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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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Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
Weeks in the Making, an Editorial on Snowden May Go ‘Beyond What Is Realistic’ — Most newspaper editorials don't generate a great deal of heat. Even fewer can be considered newsworthy. — The exception was one in The Times on Thursday, calling for Edward J. Snowden to be offered clemency or a plea bargain.
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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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Kalev Leetaru / Foreign Policy:
King Snowden and the Fall of Wikileaks — The whistleblower refugee has dominated the media — and displaced Julian Assange.
Jack Shafer:
The Times advances the NSA's amnesty-for-Snowden trial balloon — Of course the New York Times editorial page wants clemency or, at the very least, a generous plea bargain for National Security Agency contractor turned super-leaker Edward Snowden! The news pages of the New York Times …
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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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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 …
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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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.
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Disney's Iger talks about the need for tech disruptors like Dorsey on his board — Disruption “In Our Face” — Iger on Why Disney Needs Tech Heavies on Board More Than Ever — Just before the end of 2013, Disney named well-known Silicon Valley player Jack Dorsey — he of the perfect selfie - to the board of the entertainment giant.
Brody Mullins / Wall Street Journal:
End exclusive early media access for unemployment data, Labor Department panel says — Labor Department Panel Calls for Ending Lockup for Jobs Data — First Formal Charge to Alter Practice of Releasing Numbers to Media — WASHINGTON—A Labor Department panel has called …
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Associated Press:
Reporter sues NY police over Occupy protest arrest — NEW YORK — A journalist says New York City police officers tackled him and unfairly arrested him while he was covering the anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street protests. — Chris Faraone says he was reporting for the Massachusetts …
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Amazon Decides to Stop Hiding Its Web Video Service — Amazon has been spending time and money building up its Prime Instant online video service, but so far it hasn't spent much time telling people about it: It's very easy to invest a lot of time on Amazon.com without ever learning that the site …
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