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Alex Ben Block / Hollywood Reporter:
Study: Nearly Half of Americans Tune to Other Devices While Watching TV — Findings from CES and NATPE indicate millennials are most frequent multitaskers, while a majority don't find it makes for an enjoyable viewing experience. — A new study indicates that nearly half of all Americans employ …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
TV Viewers Aren't Thrilled with Second-Screen Synchronized Content, Study Finds — Only 13% of ‘second screen’ users say content synched with TV makes experience more enjoyable, according to survey from CEA and NATPE — Call it app-athy: While the majority of TV viewers are sitting …
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David Freedlander / The Daily Beast:
Fox's War Against Ailes Biographer — Fox News has been uncharacteristically quiet about the upcoming tell-all Roger Ailes biography, but the media empire seems to have been doing secret investigative work on writer Gabriel Sherman. — The book is nearly out. Now comes the battle.
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Merrill Knox / TVNewser:
Random House Moves Up Publication Date of Roger Ailes Biography
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Ted Johnson / Variety:
Supreme Court to Hear Aereo Case — The Supreme Court has granted review to broadcasters' challenge to the legality of startup Aereo, in a case that may not only determine the future of digital streaming of station signals but of network television itself. — Without comment …
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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
For Bergen Record's reporting, public records requests are ‘the go-to tool’ — Following months of reporting, The (Bergen County, N.J.) Record broke the news Wednesday that a senior member of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's staff ordered lane closures on the George Washington Bridge, and they had the emails to prove it.
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Erik Wemple:
New Jersey's Record used persistent reporting, records requests and leaks for Christie story
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Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
Facebook hit with lawsuit over “Like” ads - user says he never “Liked” USA Today — A Colorado man who claims Facebook falsely told his friends that he “Liked” USA Today has filed a lawsuit seeking at least $750 for himself and every other user who appeared in ads for products they never endorsed.
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Eric Blattberg / VentureBeat:
Facebook killing ‘sponsored stories’ in April — but your name may still show up next to ads
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Time Inc. shake-up: Hackett out at People, replaced by E.W.'s Cagle — Larry Hackett, the longtime editor of People magazine, is leaving parent company Time Inc. and will be replaced by Jess Cagle, the editor of sister title Entertainment Weekly. — Cagle also assumes the role …
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Journalism.co.uk:
Washington Post ‘most popular’ US newspaper on Twitter in 2013 — A study reveals the 10 most popular US newspaper websites on Twitter during 2013, as well as the most tweeted stories — Read more — Other top stories — Also on Journalism.co.uk...
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Lorraine Bailey / Courthouse News Service:
Anonymous Yelp Users Face Identity Disclosure — (CN) - Yelp must identify seven anonymous reviewers who left negative reviews for a carpet-cleaning business, a Virginia appeals court ruled. With approximately 102 million unique visitors every month, the Yelp website allows users to post and read reviews of local businesses.
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David Sirota / PandoDaily:
Anti-SOPA coalition launches day of action against the NSA — Almost exactly two years after national protests defeated the so-called Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and one year after information activist Aaron Swartz took his own life, Washington is in the midst of another fight about democratic freedoms …
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Automated recommendation engines Taboola and Outbrain supply links on many major news websites — You'll never believe how recommended stories are generated on otherwise serious news sites — In its top story Tuesday, Politico.com covered the Senate's jockeying over a bill to extend unemployment benefits.
John Jurgensen / Wall Street Journal:
Joseph Gordon-Levitt Ushers In Crowd-Sourced TV — The actor is taking his web project “hitRECord” to cable — For the first episode of the new cable series “HitRecord on TV,” producers had to squeeze 426 names into the closing credits, about four times the amount that scrolls through a typical half-hour TV show.
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Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
Nook sales crashed by over 66 percent during 2013 holiday season — Barnes & Noble CEO attributes drop to lower prices, no new products last year. — Back in August 2013, Barnes & Noble declared that it wasn't giving up on its Nook e-reader just yet. Despite its struggles …
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Talking Biz News, Softpedia News, The Verge and Gigaom
Michael Rondon / Folio:
Southern Weddings to provide print, digital content for Southern Living's bridal channel — Southern Weddings to provide print, digital content for SL's bridal channel. — Southern Living has produced bridal content before, but Time Inc.'s regional lifestyle brand chose to partner …
Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:
Hugo Lindgren Named Acting Editor of Hollywood Reporter — Hugo Lindgren, who stepped down as editor of The New York Times Magazine in November, will become acting editor of The Hollywood Reporter for the next three months, according to a Twitter post by Janice Min, who held that job before being promoted.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Matthew Panzarino replacing Eric Eldon as TechCrunch co-editor, Leena Rao becomes managing editor — And Now For Something Completely Different, Leadership Changes — As you may have read, our beloved co-editor Eric Eldon is moving on to do other things.
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Valleywag:
Co-Chief Eric Eldon Leaving TechCrunch
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Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:
It's Never Too Early To Say Goodbye
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