Mediagazer: Bill Carter, Veteran New York Times TV Reporter, Taking Buyout (Michael Calderone/The Huffington Post)

6:50 PM ET, December 1, 2014

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Bill Carter, Veteran New York Times TV Reporter, Taking Buyout — NEW YORK — Bill Carter, who has covered the television industry at The New York Times for more than 25 years and remains one of the best known writers on the industry, is taking a buyout. — Carter told The Huffington Post …

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David Weigel / Bloomberg Politics:

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

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Jim Bankoff / LinkedIn Pulse:
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Vox Media raises $46.5M from NY investment firm General Atlantic at a $380M valuation

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Brian X. Chen / New York Times:

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:

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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

ESPN gives Janay Rice control over as-told-to piece — Transparency is abundant in the editor's note appended to ESPN's story of the long weekend. It's a first-person essay by Janay Rice, wife of former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, who was suspended from the NFL for hitting …

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Christopher Williams / Telegraph:

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Darren Davidson / The Australian:

Foxtel and Discovery plan lowball bid for Australia's Ten Network, valuing it at $510M-$664M — Ten set to reject Foxtel's first bid … PAY-TV operator Foxtel and US cable giant Discovery Communications will table a lowball opening takeover bid for Ten Network, but the offer could be rejected by the board as too cheap.

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:

UK set to be first country in which more than half of ad spend goes digital — More than 50% of £15.7bn advertiser spend will go on digital and online media in 2015 beating print, cinema, buses, billboards, TV and radio combined — The UK is predicted to become the first country …

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Aisha Gani / Guardian:

Post-referendum, Scots turn to alternative media over newspapers and broadcast — Scottish blogs: what next for alternative media post-referendum? — Citizens journalists came to the fore during the Scottish independence campaign - we take a look at the direction blogs have taken since the vote