Mediagazer: Al Jazeera Expands Global Footprint With Turkish Digital Operation (Nick Vivarelli/Variety)

4:15 AM ET, January 22, 2014

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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.

Discussion: @jbenton

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Lex Fenwick out at Dow Jones — Big changes at News Corp. today: Lex Fenwick is out as chief executive of Dow Jones & Company after just two years on the job. — Fenwick will be replaced on an interim basis by News Corp's chief creative officer, William Lewis, who will …

Discussion: Business Wire, Media & Entertainment, Bloomberg, @peterlauria3, @emilybell, AdAge, @jbenton, Mediawire Daily, Wall Street Journal, Politico, @stuartmillar159, FishbowlNY, The Wrap and Variety

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 …

Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:
Alliances of media stars and legacy organizations make sense, but sometimes control matters more

Discussion: 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

Discussion: New York Times, Business Insider, Mediaite and The Wrap

Dylan Byers / Politico:
Ezra Klein leaves Washington Post to launch new venture, takes staff with him

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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 …

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Amazon Denies It Has Plans to Create an Over-the-Top TV Service — Internet retailer responds to Wall Street Journal report that Amazon has approached TV networks about licensing channels Amazon.com denied a report that it was seeking to license TV channels to launch a broadband-delivered television service.

Discussion: Pocket-lint

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.

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.

Discussion: Columbia University …

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.

Discussion: PandoDaily and @jeffbercovici

Jim Romenesko:

Wall Street Journal memo: Newsroom changes mean ‘a faster-moving, digital-first news operation’ — Update: Lex Fenwick is out as Dow Jones chief executive officer. (Dow Jones release) — With 60 Wall Street Journal employees joining the Real-Time News Desk today, “we have embarked …

Discussion: @moorehn and NetNewsCheck Latest

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 …

Discussion: Folio, @markhor, @hunterw, @hunterw, FishbowlNY, @nishachittal, Nieman Journalism Lab, @lydiadepillis, @ravisomaiya and @taylorlorenz

Reuters:

Analysis: Verizon deal may push U.S. cable to offer online TV services — (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc's acquisition of Intel Corp's venture to create a web-based TV service may be the catalyst that pushes U.S. cable players to start similar products to fend off fast-growing video rivals …

Discussion: New York Times

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Why Verizon is buying Intel Media: it's all about taking on Comcast

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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 …

Discussion: Engadget and BBC

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 …

Discussion: Al Jazeera English

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

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.

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Reporters Without Borders:

Pakistan - Three TV station employees killed in targeted shooting by Taliban group — Reporters Without Borders is appalled and saddened by the deliberate murder of three Express News TV employees in a shooting attack by a Taliban group on one of the TV station's vehicles in Karachi on 17 January.

Discussion: @dezhill and Guardian

Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal:

Twitter Users' Diversity Becomes an Ad Selling Point — Microblogging Social-Media Site Trying to Capitalize on Its Demographics — For most of its rather short life, Twitter Inc. rarely mentioned that its user base is more racially diverse than U.S. Internet users as a whole.

Discussion: Gawker and Capital New York

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Maria Miller ‘happy’ with current situation where most publishers back IPSO regulator, press freedom mission told — Culture secretary Maria Miller reportedly accepts that the situation where most publishers have signed up to IPSO and none have signed up to the Royal Charter on press regulation could go on for some decades.

Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:

How MSNBC's Steve Kornacki Broke the Latest Christie Scandal — Steve Kornacki, the MSNBC newsman who broke a new scandal involving the New Jersey governor, the mayor of Hoboken, and the strings attached to Sandy relief gives a blow-by-blow account of how he got the explosive news.

Discussion: The Lede, TheBlaze.com, Gothamist and The New Yorker Blog