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Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine:
Bill Keller on His Criminal Justice Start-up the Marshall Project, Orange Is the New Black, and the Storm at the New York Times — The Paper of Record's former executive editor discusses his new start-up and the big ship he left behind. — After 30 years at the New York Times …
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Mediaite, The Huffington Post, The Corsair, @jayrosen_nyu, @kevinroose, @joecoscarelli and @nymag
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix Beats Amazon's Streaming Lineup for Top Movies, TV Shows — Hulu Plus remains ahead of Netflix in licensing current top-rated TV shows, according to Piper Jaffray analysis — Netflix continues to outpace Amazon.com's subscription-video service on the content-licensing front …
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Benzinga, Quartz, Deadline.com and Wall Street Journal
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
HuffPost UK EIC Carla Buzasi stepping down, being replaced by Stephen Hull — Carla Buzasi to leave Huffington Post — Stephen Hull steps up as site's UK founding editor joins fashion data and insight firm WGSN as global chief content officer — Huffington Post UK has lost its founding editor …
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Press Gazette, @chrisdeerin, @marksweney and @carlabuzasi
Greg Miller / Washington Post:
CIA employee's quest to release information ‘destroyed my entire career’ — His CIA career included assignments in Africa, Afghanistan and Iraq, but the most perilous posting for Jeffrey Scudder turned out to be a two-year stint in a sleepy office that looks after the agency's historical files.
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Mother Jones, @ggreenwald, @jayrosen_nyu, @codinghorror and The Verge
Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:
Conservative columnist David Brooks on what it's like to work at the left-leaning NYT — What it's like to be a conservative columnist at the New York Times — ASPEN, Colo. — New York Times columnist David Brooks gets a lot of hate mail. And he doesn't read the comments section.
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The New York Observer, @davidsirota, @morningmoneyben and New York Magazine
Sarah El Deeb / Associated Press:
Egyptian president says he wished the Al Jazeera journalists were never put on trial — EGYPT LEADER WISHES JOURNALISTS WEREN'T TRIED — CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's president acknowledged for the first time that the heavy sentences handed down to three Al-Jazeera journalists had a “very negative” …
Alexander Eule / Barron's Online:
Amid TV consolidation, Dish Network looks like odd man out, but spectrum could raise its value — Dish Network's Ace in the Hole — Mobile video could shake up the media industry. And Dish's chairman could help his stock rise 20%. — These are lonely days for Dish Network, the nation's third-largest pay-TV provider.
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Wall Street Journal
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Michael Provus Named Rolling Stone Publisher — Michael Provus has been promoted from associate publisher to publisher of Rolling Stone. Provus had served as associate publisher since 2010. — Provus is succeeding Chris McLoughlin, who announced he was leaving amid some chaos at the magazine.
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Investigation shows NSA tracks individuals who search for news articles about privacy tools like Tor and Tails — If you read Boing Boing, the NSA considers you a target for deep surveillance … In a shocking story on the German site Tages Schau (Google translate), Lena Kampf …
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Washington Post, Das Erste, @pedroelrey, @wilw, @beep, Motherboard, TechCrunch, Linux Journal, Engadget, @dangillmor and @antderosa
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
John Oliver and HBO shake up TV's comedy-news genre by incorporating investigative journalism — How John Oliver and HBO Shattered TV's Comedy-News Format — Analysis: By adding a hint of investigative journalism, ‘Last Week Tonight’ is coming up with story segments that in some cases are longer than those on ‘60 Minutes’
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Mediaite, TVNewser, Gawker, The Wrap, @bristei, @variety_dscohen, @ceciliaromanq and @yvonneleow
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
YouTube partners with Indian carrier to offer pre-paid mobile streaming from just $0.15 — YouTube is focusing on mobile in India after the Google owned-video site teamed up with operator Tata Docomo to offer a new range of ‘YouTube recharge’ data plans to its 3G customers.
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thehindubusinessline.com, The Economic Times and Tech2
Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:
Byliner gone bad and the business of longform journalism on the web — On Christmas Eve Day in 2012, I sat in a Starbucks and wrote an enthusiastic post about why it had been the year of the e-single. E-singles — works of journalism between 3,000 to 15,000 words, usually nonfiction and sold …
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@carr2n, @rogerblack, @agwieckowski and @sarahw
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