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Marc Andreessen / Andreessen Horowitz:
The Future of the News Business: A Monumental Twitter Stream All in One Place — I am more bullish about the future of the news industry over the next 20 years than almost anyone I know. You are going to see it grow 10X to 100X from where it is today. That is my starting point for any discussion about the future of journalism.
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@samfbiddle, @samfbiddle, @mathewi, @nitashatiku, @johnmcquaid, Beyond Search, @jayrosen_nyu, @antderosa, @irowan, @mattmcalister, @chrisknowlestv, @rikwalters, @nimasahebi, @declanm and @emilybell
Capital New York:
The 60 Second Interview: Anthony De Rosa, Editor-in-Chief, Circa — CAPITAL: Circa's priority is to create content that is tailored for mobile as opposed to simply trying to fit web or print content into an app. What does that entail other than brevity? — DE ROSA: The content …
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Forbes and @niemanlab
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
New York Observer defends negative Attorney General profile, denies it was influenced by Donald Trump — Newspaper Denies Attorney General Profile Is Donald Trump's Revenge — Bulls**t, says the paper. “I obviously don't see it that way,” says the writer.
Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:
As Barnes & Noble Nook revenues slide 50%, the company says it's launching another tablet — Barnes & Noble is cutting jobs and revenues fell again in the third-quarter earnings report released Wednesday, with the Nook segment once again taking a particularly large hit …
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TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, The Verge and RTTNews
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Kyle Pope to reboot Manhattan weeklies — A stable of weekly New York newspapers is about to get a makeover under the direction of a new boss. — Kyle Pope, a former New York Observer editor and Wall Street Journal veteran, has been named editor-in-chief of Straus Media-Manhattan …
Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic Online:
The Year Most News Home Pages Looked the Same — Box. Image. Text. (Rinse and repeat.) — Earlier today, Bloomberg View—the online opinion arm of the Bloomberg News behemoth—unveiled its new homepage design. The site, below, presents itself as a set of mostly gray boxes with mostly white text:
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Nieman Journalism Lab, @justinjm1, @yayitsrob, @rwd, @craigsilverman and Poynter
Kevin Roose / New York Magazine:
Several people may be behind @GSElevator, one could be tweeting from inside Goldman Sachs — Is the @GSElevator Mystery Really Solved? — Last night, Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times made waves by exposing the identity of @GSElevator, the anonymous Twitter scribe (and now …
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New York Times, Forbes, Guardian, @moorehn, Melville House Books, @kevinroose, @sarahw, cnbc.com, DealBook, USA Today, The Verge, FishbowlNY, MoneyBeat and The Awl
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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
No, Margaret Sullivan, Goldman Sachs Never Banned Talking In Elevators
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USA Today, The Public Editor's Journal, Guardian, @pkafka, @mattzeitlin, @rubinafillion, @moorehn, Bloomberg View, DealBook and @jasonrmcintyre
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
UK regional dailies lose print sales by average of 14 per cent year on year — UK regional daily newspaper lost sales at their fastest rate yet in the second half of 2013 - falling by an average of 14 per cent year on year. Some 64 UK regional dailies opted to be audited by ABC in the second half …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Netflix is Chasing HBO, But It's Already Passed Plenty of Big Cable Guys — Netflix makes no bones about the fact that it wants to be HBO. And it is closing in on the pay channel, at least in terms of revenue: Last year, Netflix's streaming business generated $3.5 billion, while HBO made $4.9 billion from subscription fees.
David Griner / Adweek:
Alt-Weekly Mocks Its Own Buyout With a Cover That Looks Just Like Its New Owner — When you're an alt-weekly known for skewering the establishment, how do you tackle the fact that you've been bought out by the establishment? — Baltimore City Paper takes a commendably self-effacing approach …
David Sirota / PandoDaily:
REVEALED: MPAA's latest anti-piracy move accidentally, completely screws Hollywood studios — From Marlon Brando's civil rights statement in absentia to Michael Moore's anti-war speech, the Academy Awards ceremony played host to its share of high-profile protests.
