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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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John Plunkett / Guardian:
BBC could axe frontline channel or service as it seeks extra £100m in cuts — Tony Hall rules out further ‘salami-slicing’, saying further corporation-wide cuts threaten quality of content such as drama — Read Tony Hall's Oxford Media Convention speech in full
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
House unanimously passes FOIA bill — The House on Tuesday unanimously passed a bill that would make Freedom of Information requests easier with potentially faster response times. — H.R. 1211, the FOIA Oversight and Implementation Act of 2014 was co-sponsored by House Oversight …
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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
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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Forbes, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, The Verge, Wall Street Journal and RTTNews
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 …
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SPLICETODAY.com
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 …
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@iwantmedia
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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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, Poynter, @justinjm1, @craigsilverman, @yayitsrob and @rwd
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. “Definitely meant to be negative,” says the writer who first got, then dropped, the assignment.
Martin Evans / Telegraph:
Fresh charges in Operation Elveden investigation over illegal payments — More journalists and public officials are charged as part as the Metropolitan Police's Operation Elveden — Journalists from The Sun and the Daily Mirror and a Metropolitan Police officer are among the latest people charged …
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Press Gazette, Guardian and BBC
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.
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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The Wrap, @palafo, @americantheatre, BBC, LA Observed, New York Magazine, FishbowlNY, Pressing Issues and Poynter
Michael Calia / Wall Street Journal:
Time to Merge Digital Properties on Google Ad Platform — Partnership Will Also Result in Editorial-Themed Packages Available for Sale — Time Inc. said it would merge its digital properties into a single ad exchange on a Google Inc. platform, to give marketers access to the publisher's global consumer base.
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AdAge and Talking New Media
Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks tells court she didn't read NoW interview with phone hacker — Ex-editor tells hacking trial she doesn't recall article describing Glenn Mulcaire as ‘part of our special investigations team’ — Rebekah Brooks has said she did not read a News of the World interview …
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CNN, BelfastTelegraph.co.uk and canada.com
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 …
Rick Kissell / Variety:
NBC Averages 21.4 Million Viewers for Sochi Olympics, Down From Vancouver — NBC and Nielsen were expected to release more detailed ratings information on Tuesday, but preliminary estimates show the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics averaging a strong 21.4 million viewers in primetime.
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Softpedia News, Wall Street Journal, Canadian Press, LA Observed and FishbowlNY
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, The Next Web, SocialTimes, AllFacebook, Softpedia News, Mashable and ReadWrite
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.
Discussion:
@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 …
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, Al Jazeera English, @dewolfleloup and AFP
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.
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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bookforum.com, New York Times, Guardian, @moorehn, @kevinroose, Melville House Books, Forbes, cnbc.com, @sarahw, DealBook, USA Today, The Verge, FishbowlNY and MoneyBeat
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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, DealBook, @moorehn and Bloomberg View
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