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Mary Ann Milbourn / Orange County Register:
Register owner to launch daily L.A. newspaper — The co-owner and publisher of the Orange County Register announced Thursday that the company will move broadly into Los Angeles County early next year and publish a new, seven-day-a-week newspaper, the Los Angeles Register.
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Sen. Bill Nelson: I told AP not to run Robert Levinson story — Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) said early Friday that he urged the Associated Press not to publish a story about Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent who disappeared in Iran more than six years ago and had been working for the CIA.
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The Huffington Post, Talking Points Memo and @lrozen
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Associated Press Held CIA Scoop For 3 Years At The Government's Request
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Associated Press, Washington Post, @mightyobvious_ and Gawker
Kelly McBride / Poynter:
Newtown's media blackout forces journalists to do their jobs — The one-year anniversary of a tragic event is a significant moment. But for journalists, such moments too often become opportunities for emotional exploitation rather than real journalism. — The citizens of Newtown, Conn. …
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Charter Said to Prepare Offer Letter for Time Warner Cable — Charter Communications Inc. (CHTR) is preparing an offer letter to acquire Time Warner Cable Inc. for less than $140 a share, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. — Charter will send the so-called bear hug letter …
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Variety, AdAge, Radio & Television … and The Verge
Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Media Matters Declares Victory: ‘The War On Fox Is Over’ — WASHINGTON — Since its founding in 2004, the progressive watchdog group Media Matters for America has been a thorn in the side of Fox News. Its dozens of staffers monitor the network's leadership, hosts, guests and financial dealings incessantly …
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AOL Tightens CrunchBase's Licensing to Block Competitors — AOL is legally locking down its crowdsourced CrunchBase database of tech companies, in response to a commercial iPhone app that used the database to compete with AOL. — The new CrunchBase license will continue to allow free use …
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Info @ CrunchBase and TechCrunch
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Q&A: Sarah Marshall on leaving Journalism.co.uk for the WSJ and the state of media across the pond — For three years, Sarah Marshall has held a job that's pretty similar to, well, my job. And I think she's pretty good at it! But Marshall is moving on, from Journalism.co.uk …
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@niemanlab and Talking Biz News
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
‘Invisible Child’: Behind the Scenes, Before and After — Andrea Elliott's moving and exhaustively reported five-part series, “Invisible Child,” was 15 months in the making. At 28,738 words, and accompanied by affecting images by Ruth Fremson, a staff photographer, this story of a homeless girl …
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@bydanielvictor, @patkiernan, @mattapuzzo, @byronyork, @tedhartii, @sulliview, @longreads, @palafo, @richarddeitsch and Politicker
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Out Of Ukrainian Protests, A New Media Outlet Is Born — KYIV — A wave of panic grips protesters as rumors spread that tanks are bearing down on Kyiv to quell the revolt against President Viktor Yanukovych. — Several news outlets ran reports and word spreads like wildfire on Twitter.
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WordPress Goes to Court to Defend Censored Bloggers — The blogging platform WordPress.com has taken the unusual — and welcome — step of going to court to defend its users against bogus copyright claims aimed at silencing their speech on the platform. Automattic, WordPress's parent company …
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@timkarr and @pbsmediashift, Thanks:@mediatwit
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Amidst fierce competition, music streaming services fight for paying subscribers — A Stream of Music, Not Revenue — When Spotify, the digital music company of the moment, announced this week an exclusive deal with Led Zeppelin and free access on mobile devices, it also reported impressive numbers.
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@dada_drummer
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Jessica Lessin's startup courts broad audience for tech news — When former Wall Street Journal reporter Jessica Lessin celebrated the launch of her journalism startup at a Pacific Heights mansion this week, the event attracted the tech A-list: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrived in a gray hoodie …
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Valleywag, @julianhurrah, @mathewi and @jessicalessin
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Facebook Video Pitch Deck Shows It Has Gone To War Against TV — Facebook believes its soon-to-be-launched video ad product will compete directly for TV ad dollars, and those going on YouTube, according to a leaked sales pitch deck obtained by Techcrunch. — Speaker notes alongside …
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TechCrunch
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Struggling Blockbuster to close all UK stores ahead of Christmas — Beleaguered DVD and game rental company Blockbuster will close its remaining United Kingdom stores in the next week, the firm's administrators announced today. All 91 remaining stores will close by December 16 …
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BBC
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White House press corps tees off on Jay Carney over access — A frustrated press corps sounded off Thursday against White House press secretary Jay Carney over lack of access to President Barack Obama. — Carney said the White House “is working” to address the concerns …
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TVNewser, @aprildryan and The Fix
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Brian Resnick / NationalJournal.com:
White House Blames Internet for Lack of Media Access, and the Press Cries Foul
White House Blames Internet for Lack of Media Access, and the Press Cries Foul
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Poynter, @stephieintexas, The Huffington Post and Mediaite