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Ezra Klein's “Project X” launching soon as “Vox”, will serve as Vox Media's general news site — Nine Questions About Vox — What is Vox? Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission is simple: Explain the news.
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David Carr / New York Times:
Barely Keeping Up in TV's New Golden Age — Not long ago, a friend at work told me I absolutely, positively must watch “Broad City” on Comedy Central, saying it was a slacker-infused hilarity. — My reaction? Oh no, not another one. — The vast wasteland of television has been replaced …
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Elizabeth Jensen / New York Times:
New York Public Radio Receives Grant for $10 Million — New York Public Radio will announce on Monday that it has received a $10 million grant from the Jerome L. Greene Foundation, which it says is the largest single gift ever made to a public radio station.
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BuzzMachine, FishbowlNY, AllAccess.com and Radio Ink Magazine
Felix Salmon:
Satoshi: Why Newsweek isn't convincing … I had a 2-hour phone conversation with Leah McGrath Goodman yesterday. Goodman wrote the now-notorious Newsweek cover story about Dorian Nakamoto, which purported to out him as the inventor of bitcoin. At this point, it's pretty obvious that the world …
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Barbara Chai / Wall Street Journal:
‘True Detective’ Finale Crashes HBO Go — The season finale of HBO's “True Detective” aired Sunday night, but fans who hoped to watch the episode on the cable network's “HBO Go” website reported crashes and delays. — HBO Go, which usually airs episodes in real time, requires a login and password …
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The Editorial Board / New York Times:
Editorial Board reflects on 50th anniversary of landmark New York Times v. Sullivan press freedom case — The Uninhibited Press, 50 Years Later — Perhaps no one understood both the necessity and the costs of a free press better than Thomas Jefferson. In a 1787 letter to a friend …
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Molly Wood / New York Times:
Cartoon Network plans free mobile “micro-network” to deliver original 15-second content pieces — Cartoon Network Aims at Devices With Its ‘Micro-Network’ Launch — Cartoon Network will release an app later this year that will deliver original 15-second content bites …
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@mikemonello, AdExchanger and Business Insider
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
Couric's Yahoo show takes shape — Katie Couric's Yahoo program is finally beginning to take shape. — In January, Couric released a test show in which she interviewed former Defense Secretary Robert Gates. On Friday, Couric will debut another interview, this time with former …
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TVNewser, Capital New York and The Huffington Post
Justin Lafferty / Inside Facebook:
Facebook launches Public Content Solutions to help media partners with trend data — As more and more people talk about current events on Facebook, developers within the media industry are looking for some way to join the conversation. So to offer companies a solution into the data behind trending topics …
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@raju, Facebook, ZDNet, The Next Web and VentureBeat
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
ESPN's Bill Simmons on ESPN's Nate Silver, Being a Boss and Building His Site — At South by Southwest this weekend, ESPN's Bill Simmons, who runs his own Grantland site, appeared onstage with ESPN's Nate Silver, who is launching his own FiveThirtyEight. — You'll be hearing a lot …
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FishbowlNY and Capital New York
Timothy Karr / Free Press Blog:
A Free Press Crusader on the Crimean Front Line — Within three days of the takeover of the Crimean parliament, Dmitry Polonsky, a leader of the pro-Kremlin Russia Unity Party that seized power, urged a rally of supporters to watch only pro-Russian state TV.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast customers can now watch House of Cards - without a Netflix subscription — Comcast Cuts Sony Deal to Sell ‘House of Cards,’ Early-Release Movies — Comcast customers can now buy access to “House of Cards” season 1 through their cable set-top box and watch it across multiple devices — no Netflix subscription required.
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TechCrunch and Hollywood Reporter
Ann Friedman / Columbia Journalism Review:
“Prestige” media jobs are no longer just at big, old news organizations — The new dream job — For years, even as most print-centric publications downsized, they maintained their status as the crème de la crème. The journalistic reputations of these former titans …