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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Martin Bashir Resigns From MSNBC — Just over two weeks ago, MSNBC host Martin Bashir delivered a harsh piece of commentary that culminated in the suggestion that someone should “s-h-i-t” in former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's (R-AK) mouth. Bashir offered an abject apology on his next broadcast …
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Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Newsweek plans return to print in Jan-Feb next year as a subscription based 64 page weekly — Newsweek Plans Return to Print — Newsweek, the struggling weekly magazine that ceased print publication last year, plans to turn the presses back on. — The magazine expects to begin …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Newsweek's editor-in-chief says subscriber revenues will cover expenses, “ads will be icing” — Newsweek to bring print edition back from the dead — Newsweek's new owners think they can succeed at something its previous owners failed at: printing a weekly magazine in the United States.
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Editor Describes Pressure After Leaks by Snowden — The top editor of the British newspaper The Guardian told Parliament on Tuesday that since it had obtained documents on government surveillance from a former National Security Agency contractor, Edward J. Snowden, it had been subjected to measures …
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Jill Lawless / Associated Press:
Guardian: We have published 1 pct of Snowden leak — You are here — Home » Edward Snowden » Guardian: We have published 1 pct of Snowden leak … LONDON (AP) — The editor of the Guardian said Tuesday his newspaper has published just 1 percent of the material it received …
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Abigail Edge / Journalism.co.uk:
BBC News to introduce ‘NewsLabs team’ to drive innovation — Managing editor James Harding told staff that BBC News will assemble a NewsLabs team to establish ‘new formats’ for telling and sharing stories — Credit: By Horia Varlan on Flickr. Some rights reserved.
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
News Corp. names Clinton White House vet as new communications chief — The new News Corp. is still getting its house in order, and has recruited a new executive to its senior team. — Jim Kennedy, a veteran of the Clinton White House, has been appointed chief communications officer …
Diane Bartz / Reuters:
U.S. says online ads should be clearly marked, undeceptive — The growing online usage of ads designed to blend in with the rest of a website's content, a practice known as “native advertising,” may be illegal in some instances, the Federal Trade Commission warned on Wednesday.
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Pierre Omidyar / The Huffington Post:
WikiLeaks, Press Freedom and Free Expression in the Digital Age — This week, fourteen people charged by the Department of Justice in connection with a coordinated denial of service attack on PayPal's services in 2010 will appear in Federal Court. The “PayPal 14,” as they have been dubbed …
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
A News Organization That Rejects the View From Nowhere
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
CBS News chairman defends Lara Logan in staff meeting — CBS News chairman and ‘60 Minutes’ EP Jeff Fager held a meeting with CBS News staff on Tuesday and took questions about the fate of Lara Logan and Max McClellan, the journalists currently on a leave of absence in the wake …
Johana Bhuiyan / Capital New York:
Joel Johnson named Gawker editorial director — Joel Johnson, founding editor of Kotaku, Gizmodo and The Consumerist, has been named editorial director of Gawker, Nick Denton told staff in a memo Wednesday. — Johnson, currently an editor-at-large of Gawker and contributing editor at The Wirecutter, will report for duty in January.
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Jessica E. Lessin / The Information:
Former Wall Street Journal reporter launches The Information, a tech news site with a $399 annual subscription — Letter From the Editor — Technology news needs a reboot. There are more stories and outlets than ever, but a troubling cycle is playing out:
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
YouTube's Music Subscription Service Won't Show Up This Year — Waiting for YouTube's subscription music service? You're going to have to be patient. — The video service, which is already the biggest free music service in the world, had planned on launching a paid service this year.
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
OMG, BuzzFeed Is Investing In Serious News Coverage! Is It FTW? … Anyone who has hankered for a list of 10 of the most life-affirming dog rescue stories ever can rely on the social media site BuzzFeed. — That list of 11 classic horror films that should never have been remade? That's from BuzzFeed too.
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Beats Music Targeting January Launch — YouTube's music subscription service was supposed to launch this year, but will be delayed until 2014. Now, Beats Music is playing the same tune. — Beats, the project championed by music executive Jimmy Iovine and backed by $60 million in funding, was supposed to debut in 2013.
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Dame Patricia Hodgson favourite to chair Ofcom — Ex-BBC executive selected by Department for Culture, Media and Sport as preferred candidate to succeed Colette Bowe — The government has selected Dame Patricia Hodgson, the former BBC executive and trustee, as its preferred candidate to be the next chairman of Ofcom.
The Independent:
UK Attorney General adapts contempt laws for social media, will publish court advisory notes — Twitter and Facebook users threaten justice system, warns Attorney General — After a spate of scandals where careless users have threatened fair trials and jeopardised anonymity orders …
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Daily Download founder confirms site has ended publication — “Ashburn Media Company has decided to stop publishing Daily-download.com,” Lauren Ashburn tells Poynter in an emailed statement. … Andrew Kaczynski wrote about the site's apparent demise Tuesday.
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Addis Ababa / Associated Press:
International rights group appeals for the release of Ethiopian reporter jailed for 18 years — ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA - A rights group is making a global appeal for the release from prison of an award-winning journalist in Ethiopia. — Amnesty International this week is trying …
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BuzzFeed:
Dueling Arafat Reports Divide Palestinians — And Al Jazeera — Was the late Palestinian leader poisoned? “This is going to look biased.” — A new French report has found that contrary to recent Swiss findings, Yasser Arafat was likely not killed by polonium poisoning …
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Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Acquires Team Behind Dreamworks Animation Incubated Mobile Video App Ptch — Ptch, the DreamWorks Animation-incubated mobile video startup, has been acquired by Yahoo. The app was launched just over a year ago and will shut down on January 2, 2014. Until then, you'll be able …
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Michael Weinberg / Policy Blog:
Did the FCC Chairman Just Endorse a Pay-for-Play Internet Fast Lane? — Chairman Wheeler endorsed both two-sided markets and net neutrality. There seems to be a conflict. — Yesterday, new FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler delivered his first formal public address.
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Leo Barraclough / Variety:
HBO Extends Google Play Pact to U.K. — Shows in deal include ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Boardwalk Empire,’ ‘True Blood’ — LONDON — Google has inked a deal with HBO to make several shows available on its TV service, Google Play, in the U.K., extending a pact in the U.S. announced in October.
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
New York Times to Expand Syndication for Videos as Monthly Views Double to 12 Million — Videos on The New York Times have been watched a record 12 million times by some three million “unique” viewers in October, according to data provided to Beet.TV by comScore, denoting a 12 month rise of nearly 100 percent.
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John McDermott / Digiday:
Does Web Publishing Have a Looming DVR Problem? — Publishers like to hear that their stories are being read. But at the expense of advertising dollars? Not so fast. — Increasingly popular apps like Pocket, Instapaper and Evernote's Web Clipper have been billed as a way to help publishers combat fragmentation.
Maria Konnikova / The New Yorker Blog:
A List of Reasons Why Our Brains Love Lists — These are just some of the lists that the comic strip “XKCD” recently joked would result from retrofitting the twentieth century's most newsworthy events with modern, Internet-style headlines. Despite the growing derision of listicles exemplified by the comic …
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