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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
The Independent seeks buyer — The Independent is up for sale. The paper's founder, and current chairman of its publishing company, Andreas Whittam Smith, has been authorised to seek out a buyer. — The owners, Alexander Lebedev and his son, Evgeny, have been indicating …
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BuzzFeed, @samirashackle, Management Today, @adambienkov, @raju, @bounder, @scottygb and The Drum
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Independent owners decline to comment on report that title is again up for sale — The publishers of The Independent declined to comment this morning on a report that the title is again up for sale - nearly four years after it was sold by Independent News and Media to Alexander Lebedev.
Chris Elliott / Guardian:
Open door: Why an article on Lisa Bonchek Adams was removed from the Guardian site — I don't think it is wrong to frame a question about how those with incurable illnesses use social media, but the Guardian was wrong in the way it went about it — Lisa Bonchek Adams is a woman …
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Poynter, The Daily Caller, @johnmcquaid, @jenseniorny, @jayrosen_nyu, @poniewozik, @scottros, @mathewi, @stuartmillar159, SocialTimes and New York Magazine
Mark Stencel / Poynter:
Tech reporter Brian Krebs hacks it on his own, one scoop at a time … Few news stories in the past month landed on homepages and front pages with a louder thud than the theft of credit and debit card information from millions of Target customers. — The Target break-in was the latest scoop …
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@amzam, @ktoughill, @ezraklein, @poynter, @jayrosen_nyu and Talking Biz News
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Yahoo COO Henrique De Castro, Mayer's No. 2, to depart after failing to move lagging ad business — “Dead Man Walking” Walks: COO Henrique De Castro Out at Yahoo — As has long been rumored, Yahoo COO Henrique De Castro is departing Yahoo. — I had reported last week that he was in big trouble …
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Business Insider, Forbes, TechCrunch, Adweek, Los Angeles Times, Media Wire Daily, GeekWire, CNET, Wall Street Journal, Valleywag, Fortune, Quartz and The Wrap
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Kara Swisher / Re/code:
He Was Fired: Here's Marissa Mayer's De Castro Buh-Bye Memo to Yahoo Staff — Here it is, the internal memo to Yahoo staff about the sudden — though it was not sudden, by any means — leave-taking today of its COO, Henrique De Castro, courtesy of one of my 10,563 sources left at Yahoo!
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Capital New York, @alexia, Softpedia News, AdAge, VentureBeat, Business Insider, @danprimack, @moorehn and @ashleymayer
Josh Stearns / Free Press Blog:
Net Neutrality and the Future of Journalism — Tuesday's court decision, which struck down the FCC's Open Internet Order and threatened the future of Net Neutrality, has huge implications for the future of journalism and press freedom. — According to the Pew Research Center …
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@jcstearns, Gigaom and Consumerist
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Top editors at Washington Post, Politico talk after Wemple scrutinizes Mike Allen's Playbook — Washington Post and Politico Talk About a Rift — Top editors at The Washington Post and Politico tried on Wednesday to mend a rift between the two news organizations.
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The Huffington Post, @jayrosen_nyu, @buzzfeedandrew, @romenesko, @ravisomaiya, @ericboehlert, @erik_hayden, Poynter and The Dish
Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
Netflix ‘original’ documentary lands Oscar nomination — “The Square,” a Netflix-backed film about the Egyptian revolution, secured an Oscar nomination for documentary feature Thursday, fulfilling the Academy Awards buzz it drummed up at film festivals. — “The Square,” which profiles …
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Forbes, The Next Web, The Verge and UPROXX
Helienne Lindvall / Guardian:
Will Beats Music trump Spotify with its artist charm offensive? — Dr Dre and Trent Reznor are launching a US streaming service - but artists are likely to lose out again due to labels' royalty deals — The music streaming market is becoming a crowded place, but that hasn't stopped Beats Music getting in on the game.
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Spotify introduces unlimited free music on the web just days before Beats Music launch
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Gigaom, Spotify Blog, TechCrunch, Mashable, @gighub_, @vanessa_lgd, Gizmodo and The Next Web
Pew Internet:
E-Reading Rises as Device Ownership Jumps — The proportion of Americans who read e-books is growing, but few have completely replaced print books for electronic versions. — The percentage of adults who read an e-book in the past year has risen to 28%, up from 23% at the end of 2012.
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The Next Web and @pewresearch
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Capital New York to Introduce Monthly Print Magazine — Capital New York, the Politico sibling that covers politics and media in New York, is rolling out a small monthly print magazine starting this month, according to parent company Allbritton Communications.
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@joepompeo
Susan Currie Sivek / Mediashift:
Digital Technology Remodels Women's Magazines — Women's magazines are full of fashion, beauty and relationship tips. However, studying them has also taught one researcher a lot about their future, and about the future of the magazine industry as a whole.
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@pbsmediashift and @brookeerinduffy
Brian Braiker / Digiday:
A Tale of Two Daily Mails — Online readers of the Charleston Daily Mail received a bit of a surprise this week when they went to the West Virginia paper's homepage. The paper's address, dailymail.com, took readers to a letter announcing that the Daily Mail had changed its Web address to the somewhat clunkier charlestondailymail.com.
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@michaelroston
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
AOL hands over control of Patch to investment fund Hale Global, keeps small stake — AOL Finds a Home — Off Its Books — For Patch — Patch isn't dead, and AOL isn't officially done with it. But Tim Armstrong's big bet on local news has come to an end: The AOL CEO is handing over Patch …
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New York Times, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Forbes, Poynter, Business Wire, AdExchanger, @pkafka, @poynter, @edmundlee, Capital New York, CNET, Reuters and Wall Street Journal
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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
THE END OF AN ERROR: AOL Just Disposed Of Controlling Interest In Patch
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@jeffjarvis
Bloomberg:
Charter's Time Warner Cable Bid Puts Rutledge in Dealmaker Role — For Tom Rutledge, the man orchestrating a $61 billion takeover battle for Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC), the role of dealmaker came late in his career. — In his almost four decades in the cable business …
Ben Woods / The Next Web:
Instafax: The BBC's experiment with short-form video news delivered by Instagram — The BBC is testing a new way of distributing short news items via a new service called Instafax which uses Instagram to share videos and other information about news events, in a bid that they can be easily consumed by people on the go.
Lauren Kirchner / Columbia Journalism Review:
FOIA fight for NSA documents continues — The government has released some heavily-redacted legal opinions, but ProPublica, the ACLU, and others say that's not enough — This past November, ProPublica attempted to open up “the smallest nesting doll” of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance …
Ed Christman / Billboard:
FCC Shelves Pandora's Bid For South Dakota Radio Station … Questions? Comments? Let us know: @billboardbiz
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Radio Ink Magazine, Billboard and Music Week
Anna Dolgov / The Moscow Times:
Former Siberian Official Given Probation for Journalist's Killing — A court in the Irkutsk region has sentenced a former local official to a 22-month probation for killing a journalist who had published critical reports about corruption in the local government.
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@miriamelder
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Academic Research Platform Sciencescape Raises $2.5M, Partners With Educational Publisher Elsevier — Canadian startup Sciencescape has just closed a $2.5 million round of funding, and is considering extending it into a $3 million round since it was oversubscribed, co-founder Sam Molyneux revealed …
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:
How a free email newsletter turned a computer programmer into a Newsweek columnist — Being on Twitter can sometimes feel a little like being in a high school cafeteria. — There's chatter all around you, and there's always a joke you're not in on. On Twitter, everyone's always mad about something …
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