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Robert G. Kaiser / Washington Post:
Ben Bradlee, legendary Washington Post editor, dies at 93 — Benjamin C. Bradlee, who presided over The Washington Post newsroom for 26 years and guided The Post's transformation into one of the world's leading newspapers, died Oct. 21 at his home in Washington of natural causes. He was 93.
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
The Bradlee tales: He protected reporters, colored his speech with salty language, and showed neither self-doubt nor self-restraint — Postscript: Benjamin C. Bradlee (1921-2014) — Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee, the most charismatic and consequential newspaper editor of postwar America, died at the age of ninety-three on Tuesday.
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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
Bloomberg hires Business Insider Executive Editor Joe Weisenthal to edit new site focusing on markets and economics, host TV show — Bloomberg Drops Huge Cash, Poaches Business Insider's Joe Weisenthal To Host New TV Show — Joe Weisenthal, executive editor of Business Insider, is leaving the company.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Express titles may cut number of pages by up to a quarter — Richard Desmond papers believed to be cutting pagination as part of savings drive that also led to voluntary redundancies — Richard Desmond's Express Newspapers is understood to be planning to cut pagination for its four titles by up to 25% …
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D.B. Hebbard / Talking New Media:
Postmedia's Montreal Gazette launches Apple Newsstand afternoon tablet magazine — New iPad-only magazine will appear every Monday through Friday at 6pm, with subscriptions free for readers of the English language newspaper — The Montreal Gazette, the English language newspaper owned …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Beats In Q3 With Revenue Of $1.09B, EPS Of $0.52X — With all eyes on what Yahoo will do with its $5 billion+ in Alibaba cash, Yahoo today reported its Q3 earnings after the close of trading, with sales of $1.09 billion excluding traffic acquisition costs and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.52.
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Poynter to host African journalists turned away from USF St. Petersburg — The Poynter Institute will host a group of Edward R. Murrow journalists from African countries whose visit to the University of South Florida at St. Petersburg was canceled because of concerns about spread of the Ebola virus …
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
23% increase in defamation actions as social media claims rise — There has been a 23% rise in the number of reported defamation cases in the UK over the past year, up from 70 to 86, according to research by Thomson Reuters. — The growth in the number of reported defamation cases …
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Tony Biasotti / Columbia Journalism Review:
The California Sunday Magazine sets out to win the West — Out-of-the-box distribution, all-of-the-above revenue, and a West Coast storytelling sensibility — After many months of eager anticipation in media circles, The California Sunday Magazine launched Oct. 5 with a print run of more than 400,000 copies.
Slate:
Librarians Are Dedicated to User Privacy. The Tech They Have to Use Is Not. — Adobe has made it extremely easy for unwanted eyes to read over the shoulders of library patrons. Earlier this month reports surfaced about how Adobe's Digital Editions e-book software collects and transmits information about readers in plain text.
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Ari Levy / CNBC:
With 76.4M users listening to 5B hours of radio, mostly on mobile devices, Pandora capitalizes on data to attract political ads — Political ads flood Pandora before mid-terms — If you live in Florida and spend much time on Pandora's streaming service, chances are you're hearing a lot of “Rick Scott for Governor” commercials.
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Rebecca Carroll / The New Republic:
I'm a Black Journalist. I'm Quitting Because I'm Tired of Newsroom Racism. — My first job in media was as a television producer. I was 28 years old, eager and brimming with ideas, some of which I'm sure were good and others of which I'm sure were not. Not long after starting the job …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
NABJ boss says CNN essentially called him a liar in dispute over diversity
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