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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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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 …
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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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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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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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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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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Kara Swisher / Re/code:
AOL's Armstrong Responds to 401(K) Controversy in Internal Memo to Employees
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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
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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Alex Hayes / mUmBRELLA:
News Corp Aussie newspapers lose 17 per cent of revenues
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Dow Jones to set ‘more flexible’ subscription prices for DJX
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Robert Graham / Errata Security:
NBC story on visitors to Sochi Olympics getting hacked is misleading — That NBC story 100% fraudulent — Yesterday (Feb 5 2014) NBC News ran a story claiming that if you bring your mobile phone or laptop to the Sochi Olympics, it'll immediately be hacked the moment you turn it on.
Caitlin Dewey / WorldViews:
Viral Twitter account rounds up all of Sochi's problems — Officials from both the International Olympic Committee and the Russian government have insisted to media outlets the world over that Sochi is ready for the Olympic Games. But on social media, at least, the Sochi-readiness narrative …
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David S. Cohen / Variety:
Winter Olympics: How NBCUniversal's Army Of Techs Conquered Sochi
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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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Brian Lowry / Variety:
Leno Signs Off ‘The Tonight Show’ for Second Time — “I don't like goodbyes; NBC does,” Jay Leno said in his latest last opening monologue, as he bid farewell to “The Tonight Show” — again — on Thursday night. — Characteristically, Leno wasn't particularly maudlin or sentimental at first …
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Bill Carter / New York Times:
Subdued Send-Off, but Jay Leno Is Exiting on Top
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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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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
Caysey Welton / Folio:
Condé Nast Entertainment now has eighth branded video channel — Condé Nast Entertainment now has eigth branded video channel. — SELF magazine rolled out its new video channel on Feb. 5, which includes editorial-inspired original content. — SELF's new channel …
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, @engadget and @sai, Thanks:@alexbarinka
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Kara Swisher / Re/code:
PubMatic Raises $13 Million From Nokia Growth Partners — A few days after the Rubicon Project filed for an IPO, one of its competitors in the race to build fast-growing programmatic advertising platforms, PubMatic, said it had raised $13 million in new funding.
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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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 …
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