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Biz / Twitter Blog:
@anywhere — When we designed Twitter, we took a different approach—we didn't require a relationship model like that of a social network. Keeping things open meant you could browse our site to read tweets from friends, celebrities, companies, media outlets, fictional characters, and more.
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Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Twitter launches “At Anywhere” platform, integrates tweets, profiles across the web — Twitter CEO Ev Williams demonstrated a new platform today that will spread the microblogging network's profiles, tweets and possibly advertising across the web. It's taking the hovercards it launched …
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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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Pew: Online News Users Don't Want To Pay—Or Look At Ads — The latest report on online news economics from Pew's Project for Excellence in Journalism is one of those studies that will bolster just about any view people have about paying for news online. Want to show that news consumers are unwilling to pay?
Alexandra Fenwick / CJR:
State of the Media, By the Numbers — Seven notable stats from the Pew State of the Media report — The annual State of the Media report by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism was released this morning. The report looks back on how every part of the media fared in 2009 …
The New York Times Company:
The New York Times Launches New Trade Campaign, ‘Numbers’ — Campaign Emphasizes an Engaged Audience — The New York Times announced today a new trade campaign, “Numbers,” to launch on March 15. The campaign is designed to emphasize The Times's loyal and engaged audience in print …
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New York Times:
Papers Like Variety Fight to Survive — LOS ANGELES — Variety, the show business bible, was born nearly 105 years ago when young Sime Silverman, by his own account, was fired by The Morning Telegraph for a review in which he declared a new theatrical sketch by a performer who happened to be one of the paper's advertisers “N. G.
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Nat Ives / AdAge:
New York Times' Exclusive Run at Starbucks Ends — USA Today Returns After 10 Years as Coffee Chain Cites Customer Taste for Media Choice — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — After nearly 10 years as the only national newspaper for sale in many Starbucks around the country, The New York Times …
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
The Beck Factor at Fox: Staffers say comments taint their work — In just over a year, Glenn Beck's blinding burst of stardom has often seemed to overshadow the rest of Fox News. — And that may not be a good thing for the top-rated cable news channel, as many of its staffers are acutely aware.
Gillian Reagan / The Wire:
Arthur Sulzberger Jr.'s Nephew David Perpich Joins New York Times To Prepare For Paywall (NYT) — We heard whisperings back in early February that David Perpich, the nephew of New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., was leaving his post at consulting firm Booz & Co. and joining the Times to help build its paywall.
Crikey:
Over half your news is spin — Today Crikey launches an investigation six months in the making. Spinning the Media is an investigation in conjunction with the University of Technology (UTS) Sydney into the role PR plays in making the media. — Under UTS' Australian Centre for Independent Journalism …
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 …
Robert Feder / blogs.vocalo.org:
Behind closed doors, angry Tribune CEO confronts staff — Robservations on the media beat: — Some who were there said it was an attempt to intimidate employees and identify a scapegoat. Others described it as an effort to assert authority and move beyond an embarrassing episode.
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Elizabeth Jensen / New York Times:
‘Earth Days’ Documentary to Be Seen on Facebook First — PBS's “American Experience” has sent its documentary “Earth Days” on a film festival and 40-city theatrical tour for the last year, before its television broadcast in April. Now the 102-minute film about the origins …
Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
WP editor: We're evaluating ways to regulate the quality of Web site comments — From Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli's chat:
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ABCNEWS:
No Jokes: Newspapers Cutting Comic Strips — To Save Money, Many Newspapers Are Carrying Fewer Funnies — No matter how bad the news, no matter how grim the headlines, you could always count on a smile from at least one corner of the daily newspaper: the comics.