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Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:
Jet Magazine to Shift to Digital Publishing Next Month — Jet, the pioneering African-American weekly magazine that rose to prominence covering the civil rights movement, is expected to announce Wednesday morning that it will no longer publish a regular print edition, the latest in a growing list …
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Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Russia Quietly Tightens Reins on Web With ‘Bloggers Law’ — MOSCOW — Russia has taken another major step toward restricting its once freewheeling Internet, as President Vladimir V. Putin quietly signed a new law requiring popular online voices to register with the government, a measure that lawyers …
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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
Fox News Just Unsettled Its $8 Million Hush-Money Settlement — Remember Brian Lewis, the former vice president of media relations for Fox News and even more former confidante of Fox News president Roger Ailes? This past November, Fox paid approximately $8 million in hush money to settle …
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Peter Suciu / Fortune:
Can Netflix kill cable TV if it's part of it? — The streaming TV company has always been portrayed as a television-killer. In the wake of several deals to put its service on cable boxes, the reality is more complicated. — FORTUNE — Streaming television services such as Netflix (NFLX) …
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Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News:
Suddenlink To Offer Netflix On TiVo Devices
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Just 7 percent of journalists are Republicans. That's far fewer than even a decade ago. — A majority of American journalists identify themselves as political independents although among those who choose a side Democrats outnumber Republicans four to one, according to a new study …
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Erin McCarthy / Wall Street Journal:
Pandora tests Promoted Stations native ad product with 10% of users — Pandora Launches Promoted Stations — Internet Radio Service Seeks to Boost Advertising Revenue — Pandora Media Inc. continued its push to boost advertising revenue Wednesday, launching so-called promoted stations that partner with advertisers.
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Andrew Flanagan / Billboard:
Pandora Launches Beta of Brand-Curated Stations
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Gideon Spanier / London Evening Standard:
ITV is sitting pretty, but problems lurk — As ITV's Adam Crozier prepares for his fifth annual meeting as chief executive next Wednesday, he can claim he deserves his £8.4 million pay and bonus. — ITV has been on a golden run since the ex-Royal Mail boss joined in 2010 with a five-year …
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Nic Christensen / mUmBRELLA:
Fairfax announces 70-80 redundancies across production, lifestyle and photographic — Fairfax Media has announced a proposal that could see more than 70 positions go from its newspaper arm Australian Publishing Media (APM) across its editorial production, lifestyle and photographic sections.
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Sharri Markson / The Australian:
Staff strike as Fairfax takes sword to snappers, subs
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Patrick Frater / Variety:
Why Alibaba's IPO Matters to Hollywood — As China's e-commerce giant seeks a $150 billion flotation it is building an array of video and internet options and moving upstream into content. — Asia Bureau Chief — HONG KONG — The proposed share sale in the US of Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba …
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Prosecution tells hacking trail it was role of Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and Stuart Kuttner to know what they were doing — Police found ‘rotten state of affairs’ at top of News International, jury told — Police investigating phone hacking at the News of the World uncovered …
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IOC awards Olympic Games broadcast rights to NBCUniversal through to 2032 — Agreement ensures the long-term financial security of the Olympic Movement — The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday awarded NBCUniversal (NBCU) the broadcast rights in the USA for the Olympic Games through to 2032.
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Londn Evening Standard:
BBC Trust scandals may scare off new chair candidates, MP warns — The Government may struggle to persuade a strong enough candidate to head the BBC Trust after the wave of scandals that have hit the corporation, a senior MP warned today. — “You only have to look at Chris Patten's experiences …
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John Plunkett / Guardian:
Howard Stringer and Marjorie Scardino in line to replace Lord Patten
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Ben Fischer / New York Business Journal:
BuzzFeed chairman Ken Lerer pledges independence, says IPO is a possibility — BuzzFeed Chairman Ken Lerer said Tuesday the growing media powerhouse won't sell itself and strongly hinted at an initial public offering one day, while not exactly denying recent reports of failed acquisition talks with The Walt Disney Co.
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Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
Here are the BBC's plans for the first ‘24/7 World Cup’ — The BBC has been upping the game for digital sports coverage in recent times, with the Olympic Games and its Winter counterpart showing what an all-encompassing, cross-platform broadcasting extravaganza can look like in an age of near-ubiquitous connectivity.
Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
Protesters set up camp at net neutrality rally outside FCC headquarters — Occupy-style protest against proposed ‘open internet’ rules that protesters say will give control of the web to major corporations — Protesters set up camp outside the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) …
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Broadcasting & Cable and International Business Times
Jessica Suss / AJR.org:
Why Food Magazines (the Ones Printed on Actual Paper) Could Endure — Online food writing has grown so pervasive that it naturally raises questions about the future of print food magazines, and whether anyone really needs them in the age when everyone is a food critic.
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Digital Publisher Inkling Lays Off Consumer Staff To Focus On Enterprise Business — Inkling is shutting down its consumer business and laid off part of its workforce yesterday. We first heard the news from a source who said the layoffs represented 25 percent of the company's workforce.
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Publishers Weekly and PR Newswire
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
Good Magazine plots an editorial comeback — In 2012, cause-driven magazine Good magazine made a fateful decision, laying off six of its nine editorial staffers in favor of pushing a “community-based publishing system.” The platform, which was essentially reddit for social good …
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Alexander Zaitchik / Salon:
Stephen Colbert won't save us, “Game of Thrones” is not that good: This “golden age” of TV is a big sham — It's still the Idiot Box, even if you like “Girls,” Jon Stewart and “The Wire” — I think it happened around Season 3 of “The Wire.” Maybe it was “The Sopranos.” “Curb Your Enthusiasm”?
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