Mediagazer: Al Jazeera America fails to attract US audience (Claire Atkinson/New York Post)

6:05 PM ET, November 18, 2013

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Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:

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Merrill Knox / TVNewser:

Maria Bartiromo Leaving CNBC For FBN — Breaking: Maria Bartiromo is leaving CNBC to join Fox Business. — “After 20 years of groundbreaking work at CNBC, Maria Bartiromo will be leaving the company as her contract expires on November 24,” a CNBC spokesperson tells TVNewser.

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David Folkenflik / Politico magazine:
Close Encounters With Fox News

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Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Al Jazeera America fails to attract US audience — After just two months on the air, Al Jazeera America is losing ground in the US. — The US offshoot of the Mideast news outfit managed fewer than half of the viewers who tuned in to its predecessor, Al Gore's Current TV.

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Emily Bell / Guardian:

Journalists are on the move in America - and creating a new vitality — Big-name reporters are moving for very significant amounts of money to a wide variety of new and surprising places — It caused a stir when the lauded statistician Nate Silver recently announced he was leaving …

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Ted Johnson / Variety:

NFL, Major League Baseball Warn That Aereo Could Trigger End of Free TV Game Broadcasts — The National Football League and Major League Baseball are urging the Supreme Court to grant broadcasters' petition to hear their challenge to the legality of Aereo, the startup that features unauthorized streams of local broadcast signals.

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

What to do with $250m in digital journalism? (II) — In a previous Monday Note, we looked at an ideal newsroom, profusely funded by Pierre Omidyar and managed by whistleblowing facilitator Glenn Greenwald, a structure that combines the agility of a tech startup with the highest of journalistic standards.

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Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
Jay Rosen joins Pierre Omidyar's news venture

Cory Bergman / BreakingNews:

Users complain after Twitter sends out a @breakingnews notification — Twitter has been testing a news alert service, and as we experienced firsthand today, many users aren't happy about it. — As NASA's Maven rocket launched toward Mars, we published a breaking news update.

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Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:

Chief Operating Officer Stuart Karle Is Leaving Reuters — ReutersStuart Karle, Reuters chief operating officer, is leaving the company and his position will be eliminated, Reuters CEO Andrew Rashbass announced in a staff email this morning. — Mr. Karle, who was one of editor …

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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

Bloomberg departees include Loeb winner, Pulitzer finalist and ex-executive editor — Here is a sampling of some of the journalists whose jobs ended at Bloomberg News on Monday: — Rich Jaroslovsky was a technology columnist and reviewer for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek.

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William Launder / Wall Street Journal:
Bloomberg's News Division to Lay Off About 50 People

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Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:

Murdoch sale led to ruin of MySpace, says its co-founder — News Corp squandered $15bn of investors' cash, says MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe — Chris DeWolfe, the former chief executive of MySpace, has accused Rupert Murdoch of ruining the social network - and discussed false allegations …

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Michael Wolff / Guardian:

Forbes is latest old media for sale - with the help of the New York Times — Forbes used articles in the Times to help create an illusion of success. In fact, illusion is what Forbes has largely become — A week ago, Christine Haughney, who covers media for the New York Times …

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