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4:10 PM ET, January 16, 2014

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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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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.
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
The Independent's future in jeopardy as sales fall to alarming level  —  It is hard to imagine anyone buying The Independent and therefore places the paper's future existence in jeopardy.  The fact that its owner has failed to find a buyer after months of seeking one suggest that its newsprint days are coming to an end.
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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Robert Mackey / New York Times:
A.P. Cameraman Detained in Egypt After His Images Appear on Al Jazeera
Discussion: The Huffington Post, CNN and Mediaite
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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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.
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Financial documents being shown to potential buyers raise questions about its future growth. Has Forbes peaked? And can it justify the high price it's seeking  —  The newsonomics of Forbes' real performance and price potential  —  The bidding for Forbes is now moving into round two, with a sale expected within a month.
Mark Potts / Recovering Journalist:
Introducing Newspeg — A New Way to Look at News  —  Do you get the feeling you're awash in a flood of news?  —  The internet has unleashed a torrent of news sources, old and new, that we're all scrambling to make sense of and sort out.  The old convenient package of news that landed …
Discussion: @jeffjarvis and @mathewi
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
Cox Communications Not Preparing Bid for Time Warner Cable  —  As One Potential Suitor Steps Aside, Comcast, Charter Discuss Collaborating on an Offer  —  Cox Communications Inc. isn't preparing a bid for Time Warner Cable Inc. , according to people familiar with the matter …
Discussion: Reuters
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Bloomberg:   Charter's Time Warner Cable Bid Puts Rutledge in Dealmaker Role
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.
NBC New York:
Wall Street Journal Reporter Goes Missing in New Jersey, Credit Card Mysteriously Used in Mexico  —  Hundreds of people are searching for a missing 55-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter who left his New Jersey home for a walk on Saturday and never came back.
Ed Christman / Billboard:
FCC Shelves Pandora's Bid For South Dakota Radio Station  —  In another minor setback to its music licensing plans, Pandora has received word from the FCC that it is no longer processing its application for the transfer of the ownership of broadcasting license for KXMZ, the Rapid City, South Dakota radio station it acquired last June.
Alex Miller / VICE:
Kelvin MacKenzie is Wrong About International News  —  Last night, parochial news troll Kelvin MacKenzie appeared on Newsnight to claim that foreign reporting “is killing TV news”.  He was being entertained by Paxman and the rest thanks to new research, which suggests that TV viewers are often indifferent to foreign news stories.
Discussion: @viceuk
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.
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
The Week Picks Up a New Digital Boss From Patch  —  The Week, Dennis Publishing's online/offline news aggregator, has brought on a new digital boss.  Rachel Fishman Feddersen will run TheWeek.com, and will “lead a relaunch and reconception” of the site, the publisher says.
Miranda Neubauer / TechPresident:
Need a Journalist?  In Germany, There's an App For That  —  Call a Journalist app (Cross & Lecker/Facebook)  —  Over the past weeks, the city of Hamburg in Germany was caught up in ongoing occasionally violent standoffs and demonstrations between left-wing protestors and the police …
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 …
Discussion: TechCrunch, The Wrap and Re/code
Matthew Lynch / Capital New York:
Memo: Condé Nast ad pages flat in Q1  —  Condé Nast Media Group president Lou Cona said ad pages were flat across the company's magazines in its first quarter in a memo to staffers sent Thursday.  —  Though pages were up in January and March, a “flagging” February contributed to the results …
Alex Litel / The Wire:
‘This Haunts Me at Night’: The Man Behind ViralNova on the Viral Bubble  —  To the average online journalist, few words as irksome as the clinical and ill-defined “content.”  Everything on the internet is content, which means a reblogged chart about millenials with a clickbaity title is lumped …
Charles V. Bagli / New York Times:
Time Warner Planning Move From Columbus Circle to Hudson Yards  —  Time Warner Inc. announced on Thursday that it plans to move its headquarters from Columbus Circle to a new 80-story tower on the Far West Side of Manhattan, ensuring the development of a vast complex of office towers …
 
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Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Vimeo turns to Kickstarter and Indiegogo to find and fund movies
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John Plunkett / Guardian:
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Lauren Kirchner / Columbia Journalism Review:
FOIA fight for NSA documents continues
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
News Corp. freezes pensions in cost-control measure
Axegrinder:
WAN-IFRA press freedom mission to UK: What no mention of the 61 UK journalists arrested since 2011?
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Publishers Weekly:
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The New York Times' R&D Lab is building a quantified-self, semantic-analysis tool to track web browsing
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

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