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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.
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
SXSW: Shirky's New Opportunities in Public Sharing — Today social technology theorist Clay Shirky delivered a fitting counterpoint to Danah Boyd's keynote on privacy at SXSW the day before. Where Boyd spoke of the danger of making information more public than users intended it …
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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 …
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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 …
Magda Abu-Fadil / The Huffington Post:
Murdoch Targets Abu Dhabi as International Media Hub — Abu Dhabi is slated to become the hottest new international media hub, if Rupert Murdoch and like-minded moguls have their druthers, but the region's leaders should loosen press restrictions and open up to foreign competitors to thrive.
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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.
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Big Media's Epitaph for Webisodes — SAN FRANCISCO — While the Webisode is not dead, many of the big media players who had made sizable commitments to creating Web-original entertainment content, have thrown in the towel. — This was the consensus of media execs from CBS …
Mark Fitzgerald / Editor and Publisher:
Monday, Daily Named Best Texas Small Paper Converts to Online-Only — CHICAGO The Daily Tribune in River Cities, Texas, is not publishing a printed newspaper Monday as it converted to online-only on weekdays. — Citing shrinking ad revenue and high newsprint costs, the paper will print only its River Cities Sunday Tribune.
Steve McClellan / Adweek:
Upfront Posturing Has Early Start — The networks may be predicting double-digit price hikes, but the buyers aren't biting — Leslie Moonves isn't the lone network executive forecasting a strong upfront market this year — the CEO of CBS is just the only one predicting it publicly.
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.
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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