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New York Times:
Sony Pictures Demands That News Agencies Delete ‘Stolen’ Data — LOS ANGELES — Sony Pictures Entertainment warned media outlets on Sunday against using the mountains of corporate data revealed by hackers who attacked the studio's computer systems. — In a sharply worded letter sent …
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Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
How Brian Stelter Turned Reliable Sources into the Smartest Sunday Show — “The guest,” Brian Stelter told Mediaite, “is everything.” — Stelter was leaning against the wall of a West Village brewpub, having just finished booking Slate's Hanna Rosin to talk Rolling Stone's UVA rape story on his Sunday morning show.
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@journalistnate and @tvnewslab
BBC:
Turkish police raid media outlets tied to opposition cleric Fethullah Gulen, arrest at least 23, including EIC of country's biggest paper Zaman — Turkey police raid opposition media with Gulen links — Turkish police have made at least 23 arrests during raids on a newspaper and TV station …
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Russell Brandom / The Verge:
Stolen Sony emails reveal scheming by MPAA, movie studios against Google in “Project Goliath” and their fight against piracy at the expense of the open web — Project Goliath: Inside Hollywood's secret war against Google — What is “Goliath” and why are Hollywood's most powerful lawyers working to kill it?
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Source: Justice Department won't force NYT reporter James Risen to reveal a source in CIA book — Holder: Reporter Won't Be Forced to Reveal Leak Source — The reporter, James Risen, has been battling for years to stop prosecutors from forcing him to name his source for a book that revealed …
Kate Galbraith / Nieman Storyboard:
New Print Magazines Are Embracing Narrative and Finding Their Niche — What it takes to launch a print magazine is targeting a clearly defined niche and, above all, a willingness to be scrappy and innovative — In 2011, as the Arab Spring dawned, young Lebanese journalist Ibrahim Nehme yearned …
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Jihii Jolly / Columbia Journalism Review:
How the New York Times, The Economist, Vox, and others create daily news roundups — News roundups can be part of a smart media diet — What you should know about ‘everything you need to know’ — Each morning around 3:30am, Adeel Hassan and Victoria Shannon start reading and summarizing the day's top news.
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@opride, @kvox and @alexandergordon
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
A year and a half ago, four major publishers created Sunday newspaper supplements; in January, only Athlon will remain — Consolidation Coming in Sunday Magazines — A MASS-MARKET media category that Madison Avenue has perceived as unchanging for what seems like a month of Sundays is suddenly undergoing a significant makeover.
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David Auerbach / Slate:
Wikipedia editing disputes: The crowdsourced encyclopedia has become a rancorous, sexist mess — Wikipedia is a paradox and a miracle—a crowdsourced encyclopedia that has become the default destination for nonessential information. That it has survived almost 15 years and remained …
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Hyperallergic, @mpigliucci and @benedictevans
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Circa is seeking $8M in Series A funding as it faces well-funded competition from AJ+, others — The newsonomics of Circa's uncertain future (and new competition from AJ+) — What's in the cards for Circa, an award-nabbing industry darling, a pioneer of mobile-first news apps and a visual style that still spreads on the web?
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@rafat, @mg, Evolving Newsroom, @jeffjarvis, @digidave, @niemanlab and @mathewi
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
New Bloomberg Business website integrating Businessweek likely to debut in late January — As New Bloomberg Business Site Approaches, Company Eyes Larger Audience — Chasing Growth and ‘Cool’ at the New Bloomberg Media — Bloomberg L.P. has spent the last year pouring money and resources …
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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
Inside the Collapse of The New Republic — Last Friday morning, Chris Hughes, the owner of The New Republic, and Guy Vidra, the magazine's C.E.O., presided over a meeting at the publication's Penn Quarter offices in Washington, D.C. It had been a busy twenty-four hours: a day earlier …
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John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
FCC OKs Scripps and Journal Communications merger, combining TV stations, spinning off newspapers — FCC Okays Scripps/Journal Merger — Contingent on divestiture of two stations and FCC's extension of failing-station waiver in Green Bay — The FCC's Media Bureau has approved …
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