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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Justice Department urges Supreme Court to pass up James Risen's case on confidential sources — Justice Department urges SCOTUS to pass up reporter's privilege case — The Obama Administration is urging the Supreme Court not to take up New York Times reporter James Risen's plea …
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US Department of State, Freedom of the Press …, @trevortimm, @walmsleyglobe, Techdirt and @freedomofpress
Kenneth Olmstead / Pew Research Center:
As digital ad sales grow, news outlets get a smaller share — Digital advertising in the U.S. accounted for $42.6 billion in revenue in 2013, an increase of 16% over 2012, according to the financial analysis firm eMarketer. But while that digital ad pie is growing, the numbers show …
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@convergencetr, @sarakgoo and @facttank
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Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Newspapers still lag in digital advertising, highest growth areas remain mobile, video, search — The newsonomics of newspapers' slipping digital performance — As we approach the middle of the 2010s, where do newspapers fit in the battle for America's largest ad sector — digital?
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@niemanlab
Capital New York:
The 60-second interview: Adrian Chen, freelance reporter and New Inquiry editor — CAPITAL: In November, after spending four years there and breaking some big stories, you left Gawker to be a freelancer. Do you miss it? And, do you expect Max Read to pick up where John Cook left off as editor-in-chief?
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@katienotopoulos, @katierogers, @silvermanjacob and @mims
Dean Starkman / Columbia Journalism Review:
DOJ reopens review of deal between Digital First Media's Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News — A newspaper deal threatens Utah's main non-Mormon-owned daily, critics say — And the Justice Department is looking into it — A deal reached last fall between Salt Lake City's two main newspapers …
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The Newspaper Guild
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Judge orders Philadelphia Inquirer's ownership dissolved, sold by auction — Vice Chancellor Donald F. Parsons Friday ordered that Interstate General Media, the partnership that owns The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com, be dissolved and its properties be sold by an “English-style” auction.
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@abeaujon and @scottbpruden
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Maryclaire Dale / Associated Press:
Philadelphia newspaper guild won't bid for company
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Ellen Cushing / San Francisco magazine:
Swisher: AllThingsD was profitable, but Re/code will probably lose money this year — Kara Swisher, outspoken tech journalist, has a lot on her mind. — Kara Swisher, outspoken tech journalist, has a lot on her mind. … San Francisco: You recently split from the Wall Street Journal-affiliated AllThingsD to start Re/code.
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@caseyjohnston, @ceonyc, @ebekiel, @periqueblend, @nitashatiku, @antderosa, @qhardy, @laureni and VentureBeat
Neil Midgley / Guardian:
Local TV plan on the rocks as funding frozen, while London Live head quits — Jeremy Hunt's scheme unravelling as BBC delays £25m payment; Stefano Hatfield out after disastrous ratings — Local TV station London Live's viewing figures average 2,400 for its breakfast show.
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@neilmidgley, @daveharte, @rileyorionradio, @davidhepworth and @stuartthomas
Samantha Shankman / Skift:
The Boutique Publishers Crafting Content for Big Travel Brands — Fathom Away creates stylish city guides for Kate Spade. / Kate Spade — Where do brands turn when they need creative custom content that speaks to a specific set of travelers? — The answer is often large creative agencies …
Leslie Anne Jones / Aeon Magazine:
How censorship works in China's media — You know that censorship has won its war on truth-telling when journalists happily police themselves — I majored in journalism in California and interned at four daily newspapers in the US. I had watched Shattered Glass (2003) …
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@jinscribe, @aeonmag and @trnels
Michael Shanahan / Columbia Journalism Review:
France 24's trusted volunteer corps — The station has a global network of unpaid, verified contributors that help find and factcheck stories — When a Tunisian street vendor set himself on fire in 2010, igniting the Arab Spring, France 24 interviewed a man named Slimane Rouissi, who lived in the vendor's town.
BBC:
Coulson ‘may not have read’ all of Milly Dowler story — Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson has told the phone-hacking trial he may not have read all of a key story about missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler published in April 2002. — Under cross-examination, he said he thought the story …
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Hacked Off, Reuters, ABC, Guardian, Guardian and @robindbrant
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Former Tumblr President John Maloney Is Now Circa's New President — What do you do after you help a young CEO build a giant digital property? — Take a couple years off, then try doing it again. — That's what John Maloney is doing. The Web veteran, who spent four years running …
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Forbes, @digidave, VentureBeat, @benjlerer and @circa
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