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Erickson joins the Best Political Team — Erick Erickson has joined CNN. — (CNN) - Prominent conservative commentator and RedState.com editor Erick Erickson will join CNN as a political contributor, appearing primarily on CNN's new show John King, USA¸ the network announced Tuesday.
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Eve Conant / The Gaggle:
How Will Conservative Bloggers Attack the Mainstream Media Once the Networks Start Hiring Them? — Prominent Redstate.com commentator Erick Erickson will join CNN, the network announced Tuesday, welcoming the “self-described ‘obsessive news junkie’ ” to their team.
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Monica Guzman / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
New media ventures blossom in Seattle — News is ever-changing, and the business of covering it is growing — especially in Seattle. — On Thursday, seattlepi.com marks a year as an online-only Web site. It emerged as a successor after the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper ceased publication on March 17, 2009.
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Deadline Panic at AOL Over Hipster Contributors — AOL hired an army of underemployed music lovers to interview bands at South by Southwest. But the citizen journalists, paid $50 per story, are missing their deadlines, so AOL sent a panicked mass email (below).
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Video: Richard Rosenblatt, CEO Of Demand Media, On Bradford's Hiring And Much More — As luck would have it, I was on my way to meet with Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt and key members of his team at the company's Austin offices when the rumors surfaced about Joanne Bradford leaving Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) for the start-up.
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Mike Taylor / FishBowlNY:
New York Observer to Relaunch ‘Media Mob’ Blog — The New York Observer will be relaunching its “Media Mob” blog tonight under the name “Media Mob With Koblin and Gillette,” FishbowlNY has learned. — As the name indicates, the new vertical will prominently feature print media reporter John Koblin …
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Jason Fell / Folio:
Publishers Make, Save Money Through Partnerships — In tough times, some publishers lean on each other to get by. — The business of magazine publishing isn't what it was five years ago. On the consumer side, publishers saw advertising pages slide 25.6 percent in 2009 …
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Jason Fell / Folio:
Trade Magazine Ad Pages Fell Nearly 30 Percent Last Year — B-to-b titles fared only slightly worse than consumer counterparts. — The advertising fallout that pummeled consumer magazines in 2009 also hammered b-to-b magazines. Advertising pages for trade magazines declined 28.6 percent compared …
Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
Gannett says no furloughs in second quarter — Gannettoid.com reports Gannett community papers division employees making more than $90,000 a year will be required to take at least one furlough week during the second quarter, but company spokeswoman Robin Pence says that's incorrect.
John Cook / Gawker:
Meet the Generation That Will Save and/or Destroy the New York Times — The only way the New York Times can escape the clutches of a Mexican billionaire is by successfully instituting a paywall. Who has it chosen to manage this treacherous path? The publisher's nephew. He used to run a DJ school.
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Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
Fox News To Conduct “Extended, Exclusive” Interview With Pres. Obama — While Speaker Nancy Pelosi talks “Deem and Pass,” President Barack Obama is going a different route - he's talking to Fox News. — In an “extended, exclusive” interview tomorrow he will sit down with Special Report anchor Bret Baier …
Mercedes Bunz / Guardian:
How the New York Times and CNN try to keep up with the tech companies — The New York Times and CNN have both built strong online presences - through strongly contrasting technology strategies. Senior players at both companies explain — “The New York Times is now as much a technology company …
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
Audit Bureau Revises Guidelines For Broader Inclusion Of E-Reader Newspaper, Mag Editions — With pre-orders for the iPad off to a fast start in preparation for the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) product's release next month, the Audit Bureau of Circulations has modified its guidelines for counting sales …
Peter Kirwan / Wired.co.uk:
Ads nauseam: The battle to save UK privacy online — Two years ago, BT did something odd. It ran a trial of behavioural advertising technology developed by a company called Phorm without seeking permission from 18,000 of its broadband customers. — BT's covert trial may yet land Ian Livingstone …
Aaron / YouTube Biz Blog:
Opening up YouTube to new display advertisers — One of our goals is to democratize access to display advertising and make it accessible and open — like search advertising — so new advertisers can participate easily. We launched Display Ad Builder in 2008 to help businesses easily set up and run display ad campaigns.
Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:
EPIX, CHARLES TARGET STEVE JOBS WITH ICON SERIES PILOT — EXCLUSIVE: EPIX and Media Rights Capital have made a team for iCON, a comedy series pilot that will be developed by Larry Charles, the Emmy-winning TV writer/producer, and the director of the Sacha Baron Cohen features Borat and Bruno.
Tucker Echols / bizjournals:
The Washington Post to launch business weekly — The Washington Post announced Monday that it will launch a subscription-only business weekly called Capital Business, beginning April 19. — Dan Beyers, a 20-year veteran of the Post, is the editor of the new publication.
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Ben Worthen / Digits:
Facebook Tops Google As Most Visited Site in the U.S. — Are Americans now more likely to get content from their friends than random Web sites that they wouldn't be able to find on their own? … That's one of the implications of a report out Monday by Internet research company Hitwise …
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