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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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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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CNN's Jeff Zucker Fires Back at Fox News' Roger Ailes
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TVNewser, New Yorker, Politico, Los Angeles Times and Mediaite

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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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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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China Controversy — A Bloomberg News reporter who recently left the news organization over a controversy involving an unpublished article from China has joined The New York Times.
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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.


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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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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In Scandal, Turkey's Leaders May Be Losing Their Tight Grip on News Media — ISTANBUL — Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has labeled an investigative reporter who has published a number of leaked documents related to a widening corruption scandal a traitor.


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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Background info on athletes coloring NBC's Olympic coverage researched over years by team of 5 — Trying to Unearth Nuggets of Gold For NBC — STAMFORD, Conn. — Nothing satisfies NBC's crew of Olympic researchers more than discovering something unusual about an athlete heading to the Games.


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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