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Greg Bensinger / Bloomberg:
New York Times Won't Be Sold or Split, Chairman Says — New York Times Co. won't be sold or split apart and the company is “delighted” to have billionaire Carlos Slim as an investor, Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said. — Slim “is a quality investor,” Sulzberger said today at the Bloomberg BusinessWeek Media Summit in New York.
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Crain's New York Business:
Will Arthur Sulzberger make Steve Jobs blink? — Matthew Flamm - Don't expect Apple to get between The New York Times and its customers when a digital version of the paper starts appearing on the iPad tablet computer, which will become available in stores April 3.
Business Week:
Revenge of the Cable Guys — If you think online TV will be free forever, think again. The cable companies have a plan to keep control—and stick you with the bill — Watch the Video... Once upon a time, not so long ago, a bunch of small companies in Silicon Valley thought the future of television was theirs.
Kevin Allocca / TVNewser:
WSJ Reporters in Talks with CNBC? — Wall Street Journal reporters Kate Kelly and Dennis Berman could be the latest editorial staffers from the financial paper to make the move to on-air reporters for CNBC. According to an industry source, there is interest in both and Berman has been seen at the CNBC office.
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
MSNBC Courts Facebook Users With BreakingNews Page — MSNBC is continuing to try make better use of social media as a distribution tool with a small effort that ties its @BreakingNews Twitter account to a dedicated Facebook page. It's not clear how much Facebook fans want real-time news mixed …
TechCrunch:
AOL's Big SXSW Bet On Seed and “Bionic Journalism” — Editor's Note: This guest post was written and reported by Steven Rosenbaum, the CEO of Magnify.net. — Today, the world of music, film, and the internet converges on Austin, Texas for what is fast becoming one of the key the places to launch new software products.
Elizabeth Woyke / Forbes:
Behind The Scenes Of Apple's iPad Launch — New details about the books and apps that will run on the tablet computer. — In the run-up to the April 3 launch of Apple's iPad tablet computer, all appears calm. But behind the veil that obscures all Apple product debuts …
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Video: Murdoch: Newspaper Ad Model Isn't Dead — News Corp.. (NYSE: NWS) Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch celebrates his 79th birthday with a cameo on his own Fox Business Network. Among the topics ... the newspaper ad model not dead yet (if we were Gawker we'd have to follow that with …
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Danny Shea / The Huffington Post:
Ben Zimmer New ‘On Language’ Columnist: New York Times Magazine Names William Safire Successor — The New York Times Magazine has named Ben Zimmer its “On Language” columnist. — Zimmer, described in the Times' announcement as a linguist and lexicographer, succeeds William Safire …
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Scorecard '09: UK's Top Regional Papers Have Lost Half A Billion In Sales — We said 2009 would be an annus horribilis for newspapers - and that's exactly what happened. — Total annual revenue at just five of the UK's leading regional newspaper groups fell from £2.05 billion …
Howell Raines / Washington Post:
Why don't honest journalists take on Roger Ailes and Fox News? — One question has tugged at my professional conscience throughout the year-long congressional debate over health-care reform, and it has nothing to do with the public option, portability or medical malpractice.
Editor and Publisher:
Hamas Releases British Journalist — GAZA CITY Gaza's Hamas rulers on Thursday released a British journalist they had held for a month amid allegations that he endangered the Palestinian territory's security. — Paul Martin said he was arrested because of his work as a journalist and called his release …
John Cook / Gawker:
Will Slate Let Mickey Kaus Blog During His Gag Senate Run? — Slate blogger and pathological counterintuitionist Mickey Kaus is actually serious about challenging Barbara Boxer in the California Democratic primary. The deadline to file nomination papers is tomorrow, and he's been gathering signatures.
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LA Weekly
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Good News for Netflix Web Users: Disney Re-Ups With Starz — Premium TV network Starz Entertainment has re-upped with Disney on its distribution deal, assuring access to the studio's movies through 2015. — Why are you reading about this on a site that pays attention to digital media?
Rick Carroll / Aspen Times:
Aspen officer's employment ended on conflict issue — ASPEN — Valerie McFarlane's employment as an Aspen police officer ended last month after she failed to file charges against an Aspen newspaper editor for allegedly drinking and driving, officials said. — Instead, McFarlane …
Mark Walsh / MediaPost:
QandA: The ‘Atlantic Monthly’ Relaunch — The Atlantic is one of the most storied names in magazine publishing, dating back to 1857 and boasting contributors over the years from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mark Twain to Martin Luther King Jr. More recently, the magazine two years ago relaunched …
Ben Fenton / Financial Times:
RTL seeks relaxation of advertising rules — RTL, the pan-European broadcaster, is seeking a relaxation of advertising rules in its markets to allow innovations such as sponsors' logos to be shown in the top right-hand corner of television screens, its chief executive said yesterday.
Stuart Elliott / Media Decoder:
A Pair of Cable Upfront Pitches Suggests a Better Mood on Madison Avenue — Are the stars out tonight? They were on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, at a pair of cable upfront presentations that seemed to indicate an improvement in the long-gloomy mood on Madison Avenue.
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Broadcasting & Cable
/Film:
The Latest Gimmick: Last Call, an Interactive Horror Movie, Will Phone You During the Film — So much for those ‘please turn off your cell phone’ messages before movies. A new German horror film called Last Call is pushing a new ‘interactivity’ gimmick that will have one member …
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Gizmodo
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
NYT's Adam Nagourney Leaves DC To Become LA Bureau Chief — One of the nation's top political reporters is switching coasts, leaving his current post at the New York Times for another position at the paper. — Adam Nagourney — who for years has been a leading chronicler of political machinations …
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.
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New York Magazine, Big Journalism, Gawker, Michael Calderone's Blog, National Review and Ben Smith's Blog
Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
With scaling issues out of the way, Blogger focuses on features, starting with powerful design tool — Users of Blogger can give their pages major makeovers starting Thursday morning thanks to a new tool called Template Designer. — After a few quiet years, Google's pioneering blog platform plans …
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