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
This year, no star-studded lunch planned for Time ‘Person of the Year’ rollout — Time magazine is gearing up for its annual Person of the Year rollout, in which the newsweekly anoints a public figure who “for better or for worse has done the most to influence the events of the year.”
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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Vicky Gan / Smithsonian:
The Phone That Helped Andy Carvin Report the Arab Spring is Now in the Smithsonian — Andy Carvin is a man of many titles—"digital media anchor," “real-time news DJ” and “online community organizer,” to name a few—but the one he is most comfortable with is “storyteller.”