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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Dow Jones Chief Resigns In Shift by News Corp. — Lex Fenwick, the hard-driving chief executive who stumbled in his efforts to transform Dow Jones, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, has resigned effective immediately as the company rethinks its strategy.
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Capital New York, @danwmedia, @moorehn, @jbenton and @nycjim
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Lex Fenwick out at Dow Jones
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Business Wire, Bloomberg, @emilybell, @stuartmillar159, @peterlauria3, @jbenton, Mediawire Daily, Media & Entertainment, AdAge, Politico, Wall Street Journal, FishbowlNY, The Wrap and Variety
Jim Kennedy / News Corp:
News Corp Announces Changes At Dow Jones & Company
Discussion:
JackFlack.com, Gawker and @lheron
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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Engadget, Mashable, @amolsharmawsj, Geeky Gadgets, @shaliniwsj, SlashGear, VentureBeat, USA Today, MacRumors, Deadline.com, BGR, The Verge, Gotta Be Mobile, AppleInsider, Pocket-lint, GeekWire, Business Insider, @adamostrow, @themediaisdying, @pkafka, NetNewsCheck Latest, Inside TV, NBCNews and CNBC
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Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
The race is on to launch an internet TV service in the US
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Bloomberg, Gigaom and Pocket-lint
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon Denies It Has Plans to Create an Over-the-Top TV Service
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@brianstelter, Softpedia News and Pocket-lint
Tania Branigan / Guardian:
Guardian blocked in China after story about leadership's offshore wealth — Access to the front page of newspaper's website blocked and availability of other stories intermittent — The Guardian appeared to be partially blocked in China on Wednesday after revealing that relatives …
Discussion:
New York Times, Tech in Asia and The Next Web
Dean Starkman / Columbia Journalism Review:
Ezra Klein and the early-mover disadvantage — No one knows if these new personal-franchise journalism ventures are going to work — The parade of departures of high-profile journalism talent from big newspapers, of which Ezra Klein's is the most recent, can basically be divided into two categories.
Discussion:
Politico and The Daily Caller
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Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:
Alliances of media stars and legacy organizations make sense, but sometimes control matters more
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The New Republic, The New Republic and Talking New Media
David Weigel / Slate:
Ezra Klein Leaves the Washington Post; Washington Wonders Whether the Post Ever Learns Anything
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Business Insider, Mediaite and FishbowlNY
Politico:
Why the Post passed on Ezra Klein
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Paul Krugman, Capital New York, New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review, Nieman Journalism Lab, Poynter, USA Today, JackFlack.com, The New Republic, The Huffington Post, Digiday, @fmanjoo, @ezraklein, @brianstelter, @hunterw, The Daily Caller, Gigaom, NetNewsCheck Latest, New York Magazine, Politico, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, The Rural Blog, @acarvin, @timothynoah1, @lheron, @samsteinhp, @wonkblog, @edsall, @elisefoley, @dylanbyers, @alexismadrigal, FishbowlDC, @drudge_report, @cwarzel and @leginsurrection
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Comcast resurrects EveryBlock in Chicago on Thursday, plans other U.S. cities later — Hyperlocal website EveryBlock to be resurrected … EveryBlock, the hyperlocal website shut down last February amid financial losses, is returning from internet limbo.
Discussion:
Street Fight
Emily Rauhala / TIME:
CNN, BBC Reporters Covering China Activist Trial Manhandled on Live TV — Street-side tussles take place outside Beijing court where transparency campaigner Xu Zhiyong is being tried behind closed doors — BBC journalist Martin Patience lived up to his name today.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Independent website could net Lebedevs millions in standalone sale — Digital division housed in separate company from loss-making print business which owners have been looking to sell — The Lebedevs, owners of the Independent titles, are keeping the papers' website in a separate company …
Gwynn Guilford / Quartz:
Westerners are so convinced China is a dystopian hellscape they'll share anything that confirms it — ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images, via Tech in Asia — When it comes to China stories, people will believe almost anything. Take, for instance, the reports about pollution being so severe …
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FishbowlNY
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 …
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Seiken to address Telegraph staff on the new digital way forward — Following yesterday's departure of the Daily Telegraph editor Tony Gallagher, the man now in charge of the paper is planning to address the staff on his vision for its future. — Jason Seiken, chief content officer …
Discussion:
London News and Telegraph
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Native Ad Company Sharethrough Raises $17M More — Sharethrough, a startup focused on native advertising, is announcing that it has raised $17 million in its third round of funding. — That breaks down to $7 million in equity and $10 million in debt. New investors in the round include …
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AdAge
Dan Levy / Sparksheet:
Building a Digital Legacy: Q&A with The Atlantic's Kimberly Lau — The Atlantic has been around for 155 years, and for most of that time it's been a print publication. Do you still define The Atlantic as a magazine? — I don't. The magazine is obviously a very important medium and is part …
Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Showtime, HBO, Starz blast NPD study that says they lost subscribers — Thanks to “Homeland” and other shows, Showtime has added 1 million subscribers a year in six of the last seven years, a spokesperson says. — Pay-TV channels HBO, Showtime and Starz are blasting a much-ballyhooed study …
Robert Andrews / Beet.TV:
BBC.com Opens Its Doors To Native Advertising — The BBC is known for its editorial integrity and, at least in the UK, its aversion to advertising. These facts would seem to make an embrace of the current “native advertising” trend difficult. But that's just what BBC Worldwide …
Discussion:
@beet_tv
Jamie Weinstein / The Daily Caller:
Glenn Beck: ‘I think I played a role unfortunately in helping tear the country apart’ — Glenn Beck made a candid admission Tuesday night. — During an appearance on Fox News' “The Kelly File,” the former Fox News host reflected on his time at the network.
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BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, Politico and @allisonkilkenny
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Time.com pushes back relaunch until February, announces four hires — Time.com Makes More Hires Ahead of Relaunch New target date set for relaunch By Lucia Moses — Time.com has made another round of hires and pushed back the target date of its long-anticipated relaunch.
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FishbowlNY
Nick Vivarelli / Variety:
Al Jazeera Expands Global Footprint With Turkish Digital Operation — Al Jazeera Turk will start as a digital operation and plans to become a broadcaster in a year — Al Jazeera is expanding its global footprint, bringing its brand to Turkey and the world's 140 million Turkish speakers …
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Al Jazeera English, @riy and @tomgara
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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Columbia University … and @poynter
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