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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.
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.
Alasdair Glennie / Daily Mail:
New chairman of BBC Trust looks likely to rubber stamp move of youth channel BBC Three to internet only — THE BBC's new chairman has backed a controversial plan to move its youth channel online, saying the idea is ‘in and of itself good’. — Despite mounting opposition from presenters …
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BBC Trust boss Rona Fairhead backs licence fee — Rona Fairhead, the new head of the BBC Trust, says she believes the licence fee is the best way to fund the BBC. — Speaking in front of MPs on the culture, media and sport committee, Ms Fairhead said the public was also broadly in favour of the fee.
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John Boudreau / Bloomberg:
Vietnam Blogger Dieu Cay Freed From Prison, Travels to U.S. — Prominent Vietnamese blogger Nguyen Van Hai traveled to the U.S. after being released from jail, where he was serving a 12-year term for spreading anti-government propaganda. — Hai, who was convicted in 2012 and who is known as Dieu Cay …
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Media jobs website Gorkana sold to Cision in £200m deal — Digital PR employment and industry information firm bought as part of Cision parent company GTCR's expansion strategy — Gorkana has been bought by Cision in a £200m deal as part of US private equity firm GTCR's expansion strategy
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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Jason McGahan / The Daily Beast:
She Tweeted Against the Mexican Cartels. They Tweeted Her Murder. — No newspaper dares to publish the truth about the drug lords in Tamaulipas. Those who break the silence on Twitter and Facebook are marked for death. — MEXICO CITY—She was a crusading Twitter journalist in a bastion …
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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 …
Brian R. Fitzgerald / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo: Tumblr to Make Over $100 Million in Revenue Next Year — Tumblr is expected to generate more than $100 million in revenue in 2015 thanks to a growing user base and a successful introduction of sponsored advertising, Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer said Tuesday.
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Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
Digital Ad Revenue Hits $23 Billion In First Half Of 2014 — Internet ad revenue rose 15% to $23.1 billion during the first six months in 2014, compared with the same time period in 2013, per an IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report released Monday by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB).
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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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