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New York Times:
David Carr, Times Critic and Champion of Media, Dies at 58 — David Carr, who wrote about media as it intersects with business, culture and government in his Media Equation column for The New York Times, died at the office on Thursday. He was 58. — For the past 25 years, Mr. Carr wrote about media.
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A. O. Scott / New York Times:
David Carr, a Journalist at the Center of the Sweet Spot — For a while, a few years ago, there was a weekly video on the New York Times website called The Sweet Spot, taped during off hours in the cafeteria on the 14th floor. The idea was that it would be an informal …
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@newday, CNNMoney, CNNMoney, Associated Press, NY Daily News, Poynter, Medium, New York Magazine, bizjournals, @jaketapper, Remembrances, FishbowlNY, Guardian and Business Insider
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
David Carr, Your Best Friend — There are hundreds and hundreds of people out there who believe that, secretly, they were David Carr's favorite. And maybe we all were. He had the rare emotional capacity to make each of us his favorite, one by one by one.
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BuzzMachine, The Daily Beast, @thisisjendoll, @mathewi, @ajdaulerio, @jackshafer, @antderosa, @tomarnold, @dansaltzstein and @hamiltonnolan
Max Fisher / Vox:
“Keep typing until it turns into writing”: David Carr's invaluable advice for journalists — David Carr, who died on Thursday at the age of 58, was so much more then just the New York Times' media columnist. He was a guiding light for journalists during some very difficult years for the industry.
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New York Times, Fusion, Columbia Journalism Review, Capital New York and @scmassie
The New York Times Company:
Statements of Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and Dean Baquet on the death of Times media columnist David Carr — Statements on the Death of Times Media Columnist David Carr — Statement of Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., publisher of The New York Times on the death of Times media columnist David Carr:
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Quartz, The Huffington Post, @mlcalderone and The Huffington Post
Anthony De Rosa:
The generosity of David Carr — The impression David left on people is indelible. If you met him once, or if you knew him for years, he was someone you could not forget. — The voice, the sly smile, his corny jokes. David was incredibly kind and generous. He was also, as Alexis Madrigal said “a bad motherf**ker.”
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@antderosa, Washington Post, TimesTalks and Talking Points Memo
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
David Carr was a fierce rival and a dear friend — He was larger than life, a fierce rival and a friend. — I initially met David Carr when he first came to New York and was working for Powerful Media, a Web site that arched across the media horizon in 2000.
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@media_ink
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter:
We all looked to @carr2n to make sense of the media revolution & to contemplate the future. A future without him is terrible to contemplate.
Michael Schaffer / Washingtonian:
Why David Carr was a great boss
Why David Carr was a great boss
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@washingtonian, @brfreed and @jeremymbarr
Guardian:
Four internal candidates for Guardian editor-in-chief job to address staff on Feb 25 prior to vote, paper has received 26 total applications — Four candidates for Guardian editor to take part in staff hustings and ballot — Guardian News & Media's NUJ chapel announces details of hustings …
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Capital New York, Spectator, @jeffjarvis and @jayrosen_nyu
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Crain's New York lays off 40 percent of editorial staff — Crain's New York Business on Thursday laid off a dozen reporters and editors — 40 percent of its full-time editorial staff — with publisher Jill Kaplan citing a need to “re-align the brand's costs with its revenues,” …
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
New USA Today Sports app uses push notifications to alert fans to be best current action — The upset alert in your pocket: USA Today's new sports app wants to help cure your fear of missing out — FOMO — fear of missing out — can reach manic levels when it comes to sports.
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USA Today, @niemanlab, @nacin and @danshanoff
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Forbes runs native ad on cover without specifically stating that it is an ad — Forbes Puts Native Ad for Fidelity on Its (Actual) Cover — Another Taboo Broken — Ad Spending for 100 Largest B-to-B Marketers Nears $5 Billion — A native ad for Fidelity will appear on the cover …
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FishbowlNY, Media Wire Daily, @andycohn and @msebastian
Christopher Massie / Columbia Journalism Review:
Diehard sports fans find a variety of blogs covering smaller market and even defunct teams — Covering teams in untraditional ways pays off — Innovative sports blogs give die-hard fans an outlet — Among the 309 blogs on the SB Nation sports blog network, “Sonics Risings” …
Canadian Press:
Conservative Canadian network Sun News shuts down after four years, leaving 200 out of work — Sun News Network shuts down, putting 200 out of work after four-year run for ‘Fox News North’ — TORONTO — The Sun News Network went off the air at 5 a.m. ET Friday after negotiations to sell …
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Michael Rondon / Folio:
Alliance for Audited Media: magazine circulation down 2.2% for H2 2014, digital editions up 11% — Magazine Circ Continues Downward Spiral — Consumer magazine circulation continued to decline in the second half of 2014, down 2.2 percent, according to data on nearly 400 titles released by the Alliance for Audited Media.
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Press Gazette and Talking New Media
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Editors at 11 Time Inc. magazines worked on a print ad campaign for Google Chrome mobile app last fall, CEO Joe Ripp tells investors — Time, InStyle Editors Helped Create Print Ads for Google Campaign — Cost Cutting Boosts Profits During Fourth Quarter — TV and Technology
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