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GOP presidential campaigns map out rules for more control of TV debates — GOP contenders demand greater control over crucial debates — Several Republican presidential campaigns began mapping out new demands Sunday for greater control over the format and content of primary debates …
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Former Washington Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli praises CNBC debate, says its messiness gave an insight into candidates behaviour — The CNBC debate was an ugly, raucous mess. We need more just like it. — The irreverent questioning of the GOP field is good for democracy.
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Sources: Trump campaign to deal directly with networks on debates, upending joint proposal from GOP candidates — Trump campaign to negotiate directly with TV networks on debate formats — Donald Trump and his advisers have decided to work directly with television executives and take a lead role …
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Fox's debate ad says ‘CNBC never asked the real questions’
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New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger announces succession plan — At a staff meeting Monday morning, New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. announced that the company has initiated a succession process, and that a deputy publisher will be named within two years, according to a source.


CBS All Access SVOD and streaming service gets a boost with launch of new Star Trek series in January 2017 — New ‘Star Trek’ series to blast off on CBS streaming service — CBS is about to boldly go where we've kind of been before. — A new “Star Trek” television series will arrive …
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The next season of Serial will debut simultaneously on Pandora — The second season of Serial still doesn't have a start date, but it does have a new, unlikely distribution partner. Pandora announced today that it will be the exclusive streaming partner for the podcast phenomenon.
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Behind Henry Blodget's plans to turn Business Insider into the financial publication of record for the digital generation — Henry Blodget's big plans for Business Insider — Henry Blodget spent the past eight years transforming Business Insider from a scrappy three-man show …

Staff memo: Joe Nocera to write column about sports for the New York Times — NYT business columnist Joe Nocera joins the sports department — That didn't take long. A couple days after POLITICO reported that Joe Nocera's business column would be discontinued, a staffing change …
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How Ziff Davis under CEO Vivek Shah survived the death of print by going all digital — How Ziff Davis survived the death of print — In 2009, when venture investor Marc Andreessen showed up to a small dinner in the San Francisco Bay Area set up by journalist Josh Quittner …
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Fullscreen Hires TV Exec Jason Klarman as Chief Marketing Officer — Digital-media company Fullscreen has appointed Jason Klarman, formerly a senior exec at NBCUniversal's Oxygen Media and Bravo Media, its first chief marketing officer. — Klarman will lead strategy for Fullscreen's overall brand …


Bloomberg Media launching first dedicated news site for Asia — Bloomberg Media expands to Asia as part of new focused path — Bloomberg Media is continuing to expand its global reach with the launch of its first dedicated website for Asia. — The site follows a European site launched earlier …


German daily Die Welt wants to bundle print, digital, and TV into a single newsroom (and brand) — BERLIN — When The New York Times announced that it would create a separate, centralized group of editors and designers to focus on producing its daily print product, those at the German …
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