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Bill O'Reilly's role as professional provocateur, not news anchor, feeds the Fox brand and wallet; his show brought in over $100M in ad revenue in 2014 — For Bill O'Reilly and Fox News, a Symbiotic Relationship — Hours after the news broke that Brian Williams had misrepresented his account …
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Al-Jazeera journalist in Paris court next week over drone flight — Al-Jazeera journalist in Paris court next week over drone flight - Yahoo!7 — Al-Jazeera journalist ‘in Paris court next week’ over drone flight — Paris (AFP) - One of three Al-Jazeera journalists arrested on suspicion …
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
New York Times community editor on comments: expansion plans, “censorship” complaints, West Coast time issues, and resource challenge from moderating by hand — Trying to Keep a ‘Celebrity Class of Commenters’ Happy — Censorship! Discrimination! Downright confusion!
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Gigaom, @jcstearns, @sulliview, @jayrosen_nyu, @mathewi and Poynter
Jamie Dunkley / London Evening Standard:
Reed Elsevier rebrands as RELX and overhauls corporate structure — Media giant Reed Elsevier has changed its name and overhauled its complex corporate structure in a move welcomed by analysts. — The company, which can trace its roots back 120 years to a newsprint manufacturing plant in Kent …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Viacom's Nickelodeon will launch Noggin, a subscription video service aimed at pre-schoolers, on March 5 for $5.99/month — Nickelodeon To Launch Noggin Subscription-Video Service in March — Nickelodeon is tapping into its past to help spark its future.
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Two examples of gratuitous anonymous quotations in the NYT: the absurd, on port authority restrooms, and the serious, on Jeb Bush — AnonyWatch: On Port Authority Restrooms and Jeb Bush's Adviser — I'd never want to stand in the way of letting someone fulfill her ambitions …
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Ex-Times editor Jill Abramson inks $1M book deal — Simon & Schuster has won the bidding for the first book by former New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson since she was booted from her job last May, The Post has learned. — The winning price was not disclosed but is believed …
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Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Q&A with Dick Costolo on Twitter's lack of broad appeal and plans to handle harassment — Dick Costolo Thinks It's O.K. to Never Tweet — In a recent earnings report, you said Twitter had 288 million active users a month — only a few million more than in the quarter before.
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@erikmal, @waatho, @nytmag and Business Insider
Chris Johanesen / BuzzFeed:
BuzzFeed uses apps to focus on richer experiences with different types of stories with varying reader interest — What The Hell Are We Doing With Apps? — You might have heard we are working on a news app. You might have heard that we've recently acquired not one, but two app companies.
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Steven Davidoff Solomon / New York Times:
Dish Network saved $3.25B by bidding for spectrum as a “very small business” using loopholes — How Loopholes Turned Dish Network Into a ‘Very Small Business’ — Charles W. Ergen, the billionaire who controls the satellite-TV provider Dish Network, and his company …
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Carmel DeAmicis / Gigaom:
Snapchat Our Story viewership is comparable to popular television shows with tens of millions of views — Snapchat's “Our Stories” are generating tens of millions of views — Screenshots of Twitter users whose snaps saw tens of millions of views in a Snapchat “Our Story”
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@lionpubs, @rod3000, @carmeldea, @mikebornstein and Business Insider
Steven Swinford / Telegraph:
BBC's licence fee should be decriminalised then scrapped, MPs say — The Department for Culture, Media and Sport says that the BBC is not ‘brave enough’ and needs to do more original programming — The BBC's licence fee is becoming “anachronistic” and should be de-criminalised …
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