Mediagazer: Who will succeed Disney CEO Robert Iger in 2016? (Los Angeles Times)

3:11 AM ET, March 17, 2014

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Michael Wolff / USA Today:

New cash, new questions for Business Insider — Business Insider, one of the sites at the forefront of creating a native digital publishing model, happily announced the other day an additional investment of $12 million, bringing its total to about $30 million.

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Alex Weprin / Capital New York:

Sarah Palin plans “Rogue TV” channel on Tapp, the upcoming $10 per month online network — Sarah Palin plans ‘Rogue TV’ — Fox News contributor and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will be launching her own digital video channel, tentatively called “Rogue TV,” a source familiar with the project told Capital.

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Ivor Tossell / The Walrus:

The Story behind the Rob Ford Story — A little-known Supreme Court ruling unmuzzled reporters—and changed Canadian journalism — R OBYN DOOLITTLE could not sleep the night before the Toronto Star broke the story about what happened at the Garrison Ball. Not that she was too busy; the article had already been put to bed.

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Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:

Warner Bros. to Refund Angry ‘Veronica Mars’ Contributors — Warner Bros. will provide refunds to backers of the “Veronica Mars” crowdfunding campaign who struggled to download the movie they helped support, the studio said Friday. Irate contributors complained about their problems throughout the day …

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Moisés Chiullan / TechHive:
Why Veronica Mars embraced UltraViolet and angered fans

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Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:
Can ‘Veronica Mars’ Convince Mainstream Hollywood to Embrace Crowdfunding?

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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: Kickstarter brings hundreds of its funded films to iTunes

Susannah Nesmith / Columbia Journalism Review:

When public officials skirt open meetings laws, what can we do? — With enforcement weak, the best remedy may be to do what The Atlanta Journal-Constitution did: Expose it — MIAMI, FL — When officials in Cobb County, GA, wanted to lure the Atlanta Braves out of Atlanta …

Los Angeles Times:

Who will succeed Disney CEO Robert Iger in 2016? — Media networks executive Anne Sweeney's departure could set up important moves on a corporate chess board as Disney prepares for bigger changes. — Disney executive Anne Sweeney was not considered a top contender for CEO …

James Wolcott / Vanity Fair:

How to Become a Name-Brand Journalist Like Arianna, Nate, and Ezra — Big-name literary branding isn't new—look at Twain or Hemingway. But today, even novice writers must nurture a social-media presence. Arianna Huffington, Nate Silver, and Ezra Klein have branded their way to the top of Journalism 2.0.

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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Copyright As Censorship: Turkey's Prime Minister Copyrights His Recorded Calls To Get Them Off YouTube — Just recently, we noted that Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has tried to shut down social media sites in the past, was once again threatening to ban YouTube and Facebook.

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Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:

Content for ‘the YouTube generation’: Experiments at a Belgium broadcaster — A look at some of the digital projects being tested by Belgium public service broadcaster VRT's internal ‘start-up’, to engage a younger audience online, on mobile and on social media — Credit: By Horia Varlan on Flickr.

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Play about Rupert Murdoch: A great story that may turn out to be untrue — Sean O'Shea opens David Williamson's play “Rupert” with a riff on Rupert Murdoch's Twitter account. “#howgoodami” O'Shea announces, after pretending to tweet about audience attendance at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center Thursday night.

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

Ezra Klein: Give Ambrosino a chance — Ezra Klein is standing by Brandon Ambrosino, a recent hire to Vox who has earned the ire of progressives and the gay community who characterize him as an apologist for homophobia. — “I could've, and should've, handled this hire a lot better.

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Associated Press:

LA Times fires reporter, admits error in 3 stories … LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Times dismissed an investigative reporter Friday after discovering he had an inappropriate relationship with someone who was a source for a front-page story that the newspaper says contained an error.

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