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3:50 PM ET, November 25, 2013

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Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
Paul Carr's news site NSFW Corp joins with Silicon Valley-backed PandoDaily  —  After NSFW's financial failure, the tech journalist joins the tech site PandoDaily - ‘the site of record for Silicon Valley’  —  Tech journalist and entrepreneur Paul Carr's last venture was surprisingly old-school.
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Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:
PandoDaily acquires NSFWCORP to double down on investigative reporting  —  There are three people who have long been on my dream team to help me build PandoDaily.  One of them I've still gotta work on.  The second is Mike Tatum, who keeps saying no and then keeps doing work for us for free anyway.
Michael Wolff / USA Today:
At ‘Business Insider,’ it's time to sell  —  The digital traffic world is not a sound long-term play.  —  CONNECT  —  Henry Blodget is a savvy operator who took brilliant advantage of the dot-com bubble and who then, after having taken too much advantage and getting banned …
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Mayer Confirms Hire of News Star Couric as “Global Anchor,” Calling Her the “Face of Yahoo News”  —  As AllThingsD had reported it would today, Yahoo said it has hired well-known TV news star Katie Couric for a high-profile job to do interviews and more on its homepage, with the decidedly lofty title of “global anchor.”
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Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
Katie Couric on Yahoo deal: ‘We are going to try things’  —  David Shankbone  —  Last night, on the eve of a big official career announcement, Katie Couric was on the phone describing what she's going to be doing next.  —  “I don't think it is going to be a half-hour evening news broadcast …
New York Times:
Signs of Change in News Mission at Bloomberg  —  Champagne flowed last Monday night as Hong Kong's business elite gathered with top Bloomberg L.P. executives at a dinner for 100 guests at a cultural center in a former British colonial military complex.  —  Multimedia
New York Times:
Drones Offer Journalists a Wider View  —  The best way to film the destruction wrought by Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban, the Philippines, said Lewis Whyld, a British photographer, was from the air.  —  But Mr. Whyld did not want to beg for a ride on a military helicopter, taking the space of much-needed aid.
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The New York Times moves away from its dual-reporting structure for video  —  The Times' own Christine Haughney has the news: … Headlam will be familiar to anyone who saw Page One, and his departure adds to the recent turnover on the Times' media desk, with Brian Stelter having just left for CNN and Ravi Somaiya joining the team.
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Jim Edwards / Business Insider:
TV Is Dying, And Here Are The Stats That Prove It  —  The TV business is having its worst year ever.  —  Audience ratings have collapsed: Aside from a brief respite during the Olympics, there has been only negative ratings growth on broadcast and cable TV since September 2011, according to Citi Research.
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Jeff Elder / Wall Street Journal:
Inside a Twitter Robot Factory  —  Fake Activity, Often Bought for Publicity Purposes, Influences Trending Topics  —  One day earlier this month, Jim Vidmar bought 1,000 fake Twitter accounts for $58 from an online vendor in Pakistan.  —  He then programmed the accounts to “follow” …
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
News Outlets Held Off On Reporting Secret Iran Talks  —  Multiple news outlets held off on reporting the news of secret talks between the United States and Iran, it was revealed on Sunday.  —  After news broke of a nuclear deal between Iran and the West on Saturday night …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Time Inc.'s Closed-Wallet Strategy  —  Time Inc. made its initial public filing on Friday afternoon, as it prepares to jettison from Time Warner.  Nothing surprising in there: As we already knew, the publishing giant has been watching its revenue flatline — or worse - for years …
 
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