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Felix Salmon:
The evolution of Bloomberg News — Yesterday was a big day for layoffs over at Bloomberg, and Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke has the official memo from editor-in-chief Matt Winkler. In typical Bloomberg style, the defenestrations seem to be taking place in much the same way as they would on Wall Street …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Michael Forsythe out at Bloomberg News — Michael Forsythe, the Bloomberg News reporter suspected of leaking allegations that his outlet spiked investigative reports on China, has left the company, he confirmed on Tuesday. — “I can confirm that I have left Bloomberg News.
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Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Bloomberg Lays Off Staff in Sports and Culture — Bloomberg News started laying off and reassigning employees on Monday, seeking to emphasize areas that promote growth and focus more on core subjects like finance and government. — Also on Monday, Bloomberg said that a reporter based …
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Evan Osnos / The New Yorker Blog:
What Will It Cost to Cover China? — The Chinese Communist Party generated hopeful headlines this month by acknowledging that it faces a time of reckoning: to prevent economic peril and rising unrest, the Party promised to overhaul the economy, to allow more parents to have two children instead of only one …
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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Winkler's note to Bloomberg staff: We will grow in 2014
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘Atlantic Wire’ relaunches this morning as ‘The Wire’ — Website relaunches are notorious for creating headaches in the days and hours before they go live, between staff training, functionality testing and inevitable last minute design fixes. — But the relaunch of The Atlantic Wire …
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Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:
Twitter backtracks and removes option to let users receive direct messages from any follower — Last month, Twitter quietly rolled out a new feature to give users the choice to receive private messages from any of their followers, but that option has now been removed.
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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Deadline owner Jay Penske takes Nikki Finke to arbitration — The battle between entertainment journalist Nikki Finke and Jay Penske, the owner of Deadline Hollywood, the website she founded and has since left, has been turned up a notch. Late Monday, Penske Media Corp. (PMC) …
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@carr2n, @jbflint and Los Angeles Times
John Paton / Digital First:
The Subscription Project - An Update — Back in February, I wrote about the various paid digital subscription projects underway at Digital First Media. — Some of our newspapers had what has become known as a traditional paywall. — Others, experimented with finding other forms of …
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Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:
As Digital First Media Announces Its Paywalls, 41% of US Dailies Will Soon Have Them
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
OJR: An old web icon ends up repurposed as a spamblog — This is a cautionary tale — about what happened to what was once one of the most important websites about journalism on the Internet, and about what happens when you don't renew your domains on time.
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One Man and His Blog, @niemanlab, @mat, @jbenton, @dangillmor and @mathewi
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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Steven Waldman / Knight Foundation:
New report on foundation funding of media shows focus on education and tools — Report on foundation funding for media ignites crucial discussion — As senior adviser to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Steven Waldman was the lead author of “Information Needs of Communities …
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