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New York Times Company:
The New York Times Company Reports 2013 Third-Quarter Results — NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)— The New York Times Company (NYSE:NYT) announced an operating profit of $12.9 million in the third quarter of 2013 compared with $8.9 million in the same period of 2012.
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Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Times Co. Reports Quarterly Loss After Sale of Globe — The New York Times Company reported on Thursday a net loss in the third quarter, driven mainly by the company's recent sale of the New England Media Group, which included The Boston Globe. Digital circulation gains helped produce a slight increase in overall revenue.
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The Wrap, NetNewsCheck.com, Bloomberg, Reuters, investors.nytco.com, @mathewi, Zolmax, Talking New Media and @romenesko
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
USA Today's circulation up 67 percent? Newspaper industry makes comparisons increasingly difficult — Circulation in September 2013 rose at The New York Times, fell at The Wall Street Journal and skyrocketed at USA Today, according to figures released Thursday by the Alliance for Audited Media.
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Alliance for Audited Media
Press Gazette:
News of the World hacked rival journalists as part of the ‘dog eat dog’ world of journalism — Glenn Mulcaire hacked the phones of rival journalists as a “nice easy and cheap” way of “scooping” the opposition, the phone hacking trial heard today. — Andrew Edis QC for the prosecution …
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Jim Romenesko:
‘Change is hard’: Consumer Reports restructures to survive in the digital era — Consumer Reports and Consumers Union, the policy and action division of the magazine, showed a hefty profit of $21,414,103 for the fiscal year ending May 31, 2008. The next two years were profitable, too …
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Gigaom, Talking Biz News and @1bobcohn
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Time Inc. Signs on With Flipboard — No. 1 magazine publisher Time Inc. announced plans to put its magazine content on Flipboard. People and InStyle will roll out this week on the mobile news aggregator app, with Time and Fortune scheduled to follow in December.
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The Next Web and @time_inc
Erik Wemple:
Just who is meddling with the Philadelphia Inquirer? — George E. Norcross III, part owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer, likes data. He is a prominent insurance executive and a massive force in New Jersey Democratic politics, not to mention the chairman of the board of trustees …
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Dave Davies / NewsWorks:
Katz rejects buyout offer, open to outside management of Inquirer
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Poynter and JIMROMENESKO.COM
Matt Buchanan / New Yorker:
Waiting for the Next Great Technology Critic — For well over a decade, the two most influential voices about consumer technology have been a sixty-six-year-old man who lives just outside of Washington, D.C. and a fifty-year-old man who resides in Westport, Connecticut.
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Talking Biz News, @stewartmader, @fmanjoo, @laurengoode, @fmanjoo, @jasonkincaid and @samfbiddle
Patrick Wintour / Guardian:
New press regulation system ‘entirely voluntary’, says Nick Clegg — Deputy PM dismisses claims of end to press freedom as ‘wild hyperbole’, saying no media outlet will be required to sign up — Newspapers will not be required to enter into the new system of press regulation agreed by the privy council ,Nick Clegg has said.
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Roxanne Cooper / The Raw Story:
Village Voice editor Tony Ortega to helm editorial at Raw Story — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Village Voice editor Tony Ortega to helm editorial at Raw Story — BERKELEY, CA - October 31, 2013 — Raw Story is pleased to announce that Tony Ortega, former editor-in-chief at The Village Voice …
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FishbowlNY and @rawstory
Umberto Bacchi / International Business Times:
Saudi Journalist Tariq al-Mubarak Arrested over Support for Women Drive Ban Protest — About 60 women in Saudi Arabia openly flouted the law by driving through the streets (Reuters) — Human rights activists have urged Saudi authorities to release a local journalist who was arrested …
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PC World:
Copyright levy for ISPs violates EU regulation, Belgian government says — A plan by the Belgian association of authors, composers and publishers to make ISPs pay copyright levies for offering access to copyright-protected material online violates the European e-commerce directive, a Belgian government spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
FT teams up with Japan's Nikkei — The Financial Times is forging close links with Japan's leading business media group, Nikkei, according to a memo on its website by the FT's editor, Lionel Barber. — He writes that the pink paper's latest Japan Special Report marks the start …
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Financial Times
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Digital subscriptions up 24% at Financial Times
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AdExchanger, Pearson and Guardian
BBC:
Syria: Kidnapped Polish journalist escapes from captors — A Polish photojournalist kidnapped in Syria three months ago is home after escaping from his captors, Poland's foreign ministry has announced. — Marcin Suder was abducted by masked gunmen in north-western Syria in July.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Time Warner Cable Drops 306,000 TV Subs, In Part Because of CBS Blackout — MSO also cuts full-year revenue growth forecast after subscriber losses — A monthlong blackout of CBS for Time Warner Cable customers in key markets led the cable operator to lose more residential video subscribers …
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New York Times, Home Media Magazine, Reuters, Associated Press and Bloomberg
Scott Roxborough / Hollywood Reporter:
German Court Bans Internet ‘Throttling’ by Deutsche Telekom — Telekom's move to restrict broadband speeds would have made it nearly impossible for customers to use a VOD or IPTV platform other than its own Entertain service. — COLOGNE, Germany - A German court has ruled …
Liana B. Baker / Reuters:
Comcast could license tech to other U.S. cable operators: executive — (Reuters) - A top Comcast Corp executive said on Wednesday that the company is in talks to license its latest technology, called X1, to other cable operators, which would help the industry better compete with telecom and satellite rivals.
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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Comcast downplays Netflix talks, still adding broadband subscribers
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