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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 …
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, @raju, @bounder, @adambienkov, @samirashackle, @scottygb, Management Today 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.
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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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:
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, Business Insider, VentureBeat, @danprimack, @moorehn and @ashleymayer
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Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Yahoo COO Henrique De Castro, Mayer's No. 2, to depart after failing to move lagging ad business
Yahoo COO Henrique De Castro, Mayer's No. 2, to depart after failing to move lagging ad business
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Forbes, TechCrunch, Business Insider, WebProNews, Adweek, Los Angeles Times, Media Wire Daily, GeekWire, CNET, Wall Street Journal, Valleywag, Fortune, Quartz and The Wrap
Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
Netflix ‘original’ documentary lands Oscar nomination — “The Square,” a Netflix-backed film about the 2011 Egyptian revolution, secured an Oscar nomination for documentary feature on Thursday, fulfilling the Academy Awards buzz it drummed up at film festivals.
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Forbes, FishbowlNY, Variety, Rolling Stone, The Next Web, The Verge and UPROXX
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Spotify introduces unlimited free music on the web just days before Beats Music launch — The nice thing about raising $250 million is that it lets you offer your customers services that few competitors can match. Spotify, which is riding high after completing a massive fundraising round in November …
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Spotify Blog, Gigaom, TechCrunch, Washington Post, Business Insider, Mashable, @gighub_, @vanessa_lgd and Gizmodo
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Helienne Lindvall / Guardian:
Will Beats Music trump Spotify with its artist charm offensive?
Will Beats Music trump Spotify with its artist charm offensive?
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Pocket-lint
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
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
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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@geoffreyfowler, @lrainie, The Next Web and @pewresearch
Ed Christman / Billboard:
FCC Shelves Pandora's Bid For South Dakota Radio Station … Questions? Comments? Let us know: @billboardbiz
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Gigaom, Radio Ink Magazine, Billboard and Music Week
BBC:
Egypt charges al-Jazeera journalists — Egypt charges three al-Jazeera journalists with aiming to “undermine the country's national security” — More to follow.
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Associated Press, Daily News Egypt and @bbcbreaking
John Plunkett / Guardian:
Tony Hall urged to intervene to ensure Savile reforms implemented at BBC — National Union of Journalists ‘disappointed’ recommendations over bullying have not been followed up — The BBC director general, Tony Hall, is being urged to intervene to ensure internal reforms proposed …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Maker Studios Hires Ex-AOL Exec Rene Rechtman to Lead International Operations — Exec also will take a stake in the multichannel network operator eyeing expansion outside the U.S. — @xpangler — Rene Rechtman, who resigned as CEO of AOL's branded content division last fall …
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Re/code
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
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
Reporters Without Borders:
Iraq bans local printing and distribution of Saudi daily — Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iraqi government's decision to ban the printing and distribution in Iraq of Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, a Saudi-owned pan-Arab daily newspaper. — On 14 January, Iraqi security forces raided …
Publishers Weekly:
Simon & Schuster Expands Library E-Book Program — After jumping into the library e-book market last April with a limited pilot, Simon & Schuster is expanding its program to more libraries, and adding OverDrive to its list of vendors. The publisher and OverDrive today announced …
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GalleyCat, Good E-Reader and Digital Book World
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The New York Times' R&D Lab is building a quantified-self, semantic-analysis tool to track web browsing — Let's say you work in a modern digital newsroom. Your colleagues are looking at interesting stuff online all day long — reading stimulating news stories, searching down rabbit holes you've never thought of.
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Co.Labs
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 …
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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Nieman Journalism Lab, 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
THE END OF AN ERROR: AOL Just Disposed Of Controlling Interest In Patch
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