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Politico:
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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The Wrap, Media Nation and Business Insider
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 …
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
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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Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
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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WashPost PR:
The Volokh Conspiracy joins The Washington Post — The Washington Post today announced a partnership with The Volokh Conspiracy, a blog that covers law, public policy, politics, culture and other topics. — Eugene Volokh, a law professor at UCLA, founded the blog in April 2002 …
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Coronel to replace Grueskin as Columbia J-school's academic dean — Bill Grueskin is stepping down as the Columbia Journalism School's dean of academic affairs and will be replaced by Sheila Coronel, a veteran investigative journalist who joined the faculty about seven years ago.
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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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@jeffbercovici
Wall Street Journal:
Amazon considering online live TV service, has approached at least three media conglomerates seeking rights to distribute their channels — Amazon Considering Online Pay TV Service — Live TV Channels Would Compete With Cable, Satellite — Amazon.com Inc. has approached big entertainment companies …
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NetNewsCheck Latest, AppleInsider and @pkafka
John Paczkowski / Re/code:
Judge Puts the Brakes on Apple's Antitrust Monitor — Apple has won a brief respite from the court-appointed antitrust compliance monitor it claims is crawling unnecessarily deeply into its business. — An appellate judge on Tuesday temporarily stayed monitor Michael Bromwich's oversight …
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Apple gets reprieve from e-book monitor's oversight
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Computerworld, GeekWire, The Mac Observer, Main Justice, The Verge, 9to5Mac, TUAW and Law Blog
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:
Beats Will Shut Down MOG Music April 15; MOG Founder Joins Stealth Mobile Startup Chosen.fm
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Ian Bogost / The Atlantic Online:
The Rise of Curiosity Journalism — On the web, curiosity rules—but all curiosities eventually become routine — Last last week on these very pages, Robinson Meyer noted the surprising fact that the overall highest-trafficked story at the New York Times in 2013 was not a story at all …
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@bomani_jones, @theatlantic, @smfrogers and @yayitsrob
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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
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@makautry, @niemanlab, @jayrosen_nyu, @simonhinde, Mediaite, @bydanielvictor, @clockwerks, The Huffington Post, @journochat, @dylanmatt, @knightlab, @brianabelson, @ar_shah and @jackseale
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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Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Newsweek Delays Return of Print Edition to March — Move Allows Mag Time to Attract More Advertisers, Hire a Publisher — Newsweek has delayed the rollout of its new print edition until early March, with a newsstand date of March 7, according to Jim Impoco, Newsweek's editor since September.
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Capital New York
Jim Romenesko:
Wall Street Journal memo: Newsroom changes mean ‘a faster-moving, digital-first news operation’ — With 60 Wall Street Journal employees joining the Real-Time News Desk today, “we have embarked on the path towards becoming a fully digitized news operation,” writes Journal managing editor Gerard Baker.
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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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Polygon, Gotta Be Mobile, GeekWire, The Verge, @kyleorl, Guardian, Wired.co.uk, Consumerist, Computerworld, SlashGear, MetaFilter, VG247, Forbes and BGR
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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@bloombergtech and @edmundlee
Bill Simmons / Grantland:
Grantland editor apologizes for publishing “Dr. V's Magical Putter” — The Dr. V Story: A Letter From the Editor — How “Dr. V's Magical Putter” came to be published — “How could you guys run that?” — We started hearing that question on Friday afternoon, West Coast time …
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Christina Kahrl / Grantland:
What Grantland Got Wrong
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