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@newsycombinator and The Wrap
John Plunkett / Guardian:
Maria Miller says independent Scotland would lose the BBC — Culture secretary says yes victory in referendum will be a vote for leaving institutions of the UK, which include the BBC — • Click here to read the full text of Maria Miller's speech — Culture secretary Maria Miller …
Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
National Enquirer will fund a $45K/year playwriting prize as part of lawsuit settlement — Truth and a Prize Emerge From Lies About Hoffman — Herding his three younger sons out the door to school on Feb. 5, David Bar Katz was stopped for a moment by his eldest, who was browsing a computer.
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@palafo, @americantheatre, BBC, LA Observed, New York Magazine, The Wrap, FishbowlNY, Pressing Issues and Poynter
Gerry Mullany / New York Times:
Hong Kong Editor Whose Ouster Stirred Protests Is Stabbed — The former chief editor of a Hong Kong newspaper whose dismissal in January stirred protests about press freedom in the Chinese territory was stabbed Wednesday morning, the police said. — Kevin Lau Chun-to, the former chief editor …
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Hollywood Reporter, AFP, Al Jazeera English and @dewolfleloup
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Kids May Be Leaving Facebook, but They Love YouTube — Lots of people think kids are done with Facebook. No way, says Facebook: Kids love Facebook! — But, let's say Facebook was concerned — maybe just a little bit — that the kids were no longer alright. Where should it go to find them?
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hypebot
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Al-Jazeera English is not Al-Jazeera Arabic - but Egypt doesn't agree — Many journalists have been asking why the Egyptian authorities have arrested staff who work for Al-Jazeera Arabic and Al-Jazeera English. — Gregg Carlstrom, in a lengthy piece on the Foreign Policy website, has sought to provide an answer to that question.
Jennifer Van Grove / CNET:
Facebook showing unsolicited Page posts in News Feed — You may not have asked for them, but you're going to start seeing posts in your News Feed from Pages you don't follow. — Facebook said Tuesday that it has tweaked its News Feed formula yet again, this time to include posts that Pages you've “liked” are tagged in.
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Facebook, Digiday, SocialTimes, The Next Web, Softpedia News, AllFacebook and Mashable
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism:
Study reveals how cutting BBC licence fee would reduce choice and value for money — Cutting the BBC licence fee would reduce consumer choice and value for money, as well as greatly damaging UK programme producers, says a new RISJ study. The 100-page report What If There Were No BBC Television?
Discussion:
The Conversation
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
A look behind the curtain: how Netflix redesigned and rebuilt its television experience — The Onion joked recently that Netflix was going to introduce a new Browse Endlessly plan. For $5, it would offer consumers a way to scroll through its entire library without ever deciding on a single title.
Discussion:
@tinch and The Switch
Cotton Delo / AdAge:
Twitter Brings Its ‘Amplify’ Ad Program to Movie Screens — In-Cinema Ad Network Is Seeking Sponsor for Twitter-Driven Branded Entertainment Series to Air Before Your Movie — Goodby, Silverstein and Partners — Twitter has expanded its Amplify program to a new second screen: the silver one.
Discussion:
Softpedia News and AdExchanger
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Reddit embraces its role as a journalistic entity with new live-reporting feature — Some critics may see Reddit as a more restrained version of the online community 4chan — a place for nerds to talk about Star Trek or whatever the latest meme is — but the site has also become a place …
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The Verge, PandoDaily, @antderosa, @willmcavoyacn, @jesseholcomb, @elanazak, @craigewer and @jaredbkeller, Thanks:@mathewi
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Disney's Cloud Movie Service Is Just Like the Other Cloud Movie Service, Except It's From Disney — For the last few years, a consortium of most of the big Hollywood studios and most of the big consumer tech companies has been promoting a Web-based “locker” system, which sounds like a good idea …
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