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Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Ex-State Dept. adviser to plead guilty in leak to Fox News — A former State Department arms expert has agreed to plead guilty to disclosing national defense information to a Fox News reporter, his lawyer said in federal court Friday. — The agreement calls for him to serve 13 months in prison.
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TVNewser, New York Times, Reuters, The Wire, @trevortimm and @jasonleopold
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Bloomberg:
Tribune Co. Said to Plan Midyear Newspaper Spinoff With New CEO — Tribune Co. (TRBAA)'s proposed spinoff of its newspapers will probably happen by midyear, allowing time to vet candidates to run a business that includes the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, people with knowledge of the matter said.
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MediaPost and @edmundlee
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Erik Wemple:
Time Inc. lays off workers as boss rakes in $1.4 million signing bonus — Magazine monolith Time Inc. on Tuesday began laying off workers as the company gets ready to be spun off from TV/entertainment company Time Warner. According to the New York Times, as many as 500 jobs may be lost as a result of the reductions.
Discussion:
The Huffington Post and @dangillmor
Jonathan Glick / Re/code:
Rise of the Platishers — What should we call a publisher — like Gawker — that provides a tech platform on which anybody, not just its staff, can create content? What should we call a tech platform — like Medium — that has a team of editors and pays some contributors to create content?
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@pkafka, Gawker, @peterrojas, @jonathanglick, @jbenton, @alexremington, @alexremington, @tcarmody, @evanatmedium, @harrisj, @evanatmedium, @marathonpacks and @caseynewton
David Cohn / Poynter:
At Circa, it's not about ‘chunkifying’ news but adding structure — You sometimes hear what we do at Circa described as “chunkifying” — taking the news and presenting it in mobile-friendly chunks. And while on the surface this observation is correct, it misses the bigger picture.
Discussion:
Digidave, @wijndelts, @digidave and @niemanlab, Thanks:@digidave
Erin Griffith / Fortune:
10 Questions with BuzzFeed's VP of International — The head of International for viral content powerhouse BuzzFeed talks about the language of the internet and expanding beyond the US. — FORTUNE — Scott Lamb joined BuzzFeed in 2007, when the company was more of a goofy user-generated link sharing site …
Discussion:
@fortunemagazine
Christopher Ratcliff / Econsultancy:
How The Wall Street Journal owns social media through Facebook and Twitter — The venerable financial news institution achieved over 4m Twitter followers last weekend and its Facebook page is edging closer to achieving 2m Likes. — For what could be considered a niche publication, this is an incredible achievement.
Discussion:
@lheron and Talking Biz News
Nolan N. White / The Toronto Observer:
@SochiProblems mastermind revealed: student Alex Broad — Popular Twitter account by Centennial College journalism student captures myriad of problems at Sochi Games — Take an unusually slow day in a Toronto college journalism school newsroom, and a journalism student with a love of sports.
Discussion:
@jeffjarvis, Guardian, The FJP and Silicon Republic
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Caitlin Dewey / WorldViews:
Viral Twitter account rounds up all of Sochi's problems
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Digiday, Guardian, Businessweek, Daily Dot, @fieldproducer, Mashable, CNET and @buzzfeed
Guardian:
Former Guardian deputy editor Georgina Henry dies aged 53 — Launch editor of Comment is Free, who was found to have brain tumour two years ago, was ‘a real pioneer’, says Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger — Georgina Henry, former deputy editor of the Guardian and inventor and launch editor …
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The Huffington Post, @bobbie, Guardian, @rosamundmtaylor and @charliebeckett
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Glam Media Plans To Expand Its Audience Beyond Women, So It's Looking For A New Name — As company names go, Glam Media is pretty memorable, but the name is about to change, according to co-founder and CEO Samir Arora. — Back when the founders of the digital publishing and advertising company …
Discussion:
@pkafka
Michael Geist / Toronto Star:
Canadian film, music producers look for protection as media landscape changes. — Canadian film, music producers look for protection as media landscape changes. … Millions of Canadians now subscribe to Netflix, raising concerns from Canadian film and TV producers.
Discussion:
Gigaom
Economist:
CNN's transformation says a lot about what is working today in television — CNN's transformation says a lot about what is working today in television — JEFF ZUCKER, boss of CNN Worldwide, a cable-news firm, likes to start his morning with a shot of numbers.
Discussion:
@sambrook, @alexandrasuich and @econbizfin
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
NYT hasn't been hit that hard — Parsing the numbers with Quartz and the WSJ — Quartz posts this graphic of New York Times Company revenues going back to 2003, asking “Can the New York Times's online readership offset its prolonged ad slump?” — The Times has very real problems, thank you very much, but they're not this bad.
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Quartz
NBC News:
British spies developed technique to manipulate non-British journalists for feeding information to targets — Snowden Docs: British Spies Used Sex and ‘Dirty Tricks’ - NBC News — British spies have developed
Economist:
The media in Saudi Arabia: Beating the censor — The kingdom's press and its social media are livelier than ever — FOR a country reputed to be dry and dull, Saudi Arabia is surprisingly awash with news. The good old broadsheet newspaper, dying out elsewhere, thrives.
Discussion:
Kirk LaPointe's …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
BitTorrent Looks to Spruce Up Its Image With Hollywood — File-sharing site is forming new content partnerships as it tries to convince showbiz its not the enemy — BitTorrent's slogan is meant to be a manifesto of empowerment: “Delivering an Internet of options, not rules.”
Discussion:
The Wrap
Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
NBC Blasts Claims That Richard Engel's Terrifying Sochi Hacking Report Was ‘Fraudulent’ — NBC defended reporter Richard Engel on Friday from charges that his report on hacking in Sochi was “fraudulent.” — Engel delivered a report on Wednesday that showed how easily electronic devices could be hacked.
Discussion:
Paul Proctor, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, Gigaom, @brettlogiurato and Errata Security
Wall Street Journal:
Charter Communications to Put Pressure on Time Warner Cable — Charter to Nominate a Full Slate of Board Candidates Next Week, Sources Say — Charter Communications Inc. plans next week to nominate a full slate of candidates for Time Warner Cable Inc. 's 13-member board …
Jason Clampet / Skift:
Lonely Planet Buys Budget Travel Magazine, Reportedly for $2.4 Million — Travel publisher Lonely Planet has purchased Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel magazine. — “It appears, subject to court approval that we may have been the successful bidder on Budget Travel,” Lonely Planet COO Daniel Houghton confirmed to Skift.
Discussion:
@rafat
Johana Bhuiyan / Capital New York:
First Look hires its general counsel away from The New Yorker — Lynn Oberlander is leaving her post as general counsel of The New Yorker after seven years to join Pierre Omidyar's new news organization, First Look Media. — Oberlander will oversee all legal aspects of the organization's media operations …
Discussion:
Business Wire and First Look Media
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