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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, Softpedia News, AdAge, @alexia, VentureBeat, Business Insider, @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 — “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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Forbes, TechCrunch, Los Angeles Times, Media Wire Daily, GeekWire, CNET, Wall Street Journal, Adweek, Valleywag, Fortune, Business Insider, The Wrap and Quartz
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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@samirashackle, Management Today, @adambienkov, @scottygb and The Drum
Tim Wu / The New Yorker Blog:
FCC's Wheeler can preserve net neutrality by taking back its authority over broadband — Closing Time for the Open Internet — Since 1970 or so, carriers like A. T. & T. and Verizon have been barred from blocking or degrading whatever is transported over their lines.
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Gigaom, The Switch, The Huffington Post, Crikey, Forbes, Globe and Mail, The New Republic, Free Press Blog, TheHill, Ars Technica, @superwuster, NYT Bits, @mathewi, Salon, Home Media Magazine, ABC, Official FCC Blog and Guardian
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Josh Stearns / Free Press Blog:
Net Neutrality and the Future of Journalism
Net Neutrality and the Future of Journalism
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Gigaom and Consumerist
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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Pocket-lint
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Spotify introduces unlimited free music on the web just days before Beats Music launch
Spotify introduces unlimited free music on the web just days before Beats Music launch
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Spotify Blog, TechCrunch, @vanessa_lgd, @gighub_, Gizmodo and The Next Web
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, @pkafka, @poynter, AdExchanger, @edmundlee, CNET, Capital New York, 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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@jeffjarvis
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
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, @buzzfeedandrew, @romenesko, @ravisomaiya, @ericboehlert, @erik_hayden, Poynter and Politico
The Week:
John Humphrys: BBC is too big and should be slimmed down — Veteran broadcaster joins calls for change despite warning from BBC chief to stop attacking corporation — JOHN HUMPHRYS believes the BBC is too big and suffers from a surfeit of executives who tie people up in meetings.
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Guardian, Daily Mail, The Times, thedrum.com and broadcastnow.co.uk
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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Digital Book World
Axegrinder:
WAN-IFRA press freedom mission to UK: What no mention of the 61 UK journalists arrested since 2011? — The World Association of Newspapers' first press freedom mission to the UK is in the midst of a round of top-level meetings today to discuss the Royal Charter on press regulation …
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Press Gazette
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 …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
News Corp. freezes pensions in cost-control measure — News Corp. employees were told Wednesday that their pensions are being frozen, Capital has learned. — The change in the company's retirement-plan contribution scheme applies to certain employees at the New York Post …
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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@brookeerinduffy and @pbsmediashift
Tim Goodman / Hollywood Reporter:
How Kevin Reilly Is Changing Up Fox's Game, and What That May Mean for the TV Industry — As the broadcast net moves away from pilot season, its decisions are really and truly about quality. — Fox's Kevin Reilly — Whenever change comes to the resistant television industry, it comes slow.
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@bastardmachine, @miavonglitz and Forbes
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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The New York Observer, @nitashatiku, @mattbuchanan, Business Insider and Fast Company
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
Ira Teinowitz / The Wrap:
Rep. Waxman on Tribune Meeting: ‘My Concern About the Fate of the Los Angeles Times Was Not Alleviated’ — Rep. Henry Waxman said Wednesday that his staff had a “helpful meeting” with the general counsel and the chief financial officer of the Tribune Co., but his concerns remain …
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Politico and LA Observed
The Wrap:
TheWrap Beats Deadline Hollywood and Variety's Web Traffic in December — TheWrap is pleased to announce that it has achieved its highest traffic month in the history of the site, surpassing both industry trades Variety and Deadline. — According to comScore, TheWrap scored 3.4 million unique visitors …
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Michael Wolff / Slate:
The new Roger Ailes biography isn't just poorly written. It's telling the wrong story. — Gabriel Sherman is part of a group of young media reporters—many starting out at the New York Observer under the tutelage of then-Editor Peter Kaplan, an avowed media nostalgist—who have seen their subject …
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Q&A with author of book on Fox's Roger Ailes