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Buh-Bye From AllThingsD! More Staff Highlights: Fried, Goode and “Everyone Likes Mike” Isaac.
Parting is such sweet sorrow.AllThingsD Week in Review: Nokia’s Android Phone, Bitcoin Funding and Facebook the Newspaper
The Top 10 stories that powered AllThingsD this week, in one convenient post.Newspaper Challenge
I knew the quality of the people would be very high. The business challenges in the newspaper industry have nothing to do with the quality of the people. These are big industry-wide trends.
— Jeff Bezos, talking about the Washington Post sale on “Good Morning America” last week
New York Times Website Is Down, Hackers Not Involved (And It’s Back Up)
Not hackers, at least not this time.ATD Week in Review: Facebook Gets More Twittery and Kara’s Open Letter to Jeff Bezos
The week in AllThingsD, in one convenient post. You’re welcome!Jeff Bezos Beat Other Bidders for the Washington Post
Did Warren Buffett make a run?News Byte
New York Times Hires New Ad Boss, Via Forbes
The New York Times, which has been looking for an ad sales chief since April, has filled the position: Meredith Kopit Levien, who has been heading up ads at Forbes Media for the last two years, will come to the Times next month. She’ll be tasked with turning around, or at least stabilizing, drooping ad sales for new CEO Mark Thompson.Area Man Can’t Read Print Edition of Parody Newspaper
“It’s sad to hear but of course it makes sense. [The] Onion in print is a parody of daily newspapers and college students don’t read daily newspapers anymore.
— Onion co-founder Tim Keck, responding to news that the paper he helped start when he was a student at the University of Wisconsin will shut down its print edition in Madison, Wis.
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Gannett Buying Belo in $2.2 Billion Deal
Gannett, best known as the newspaper publisher behind USA Today, is making a big bet on TV: It is paying $1.5 billion, and taking on $715 million in debt, to acquire local station owner Belo Corp. If the deal gets regulatory approval, Gannett will nearly double its portfolio of TV stations from 23 to 43.News Byte