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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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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.
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Clear Channel CEO Bob Pittman Extends Contract — John Hogan, the head of the company's radio division, is retiring. — Clear Channel Media Holdings announced on Monday that chairman and chief executive Bob Pittman has extended his contract an additional five years.
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Jennifer Faull / The Drum:
John Hogan, chairman and CEO of Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, departs — Clear Channel has announced that the CEO and chairman of its Media and Entertainment division, John Hogan, is to retire. — Recognising his contributions since he joined the company over a decade ago, Clear Channel has made Hogan chairman emeritus.
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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 former Bloomberg reporter Michael Forsythe
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Lauren Kirchner / Columbia Journalism Review:
LEAP hopes its open-source, encrypted email will be useful for journalists and newsrooms — LEAP hopes its open-source, encrypted email will be useful for journalists and newsrooms — Email, that daily workflow staple, is becoming a real problem in this post-Snowden era.
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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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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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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Bloomberg:
Dish Investors Ignore Ergen's Failures as Spectrum Value Grows — Dish Network Corp. (DISH) Chairman Charlie Ergen has failed at least four times in attempts to transform his company into more than just a satellite-television provider. Judging from the share price, investors don't mind.
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Rob Hart / NetNewsCheck:
For Photojournos, A Post-Newspaper World — Last May, the Chicago Sun-Times laid off its entire photo staff. Some media watchers thought it signaled the beginning of the end for photojournalists, as more publishers, looking to cut costs, started arming their reporters with iPhones to shoot pictures and video.
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Ben Cardew / Guardian:
Personalised digital magazine app Flipboard aims for 150 million users — Company plans enhanced discovery and search tools to explore the 5m magazines already created — Personalised digital magazine app Flipboard is aiming to pass 150 million users in 2014, thanks to enhanced discovery …