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Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
CNN ex-president Jon Klein talks about TAPP, the new online network he's starting with Jeff Gaspin — Jon Klein on His New Online Venture: 'We've Created the Company That I Feared Would Come Along' — Former CNN President Jon Klein and former NBC Universal Chairman Jeff Gaspin announced …
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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
CNN, NBCU Alums Jon Klein, Jeff Gaspin Team Up for Online Video Venture — Sarah Palin reportedly target by firm for channel akin to Glenn Beck's TheBlaze — Two of the biggest names sitting on the sidelines in the media business are teaming up for a new online video venture.
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Disney TV Shakeup: Anne Sweeney Leaving to Pursue Directing Career — Disney's longtime TV chief Anne Sweeney will leave her post in January 2015 to pursue a career as a television director. — “The past 18 years at Disney have been the highlight of my executive career.
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Hollywood Reporter, TVNewser, Mediaite, AdAge, Capital New York, @kerrywashington, Reuters, @peterlauria3 and TVSpy
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Jethro Nededog / The Wrap:
Anne Sweeney Exiting Disney-ABC to Become TV Director — Anne Sweeney, the co-chair of Disney Media Networks and president of Disney/ABC Television Group, is exiting the company in January 2015 to pursue a career in television directing. — Calling the past 18 years at Disney the highlight …
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Disney Ponders the Biggest Big Media YouTube Bet Yet: Buying Maker Studios — Disney has been talking to Maker Studios about an acquisition that would value the YouTube network at $500 million or more, according to people familiar with the negotiations. — A deal isn't guaranteed.
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Deadline.com, The Wrap, Business Insider, Tubefilter, Variety and @insidethemagic
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Upworthy partners with ProPublica and advocacy media groups on original content — When Upworthy raised an additional $8 million in September of last year, they wrote a blog post thanking their readers and making them a promise. The new funds, they wrote, will “help us branch out into new editorial areas.
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Guardian, Upworthy Insider, @lheron, @gabrielarana and @niemanlab
John McDermott / Digiday:
Twitter testing ‘click-to-call’ button which allows mobile users to call advertisers directly — Twitter's direct response pitch: a new ‘click-to-call’ button — As part of its continued effort to evolve and broaden its advertising capabilities, Twitter is now touting itself …
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Wall Street Journal, @digiday, Street Fight and SocialTimes
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Tony Haile / TIME:
Chartbeat CEO: “We confuse what people have clicked on for what they've read.” — What You Think You Know About the Web Is Wrong — If you're an average reader, I've got your attention for 15 seconds, so here goes: We are getting a lot wrong about the web these days.
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Kirk LaPointe's …, @emilysteel, @hiddenbrain, @adamostrow, @magnus_, @clarkgilbert, @moore, BuzzMachine, @neilvoss and @ryanchittum
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
No One's Looking at Your Native Ads, Either
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@themediaisdying and @lererventures
Erik Wemple:
John Cook bolts Gawker for the Intercept — John Cook had fun as editor in chief of Gawker. For instance: When he wanted to commandeer a video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack, he fired up a “Crackstarter” campaign that raised $200,000 for the cause. Publicity followed.
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FishbowlNY, New York Times, Poynter, Business Wire, Politico, @ggreenwald, @natashavc, @sluggahjells, @neetzan, @paulcarr, The Intercept, The Huffington Post, FishbowlNY, Mediaite, @jaredbkeller, New York Magazine, @goldsbie, @antderosa, @thestalwart, @mattbuchanan, @snpsnpsnp, @joemfbrown, @susie_c, @socarolinesays and @jwherrman
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Matthew Shaer / New York Magazine:
Raging Against Hacks With Muckraker Turned Magazine-Maker Matt Taibbi
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@nymag, @kierafeldman, @sarahljaffe, The Corsair and The Raw Story
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Gawker Demands Dismissal of Quentin Tarantino Lawsuit — The news site says that reading a screenplay is not a copyright infringing act. — Gawker is asking a California federal judge to reject a lawsuit filed by Quentin Tarantino over a leak of the director's unproduced script Hateful Eight.
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Plagiarism Today, Variety, Guardian, Deadline.com, Home on Entertainment, FishbowlNY and The Wrap
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
With High Hopes and Deep Pockets, The Times Gambles on NYT Now — It could hardly be more clear that The Times has high hopes for its new NYT Now mobile app. — Jill Abramson, the executive editor, unveiled it publicly with considerable fanfare a few days ago at South By Southwest Interactive …
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@sulliview
Katharine Houreld / Reuters:
Swedish journalist shot dead in central Kabul — (Reuters) - A gunman shot dead a Swedish journalist outside a restaurant in a brazen attack in one Kabul's most heavily guarded districts on Tuesday, police and embassy sources said, underscoring growing insecurity threatening next month's elections.
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New York Times, Guardian, Washington Post, Poynter, BBC, Sydney Morning Herald and NPR
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Jimmy Kimmel: It's ‘easy’ to fool the media — In an interview from Austin, Texas, Peter Kafka asked Jimmy Kimmel about his hoax videos, like the Sochi wolf and the twerking disaster video. — “I've heard people suggest that these will get harder for you to do, because people will catch on.
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Men's Journal contributing editor Matthew Power dies on assignment in Uganda — Matthew Power dies in Uganda — Matthew Power has died while reporting in Uganda, Outside reports on its Facebook page: — Post by Outside Magazine. — Power was a contributing editor to Harper's Magazine …
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Nieman Storyboard, FishbowlNY, Longform, Associated Press, New York Magazine, @andrewburton, @williams_paige, @jeffsharlet and @sethmnookin
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Obama bypasses traditional media again in interview with Zach Galifianakis, showing how to take advantage of fractured landscape — Obama will sit down with celebrities but not The Washington Post — President Obama's interview with Zach Galifianakis, a plug for Healthcare.gov …
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Erik Wemple, TechCrunch, ABC News, The Fix, NPR and Talking Points Memo
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks: no one told me about lead on Milly Dowler's whereabouts — Ex-NoW editor tells phone-hacking trial that if she knew about a call suggesting schoolgirl was alive, it would have been big news — No one at the News of the World informed their editor, Rebekah Brooks …
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Hacked Off and Guardian
Kim Fletcher / British Journalism Review:
Despite longer titles, influence of editors in digital age is inevitably diminishing — A recent sacking reveals an historic change in the traditional structure of the newspaper industry — British newspaper editors rise and fall like football managers, the beneficiaries or victims of proprietorial whim.
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