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Jennifer Saba / Editor and Publisher:
The State of Newspapers? Think of Sand Falling in an Hourglass, Pew Report Says — NEW YORK Newspaper advertising revenue plunged an astounding 45% over the last three years forcing publishers to make drastic reductions to the actual size of the print edition, to the space devoted to news to the ranks of employees.
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David Carr / New York Times:
The Media Equation: Talking Back to Your TV Set, Endlessly — Back in 1988, Joel Hodgson, a funny guy in Minneapolis, came up with a local television show called “Mystery Science Theater 3000.” In the goofy plot, a janitor was launched into space by a couple of evil scientists and marooned there …
Jennifer Mendelsohn / New York Times:
Honey, Don't Bother Mommy. I'm Too Busy With My Blog and Building My Brand. — ON a brisk Saturday morning this month, a dedicated crew of about 90 women, most in their 30s or thereabouts, arrived at a waterfront hotel here, prepared for a daylong conference that offered to school …
Mark Briggs / Lost Remote:
SXSW: Highlights from online news of tomorrow — The power of the human link, all that traffic that comes from Twitter and Facebook for example, will drive the new economy for news more than pay walls set up by Rupert Murdoch and the Associated Press. — That was one of the key observations …
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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Apple's iPad Will Read Books Out Loud, Support Free E-Books — When it began taking pre-orders for the iPad this morning, Apple also published some new details about how the tablet device will function as an e-book reader. — It turns out the iPad will read books out loud to you with audio dictation …
Steve Myers / Online:
SXSW Panel Discusses Impact of iPad on Media Consumption, Production — Among all the predictions about how the iPad will revolutionize media, I think this is among the most relevant and important: “We're hoping you can lean back with this thing, curl up on the couch and take it into the bathroom and read it …
Ravi Somaiya / Gawker:
NYT's David Carr Tells SXSW Panel He Gets Scooped by Gawker ‘All the Time’ — We're going to get big heads. First Rush Limbaugh unexpectedly says he loves us, now the New York Times' (excellent, not Rush Limbaugh-like at all) media columnist David Carr says we scoop him all the time.
Drew Grant / Mediaite:
Fake News Reports Of Russian Invasion Send Georgians Panicking — In a War Of The Worlds-esque scenario (the Orson Welles adaptation, not the movie), residents of Georgia were thrown into a state of shock and panic when Imedi TV - a pro-government station - telecast an “imitation of events” …
Chris Tomlinson / The Texas Observer:
Big Ideas at SXSW Interactive — Tech's Future, Privacy and Sharing — THE GEEKY SIDE OF SXSW began on Friday and we're about halfway through. The big ideas being discussed this year include the future of journalism, books and magazine as well as online privacy and sharing.
Nick Clark / The Independent:
Guardian owner to write down Emap investment ‘by up to £200m’ — Guardian Media Group (GMG), owner of The Guardian and The Observer newspapers, is set to take a significant hit on its investment in publisher Emap, sending it to an annual loss for the second year in a row.
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Leaked UK record industry memo sets out plans for breaking copyright — In this leaked, six-page email, Richard Mollet, the Director of Public Affairs for the British Phonographic Institute (the UK's record-industry lobbyists), sets out the BPI's strategy for ramming through the Digital Economy Bill …
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