Mediagazer: Warner Music CFO Resigns (Alex Pham/Billboard)

9:50 PM ET, March 25, 2014

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Ben Richardson shares more details about why he resigned from Bloomberg over China coverage — Another Bloomberg Editor Explains Why He Has Resigned, Over Its China Coverage — Four months ago, the New York Times ran a big story contending that Bloomberg editors had quashed an investigative report …

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Dean Starkman / Columbia Journalism Review:
Bloomberg gets a taste of transparency

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What the Oregonian's new web strategy gets right and what it gets wrong about online media — There's been much sound and fury in media circles about a leaked internal presentation from The Oregonian that lays out the newspaper's goals for its web content and sets performance measurements for reporters and editors.

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

The Atlantic names Bob Cohn and James Bennet co-presidents — Leadership shuffle at Atlantic — Atlantic Media announced a string of leadership changes this morning, including two promotions at its flagship print and digital title, The Atlantic. — James Bennet and Bob Cohn …

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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

Tarantino: Gawker Fabricated ‘News Story’ to Enable Script Theft — The director's lawyers compare the “Hateful Eight” leak post to a newspaper that reports on a film piracy ring by instructing how, where and when readers can buy their own pirated copies. — Quentin Tarantino

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Alex Pham / Billboard:

Warner Music CFO Resigns — Warner Music Group's chief financial officer and executive vice president Brian Roberts has resigned, according to a document filed Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Roberts joined Warner in 2007, after a five-year stint as BMG Music Publishing's …

Daniel Hurst / Guardian:

Peter Greste trial: Tony Abbott must do more to secure release, says Labor — Tanya Plibersek says opposition will support efforts to free Australian journalist on trial in Egypt — Peter Greste stands in a metal cage during his trial in a court in Cairo. Photograph: Al Youm Al Saabi newspaper/Reuters

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Press Gazette: ‘Not a shred of evidence’ says Al Jazeera's Peter Greste as Egypt ‘terrorism’ trial adjourned again

Kurt Wagner / Mashable:

USC Is Offering a Google Glass Course for Journalism — OK, Glass, it's time to change journalism — That will be the collective mindset of students taking “Glass Journalism,” a new course slated for the fall semester at the University of Southern California, where students will be tasked …

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Katie Zezima / Washington Post:

U.S. condemns Saudi Arabia's denial of visa to Jerusalem Post reporter covering Obama — The White House has condemned Saudi Arabia for denying a visa to the Jerusalem Post's Washington bureau chief, who is traveling with President Obama. — Reporter Michael Wilner, an American …

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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:

Oculus Rift Just Put Facebook in the Movie Business — Commentary: Virtual reality headsets pose (very) long-term threat to the theatrical business — Just as the movie industry gathered this week at CinemaCon to discuss its future, Facebook came along and changed it without even bothering to show up in Las Vegas.

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Rachael Levy / Borough Buzz:

New York Times to pay academic interns minimum wage — The New York Times will start paying minimum wage to its academic interns, who previously could have been paid as little as $3.85 an hour. — The interns will be paid $8 an hour and will be paid back wages for work already completed this semester …

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:

Turner Overhauls Ad Outreach, Names Speciale President, TV and Digital Sales — Time Warner's Turner unit is radically changing the structure of its ad-sales staff, resulting in the elevation of one of its top sales executives and the departure of another from the company.

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Deron Lee / Columbia Journalism Review:

Journalists should take up the fight for municipal-fiber networks in their communities, argues open-Internet advocate Susan Crawford — Journalists should take up the fight for municipal-fiber networks in their communities, argues open-Internet advocate Susan Crawford

Cass R. Sunstein / Bloomberg View:

The Dark Side of New York Times v. Sullivan — Quiz question: What is the most important free speech ruling in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court? — The best answer may well be New York Times v. Sullivan, decided 50 years ago this month. In that case, the court ruled, for the first time …

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