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Mark Sweeney / Guardian:
News Corp boss brands Washington Post journalists ‘high priests’ — Chief executive Robert Thompson says paper's journalists have failed to embrace transition to digital — Robert Thomson: believes new Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos will be a shot in arm for paper's commercial …
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@dangillmor and Politico
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Like newspapers, Facebook determines who gets included editorially and who needs to buy ads — This is what happens when Facebook controls the signal, and it defines you as noise — A food-delivery startup called Eat24 touched off a minor frenzy of anti-Facebook sentiment recently …
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Bacon Sriracha Unicorn Diaries, Re/code, metamedia, @mathewi, AllFacebook, What's Next Blog and Business Insider
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Former MSNBC anchor Carlos Watson's media startup Ozy receives investment from Axel Springer — Start-Up Ozy Media Adds Axel Springer as a Backer — Like many news start-ups, Ozy Media is trying to be heard. And investors, at least, are listening. — Though it has yet to attract …
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@peterlattman, @lsemediapolicy, @nicktheandersen and @carr2n
Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo in early talks to acquire online video service News Distribution Network for $300M — Yahoo in Talks to Buy Online-Video Service NDN — Sources — Deal Would Help Yahoo Compete With Google's YouTube — Yahoo Inc. is in preliminary talks to acquire online-video service News …
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Deadline.com, Beet.TV, Reuters, @jasonabbruzzese, @xpangler, @karaswisher and @pkafka
Ben Dooley / Mother Jones:
IBT Media, Newsweek's new owner, has strong ties to Christian college Olivet University and evangelical sect led by Korean pastor David Jang — Who's Behind Newsweek? — TWO DAYS AFTER BARACK OBAMA won reelection, I met a young Chinese woman, whom I will call Anne, in the basement café at the San Francisco Public Library.
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@emilybell, Business Insider, @mikeelk, @tedolsen, @markamesexiled, @bobbymacreports, @bendreyfuss, Mother Jones, @billwasik, @motherjones, The Huffington Post, @erikmal, @hunterw, The Raw Story, @monikabauerlein, @aburnspolitico, @clarajeffery, @benjamindooley, @nickbaumann, @jbenton and The Newspaper Guild
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Twitter Buys France's Mesagraph And UK's SecondSync To Ramp Up Social TV Efforts In Europe — Twitter is adding more global firepower to its ambitions to cosy up to broadcasters and TV advertisers: it is buying France's Mesagraph, and it is also acquiring the UK's SecondSync (a key partner of Facebook's).
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Mesagraph, The Next Web, Adweek, The Twitter Blog, PandoDaily, Wall Street Journal, VatorNews, Mashable, @maymann, VentureBeat, Business 2 Community, @donal_cahalane and Forbes
Ishbel Macleod / The Drum:
IPC Media in consultation to close Nuts — Nuts, the men's weekly magazine and website, could be set to close as IPC Media has announced that it has entered into a 30-day consultation with staff. — IPC Inspire managing director Paul Williams said: “After 10 years at the top of its market …
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Music Startup Spawnsong Wants To Be Kickstarter For Single Tracks — Holy incremental music startup, Batman! Spawnsong is a (very) new music platform startup with a strategy to elbow into the crowded digital music space by focusing on a very thin wedge: individual songs.
Discussion:
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Rusbridger on how no journalist's sources are now safe, joining IPSO and why he would have kept the News of the World open — Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger warned today that is almost impossible for journalists to maintain the confidentiality of their sources because of threat of surveillance.
Dan Gillmor / Slate:
Pew's media report failed to count advocacy journalists at places like Human Rights Watch — In Praise of the Almost-Journalists — The overlooked advocate writers who are making a difference in online media. — Hope is the latest trend in journalism.
Discussion:
Gigaom and @andreasharsono
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:
A club that will have me as a member: Voice of San Diego and MinnPost are building out their membership models — About 300 people filled an event space in San Diego a couple weeks ago to take part in a discussion sponsored by Voice of San Diego on innovations with origins in the area.
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@vosdscott, @niemanlab, MinnPost, Voice of San Diego and @dangillmor
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Can Mashable pull a BuzzFeed? — Mashable is growing up. — Started as a social media blog by a 19-year-old Scot, the news site is now flush with $14 million in venture capital that it's using to bankroll an ambitious plan to become the CNN for the mobile- and social-addicted generation.
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@maymann, @10000words, @jonathanellis and The New York Observer
Ted Johnson / Variety:
FCC Votes to Bar Stations from Jointly Selling Ad Time — The FCC on Monday prohibited so-called “sidecar” deals among stations in the same market, a move that Chairman Tom Wheeler said will close a loophole that has allowed major media groups from skirting media ownership rules.
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Broadcasting & Cable, Poynter, TheHill, Broadcasting & Cable, FCC.gov, Reuters, TVSpy, Bloomberg and Adweek
Jay Caspian Kang / New Yorker:
The Campaign to “Cancel” Colbert — On Thursday night, the official Twitter account for “The Colbert Report” committed the comedic sin of delivering a punchline without its setup. The offending tweet, “I am willing to show #Asian community I care by introducing the Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation …
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@slate, @treybarrineau, @hcheadle, @theyoungist, @timothypmurphy, @atossaaraxia, @jeffchu, @salesses, @swerdlick and @zentronix
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Why a Loss for Aereo Wouldn't Threaten Cloud Services — Aereo, which will fight for its life before the Supreme Court next month, has issued dire warnings that if its TV-streaming service is ruled illegal, it would spell the doom of “cloud-based” services like Dropbox or Google Drive.
Michael Depp / NetNewsCheck Latest:
The Future's Newspaper Rack Is Here — Next week, about a dozen retailers in South Bend, Ind., will see the traditional, single-copy sales racks for The South Bend Tribune replaced by a kiosk that's endlessly updating in real time, promoting content elements from inside the paper along …
Discussion:
Poynter and The Newspaper Guild
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Pandora competitor Raditaz reemerges as CÜR Media, raises $9.6 million — Remember Raditaz, the personalized radio service that tried to compete with Pandora by building stations for each and every neighborhood of your city? The service abruptly went offline in November …
Brent Lang / The Wrap:
Paula Froelich Named Editor of Yahoo Travel, Joining New Entertainment Chief Josh Wolk — Former “Page Six” editor Paula Froelich will oversee Yahoo's travel section, the internet platform said Monday, joining Josh Wolk, who was officially named executive editor of Yahoo Entertainment.
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@andywangnyla, @joepompeo and FishbowlNY
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Machinima Hires Cable Exec Chad Gutstein as CEO — Machinima announced that it has hired Chad Gutstein, previously chief operating officer of arts cable network Ovation, as its new CEO. Announcement comes after the YouTube mulitchannel network announced an $18 million investment led by Warner Bros. earlier this month.
Discussion:
Re/code, VentureBeat and The Wrap
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Advance defends bonuses for reporters who post frequently and join comment chains — Advance's quota and bonus system at The Oregonian came in for heavy criticism last week, prompting a rejoinder from the typically close-mouthed private company. — In a note to senior executives shared with Poynter …
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@poynter
Patrick Kingsley / Guardian:
Three al-Jazeera journalists denied bail in Egyptian court once more — The trio are accused of aiding terrorists and include a former BBC journalist, Peter Greste, and a Canadian ex-CNN journalist — Three al-Jazeera journalists who have been jailed in Egypt were again denied bail on Monday …
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TVNewser, @felicitybarrtv and @patrickkingsley