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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Confirmed: Flipboard Raises Another $50 Million To Close Out Its Series C Round — Flipboard has confirmed that it raised an additional $50 million, which will close out the Series C round of financing that it brought on in September. In addition to the new funding, Flipboard is also announcing …
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AllThingsD and Forbes
Reuters:
Time Warner Cable incoming CEO says in no rush to sell company — Time Warner Cable's incoming chief executive Rob Marcus said on Monday he is not in a hurry to sell the company and that management is focused on running the business for the “long haul.” — Speaking at an investment conference …
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Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
How To Use The Media To Sell A Company
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@jimpoco and @peterlauria3
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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@arusbridger, @rosental, @raju, @carr2n and Kirk LaPointe's …
Courthouse News Service:
NYT reporters sue Homeland Security for files on their interrogations at JFK airport this year — Homeland Security Stiffs Times Reporters — MANHATTAN (CN) - Two New York Times reporters sued the Department of Homeland Security for records on their interrogations at JFK Airport this year.
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@emptywheel and @freedomofpress
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Layoffs ahead at Time Inc. — Time Inc. staffers were informed today that layoffs lie ahead in the New Year, Capital has learned. — The publishing giant has implemented cuts in recent years while aiming to rein in costs. Just under a year ago, 500 jobs were slashed from the company …
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@tmcgev
Steve Volk / Philadelphia Magazine:
George Norcross Now the Majority Owner of Inquirer, Daily News, Philly.com — In a move that has deep ramifications for Philadelphia's entire media ecosystem, George Norcross III has become the majority owner of the Inquirer, Daily News and philly.com. — Norcross is expected to announce …
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@abeaujon, @phillymag and Talking New Media
Naomi Sharp / Columbia Journalism Review:
The future of longform — A conference at the Columbia Journalism School explored the craft's digital prospects — When readers started moving to the internet, media analysts thought longform journalism was in trouble. Attention spans were going to shrivel.
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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@dskok, @qz, @jayrosen_nyu and @niemanlab
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, AdExchanger, @raju, @fortunemagazine and @summeranne
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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@martinbelam and Guardian
Edward Moyer / CNET:
Saving the Net from the surveillance state: Glenn Greenwald speaks up (Q&A) — Big Brother may be watching you. But Glenn Greenwald is watching Big Brother. — That's not a bad take on how the 46-year-old constitutional-law attorney turned crusading journalist turned thorn in the side of the NSA might describe his mission.
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, @nathanlfuller, @frieze_magazine, @adrianchen, Gawker and New York Magazine
Jim Romenesko:
Anthony Duignan-Cabrera resigns as Patch vice president, editorial director — Actually, Anthony, I didn't spam your mailbox; I simply asked you to confirm this report I got from a tipster — something that I've since had others confirm. My tipster: Hearing chatter that Anthony Duignan-Cabrera …
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