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David Carr / New York Times:
Roger Ailes' Permanent Pushback Campaign — Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News Channel, has little left to accomplish in a remarkable television career. He has made billions for his owners, created an entirely new genre of TV and, in doing so, he has changed the way politics is conducted.
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Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Gabriel Sherman in Wide-Ranging Interview: Ailes ‘More Extreme Than Glenn Beck’ — Gabriel Sherman, author of the much-anticipated unauthorized biography of Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, sat for an in-depth interview with Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter on Sunday morning …
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Brian Lowry / Variety:
CNN's Jeff Zucker Fires Back at Fox News' Roger Ailes
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Jill Abramson discusses the New York Times' 2014 plans for diversity, global coverage, more — The Times, From the Top: Looking Ahead — THESE days, when Jill Abramson surveys the paper's masthead, she does so with a certain amount of satisfaction. Half of the 10 top-ranking editors in the newsroom, including herself, are women.
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Christine Haughney / New York Times:
New York Times hires former Bloomberg reporter Michael Forsythe — New York Times Hires Bloomberg Reporter in China Controversy — A Bloomberg News reporter who recently left the news organization over a controversy involving an unpublished article from China has joined The New York Times.
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@mikiebarb, FishbowlNY and Talking Biz News
Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:
NBC's News Unit Teams With Video Clip Start-Up — Broadcasting executives realize that viewers increasingly get their news by glancing on their smartphones instead of spending a half-hour in front of the television. — Reacting to that shift, NBC's news division has invested in a company …
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Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
Blogger's Incarceration Raises First Amendment Questions — BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — For over six years, Roger Shuler has hounded figures of the state legal and political establishment on his blog, Legal Schnauzer, a hothouse of furious but often fuzzily sourced allegations of deep corruption and wide-ranging conspiracy.
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@mlcalderone, @popehat and @jonathanweisman
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The long battle between the NYT and WSJ cools off as business models and coverage diverge — The newsonomics of momentum in the WSJ/NYT battle — What a difference a year makes in America's national newspaper war. — As we look back at 2013 — and forward to 2014 …
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AdExchanger, @michaelroston, @masurakusuo, @alexmleo and Quartz
Simon Denyer / Washington Post:
Chinese journalists face tighter censorship, Marxist retraining — BEIJING — After a decade as a reporter and producer for China Central Television, Wang Qinglei grew tired of the increasingly “stifling environment” for this country's journalists and took to social media to say so.
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@barbarademick and @stone_skynews
Jon Evans / TechCrunch:
As informal English flourishes online, Standard Written English limits old media's appeal — Such DFW. Very Orwell. So Doge. Wow. — Let's talk about doge, but first let's talk about the late great David Foster Wallace, who 13 years ago wrote a classic essay about modern English* entitled …
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@paullewis, @monkbent, @jeffjarvis, @felixsalmon, @moorehn, @mathewi, @jayrosen_nyu, @jkrim and @jeffjarvis
Ben Sisariojan / New York Times:
Beats Music launches in US on Jan. 21 for $10 monthly, $15 monthly for families through AT&T, no free tier — Beats Music Enters Online Streaming Market — SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Jimmy Iovine, whose career as a recording engineer, producer and music executive stretches from John Lennon to Lady Gaga …
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Bryan Bishop / The Verge:
With original 4K content, studio partnerships, and infrastructure at the ready, Netflix could be the de facto 4K destination — How Netflix won CES — It's not the TVs, it's what you watch on them — The television industry has been holding its breath.
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The Wrap
Jack Gillum / Associated Press:
Christie administration is latest caught using private email to sidestep public records laws — Christie aide is latest to use private emails — WASHINGTON (AP) — Personal emails at the center of the brewing scandal for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie may have remained secret …
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The Verge
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The Global Mail:
The Global Mail introduces vault powered by SecureDrop to securely accept documents from anonymous sources — Introducing the TGM SecureDrop Vault — Today The Global Mail introduces a new, secure way for sources to work with our journalists to expose wrongdoing.
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@trevortimm, @jayrosen_nyu and @securedrop
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
The New York Times website redesign is great, as far as it goes — which isn't very far — Having worked for many years on the web side of a large national newspaper, I know that a website redesign is a huge undertaking — and it must be even more gigantic and time-consuming when you are the New York Times, with all that that implies.
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Jeff Jarvis / Guardian:
The new New York Times: making the concept of redesign obsolete
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