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Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:
NYT redesign: an end to page breaks in articles and a focus on tablets and subscribers — ‘New York Times’ Website Redesign Goes Back to the Future — The New York Times has rolled out its largest website redesign in seven years, but readers familiar with the newspaper might feel like it's a step back in time
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Open, Fast Company, Slate, @ianadelman, @ianadelman, @jbenton, @nathan_ford, Poynter, @dangillmor and SND
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Brian Stelter / CNN Money:
New York Times redesign points to future of online publishing — The last time The New York Times embarked on a wholesale redesign of its Web site, in 2006, the iPhone wasn't on the market. Tablets like the iPad were still years away. — So the new design that The Times is unveiling Wednesday …
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AdAge, Digiday, Beet.TV, PandoDaily, @nyccyn, @nycjim, @poynter, @mathewi, @ditzkoff, @brianstelter, @jppereira0, @gabrieldance, @joepompeo, @womenjournos, Prof Chris Daly's Blog, The Content Strategist, Co.Design, @erikwemple, @justinnxt, @peacockc, @jayrosen_nyu and The Newspaper Guild
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
Times Designers Are Monitoring Reaction to the Redesign, With Adjustments Possible
Joe Strupp / Media Matters:
Exclusive: Washington Post Reader Representative Departs, Replacement Unclear — Less than a year after taking the newly created post of reader representative at The Washington Post, Doug Feaver has left the paper, Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt confirmed Wednesday.
Discussion:
@dangillmor and Poynter
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Washington Post Seeking Ezra Klein's Replacement — The Washington Post has approached The Atlantic's Derek Thompson to be the next editor of Wonkblog, according to a source familiar with the matter. — Thompson has not yet accepted the job, but The Post's recruitment of a replacement suggests …
New York Times:
New bio of Fox News Chief Roger Ailes details power struggles, desire for political influence — Biography Casts Critical Light on Fox News Chief — Roger Ailes was so eager to influence national politics that in the run-up to the 2012 presidential election, he told fellow Fox News executives point-blank …
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Talking Points Memo, The Daily Beast, Gawker, The Huffington Post, WebProNews, The Wrap, Mediaite, @gurianpeck, Prof Chris Daly's Blog, TheBlaze.com, FishbowlNY, Los Angeles Times, @jackshafer, @kevinroose, @edwardericsonjr, Erik Wemple, @gabrielsherman, Capital New York, @joemuto, @clarajeffery, @jbenton, @peterlattman, @joestump, Business Insider, @kenvogel, @juliebosman, @mikiebarb, The Raw Story, @jayrosen_nyu, @blakehounshell, @tripgabriel, @rudepundit, @katherinemiller, @moorehn, @speechboy71, @joshsternberg and @johnjcook
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Roger Ailes biographer Gabriel Sherman strikes back: The book is fact-checked — Gabriel Sherman, the author of a highly anticipated biography of Roger Ailes, is hitting back at the Fox News chief's assertion that Sherman and his publisher did not fact-check the book prior to its publication.
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TVNewser, Erik Wemple, Mediaite and @joehagansays
Beth Healy / Boston Globe:
Globe publisher Christopher Mayer to step down — Boston Globe publisher Christopher Mayer said Wednesday that he plans to step down after nearly 30 years at the newspaper and four years at its helm, as part of a business transition under new owner John Henry.
Discussion:
Media Nation
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Beth Healy / The Boston Globe:
John Henry vows to make Globe ‘aggressively relevant’ — Boston Globe owner John Henry pledged to help make the newspaper and its websites “aggressively relevant” and successful in the coming years during a speech to a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce breakfast Wednesday.
Discussion:
@mviser and @romenesko
Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:
Sales of Online Movies Jumps; DVDs Continue to Decline — Delaying Availability of DVDs, Rentals Nudged Consumers … After years of trying to convince consumers to buy movies online, Hollywood found a solution in 2013: Make it the only option. — Digital movie purchases surged 47% …
Discussion:
@benfritz
John Herrman / BuzzFeed:
Nick D'Aloisio touts positive Yahoo News Digest reviews likely written by Yahoo employees — The Curious Case Of Yahoo's App Reviews — Summly founder D'Aloisio, in an interview with Yahoo's David Pogue, touted his new app's positive reviews. But who's writing them?
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TechCrunch, Gawker, Washington Post and PSFK
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Rem Rieder / USA Today:
At CES, Yahoo shows its plans to compete as a media company
At CES, Yahoo shows its plans to compete as a media company
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Business Insider, Digits, Guardian, Gigaom, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, Yahoo, ReadWrite, The Verge and TechCrunch
Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
AMA: How a Weird Internet Thing Became a Mainstream Delight — Reddit's question-and-answer format imports the aspirational norms of honesty and authenticity from pseudonymous Internet forums into mainstream interviews. — Barack Obama, Jerry Seinfeld, a line cook at Applebee's, and a guy with two penises walk into a bar.
Thanks:@steverubel
Adam Weinstein / Gawker:
Advance subsidiary Reddit licensed its logo for use on AR-15 rifles — Reddit Licensed Its Logo To Online Scary Assault Weapons Sellers — An investigation published this morning by Mother Jones shows that Reddit licensed gun-sellers on its forums to hawk a notorious run of AR-15 assault rifles …
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Mother Jones, Gizmodo, Co.Labs and Business Insider
Jack Shafer / Reuters:
Buzz off, Waxman — Congress can't tell a newspaper how to do business — Oh to be a fly on the wall Jan. 15, when Tribune Co. executives meet with the staff of Rep. Henry A. Waxman, D-Calif., in a command performance to explain the media conglomerate's plans to spin off its newspapers …
Ken Kurson / The New York Observer:
Two-Year-Old Observer Story About Soccer Mom Madam Incorrectly Named Post Editor — On March 29, 2012, the Observer ran a story that suggested the New York Post's editor in chief, Col Allan, was among the “powerful men found in transcripts of the surveillance audio from the five-year-long investigation” of Ms. Gristina.
Discussion:
Capital New York and Capital New York
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Gabriel Snyder leaves The Wire, Andrew Golis takes over — Gabriel Snyder is leaving his job as editor-in-chief of The Wire, and Andrew Golis has been named “general manager” of the high-octane aggregation website published by Atlantic Media. Golis will conduct a search for a new editor-in-chief for the site.
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FOLIO, The New York Observer, FishbowlNY, @jessicavalenti, @gabrielsnyder, @rzgreenfield, @connorsimpson and @agolis
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Sony Doesn't Have the Deals It Needs for Web TV — But That's Not Its Real Problem — Last year, Intel said it was going to deliver pay TV over the Web by the end of 2013. That didn't work out. — Now Sony says it will deliver pay TV over the Web sometime in 2014. Can it deliver? — Maybe!
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FierceOnlineVideo News and @jessicalessin
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Ina Fried / Re/code:
Kaz Hirai on Why Sony's Pay TV Bid Can Succeed Where Intel and Others Stumbled
Kaz Hirai on Why Sony's Pay TV Bid Can Succeed Where Intel and Others Stumbled
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CNNMoney.com, CNET, The Verge and Variety