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David Carr / New York Times:
The Media Equation: Paton Prepares His Newspapers for a World Without Print — Last week, John Paton met with executives of the MediaNews Group, the second-largest newspaper chain by circulation in the country, home to papers like The Denver Post, The Detroit News, The Salt Lake Tribune …
Julie Moos / Poynter:
Introducing Poynter's MediaWire — As you may have noticed, our main media news blog has a new name today. The MediaWire blog, formerly Romenesko, has the same purpose as before: to highlight the most interesting journalism issues of the day. To alert us to news we've missed, send tips and suggestions here.
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Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
Newsweek, Mired in Red Ink, Cancels Longtime Political Series — It has been one of Newsweek's signature ventures and a staple of American political journalism since 1984. — Every presidential election season, the magazine detached a small group of reporters from their daily jobs for a year …
Shoshana Walter / New York Times:
Occupy Oakland and News Media Coexist Uneasily — Immediately after a man was shot to death Thursday afternoon near the Occupy Oakland encampment, Randy Davis, a cameraman for KGO-TV, turned his lens on a group of protesters helping the victim. Then part of the crowd turned on him.
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Stephen Wright / Daily Mail:
Hacking police find ‘bombshell’ emails: Now detectives may want to question James Murdoch — Police investigating phone-hacking at the News of the World have recovered a series of ‘bombshell’ emails which they believe takes the inquiry to ‘a new level’. — The emails were among tens …
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Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider:
Sky News Deletes Tweet Of James Murdoch Arrest
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New York Times:
CNN Sets Off a Debate on Race and Technology — For nearly two weeks, a debate ignited by a CNN documentary has raged on the Internet about the obstacles to success in Silicon Valley and whether the technology industry is as meritocratic and as color-blind as it aspires to be.
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Kevin Sexton / The Verge:
Kobo Touch with Offers costs $99.99, adds ads — The Kobo Touch e-reader will soon be available for $40 less thanks to a new version with Offers. Just like on Amazon's Kindle, ads will populate the lock screen and a sliver at the bottom of the homescreen.
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The eBook Reader Blog, Gizmodo, The Digital Reader, TeleRead, Engadget, CNET News and Liliputing, more at Techmeme »
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Bachmann Camp Accuses CBS News Of Media Bias After Accidentally Receiving Private E-Mail — Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is crying foul after CBS' foreign policy debate yesterday, accusing the network of media bias because of an e-mail that indicated she would not be getting …
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Geoffrey Taylor / Guardian:
Richard Scott obituary — As a family member of the Scott Trust he prevented the merger of the Guardian with the Times in the 1960s — Richard Scott, who has died aged 97, held a series of senior editorial posts on the Guardian and was pivotal to its survival through its worst crisis.
Merrill Knox / TVNewser:
‘Now With Alex Wagner’ Debuts Monday on MSNBC — “Now with Alex Wagner,” the newest addition to the MSNBC daytime lineup, will debut on Monday, the network announced today. — Wagner's show will replace the 12pmET hour of “MSNBC Live” that has rotated fill-in anchors since Contessa Brewer's departure in August.
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Guardian:
The Saturday interview: Wendi Murdoch — In her first interview since saving her husband from a foam pie, Wendi Murdoch talks about raising Rupert's children, phone-hacking and that impressive right hook — Wendi Deng Murdoch cuts a dainty figure. Four months after she made headlines around …
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Kindle Fire: ‘Also, Barnes & Noble, We Will Have A Newsstand’ — Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) and Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) have sent out so many press releases about their respective upcoming tablets this week that I have begun to imagine both devices snapping back and forth at each other like squabbling children.
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Wired, GigaOM, Future of Journalism, ReadWriteWeb, Between the Lines Blog, GeekWire and Business Wire, more at Techmeme »
Eric Jackson / Tech and China:
The Business World Needs Fewer Journalists and More Opinions and Investigative Reporting — The other day in a post about Yahoo! (YHOO) I unloaded on some of the reporting that has gone on at large publications on the Yahoo “deal.” — I have to get a few other thoughts off my chest.
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