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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Interview with Facebook News Feed Manager Over Content Changes — In 2011, Google changed the way it ranked websites, in an effort to punish spammers and “content farms” that showed up high in search results but delivered crummy pages. — Google's “Panda” changes had giant ripple effects throughout …
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WebProNews, @mattcutts, @sree, @rlux, Digits, @pkafka, @urrutiadelpozo, The Verge, @myurow, @jakeswearingen, @mathewi and @caseynewton
Matthew Lynch / Capital New York:
Gawker's Zimmerman gets his own corner — Gawker's editors are cooking up a plan to give Neetzan Zimmerman, Gawker's in-house savant of viral material, his own subvertical on the site. And when he does, his editor, John Cook, knows what he would like to name it.
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@fmanjoo, @mathewi, @carr2n, @jaredbkeller and FishbowlNY
Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:
Time Warner Cable's Next CEO Ready to Sell If Price Is Right — Rob Marcus has a message for Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) shareholders: I'm the right guy to decide whether to sell the company. — The 48-year-old chief operating officer is replacing Glenn Britt as Time Warner Cable's chief executive officer …
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Radio & Television …, Variety, @bloombergtech and Los Angeles Times
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Upworthy Insider:
What Actually Makes Things Go Viral Will Blow Your Mind. (Hint: It's Not Headlines Like This.) — By now it's fairly well known that we care a lot about headlines here at Upworthy. We write at least 25 of them for each post. We test them rigorously. Sometimes, we even make up a word to catch your eye.
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@niemanlab, Kirk LaPointe's …, PandoDaily, @mjenkins, The Kernel, @pieratt, @newswhip, @pkafka, @davidbauer, @clarajeffery and @malexjohnson, Thanks:@joshluger
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Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
The World's Most Controversial Viral Site Posted A Great Defense Of Itself
The World's Most Controversial Viral Site Posted A Great Defense Of Itself
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@hblodget
Bill Carter / New York Times:
A Settlement Between Fox News and a Former Top Executive? Perhaps — The Fox News Channel has long been described as insular and buttoned up, a reputation that has been reaffirmed in recent days over the question of whether it has reached a settlement with Brian Lewis …
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Politico, The Huffington Post, @timkarr, Gawker, New York Magazine and @tomgara
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
News UK is reborn by putting a digital smile on Wapping's face — News UK may only be a change of name from News International but the whole “feel” of the organisation is somehow different. — Perhaps it's the digital age that has transformed the outfit from rugged to smooth, from frantic to measured, from wayward to way to go.
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
The Sun attracts 117,000 paying subscribers to its Sun+ digital service
The Sun attracts 117,000 paying subscribers to its Sun+ digital service
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Reuters and @marksweney
Hannah Karp / Wall Street Journal:
Spotify to Introduce Free Mobile Music Service — Free Version of Streaming Service Was Previously Only Available on Desktop and Laptops — Spotify AB is planning a free, ad-supported version of its streaming-music service on mobile devices, according to people familiar with the matter …
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Forbes, AdAge, Fast Company, Radio & Television …, WebProNews, Gigaom, Telegraph, SocialTimes, Guardian, Business Insider, BGR, VatorNews, Gizmodo, hypebot, TechCrunch, The Next Web, @stuartkhall, Mashable, The Drum, App Advice, Gizmodo UK, The Verge, SlashGear, Pocket-lint and Engadget
Katy Bachman / Adweek:
FCC Chair Delays Wireless Spectrum Auction to 2015 — Few are unlikely to fault new Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler for deciding to delay the planned auction of wireless spectrum voluntarily relinquished by TV broadcasters until the middle of 2015.
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Broadcasting & Cable, Wireless Week, Reuters, Bloomberg and FCC.gov
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
AOL editor-in-chief to exit — More turmoil seems to be engulfing AOL. — The latest is that AOL editor in chief Cyndi Stivers is said to be exiting. She only joined in May. — One source said it is a “slow fire” which suggests it won't go public until next year.
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FishbowlNY
Gail Shister / TVNewser:
Brian Stelter: CNN's offer was ‘Irresistible’ — “I would not leave the Times for a television job” doesn't occupy the same pantheon as “Read my lips, no new taxes” or “I never had sex with that woman,” but it still presents a bit of sticky wicket for Brian Stelter, who debuts Sunday as host of CNN's ‘Reliable Sources.’
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10,000 Words, Poynter and FishbowlNY
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Billionaire Mansueto is said to have interest in Forbes Media — Joe Mansueto, the mutli-billionaire founder of mutual-fund researcher Morningstar, is rumored to be looking at Forbes Media. — Reached via email, he declined to comment on Forbes. — He's no stranger to the publication …
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FishbowlNY and @iwantmedia
Ted Sherman / New Jersey Online:
Advance Publications considers consolidation of New Jersey newspapers — Owners of Star-Ledger, NJ.com and sister newspapers studying possible consolidations — star-ledger-building-unions- closure.JPG — Advance Publications, owner of The Star-Ledger and NJ.com, is studying making changes …
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Poynter and Talking New Media
RADAR:
Victory For Gwyneth Paltrow! ‘Vanity Fair’ Takedown Piece Turns ‘Soft’ — Can Gwyneth Paltrow claim victory over Vanity Fair? — RadarOnline.com has learned that the famed magazine, which had planned a scathing take-down piece on the actress, is making it much softer.
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Latest Design Trends …, Newser, Daily Mail and VH1 Celebrity
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
When White House Photos Are ‘Visual Press Releases’ — For Doug Mills - the longtime White House photographer for The Times - what happened on Veterans Day was more than annoying. It was wrong. — He and other Washington journalists had been hearing that the oldest World War II veteran alive …
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Mediaite, The Huffington Post, @onekade, @geneweingarten, @jswatz, @sulliview and @ron_fournier
Ryan Glasspiegel / JimRomenesko.com:
Charles Davis: VICE let me call out the hypocrisy of liberal media when no one else would — By RYAN GLASSPIEGEL — Earlier this week, Charles Davis wrote a piece for VICE in which he shamed left-wing media outlets for failing to live up to their stated ideals in their practices of exploiting unpaid and poorly paid interns.
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@romenesko and The Dish, Thanks:@sportsrapport
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
Al Jazeera America launches on Time Warner Cable today — Al Jazeera America is launching today on Time Warner Cable systems, the two companies announced this morning. — The deal will expand AJAM's distribution significantly, with TWC having around 11 million subscribers …
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Capital New York, TVNewser, The Verge and Variety