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David Carr / New York Times:
Where Freedom of the Press Is Muffled — In China on Thursday, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. spoke plainly about the role of a free press in a democratic society. — “Innovation thrives where people breathe freely, speak freely, are able to challenge orthodoxy, where newspapers …
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@rosental, @arusbridger, @raju, @carr2n and Kirk LaPointe's …
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
The not-so-quaint charm of the email newsletter — In spite of today's obsession with social networks, the email newsletter remains a potent vector for the dissemination of news and for driving traffic back to websites. It comes with one condition, though: reintroducing a human touch.
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@jayrosen_nyu, @niemanlab and @qz
Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
How To Use The Media To Sell A Company — “Time Warner Cable's Next CEO Ready to Sell If Price Is Right,” blares the headline of a Bloomberg story published Friday morning. The headline isn't as informative it sounds, however: a basic operating principle of mergers and acquisitions reporting …
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@peterlauria3 and @jimpoco
Andy Serwer / Fortune:
Inside the mind of Jonah Peretti — The visionary media entrepreneur, diviner of virality and one-time enfant terrible (he turns 40 on New Year's Day) explains the mechanics of how information spreads, his personal reading habits, and why it's dangerous to be a slave to the numbers.
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@danoshinsky, @summeranne, AdExchanger, @fortunemagazine, @raju and @niemanlab
Jordan Chariton / TVNewser:
David Remnick Joins NBC for Sochi Olympics — David Remnick, the editor of the The New Yorker, has been hired by NBC Olympics boss and former “Today” EP Jim Bell for NBC's Sochi coverage. — SI.com reports the Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, a Russophile who is fluent in Russian …
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Sports Illustrated, Deadline.com, FishbowlNY, Politico, Hollywood Reporter, Associated Press, OlympicTalk and TVbytheNumbers
Hadas Gold / Politico:
NYT Public Ed: Forsythe could join Times — New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan had an interesting and perhaps prophetic line in Sunday's paper: In a column about the growing problems facing foreign journalists in China, Sullivan suggests that ex-Bloomberg reporter Michael Forsythe …
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New York Times
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
New Yorker, Washington Post Passed On Seymour Hersh Syria Report — NEW YORK — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh accused the Obama administration Sunday of having “cherry-picked intelligence” regarding the Aug. 21 chemical attack in Syria that served as evidence for an argument …
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Politico, London Review of Books, Mediaite, BuzzFeed, @adrianchen, @frieze_magazine, Gawker and New York Magazine
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Trinity Mirror launches ‘socially-shareable data journalism’ site — Ampp3d, Trinity Mirror's new project for “socially-shareable data journalism”, launches today to “explore both the day's news agenda and a range of topics that people care passionately about”, according to the site.
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Guardian and @martinbelam
Dan Caterinicchia / Poynter:
College websites seeing mobile migration, but not all are ready — Website traffic at the University of Oregon's Daily Emerald was less than 1 percent mobile in 2010. This year, it's 39 percent and growing. And while visits on desktops have more than doubled to 951,000 since 2010 …
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@doughaddix and @elanazak
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
With No Notice, Putin Scraps Kremlin News Agencies — MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin dissolved one of Russia's official news agencies, RIA Novosti, along with its international radio broadcaster on Monday, signaling a significant reorganization in state media at a time when Russia's …
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RIA Novosti, Hollywood Reporter, Associated Press, Agence France Presse, @stevesilberman, @nycjim, @cjchivers, @mlcalderone, The Moscow Times, TIME, BBC, Guardian and Business Insider
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Afraid of Free Speech, on Many Fronts: PEN, Google, China, Goliath — Free societies depend on free-swinging critiques, even those that are “unbalanced” or “go too far.” — On Wednesday afternoon, as previewed earlier, I got to serve as moderator for a panel of four very eminent writers …
Erik Hayden / Hollywood Reporter:
Brian Stelter Officially Debuts as CNN's ‘Reliable Sources’ Host — Though he's appeared as a guest host since August, Sunday marked the official debut of host Brian Stelter on CNN's Reliable Sources. The former New York Times reporter introduced himself before launching into a briskly paced hour of interviews.
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Erik Wemple, TVNewser, @brianstelter, @wolfblitzer and Inside TV
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