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Ezra Klein / The Verge:
Ezra Klein and crew to start new Vox Media publication — Vox is our next — Early last year, Melissa Bell, Matt Yglesias and I began wrestling with a question that had bugged all of us for a long time: why hadn't the Internet made the news better at delivering crucial context alongside new information?
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David Carr / New York Times:
Ezra Klein Is Joining Vox Media as Web Journalism Asserts Itself — After a week of speculation, it turns out that Ezra Klein, the prolific creator of The Washington Post's Wonkblog, will be going to Vox Media, the online home of SB Nation, a sports site, and The Verge, a fast-growing technology site.
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Q&A: Ezra Klein Promises “A Completely Different Product” — “This is not just Wonkblog.” — This evening, after weeks of speculation, Ezra Klein announced he'll be founding a new media publication at Vox Media, home to SB Nation, The Verge, Polygon, and the recently acquired Curbed Media network.
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Mark Potts / Recovering Journalist:
The Washington Post tried to launch a venture like Ezra Klein's 15 years ago — Some Context on Ezra Klein's “News Site/Encyclopedia” Concept — It appears that the big project that led Wonkblog proprietor Ezra Klein to bolt The Washington Post for VoxMedia is to “build the world's …
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Omidyar: First Look plans to launch ‘family of digital magazines’ — In a video explaining his plans for First Look Media, founder/funder Pierre Omidyar says that in addition to a flagship site covering news, entertainment, sports and politics, the venture plans to launch “a family of digital magazines.”
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Pierre Omidyar releases video previewing First Look Media — Omidyar previews ‘First Look Media’ venture — Pierre Omidyar, the tech entrepreneur and philanthropist, has released a video with new details on his forthcoming journalism venture, “First Look Media,” which is set to launch later this year.
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Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
Al Jazeera America to get prime new channel space — As it prepares to launch a new marketing campaign, Al Jazeera America will be getting some prime new channel placement for Time Warner Cable subscribers in New York. — Tomorrow, January 28, AJAM will be moving from channel 181 …
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Poynter, Politico, @felixsalmon, @brianstelter and @tmcgev
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Prominent NYT news stories “go too far in the direction of interpretation, analysis and elaborate writing” — 'Just the Facts, Ma'am' No More — IT'S a Monday morning in mid-January. Your print edition of The Times is at hand, along with your coffee. You scan it for news.
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Quentin Tarantino Suing Gawker Over Leaked ‘Hateful Eight’ Script (Exclusive) — The director takes legal action over the distribution of his script. — Quentin Tarantino — Quentin Tarantino has filed a copyright lawsuit against Gawker Media for allegedly disseminating copies of his script, The Hateful Eight.
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WashPost PR:
National Journal Executive Editor Adam Kushner joins Washington Post to lead new opinion and analysis site — Adam Kushner to lead new digital opinion venture — Announcement from Executive Editor Marty Baron, Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt and Outlook Editor Carlos Lozada:
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Frank Rich / New York Magazine:
Stop Beating a Dead Fox — The conservative news channel's only real power is in riling up liberals, who by this point should know better. — here ain't no sanity clause," Chico Marx told Groucho. There is also no Santa Claus. And there was no sanity in the Santa fracas that became …
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Politico:
MSNBC to launch new daytime schedule, Ronan Farrow to host at 1 p.m. — Following the 2014 Winter Olympics, MSNBC will introduce a new daytime programming schedule that will see Ronan Farrow, its newest talent, hosting at 1 p.m. ET and Joy Reid, a longtime guest host, at 2 p.m. ET.
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