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Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Marty Baron on Ezra Klein's departure: “The company is owned 100 percent by Jeff Bezos, so any decision to fund a new venture would be his to make” — It's remarkable, I think, how much mainstream-media attention the departures of Nate Silver from The New York Times and Ezra Klein …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
New York Times Changes Ezra Klein Quote To No Longer Criticize Washington Post — NEW YORK — Ezra Klein, the editor-in-chief of the just-launched Vox.com, appeared to criticize his former employer, The Washington Post, in an article published Sunday night. — The New York Times' Leslie Kaufman reported the following:
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The New York Observer and Mediaite
Vox:
Welcome to Vox: a work in progress
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Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:
Vox.com looks to technology to move beyond constraints of print media
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Bloomberg:
Microsoft Xbox launching six TV series in June; comedians Seth Green, Sarah Silverman onboard — Microsoft Goes Hollywood in Amazon-Like Programming Push — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is going Hollywood with a cast including comedians Sarah Silverman and Seth Green, aspiring World Cup players and eerily human robots.
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Raju Narisetti / Nieman Journalism Lab:
We need to talk: 26 awkward questions to ask news organizations about the move to digital — Here are 25 awkward questions (and one counter-question) that I wish media reporters/critics would routinely ask of editors and mainstream news organizations, each year.
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@craigmod, @fieldproducer, @jbenton, @antderosa, @raju, @charlesforelle, @tothevictor, @sarahmarshall, @mattderienzo, @marklittlenews and Kirk LaPointe's …
Marc Frank / Reuters:
Cuba says U.S. created other ‘Cuban Twitter’ projects — HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba said on Sunday the United States continues to use social media to “subvert” the island's government and that the revelation this week of a U.S.-created, Twitter-like service for Cuba was just one of several examples.
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VentureBeat and Latin Times
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Adi Robertson / The Verge:
USAID refutes claims about allegedly subversive Cuban Twitter clone
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USAID Impact, NPR and TheHill
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Six major movie studios file copyright lawsuit against Megaupload, seek $150k per infringement — Movie Studios Sue Defunct Piracy Site Megaupload, Seeking Millions in Damages — Six major U.S. movie studios have sued Megaupload — which U.S. law enforcement officials shut down in January 2012 …
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Home Media Magazine, Hollywood Reporter, Deadline.com, @kimdotcom and @kimdotcom
Martin Weil / Washington Post:
Charles S. Stone Jr, founder of National Association of Black Journalists, dies at 89 — Charles S. Stone Jr., journalist and professor, dies at 89 — Charles S. (Chuck) Stone Jr., a prominent and pioneering American journalist who touched and shaped many lives as a big-city newspaper columnist …
Bob Fernandez / Philly.com:
Senate hearing on Comcast merger comes amid major concerns — The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold the first public hearing on Comcast Corp.'s proposed $45.2 billion deal for Time Warner Cable Inc. on Wednesday, amid regulatory and financial concerns about merging the No. 1 and No. 2 cable-TV companies.
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Radio & Television … and Los Angeles Times
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David Carr / New York Times:
Questions for Comcast as It Looks to Grow
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TVNewser, @davidsirota, @carr2n, @jcstearns and @samgustin
Stephen Buckley / Poynter:
Last Saturday, Omidyar gathered industry thinkers to brainstorm First Look Media's strategy — Omidyar's First Look Media looking to find its focus, target an audience — Pierre Omidyar has issues. Several problems, actually. — The billionaire technologist, philanthropist …
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@davewiner, @megan, @samkirkla and @jayrosen_nyu
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Rutgers AD: If Star-Ledger died, 'That'd be great' — Speaking to a journalism class, Rutgers University Athletic Director Julie Hermann said “That'd be great” about the prospect of The (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger dying. “I'm going to do all I can to not to give them a headline to keep …
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New Jersey Online, Muckgers, @kellymcb, Mother Jones, @mlcalderone and New Jersey 101.5
Erin Madigan White / The Definitive Source:
Associated Press CEO Gary Pruitt condemns attacks on journalists in order to control news — Pruitt: ‘Journalists today are targeted’ — Three days after the killing of an Associated Press photojournalist and the wounding of an AP correspondent in Afghanistan, AP President …
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Barbara Walters to Sign Off ‘The View,’ Retire From TV on May 16 — Barbara Walters has set May 16 as her final appearance on ABC's daytime strip “The View” as she retires from TV journalism. — Walters' 50-plus years in television will be feted that night with a two-hour primetime special on ABC.
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ABC News, The Wrap, TVNewser, Capital New York, The TV Guy, @taylormarsh, New York Times, Just Jared, Newsday, Associated Press and The Week
Jim Romenesko:
Lee Enterprises executives get six-figure bonuses for doing their jobs — Journalists at Lee Enterprises's flagship newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, haven't seen raises since 2008, but Lee's top execs continue to run to the bank with big bonus checks. — Mary Junck and Carl Schmidt
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@romenesko, @dangillmor, bizjournals and The Newspaper Guild
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Bleacher Report co-founder to launch ‘deep-interest’ titles — David Nemetz, founder of sports site Bleacher Report, is to launch a series of “deep-interest” sites that have an “educational aspect and a lifestyle aspect” by the end of the year. Speaking at the WAN-IFRA Digital Media Europe conference …
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FishbowlNY
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
AOL Appoints William Pence From WebMD As New CTO; Curtis Brown Steps Down — AOL's ongoing push to turn its business around and focus on more ad-tech fuelled media plays continues apace: today the company (which owns TechCrunch) appointed a new CTO, William Pence, who it's hired away from WebMD, where he was also CTO as well as EVP.
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FishbowlNY, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, Softpedia News and thedrum.com
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Business staff at Conde Traveler to do internships at hotels to learn “art of luxury service” — Traveler Magazine Learns Luxury Service at Hotels — Like most of the staff at the opulent Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan, Bill Wackermann was busy. He attended an early morning meeting to prepare for the day's guests.
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@condelibrary and Skift
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