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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Newsweek announces it's profitable — IBT Media is celebrating the first anniversary of its Newsweek ownership with some good news. — The publisher, which closed on a sale of the title last October for an undisclosed sum, told staff this week that it plans to reveal Newsweek is now profitable …
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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Comcast Shareholders Approve Time Warner Cable Merger — More than 99% of Comcast shareholders voted this morning in support of the company's planned acquisition of Time Warner Cable. TWC shareholders, who are expected to vote on the merger tomorrow, would get 2.875 shares of Comcast Class A stock for every one of their TWC shares.
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GalleyCat, Multichannel News, The Wrap, Lost Remote, VentureBeat, Variety and FishbowlNY
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Glenn Fleishman / The Magazine:
Subscriber-supported magazine app The Magazine will produce its last issue Dec. 17 — Last Issue Is December 17, 2014 — Hello, readers, The Magazine will stop publishing its every-other-week issues on December 17, 2014, cancel all outstanding subscriptions, and automatically provide pro-rated refunds …
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JIMROMENESKO.COM, @jasonalcorn, Talking New Media, Cult of Mac, @chrispirillo, @harrisj, @lschmeiser, @themagazineapp, @glennf, @glennf and @jamiemsmyth
Abigail Edge / Journalism.co.uk:
Shorthand launches immersive storytelling tool aimed at freelancers — Immersive aims to offer individual journalists a quick and cost effective format for producing media-rich stories combining text, images and video — Shorthand, the immersive storytelling platform …
David Higgerson:
Instead of fearing Facebook, journalists should be exploring how to make the most of it — Why journalism needs to get over its fear of Facebook — At the Online News Association conference in Chicago, Facebook went under the microscope, challenged almost to prove it was a force for good in journalism …
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@davidhiggerson, @raju, @macloo, @marcsettle and HoldTheFrontPage
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Next up for Netflix: An expansion to South Korea, Italy or the Middle East? — Netflix is looking for people who can speak Korean, Arabic and a number of other languages. The job offer could give us clues about the company's international plans. — Netflix isn't done with its international expansion …
Ben Woods / The Next Web:
EE enters into TV wars with first set-top box and catch-up streaming service — UK mobile network operator EE has today launched its own set-top box in a bid to grab a slice of the UK's on-demand TV market. — Announced today, the EE TV set-top box and service allows users to watch on-demand TV …
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Gannett shifts some costs of USA Today layoffs to states — USA Today laid off about 70 people last month. Those who lost their jobs received a week of pay for every year of service, health care through the end of September and the vacation pay they'd already accrued for the year.
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Forbes tweaks native ad program for greater scale — Publishers are pinning their hopes on native ads, but sooner or later, they'll have to address the question of how they're going to scale ads without diminishing the qualities that make them native in the first place.
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Forbes, American Press Institute and Talking Biz News
David Bauder / Associated Press:
CBS News Takes Huge RIsk, Sends Reporter Undercover To Syria — NEW YORK (AP) — CBS News reporter Clarissa Ward traveled undercover to Syria to interview two Westerners fighting against the United States for stories airing this week, a risk the network took despite the backdrop of kidnappings and beheadings by Islamic state fighters.
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
Should publishers take Web design cues from print? — With the relaunch of Bloomberg Politics this week, Bloomberg is extending Businessweek's polarizing design aesthetic further into the Web. With splashy homepage visuals, Businessweek-esque pull quotes and a continuous scrolling feature …
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