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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Ezra Klein Is Said to Plan to Leave Washington Post — Ezra Klein, an analyst, columnist and television commentator who runs The Washington Post's Wonkblog, is making plans to leave the newspaper after failing to win support for a new website he wanted to create within the company …
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Kevin Gosztola / The Dissenter:
Dear New York Times Editors: If Snowden Is a Whistleblower, What Is Chelsea Manning? — The New York Times Editorial Board is to be highly praised for finally publishing a strong defense of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, one which not only urges clemency but also labels him a whistleblower.
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The Times advances the NSA's amnesty-for-Snowden trial balloon
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Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
Weeks in the Making, an Editorial on Snowden May Go ‘Beyond What Is Realistic’
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Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
How Netflix uses the 76,897 micro-genres it assigns to videos — How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood — If you use Netflix, you've probably wondered about the specific genres that it suggests to you. Some of them just seem so specific that it's absurd. Emotional Fight-the-System Documentaries?
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Felix Salmon / Reuters:
Netflix's dumbed-down algorithms — Alexis Madrigal has a rollicking investigation into Netflix's movie genres — all 76,897 of them, from category #1 (African-American Crime Documentaries) to category #91,307 (Visually Striking Latin American Comedies). His story is titled …
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
DreamWorks is set to launch a tablet for children with original and exclusive programming — A Tablet for Children That Comes With Its Own Penguins — GLENDALE, Calif. — DreamWorks Animation first captivated children in movie theaters. Then it branched into TV, piping cartoons based on hits like …
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Press Gazette:
Pakistani TV reporter becomes first journalist killed in 2014 — Pakistan journalist Shan Odhor has become the first media worker to die in 2014 because of his work, the International federation of Journalists (IFJ) said today. — The announcement came just days after the organisation reported …
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Peter Wilby / New Statesman:
Paul Dacre of the Daily Mail: The man who hates liberal Britain — He's the most successful and most feared newspaperman of his generation. But after a bad year in which he was forced to defend his methods, how much longer can Dacre survive as editor-in-chief of the Daily Mail?
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Daily News closes Desi News, a South Asian-centric vertical led by NewsCred — Daily News shutters South Asian site — The Daily News has pulled the plug on Desi News, a South Asian-centric vertical fueled by the New York-based content-licensing platform NewsCred.
Wall Street Journal:
Cox to Buy Back Stake in AutoTrader — Deal With Providence Equity Implies $7 Billion Value for Online Car Marketplace … Cox Enterprises Inc., the closely held media conglomerate, has bought back a stake in AutoTrader Group Inc. in a deal that implies a value of about $7 billion for the online auto marketplace.
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Marc Tracy / The New Republic:
Weather Channel website chases storms, clicks — How a network went from chasing storms to chasing clicks — A couple days ago, the top piece on The Weather Channel's homepage was an article forecasting the “First Snowstorm of 2014” (which, if you live in the Northeast …
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Arti Patel / Folio:
Magazine shipping costs increase 6 percent — Magazine shipping costs increase 6 percent. — The United States Postal Service (USPS) delivered coal to magazine publishers to welcome the New Year. — The Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) approved a two-year six-percent service rate increase …
Marc Graser / Variety:
Verance Finds First Electronics Partner for Anti-Piracy Technology — Verance's Cinavia Level 3 software detects pirated pics and sends viewers to e-tailers to buy legal copies — Funai Electric Co., the maker of Blu-ray players through the Funai, Magnavox and Emerson brands …
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Wall Street Journal:
Ultra Hi-Def TV: More Affordable but Still Little Content — Strong China Demand Has Set Makers Aiming to Quickly Lower Prices … Prices of ultra high-definition TVs are plummeting, driven by Chinese manufacturers and by surging demand in that country. — The first UHDTVs were a hot topic at last year's Consumer Electronics Show.
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