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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Times Co. Reports Digital Subscriber Increase, but Continued Ad Declines — The New York Times Company said it added digital subscribers and slowed declines in print and digital advertising revenues during the fourth quarter of 2013, a year of transition for the newspaper publisher.
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Newsonomics, Columbia Journalism Review, New York Times, Capital New York, FishbowlNY, Mashable and @romenesko
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
New York Times digital subscriptions grew 19% in 2013 — The number of digital subscriptions to New York Times Company products grew from 640,000 at the end of 2012 to 760,000 at the end of 2013, a gain of nearly 19 percent. Revenue from circulation was up about 4 percent over the previous year …
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investors.nytco.com, AdAge, AdExchanger, @edmundlee, @pkafka, The Huffington Post, @bgrueskin and @mathewi
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Times chief lays out ‘a critical year’ for ad revenue — 2014 will be a “critical year in the story of advertising” at The New York Times Co., chief executive Mark Thompson said this morning. — On a conference call with Wall Street analysts following the release of the Times' fourth …
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@joshsternberg
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
First Look adds more journalists, plans to launch first publication next week — Pierre Omidyar and Eric Bates announced Thursday that First Look Media would launch the first of its planned publications next week. Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill will lead the site, whose …
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First Look Media:
First Look launches its first digital magazine — Last week, First Look Media announced that it will publish a family of new digital magazines - each with its own editorial voice, its own look and feel, and each led by veteran journalists with deep expertise in their fields.
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Guardian, Mashable, @emptywheel, @maassp, CNET, @pierre, @astepanovich and @brianstelter
Brian Beutler / Salon:
Exclusive: Despite escalating government intimidation, Greenwald will “force the issue” and visit U.S. — Months after the first insinuations that he risks arrest if he visits the US, Greenwald is more concerned than ever — When big-name public figures and Edward Snowden critics …
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Mediaite and @buzzfeedben
Sruthi Ramakrishnan / Reuters:
AOL revenue rises 13 percent as ad sales jump — (Reuters) - Digital media and entertainment company AOL Inc reported a better-than-expected 13 percent rise in quarterly revenue as its advertising revenue rose, especially from video. — The company's total revenue rose to $679 million …
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MediaPost, NetNewsCheck Latest, Capital New York, Re/code, VentureBeat, Forbes, Deadline.com, FishbowlNY, @aoladvertising, CNET and TechCrunch
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Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:
AOL Reports Solid Revenue, but Patch Tamped Down Profit
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@joepompeo and Silicon Republic
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
AOL's Armstrong Responds to 401(K) Controversy in Internal Memo to Employees
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Capital New York, Wonkblog, CNBC, New York Magazine, Business Insider, @gawker, Re/code, Business Insider, ThinkProgress, Gawker and Mother Jones
William Launder / Wall Street Journal:
News Corp Net Falls Due to Year-Earlier Gain — News Corp's revenue fell 4% in its fiscal second quarter as a drop in advertising and subscription revenue at the news and information business offset growth at its other businesses. — Net income dropped to $150 million from $1.4 billion …
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Dow Jones to set ‘more flexible’ subscription prices for DJX — Dow Jones & Co., the financial news and data arm of News Corp., will adjust the pricing of its DJX subscription product to make it “more flexible and thus more compelling to clients,” News Corp. chief executive Robert Thomson said today.
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Turks bid farewell to the Internet in the face of brutal censorship/surveillance law — Turkey's brutal new Internet law grants the Turkish Telecommunications Directorate the power to arbitrarily censor Web-pages to the individual URL level, much like the Great Firewall of China …
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Gigaom, Medium, @zeynep, Associated Press, Committee to Protect … and Index on Censorship
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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
Gannett's print-focused paywalls flounder — The quality imperative and charging for news online — Gannett's fourth-quarter newspaper results, announced Tuesday, were basically miserable. — Revenue at its publishing segment dropped 4.6 percent in the fourth quarter from last year …
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Eric J. Smith / NetNewsCheck Latest:
Gannett: USA Today Inserts To Hit 35 Markets
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Reuters
Michael Wolff / USA Today:
Revenue prospects are dim for the recent flurry of new journalism start-ups — Revenue prospects are dim for the recent flurry of new journalism start-ups — The great foment in the news business involves journalists leaving established news organizations to strike out on their own …
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Jon Slattery, @myriamrobin, @robenfarzad, @jamesbreiner, @jayrosen_nyu, @carr2n, The Huffington Post and The Atlantic Online
Alex Barinka / Bloomberg:
Aereo Reopens New York Online-TV Service to New Subscribers — Aereo Inc., the online-television company that's battling broadcasters in the Supreme Court, reopened its service to New York subscribers after regaining enough capacity to handle demand. — People who were on a waiting list …
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The Verge, TechCrunch, @sai and @engadget, Thanks:@alexbarinka
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Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
Celebrity Weeklies, Fashion Magazines Continue to Struggle on Newsstand — Today, the Alliance for Audited Media released its consumer magazine circulation data for the second half of 2013, and once again, the narrative remains the same. Overall circulation remained relatively flat versus …
David S. Cohen / Variety:
Winter Olympics: How NBCUniversal's Army Of Techs Conquered Sochi — For viewers, the Winter Olympics are just 18 days of sports and entertainment. — But for NBCUniversal, they're part of vast exercise in planning and logistics that stretches back to the end of the 2012 summer games in London …
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Amy Schatz / Re/code:
Twitter Hints at Legal Action to Release More Data on Government Requests — Twitter said Thursday it was considering its legal options in its effort to release more detailed information about the requests for information it receives from U.S. agencies. — Company officials …
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The Twitter Blog, NYT Bits, Softpedia News, @mikeisaac, Digits and @marciahofmann
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Matthew Kassel / The New York Observer:
Borowitz Lite: A Twitter King Scales Back His Online Presence — Before heading uptown to a book party at Andy Borowitz's spacious West End apartment last night, I checked his Twitter feed to see if he'd said anything interesting that day. The comedian's hilariously satirical Twitter presence …
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@itsdgc and @stefanjbecket
American Press Institute:
American Press Institute announces major project to improve fact-checking journalism — ARLINGTON, VA—The American Press Institute ("API") announced today that it has received a grant of up to $400,000 over two years from the Democracy Fund. The grant will support research to improve political fact checking.
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@jessicaplautz, @ampress, @jcstearns and @cjr
Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:
Buzzfeed to appoint news editor to growing UK team — The new addition to the team will represent more than a five-fold increase on Buzzfeed UK's editorial staff since launch last March — Credit: Image by kaibara87 on Flickr. Some rights reserved — Buzzfeed UK is to add a news editor …
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