Mediagazer: Fox News chief Ailes's unauthorised biography panned by critics (Tom McCarthy/Guardian)

2:00 PM ET, January 21, 2014

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Why the Post passed on Ezra Klein — The Washington Post would do anything for Ezra Klein. Well, almost anything. — For nearly five years, the Post has steered a bounty of financial resources to its star economics columnist and blogger. It has allowed him to have a contributor deal with MSNBC …

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David Weigel / Slate:

Ezra Klein Leaves the Washington Post; Washington Wonders Whether the Post Ever Learns Anything — It's been the talk of the notorious D.C. cocktail party circuit for a month, and now it's official: Ezra Klein will leave the Washington Post after five years on staff.

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

Ezra Klein leaves Washington Post to launch new venture, takes staff with him — Ezra Klein out at Washington Post — The Washington Post announced Tuesday that its star economics blogger Ezra Klein will be leaving the paper to start a new venture. — The move comes after weeks …

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Why Verizon is buying Intel Media: it's all about taking on Comcast — Verizon made it official on the day of its Q4 2013 earnings call: The company is indeed buying the assets of Intel Media, the Intel subsidiary that has been developing an internet TV service called OnCue.

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Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:
Verizon agrees to buy Intel's failed internet TV project

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Ryan Graff / Knight Lab:

How an intern created the NYT's dialect quiz, the site's most-visited content in 2013 — Behind the dialect map interactive: How an intern created The New York Times' most popular piece of content in 2013 — " generates a personalized dialect map based upon user responses compared …

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Ian Bogost / The Atlantic Online:
The Rise of Curiosity Journalism

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Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online:

Sit Back, Relax, and Read That Long Story—on Your Phone — More than 50 percent of Buzzfeed's traffic comes from mobile visits. And that includes stories that are thousands of words long. — Earlier this month, Buzzfeed published a story called “Why I Bought a House in Detroit for $500.”

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Christina Kahrl / Grantland:
What Grantland Got Wrong

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Firing Tony Gallagher is a big mistake — Why was Tony Gallagher fired? After finding the best editor the Daily Telegraph has had since Charles Moore's exit in 2003, the management has thrown him out. — I am astonished at the decision by Telegraph Media Group's chief executive …

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Fred McConnell / Guardian:
Tony Gallagher exits as Daily Telegraph editor

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Walt Mossberg / Re/code:

Beats Music launches mobile-focused streaming music service with a human touch — Beats Music Streams With a Human Touch — For years and years, people have predicted that subscription streaming music services would eventually overtake paid download services in the hearts of average consumers.

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
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Capital N.Y. Is Rolling Out a Nearly $6,000 Annual Paywall ' — Four months ago, Allbritton Communications bought the three-year-old media and politics site Capital New York with the aim of transforming media in the Empire State the way the company's Politico, with its breakneck …

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Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:

Stealth marketing: Microsoft paying YouTubers for Xbox One mentions — Machinima campaign offered undisclosed money to videos promoting new console. — The line between traditional, paid advertising and organic editorial content on the Internet can sometimes be hazy.

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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Yahoo's Next Problem: Tumblr's Traffic Isn't Growing — The past year has been an up-and-down affair for Yahoo , with the company and its CEO, Marissa Mayer, scoring numerous PR coups while failing to make headway in its core business of selling digital advertising.

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Darren Boyle / Press Gazette:

Guardian set for £500m windfall after agreeing to sell stake in Trader Media Group — Guardian Media Group has agreed to sell its 50.1 per cent stake in the highly-profitable Trader Media Group, the company has announced. — No-one was available for comment this morning …

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Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:

Carlos Slim Still Reaping Big Rewards From NY Times Loan — Billionaire Carlos Slim is poised to double his money after investing $250 million in a 2009 lending agreement with the New York Times, showing how dearly the newspaper's owners paid for his help. — Slim, who controls mobile …

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Michael Wolff / USA Today:

Can it be? A return to big and rich media? — A net neutrality ruling means more clout for those who control content distribution. — What if you could put the media business back to where it was a generation ago? — That was when a set of large companies controlled access to most content.

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