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Bloomberg Appoints Privacy Czar And An Ombudsman To Quell Clients’ Concerns
Who watches the watchers? It’s the question that comes up every time a powerful media company gets caught with its nose where it doesn’t belong. For Bloomberg LP, that happened last week when it was revealed that some of the company’s journalists made a practice of using clients’ private information in their reporting.
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Zinio, First Mover In Digital Magazines, Moves To The Netflix Model
The so-called first mover advantage is really only an advantage if you don’t get too far out ahead of your customer. Founded in 2001, the digital magazines company Zinio was arguably a good eight years ahead of its time. After all, Apple hadn’t yet come out with the iPhone, much less the iPad, the technology that would finally sell the average reader on the idea of a magazine consisting only of pixels.
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In Justice Department Seizure Of AP Phone Records, The Buck Stops With Obama
You could open a Senate inquiry, launch an FBI investigation and send up a whole fleet of CIA drones and still have trouble tracking down someone willing to take responsibility for seizing two months’ worth of phone records belonging to the Associated Press.
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Bloomberg’s Privacy Breach And The New Church/State Divide
Imagine that a reporter from The New York Times suspects that a certain political power couple has recently separated but is keeping it under wraps until after an upcoming election. In search of confirmation, the reporter calls the paper’s circulation department and learns that the husband recently signed up for home delivery at a different address, while the wife has put her subscription under her maiden name.
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Do You Still Trust Matt Lauer? ‘Today’ Anchor Rated Low in Reader’s Digest Poll
After the year that Matt Lauer has had, you might call it a win that he managed to sneak into the list of the “100 Most Trusted People in America,” as determined by Reader’s Digest magazine with the help of the Wagner Group, a market research firm.
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Howard Kurtz’s Bad Reporting About Jason Collins Cost Him a Lot of Money
Contrary to appearances, Howard Kurtz didn’t lose his job at the Daily Beast over his boneheaded reporting about gay basketball star Jason Collins, or over his excessive extracurricular work. What he did lose was money — quite a lot of it.
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Study Shows Native Ads Outperform Banners…Mostly
There’s an awful lot of excitement in the digital publishing world around native advertising and a lot of new marketing dollars being spent on ads that blend seamlessly with or mimic the forms of content.
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Dish’s Charlie Ergen on Sprint Offer: ‘We’re Not Going to Lose’
Dish Network chairman Charlie Ergen has been hard at work trying to convince the shareholders of Sprint that his company would make a better home for the wireless provider than Softbank. On Thursday afternoon, he turned his attention to his own shareholders, fielding their questions at Dish’s annual meeting at its headquarters in Englewood, Colorado.
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Despite Digital Gains, Newspaper Circulation Backslides
The biggest newspapers are adding digital readers at a double-digital clip, but not fast enough to keep the industry as a whole from losing circulation, according to the latest semi-annual report from the Alliance for Audited Media.
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Big VC Says Bitcoin Is ‘Gold 2.0. It’s a Huge, Huge, Huge Deal’
Think the recent collapse in Bitcoin’s value was the end of the experimental currency’s, um, currency? Not even close, says Chamath Palihapitiya, the longtime Facebook executive who now runs The Social + Capital Partnership.
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