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Print still matters, even if some would like to believe it shouldn't — I have to say, I find it funny to be called an apologist for the legacy news industry, as Clay Shirky suggested in an overnight post. — The newsonomics of the Orange County Register's (new, newer, newest) plan — January 23, 2014
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Pulling Punches While Covering Print: A Reply to Ryan Chittum — Background: Yesterday, I wrote something about how nostalgia blunted skeptical coverage of Aaron Kushner's dumb — and now failing — plans to build a newspaper empire in southern California. I particularly singled out Ryan Chittum …
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LA Observed, @billadairduke, @ckrewson, @ryanchittum, @ceodonovan, @pottsmark, @mathewi, @mathewi, @jbenton, @adamweinstein, @jeremylittau, @ceciliakang, @mjenkins, @janinegibson, @will_bunch, Clay Shirky and @austenallred
Timothy B. Lee / Vox:
Disruption is a dumb buzzword. It's also an important concept
Disruption is a dumb buzzword. It's also an important concept
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Digitopoly, PandoDaily, Joho the Blog, Techdirt, @chanders, stratechery, ReadWrite, The Awl, Guardian, Slate and Forbes
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No, A Supreme Court Victory By Aereo Would Not Crush The NFL — The Supreme Court could issue a ruling in the dispute between the broadcast networks and startup streaming service Aereo as early as tomorrow (though it could also not come down for quite some time).
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Cliff Edwards / Bloomberg:
Dish Says It's Interested in NFL Sunday Ticket
Dish Says It's Interested in NFL Sunday Ticket
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Vice Media: Time Warner deal will not be at expense of youth audience — Chief creative officer Eddy Moretti says company's prime concern is to ‘protect the brand’ — Vice Media's Eddy Moretti described the company as a ‘20-year startup’ that is nothing without its brand.
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T-Mobile Offers Music Streaming Free of Data Charges — T-Mobile has decided to set music streaming services free. — The “Un-carrier” said it will offer subscribers unlimited access to the top six music streaming services including Pandora, Slacker, iHeart Radio and Spotify without incurring data charges on their 4G plans.
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TechCrunch, AppleInsider, The Verge, CNET, MacRumors, @inafried, Mashable, @dangillmor, The Verge and App Advice
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Iranian film-maker jailed for five years for ‘collaborating with the BBC’ — Mahnaz Mohammadi, charged with collusion against Iran's national security, maintains innocence and fears sentence could be due to women's rights work — Prominent Iranian documentary film-maker …
Amir Efrati / The Information:
AMC Networks to launch genre-based subscription video sites this summer — AMC Plans Novel Move into Online TV — AMC Networks, which has vaulted into the first tier of TV programmers in recent years with shows such as “Mad Men” and “Breaking Bad,” is preparing to break …
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Canadian Court Orders Google To Remove Sites Worldwide — On the heels of Europe's “Right to Be Forgotten” ruling, a British Columbia court in Canada has ruled Google must block a group of websites worldwide. — The case was opened by industrial networking devices manufacturer Equustek Solutions …
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Globe and Mail, Michael Geist Blog, TorrentFreak, Vancouver Sun, Techdirt, Gigaom and The Verge
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Outgoing White House Press Secretary Jay Carney Says Goodbye — Departing White House Press Secretary Jay Carney marked his final press briefing from behind the White House podium Wednesday as he prepares to step down from the job on Friday. — Carney thanked President Barack Obama, White House staff, and the press one final time.
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Associated Press:
Philly News Heir Sells Stake; Lenfest Sole Owner — Philanthropist H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest is now the sole owner of Philadelphia's largest newspapers, after his late partner's family sold its $16 million stake. — The deal finalized Wednesday caps a year of turmoil at The Philadelphia Inquirer …
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Polish authorities try to seize magazine's files — WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish police and state prosecutors on Wednesday raided the headquarters of a magazine that recently published compromising information about the government, in a failed attempt to seize its computers.
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Read the internet like a newspaper with PaperLater — Print your pocket queue onto a dead tree — What if you could publish your own newspaper? — For as long as I can remember, I've had too much to read, and too little time to do so. With the rise of the internet …
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Univision signs up with Twitter Amplify for sponsored videos of World Cup highlights — Univision Amps Up World Cup Coverage With Twitter Amplify — Univision is kicking off a new deal with Twitter by letting State Farm, McDonald's and Verizon run ads on tweeted videos of World Cup highlights.
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News Corp board votes to extend poison pill provision — (Reuters) - News Corp's board of directors voted to extend a poison pill provision it put in place to prevent hostile takeovers when the company controlled by Rupert Murdoch and his family split from its cable and entertainment properties last year.
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Al Jazeera Is Shutting Down Its Offices In Egypt And Terminating All Employee Contracts — Exclusive: Al Jazeera notified dozens of employees Wednesday that it was ending their contracts. The Qatar-based network has not been operating in Egypt since December 2013, but has kept offices in the country.
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@dadakim, @katebt3000 and @buzzfeedben
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The Financial Times on Why They Ditched CPMs For a New Ad Currency: Time Spent — “Engaged time” has been one of the biggest buzzwords in the media universe of late, as publishers and brands seek a unit of measurement that accurately values how much time people are spending with content.
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AdExchanger and Business Insider, Thanks:@steverubel
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Juan Antonio Giner / Nieman Journalism Lab:
“From a news business to a networked business”: The FT pushes its workflows to digital
“From a news business to a networked business”: The FT pushes its workflows to digital
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Columbia Journalism Review and Financial Times
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Why the Oxford Mail is experimenting with WhatsApp — The regional daily has received positive feedback for its WhatsApp service after experimenting with new ways to reach its audience more directly — Credit: By Sam Azgor on Flickr. Some rights reserved
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