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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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Jim Kennedy / News Corp:
News Corp Announces Changes At Dow Jones & Company
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JackFlack.com, Gawker, @lisaocarroll, @dowjones and @lheron
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 …
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New York Times, @mlcalderone, Tech in Asia and The Next Web
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.
Discussion:
The Huffington Post and BBC
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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USA Today, Engadget, Geeky Gadgets, @shaliniwsj, Mashable, @amolsharmawsj, SlashGear, VentureBeat, MacRumors, Deadline.com, The Verge, BGR, AppleInsider, Pocket-lint, Business Insider, Gotta Be Mobile, GeekWire, @adamostrow, @themediaisdying, @pkafka, NetNewsCheck Latest, Inside TV, NBCNews and CNBC
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon Denies It Has Plans to Create an Over-the-Top TV Service
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@brianstelter, Softpedia News, BGR and Pocket-lint
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Ex-AOL editor Cyndi Stivers joins Tina Brown's company — Cyndi Stivers, who saw her job as editor-in-chief of AOL.com eliminated in the upheaval at the media company late last year — after only seven months in the position — has a new gig lined up with Tina Brown's fledgling conference business.
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FishbowlNY
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Radio Free Europe journalists beaten, detained in Kiev protests — On Wednesday, UPI reported that two journalists have been beaten and detained in the ongoing protests in Kiev. … In a video for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty posted Wednesday, the two badly beaten men, Dmytro Barkar and Ihor Iskhakov, talk about what happened.
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UPI and Radio Free Europe/Radio …
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
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.
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Capital New York, Gigaom, JackFlack.com and Politico
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Brian Stelter / CNN Money:
Verizon bets on the future of television — Verizon's purchase on Tuesday of Intel's OnCue television service foreshadows a day when a paying television subscriber will be able to watch any channel on any device, whenever and wherever they want. — It's been a long time coming.
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CNNMoney.com
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Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
The race is on to launch an internet TV service in the US — America's first pay TV service delivered entirely over the internet is coming. The only question is who will offer it. — A slew of companies—Sony, Verizon, Apple, and Amazon—are working on television services that would take advantage …
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Bloomberg, Gigaom, @zseward, Pocket-lint and Variety
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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Mediaite, BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, Politico and @allisonkilkenny
Michael Holden / Reuters:
Police searched basket of Rebekah Brooks's baby, court hears — Detectives investigating phone-hacking allegations searched the Moses basket of Rebekah Brooks's six-week-old baby during a dawn swoop on the home of the former head of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper arm, a London court heard on Wednesday.
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The Independent, thedrum.com and Guardian
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 …
Discussion:
Gawker and FishbowlNY
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Fox Will Stream Super Bowl XLVIII Free to Computers and iPads — Broadcaster to offer a ‘special preview’ of Fox Sports Go authenticated service for the NFL championship game on Feb. 2 — Fox Sports will use Super Bowl XLVIII as a showcase for its online and mobile authentication service …
Discussion:
CNET
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Weather Channel: DirecTV Subscribers Should Be Able to Switch, Without Penalty — The Weather Channel is ratcheting up the rhetoric in its fight to get back on DirecTV. — The leading weather TV channel, which begins a ninth day off the nation's second-largest pay TV service …
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Los Angeles Times, Deadline.com, Broadcasting & Cable and FishbowlNY
Devin Coldewey / NBCNews:
Feds pull Google Glass user from theater for suspected piracy — A Google Glass user in Ohio has run into an unexpected consequence of wearing a camera on your face at all times: Movie theaters might suspect you of piracy. Homeland Security agents pulled the man from the movie and interviewed …
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Business Insider, The Switch, PC Magazine, Associated Press, The Independent, NY Daily News, Computerworld, Telegraph, Guardian and Electronista
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 …
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
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 …
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
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
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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