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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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@danwmedia, @jbenton, @moorehn and @nycjim
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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 …
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Business Wire, @peterlauria3, @emilybell, @jbenton, Mediawire Daily, @stuartmillar159, Bloomberg, Media & Entertainment, AdAge, Politico, Wall Street Journal, FishbowlNY, The Wrap and Variety
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, Geeky Gadgets, @amolsharmawsj, @shaliniwsj, SlashGear, VentureBeat, USA Today, MacRumors, Quartz, Deadline.com, BGR, The Verge, Gotta Be Mobile, AppleInsider, Pocket-lint, GeekWire, @adamostrow, Business Insider, @pkafka, @themediaisdying, 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 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
Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:
Alliances of media stars and legacy organizations make sense, but sometimes control matters more — Exit Ezra, Smiling — The last few years have been fascinating to watch as new media stars have both benefited from and then fallen out with big media companies. Nate Silver is the obvious example.
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The New Republic, The New Republic and Talking New Media
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Politico:
Why the Post passed on Ezra Klein
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Paul Krugman, Columbia Journalism Review, New York Times and The New Republic
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 The Wrap
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Ezra Klein leaves Washington Post to launch new venture, takes staff with him
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Columbia Journalism Review, Nieman Journalism Lab, Poynter, @ezraklein, The Huffington Post, Gigaom, @editorialiste, Columbia Journalism Review, FishbowlNY, @edmundlee, @fshakir, @anupkaphle, @wonkblog, @mitrakalita, @samsteinhp, @acarvin, @timothynoah1, @lheron, @edsall, The Rural Blog, @ejaxon, @elisefoley, @dylanbyers, FishbowlDC, @drudge_report, @leginsurrection and @brianstelter
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.
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.
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Street Fight
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 …
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
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 …
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 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 … and @poynter
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 …
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@ptaillandier, @moorehn, @emilybell and NetNewsCheck Latest
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
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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PandoDaily, @nytimesbits and @jeffbercovici
David Banks / Guardian:
WSJ ruling highlights problems for court reporters filing to overseas offices — Journalists could end up in contempt if copy filed for a foreign print edition was picked up by another outlet and put online — Court reporters could be committing contempt when they file to their offices abroad …
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Dow Jones Newswires
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
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.
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.
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