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5:40 PM ET, January 27, 2014

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Tim Peterson / AdAge:
Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff on Ezra Klein's Plan to Re-Imagine the News  —  News and Culture Site Expected to Launch in the Spring  —  The parent company of tech news site The Verge and sports blog SB Nation has lured The Washington Post's recently departed politics-and-policy wunderkind Ezra Klein …
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Mark Potts / Recovering Journalist:
The Washington Post tried to launch a venture like Ezra Klein's 15 years ago
David Carr / New York Times:
Ezra Klein Is Joining Vox Media as Web Journalism Asserts Itself
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Q&A: Ezra Klein Promises “A Completely Different Product”
Ezra Klein / The Verge:
Ezra Klein and crew to start new Vox Media publication
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.”
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and Mashable
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Pierre Omidyar releases video previewing First Look Media
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.
Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:
Comcast, Charter Said to Near Pact on Time Warner Cable Assets  —  Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) is near a deal to buy New York City, North Carolina and New England cable assets from Charter Communications Inc. if shareholders approve Charter's takeover bid for Time Warner Cable Inc., people with knowledge of the matter said.
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Susan Crawford / Bloomberg:
Time Warner Cable Sale Will Cost Us All  —  The big four U.S. cable companies, which control more than 60 percent of the U.S. market, may soon become just three.  Charter Communications Inc., now the fourth largest, has since last June been trying to buy Time Warner Cable Inc., the second largest.
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 …
Rachele Kanigel / Mediashift:
SF Chronicle Hopes Incubator Will ‘Turn Around Legacy Media Company’  —  After two decades of being pummeled by savvy tech companies that have stolen its readers, its advertisers and perhaps even its place as the leading media company in town, the San Francisco Chronicle has decided to fight innovation with innovation.
Discussion: @mediatwit
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:
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Bloomberg's China business grows despite ‘brouhaha’  —  Bloomberg L.P.'s footprint in the still nascent Chinese banking market is growing despite all the trouble China has been making for the company's journalists lately.  —  In 2012, China famously blocked the financial wire's website …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
N.Y. Times reporter forced to leave China
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Dean Starkman / Columbia Journalism Review:
Why Capital New York's $6,000 paywall will probably work  —  When Politico's owner bought Capital New York in September, the move came as a surprise to many of us, but it could certainly be seen as a concrete assertion of the viability of Politico's business model, which is hybrid …
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Robert Lipsyte / ESPN:
ESPN Ombudsman criticises Grantland's Dr. V story, calls it “inexcusable”  —  Dr. V story understandable, inexcusable  —  A young golfer's obsession with an oddly shaped putter invented by a mysterious scientist and endorsed on YouTube?  I will give that kind of story …
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 …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
To Cover State of the Union, Fusion Taps Talking Animals and A Chatty Hot Dog  —  Cable net backed by Univision and ABC News strikes out in satirical direction to stand apart from TV-news pack  —  When President Obama delivers his State of the Union address Tuesday evening, NBC News will trot out Brian Williams to anchor its coverage.
Discussion: TVNewser and @rove
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Q&A: Andrew Golis on matching great journalism with big audiences (and, oh yeah, dollars)  —  Andrew Golis has been hanging out at The Atlantic for the past six months or so, getting to know people and working on whatever interests him.  Golis was hired in June to inaugurate the role …
Discussion: @ceodonovan and @amlwhere
 
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Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
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Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Stephen Glass denied California law license
Discussion: Poynter and @aburnspolitico
Brian Lowry / Variety:
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Discussion: Gawker and @pwgavin
Politico:
MSNBC to launch new daytime schedule, Ronan Farrow to host at 1 p.m.
Discussion: TVNewser, Mediaite and @irin
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Dan Evans first journalist to plead guilty to hacking phones at newspaper other than NOTW
Discussion: Press Association
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Jim Edwards / Business Insider:
Yahoo's Former Chief Revenue Officer Joins Millennial Media As Its CEO
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
New York Post names David Brinker as President, announces record web traffic
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Paul Sandle / Reuters:
Vice Media links up with Greek TV broadcaster Antenna
Wall Street Journal:
Sports Channel Seeks to Profit From Demand for Online Video Without Pushing Away Pay-TV Customers
Press Gazette:
News UK merges Times, Sunday Times and Sun ad sales roles
David Meyer / Gigaom:
Major consolidation in Dutch cable industry as Liberty reveals $9.4B Ziggo buyout
Mike Ozanian / Forbes:
Super Bowl TV Audience Down 84% Per-Ad-Dollar Since 1967
Discussion: AdAge
 

 
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat:
Stability AI debuts Stable Video 3D, a generative AI tool built on its Stable Video Diffusion model, letting users create 3D video from a text or image prompt

Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central:
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more

 
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