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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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Nicole Levy / Capital New York:
Time Inc. 2014 revenue $3.28B, down 2% from previous year, digital ad revenue up 6% for the year — In its first year on its own, Time Inc. hits some turbulence — Fiscal year 2014 was a difficult one for Time Inc., America's largest magazine publisher, which spun off last June …
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Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Tax rules stop Time Inc. from merging until after June 2016, but CEO Joe Ripp reaches out for partners “in a time of industry decline” — Time Inc. CEO: No Mergers Until at Least Next Year — Tax Burden Would Be Too Heavy — Don't expect Time Inc. to merge with any of its magazine rivals soon.
Reporters Without Borders:
Freedom of information declined in 2/3 of the 180 countries surveyed for World Press Freedom Index — World Press Freedom Index 2015: decline on all fronts — The Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index ranks the performance of 180 countries according to a range of criteria …
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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
U.S. Drops to 49th in World Press Freedom Rankings, Worst Since Obama Became President — Each year, Reporters Without Borders issues a worldwide ranking of nations based on the extent to which they protect or abridge press freedom. The group's 2015 ranking was released this morning, and the United States is ranked 49th.
Jon Ronson / New York Times:
How One Stupid Tweet Ruined Justine Sacco's Life — Credit: Photo illustration by Andrew B. Myers. Prop stylist: Sonia Rentsch. — As she made the long journey from New York to South Africa, to visit family during the holidays in 2013, Justine Sacco, 30 years old and the senior director …
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
NBC News internal probe into Brian Williams continues; third-party investigator may become involved, source says — What else has NBC News dug up on Brian WIlliams? — Brian Williams' future at NBC News may hinge on just how many other examples of exaggerations and fibs are found.
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Washington Post:
Within NBC, an intense debate over whether to fire Brian Williams
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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Lester Holt seen as heir apparent to Brian Williams at ‘Nightly News’
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Emily Steel / New York Times:
Behind NBC's decision to suspend TV anchor Brian Williams, after an internal probe into his tales of facing danger in Iraq and New Orleans
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Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
News Director Jared Keller fired from Mic.com after plagiarism accusations — Jared Keller out at Mic — Mic news director Jared Keller has left the company. A source with knowledge of the decision said that Keller's departure was not voluntary. — Keller's work was the subject …
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Major news organizations to reveal new freelancer safety guidelines … A coalition of prominent news outlets and journalism advocacy groups Thursday will release a set of guidelines at Columbia Journalism School for the protection of freelancers. — The recommendations …
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Will Steacy / Popular Mechanics:
How The New York Times Works — This is how the Gray Lady gets made in 2015 — Ernie Booth, the operations manager of the main printing plant of The New York Times, is walking the floor. The plant is a 515,000-square-foot building in Queens, on the Van Wyck Expressway, half a mile from LaGuardia Airport.
Chris Smith / Digiday:
Publisher departures, technical glitches, and lack of signups led to the failure of Piano Media's countrywide Slovenian paywall — How a countrywide paywall faltered — Publishers on the hunt for digital media are increasingly turning to paywalls or metered-access systems.
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Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
CBS Q4 2014 beats estimates with $3.68B revenue on football, local political ads, but net earnings down due to NFL payments — NFL Pushes CBS Revenue Up, But Cuts into Profits — CBS reported lower profits in the fourth quarter because of big payments to the NFL for Thursday Night Football offset gains in advertising revenue.
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Le Monde owner's criticism of HSBC leak coverage lays bare fragility of press freedom — AJ Liebling's famous aphorism - “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one” - cannot be said often enough. — I imagine there are journalists in Paris saying something like this today.
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Kevin Draper / Deadspin:
Yahoo deleted blog post last year and considered firing its writer after the owner of Cleveland Cavaliers complained to Marissa Mayer — Dan Gilbert Didn't Like A Yahoo Blog Post, So Yahoo Deleted It — Quicken Loans is a predatory lender. It's impossible to read the numerous lawsuits …
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James B. Stewart / New York Times:
Disney's Bob Iger appears to settle succession planning by naming Thomas Staggs as COO — Disney Tackles Succession, This Time Without Drama — To the growing list of Robert Iger's accomplishments during his near-decade tenure as Disney's chief executive, add succession planning.
Nicole Levy / Capital New York:
Jason Whitlock on The Undefeated, ESPN's site focused on race and sports launching this summer — Inside ESPN's plans for ‘The Undefeated’ — It's been 17 months since sportswriter Jason Whitlock returned to ESPN to launch a site about the intersection of race and sports …
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R. Thomas Umstead / Multichannel News:
Fusion To Create Primetime ‘Nightline’ Series — ‘Nightline On Fusion’ Debuts Feb. 18 — usion will air its own version of ABC's late-night news show Nightline, the network said Thursday. — Nightline On Fusion will launch Feb. 18 air at 8 p.m. and will include stories from the late-night program …
CBS News:
Longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Bob Simon, 73, dies in car crash in New York City — CBS News correspondent Bob Simon, 1941-2015 — NEW YORK — Bob Simon, the longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent and legendary CBS News foreign reporter died suddenly tonight in a car accident in New York City.
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