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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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Poynter, Capital New York, @cwarzel, @summeranne, @jayrosen_nyu, @fmanjoo, @sdkstl, @fmanjoo, New York Magazine and Talking Biz News
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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Washington Post, FishbowlNY, Business Insider, @khanoisseur and @jayrosen_nyu
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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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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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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Ben Smith / Medium:
What The Longform Backlash Is All About — Taking the best of the magazine craft online. And leaving the rest on paper. — BuzzFeed executive editor Doree Shafrir and I started talking about hiring a “longform” editor in the spring of 2012, at the urging of our most experienced writer, Michael Hastings.
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Jenna Wortham / NYT Bits:
For some, Twitter is becoming less about relevancy and more about one-liners — Valley of the Blahs: How Justin Bieber's Troubles Exposed Twitter's Achilles' Heel — At some point, Twitter and the rest of social media became less about wanting to share the news and more about wanting to be the news.
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Gigaom, TechCrunch, The Huffington Post, @gaberivera, @escarry, @caseynewton, SocialTimes, @jsnell, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @raju, @laurengoode, @passantino, The Verge, @cschweitz and The Next Web
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
New York Post names David Brinker as President, announces record web traffic — Eyeing digital growth, New York Post names new president — The New York Post has added a digital strategist from its parent company to the paper's executive ranks while announcing a new milestone …
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Paul Sandle / Reuters:
Vice Media links up with Greek TV broadcaster Antenna — Vice Media, the producer of video reportage targeting the so-called Generation Y of twentysomethings who do not watch much conventional television, is tying up with Greek television broadcaster Antenna Group.
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Dan Evans first journalist to plead guilty to hacking phones at newspaper other than NOTW — Ex-Sunday Mirror and NoW reporter pleads guilty to phone hacking — Dan Evans is the first journalist to admit hacking phones while working for a paper other than the former News International title
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