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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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@ggreenwald, @edpilkington, Mediaite, @kevinroose, @nymag, @jayrosen_nyu, @joecoscarelli, The Corsair and The Huffington Post
Michael King / American Journalism Review:
Journalism Enrollments Fell Two Years in a Row. Is it the Start of a Downward Trend? — Total enrollment in the nation's journalism schools has dropped, research by a team at the University of Georgia shows, triggering a variety of responses from the schools and raising questions about the future of journalism education.
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@wccordell, @ryanchittum, @mattdpearce, @jonathanmattise, @wpjenna and The Newspaper Guild
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, Techdirt, @nickconfessore, @codinghorror, @ggreenwald, @jayrosen_nyu and The Verge
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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@chrisdeerin, @marksweney, @carlabuzasi and Press Gazette
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
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” …
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
YouTube's 2013 revenue was reportedly $3.5 billion — YouTube generated $3.5 billion in revenue for Google in 2013, according to a report from the Information, which also states that the video service was profitable last year. However, that number is below analyst estimates …
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VentureBeat, Mashable and Business Insider
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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@davidsirota, @morningmoneyben and The New York Observer
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.
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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
Guardian:
Guardian appoints Jane Martinson as head of media — Women's editor takes up new role in September overseeing all coverage of the media industry in print and online — Jane Martinson, the Guardian women's editor, has been appointed as the new head of media. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian
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Politico, @media_focus_uk, @wij_uk and @piersmorgan
Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
Internal tensions at Jezebel after deputy editor Dodai Stewart passed over for top job — Mixed emotions as Jezebel gets new editor — The announcement two weeks ago that Emma Carmichael, editor of The Hairpin, will succeed Jessica Coen as editor-in-chief of Jezebel left …
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@jeremymbarr, @juliacarriew, @johndurant, @christrobbins and FishbowlNY