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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Big Media or Big SEO Spammers? — Faced with declining revenues and increasingly dismal prospects, some mainstream media outlets are adopting questionable tactics, specifically dead-end web pages stuffed with outbound links and pay-per-click ads. A liberally funded LA startup is only too quick to help them.
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Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Facebook threatens to sue Daily Mail — Social networking site fears reputation permanently damaged by false claim that it let older men pressure teenage girls for sex — Facebook has threatened to sue the Daily Mail for damages after the paper wrongly claimed in a piece published …
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Reuters Handbook of Journalism: Don't scoop the wire — As well as reminding journalists to keep the personal separate from the professional, it advises:
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Jon Fortt / Brainstorm Tech:
Top 5 moments from Eric Schmidt's talk in Abu Dhabi — Google CEO Eric Schmidt answered questions from attendees at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit. Photo: Jon Fortt — ABU DHABI - Google CEO Eric Schmidt's speech and Q&A here was probably the most popular event at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit …
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Joe Strupp / Media Matters for America:
Former Los Angeles Times Scribes Launching Non-Profit Investigative Team — The latest non-profit news outlet aimed at investigative reporting may well be FairWarning.org. — The brainchild of former Los Angeles Times reporters Myron Levin and Joanna Lin, the outfit plans …
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Ian Chillag / NPR Blogs:
In Which I Try To Use All Of WGN's Newly Banned Words In One Sentence — Tribune Company CEO Randy Michaels has banned 119 “newsspeak” words and phrases from ever crossing the lips of anchors and reporters at WGN-AM. There's a list here, but if you'd like them in a sentence, how about this:
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Felix Salmon:
Why did Nick Denton truncate Gawker's RSS feeds? — Yesterday, Gawker Media truncated its RSS feeds, and former Gawker editorial honcho Lockhart Steele immediately tweeted that “the only thing that excited me about Gawker's RSS truncation was picturing @felixsalmon's head explode when he heard the news”.
Josef Adalian / The Wrap:
Exclusive: Coco A-Go-Go! The Conan Tour Starts April 12 — Conan O'Brien will begin his Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour April 12 in Eugene, Oregon, working his way across the United States and Canada over the course of two months. — O'Brien will hit at least 20 states …
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Dylan Stableford / The Wrap:
Exclusive: CNN Developing New Morning-Show Pilot — CNN - which has been shuffling its weekend and evening lineups of late - is developing a new morning show pilot, with a format closer to MSNBC's “Morning Joe” and “Fox & Friends” than anything it has done, TheWrap has learned.
Karen Carmichael / American Journalism Review:
Investigations with Impact — The Huffington Post Investigative Fund aims to meld classic reporting with the power of the Web. — Karen Carmichael is an AJR editorial assistant. — Two months after its launch, the Huffington Post Investigative Fund published the story of Benjamin French …
Noah Shachtman / Wired:
How Andrew Breitbart Hacks the Media — Andrew Breitbart has been waiting 45 minutes for a filet mignon. He drums his fingers on the table in this plush Italian restaurant off Times Square, a place where the media types he regularly trashes used to flaunt their expense accounts — back when they still had them.
Nick Bilton / Bits:
TV May Be the New Google Reader Play's Best Venue — Google announced an experimental Web browsing feature on Wednesday that it will offer as an alternative view to explore content on the Google Reader Web site. The company is touting its simlplicity, but the advantage may be in the highly visual way it displays information.
Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:
What makes a nonprofit news org legit? Three other questions to separate journalism from advocacy — Last week, Jim Barnett raised a question about nonprofit journalism: What makes it legit? How do we know if a nonprofit news outlet shares the ideals and culture of traditional journalism …
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BBC:
Pink Floyd win EMI court ruling — Pink Floyd tracks may be removed from digital music services like iTunes after a High Court ruling went against record label EMI. — The band's latest record deal, signed before services like iTunes appeared, said their songs must not be sold individually without their permission.
Associated Press:
China orders reporters trained in Marxist theory — BEIJING — China will toughen requirements for reporters by launching a new certification system that requires training in Marxist and communist theories of news, a media official said, citing problems with the current crop of mainland journalists.
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Sony Brings More Newspaper and Magazine Content to its E-Readers — Sony just announced that it is expanding its selection of newspapers and magazines in its e-book store. Starting today, users of Sony's e-readers will be able to subscribe to 20 new newspapers and magazines …
Joe Strupp / Media Matters for America:
Newsday, Union Trade Proposals, But Agreement ‘Still Far Off’ — Michael Amon, one of the leaders of the Graphic Communications Council of The Teamsters, which represents seven units at Newsday — including editorial — released an update Tuesday that declared both sides in the contract negotiations …
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Katy Bachman / Adweek:
Digital Ad Revenue to Rocket for Local Media — Digital revenue from mobile and Web platforms will grow at a 17.8 percent compound annual rate — The growth of digital advertising revenue for local TV and radio will outpace overall ad spending for those media between 2009 and 2014, according to a BIA/Kelsey study released yesterday.
Georgina Prodhan / Reuters:
AOL sees $20 bln opportunity in quality gap on Web — * CEO sees $20 bln opportunity in quality Web content — * Turnaround currently focused on simplifying technology — Newly independent Internet company AOL (AOL.N) is selectively hiring journalists and engineers after cutting a third …
Bridget Carey / MiamiHerald.com:
We Media conference at the University of Miami offers peek at future — It's the fourth time the annual We Media brainstorming conference has come to the University of Miami, yet the media industry is still finding its way. — But instead of focusing on the doom and gloom of newspapers losing money …
Mike Taylor / FishBowlNY:
CNN President Jon Klein More Afraid of Facebook Than Fox News — CNN President Jon Klein spoke with Bloomberg BusinessWeek Editor Josh Tyrangiel at the McGraw-Hill Building in Manhattan this morning. — In an interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek editor Josh Tyrangiel at BusinessWeek's annual media summit …
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