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12:05 PM ET, November 15, 2013

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Bloomberg:
Forbes Media Is Exploring Sale of 96-Year-Old Magazine Publisher  —  Forbes Media LLC, the closely held publisher run by former U.S presidential candidate Steve Forbes, is exploring a sale after getting interest from potential buyers.  —  The New York-based publisher of 96-year-old Forbes magazine …
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Matthew Lynch / Capital New York:
Forbes staff receives memo confirming company is ‘[testing] the waters regarding a sale’  —  Confirming an alert from Bloomberg News, Forbes Media President and CEO Mike Perlis just sent a memo to staff that says the company is looking at offers.  —  We'll have more soon: on Twitter …
Discussion: Poynter
brian abelson:
The Relationship Between Promotion and Performance: Pageviews Above Replacement  —  This is the second in a series of two posts about pageviews.  This post details some research I've conducted on the promotional correlates of the metric, while the previous post discussed the sometimes apocalyptic tone …
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Felix Salmon:
How the NYT neglects business journalism  —  Brian Abelson has a fantastic post about the performance of NYT articles.  The main gist is that it's possible to predict with surprising accuracy how many pageviews any given NYT article is going to receive, given just a few variables like the amount …
New York Times:
British Press Freedom Under Threat  —  Britain has a long tradition of a free, inquisitive press.  That freedom, so essential to democratic accountability, is being challenged by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government of Prime Minister David Cameron.
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
New press regulator just like the old, says Media Standards Trust
Discussion: Press Gazette and @hackedoffhugh
Natasha Vargas-Cooper / BuzzFeed:
David Miranda Is Nobody's Errand Boy  —  When Glenn Greenwald's 28-year-old Brazilian partner was detained in London this summer while transporting documents related to the bombshell Edward Snowden story, many assumed he was unfairly roped into a situation he didn't understand.
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
Lunch with the FT: Henry Blodget  —  A decade after being banned from Wall Street, the former internet analyst now runs a business website.  He talks about redemption, regrets and market madness  —  ©James Ferguson  —  According to family legend, Henry Blodget's great-grandfather …
Discussion: PandoDaily and @hblodget
Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
Kevin Delaney Tinkers With Media at Quartz  —  This is the second installment in a series that will profile four young executives rethinking the publishing business.  This series is sponsored by Sonobi, the first and only digital advertising platform created by digital publishers for publishers.
John Herrman / BuzzFeed:
Memo: It Took Three Weeks For The Washington Post's Viral Site To Become Its Biggest Blog  —  The Post 's Upworthy-inspired viral site, KnowMore, is already among its most popular web properties.  Once again: Do not underestimate the power of the curiosity gap.
Discussion: The Switch and @markarms
Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
Harper's Magazine launches iOS app, holds tight to paid strategy  —  Harper's Magazine, a literary publication so old-school that it offers links to microfiche for stories it publishes online, is today launching an iOS app edition of its monthly magazine.  —  The app retains the look and feel …
Discussion: Gigaom
Olivier Laurent / British Journal of Photography:
French newspaper removes all images in support of photographers  —  To coincide with Paris Photo's opening, French newspaper Libération has chosen to remove all images from its 14 November issue in a bid to show the power and importance of photography at a time when the industry …
Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:
The Newsonomics of the Surprisingly Persistent Appeal of Newsprint  —  First published at Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab  —  Tonnage.  The word speaks to a different age of news media when ink, bought by barrel, and newsprint, bought by the ton, ruled.  Newspapers — in print …
Alexander Howard / Tow Center for Digital Journalism:
On the Ethics of Data-Driven Journalism: of fact, friction and public records in a more transparent age  —  While ethics in journalism have been defined and upheld for decades, the context they're practiced within has shifted with changes in technology and society.
Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:
Comcast Plans to Start Selling Movies Digitally Through Cable Service  —  Comcast Corp. is planning to start selling movies directly through its cable boxes, according to people with knowledge of its plans, a move that could boost the still nascent market considered critical in Hollywood.
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Lisa Richwine / Reuters:
Exclusive - Comcast to sell movies for download, streaming: sources
The Authors Guild:
Round One to Google: Judge Chin Finds Mass Book Digitization a Fair Use.  Guild Plans Appeal.  —  Judge Denny Chin today ruled that Google's mass book digitization project to be a fair use, granting the company summary judgment in the copyright infringement lawsuit brought by the Authors Guild in 2005.
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Liz Hoffman / Wall Street Journal:
Details Emerge on Dispute Between Dish Network CEO, Directors  —  Lawsuit Suggests Board Members Took Issue with Charlie Ergen during LightSquared Review  —  Two Dish Network Corp. directors in charge of evaluating a potential Dish bid for a telecommunications firm took issue with how their committee …
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Jeter Prepares to Turn a Page and Publish Many Others  —  Derek Jeter, the Yankees' shortstop and captain, who is nearing the final act of a golden athletic career, is ready to talk about his life after baseball.  He wants to be a book publisher.  —  On Thursday, he is expected to announce …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
This is not your father's ‘Wall Street Journal’  —  “It's among the more glamorous events that The Wall Street Journal hosts every year,” said Gerard Baker, the paper's managing editor, last Wednesday evening.  —  He had the attention of several hundred well-dressed guests who were between bites …
Discussion: @zseward
 
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Press Association:
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Discussion: @taos
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Rem Rieder / USA Today:
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Discussion: The Daily Beast and The Nation
D.B. Hebbard / Talking New Media:
Responding to reader requests, more publishers add iPhone support to their Newsstand apps
Ryan J. Reilly / The Huffington Post:
FBI Agent Insists He Wasn't First To Leak Info On Foiled Bomb Plot As He Heads To Jail
Discussion: Associated Press and @joepompeo
Mona Zhang / 10,000 Words:
Time Inc. CCO's Biggest Concerns for the Industry: Serious and Local Journalism
Discussion: FishbowlNY and FishbowlNY
Timothy B. Lee / The Switch:
Blogger threatened with 10-year prison sentence for posting public official's phone number
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
John Oliver Leaving Daily Show to Launch ‘Topical Comedy Series’ on HBO
 

 
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