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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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@jimpoco and @peterlauria3
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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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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 …
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. According to a company spokesperson, the funding closed last week …
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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
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, @jayrosen_nyu, @niemanlab and @qz
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.
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
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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London Review of Books, Politico, 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
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 …
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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