Mediagazer: New FCC Chair Tom Wheeler Announces New Staff Appointments (Tim Molloy/The Wrap)

3:55 PM ET, November 4, 2013

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Glenn Mulcaire never deleted Milly Dowler's voice mail, court told — The News of the World never deleted Milly Dowler's voice mail messages, a court has heard. — Continuing his opening address at the phone-hacking trial, Andrew Edis conceded there was no evidence to support the claim carried in The Guardian.

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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Texas Tribune is getting into sponsored content for a new online opinion section — The Texas Tribune will begin experimenting with sponsored content in 2014 with a site dedicated to both standard and paid opinion pieces. — TribTalk will be the Austin-based news nonprofit's answer …

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David Carr / New York Times:

With ‘Alpha House,’ Amazon Makes Bid for Living Room Screens and Beyond — Not long ago, I was on the set of a show about politics, Washington and a senator gone rogue. The set had all the trappings of a big-time television production, but it will be delivered not by broadcast or cable …

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Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon' approach to find new TV hits could hold lessons for established media companies

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Twitter apologizes for blocking newspaper's URLs — Twitter's Andrew Fitzgerald apologized Monday to Philadelphia City Paper reporter Daniel Denvir for an episode last week when Twitter wasn't allowing users to access the paper's stories through tweeted URLs, Denvir told Poynter in a phone call.

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Journalism.org:

Twitter News Consumers: Young, Mobile and Educated — Nearly one-in-ten U.S. adults (8%) get news through Twitter, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center, in collaboration with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Compared with the 30% of Americans who get news on Facebook …

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Jim Romenesko:

Dayton Daily News memo: There will be nothing negative about CBS in our newspaper — In Dayton, Cox Media Group is integrating its print, TV (a CBS affiliate) and radio operations and using the slogan, “Come Together.” According to a memo that Dayton Daily News staffers received on Friday …

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Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

What to do with $250m in digital journalism? — Pierre Omidyar, Ebay's founder and now philanthropist, pledged $250m to a new investigative reporting venture. Starting a project of this magnitude from scratch isn't an everyday occurrence, leading us to wonder how it could look like?

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Tim Molloy / The Wrap:

New FCC Chair Tom Wheeler Announces New Staff Appointments — As he's sworn in as the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Tom Wheeler put his first stamp on the office by naming new staffers who will help lead the commission that regulates broadcasting and telecommunications.

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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Twitter Raises IPO Price Range And Analysts Approve — So much for Twitter being “the anti-Facebook” in its approach to going public. — The social messenging service has taken a page from its big blue rival, jacking up its price range in the final days before its share debut on the New York Stock Exchange.

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

Area comedian named Fishbowl DC editor — Patrick Tutwiler, a Washington-based comedian, has been named editor of the media news and gossip site Fishbowl DC, following Betsy Rothstein's departure. — “You may have seen one of his stand up acts around the District, or more recently …

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Daniel Terdiman / CNET:

Power plays at Twitter: Jack, Ev, and the need to grow up (Q&A) — Talk about good timing. — This week, just as Twitter is about to carry out its long-awaited and highly anticipated IPO, here comes Nick Bilton's “Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal …

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Will Oremus / Slate:

Reddit's Politics Section Decides Mother Jones Isn't All “Bad Journalism” — The volunteers who run Reddit's most influential politics section announced Monday that they've taken a second look at some of the domains they banned last week, and decided to reinstate one: Mother Jones.

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