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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Fox discusses deal with Conan O'Brien — The network may have a viable plan to bring the comedian back to late night, sources say. — Fox Broadcasting is inching closer to bringing Conan O'Brien back to late night. — Key Fox executives, including Rupert Murdoch, are on board with the plan …
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Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:
Conan O'Brien Plots A Movie Maneuver
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TVWeek.com, MTV Movies Blog, The Playlist, NY Daily News, TV Tattle and New York Magazine
Heather Hopkins / Hitwise Intelligence:
Twitter and News and Media Websites — A couple of weeks ago, I did a follow up post on my blog entry, “Facebook Largest News Reader?”. The entry illustrated that Facebook users prefer Broadcast Media while Google News readers prefer Print Media. Several readers requested that I add Twitter to the mix.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, NetNewsCheck Latest, The Now/ledge, 901am, Fast Company and Silicon Alley Insider
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Nadia Majid / VentureBeat:
Hitwise: People get their news from Facebook and Google — not Twitter
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Stuart Elliott / Media Decoder:
Yes, It Was a Bad Year for Ad Spending, But It Got Less Worse in the Fourth Quarter — Last year was, as expected, a terrible year for advertising spending in this country, according to a leading research company. But the year ended better than it began — still down …
Jack Shafer / Slate:
What's Wrong With the Post Op-Ed Page? — Washington Post domestic-policy blogger Ezra Klein encroached on my beat yesterday with an item griping about the surplus of op-eds by politicians on the Post's op-ed page. Such pieces “waste so much real estate publishing talking points,” …
Nielsen Wire:
Facebook, Google and Yahoo! are Top Sites While Watching Big TV Events — Americans are getting into the habit of going online while watching television, with 10% or more of viewers visiting social networks, searching the web and browsing content during major TV events.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
An ‘unanswerable’ question: Can the iPad save magazines? — Even though one of the panel titles at the South by Southwest conference asked, “Could the iPad have saved Gourmet?” it wasn't until the sessions' closing minutes that someone finally mentioned the now-defunct magazine.
John Koblin / New York Observer:
Times' National Desk in ‘Head-Snapping’ Revamp — In recent weeks, The New York Times' national desk has undergone quite a face-lift. There's a new editor, Rick Berke. There is a new deputy editor in Adam Bryant. And there will be a new Los Angeles bureau chief in Adam Nagourney.
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James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
Local TV news doesn't share the public interest — A study says L.A. news broadcasts devote only 22 seconds per 30 minutes to local government coverage. Is it likely to get better? — The Federal Communications Commission says that, in exchange for the right to use the airwaves we all own …
Brian Steinberg / AdAge:
NBC, Dr Pepper Manage to Blur Commerce, Content Even More — ‘30 Rock’ Commercial Points to New Direction in TV Advertising — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The day when commercials are indistinguishable from the programs they support finally arrived — just before 10 p.m. Eastern last Thursday night.
Felix Gillette / New York Observer:
Former Bookforum Editor Chris Lehmann Joins Yahoo News — In mid-January, Yahoo News blogging editor Andrew Golis posted a notice on his personal Web site, announcing that he was looking to hire a deputy editor and five bloggers. “As many of you know, I was recently hired by Yahoo News …
Julia Boorstin / CNBC:
Media Money — AOL Goes Local at South By Southwest — It's been almost a year since Tim Armstrong became CEO of AOL [AOL Loading... () ], and now he's at South By Southwest to show his commitment to making AOL a destination for original content. — AOL is hiring writers …
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Stephanie Clifford / Media Decoder:
Patrick McCarthy to Leave Condé Nast — Patrick McCarthy, the chairman and editorial director of Condé Nast's Fairchild Fashion Group and de facto editor of the fashion magazine W, will be leaving the company at the end of the year. — The news was announced in a press release …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
From CNN's lower third: ‘Jewish lobby runs America’ — CNN's practice of running viewers' Twitter feeds at the bottom of its screen put some jarringly raw anti-Israel and anti-Semitic sentiment on cable during an interview with Wolf Blitzer, a reader pointed out to me today, and the segment above illustrates.
Gawker:
HarperCollins Rethinking Bloggy Book Label — The founding publisher of HarperStudio has departed, and parent company HarperCollins is expected to consider what to do next with the imprint, originally launched to experiment with new business models for publishing. Woe unto the aspiring blogger-author?
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Publisher Experiments With ‘Free’ And Sees Book Sales Increase 20x — We've pointed to numerous studies, at this point, that have all found that, when done right, free ebooks can greatly increase the sales of physical books (and, in some cases, even of ebooks). Here's another empirical example of that in action.
Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
Two Chicago media outlets to share ex-CNN reporter Quraishi — Ash-har Quraishi, a former CNN correspondent who was most recently chief investigative reporter for KCTV-TV in Kansas City, becomes a multimedia correspondent and content producer who will alternate working for public TV station WTTW and Chicago News Cooperative each week.
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Daily Mail: iPad, E-Readers Will Have ‘Absolutely No’ Impact This Year — Hang on - weren't publishers falling over themselves in the rush for e-reader salvation? The Association of Online Publishers, in this video with its members, has found many execs are neither glowing nor certain about the e-reader opportunity in 2010...
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
AOL Unveils New Food Site Run By Former Gourmet, Epicurious Editors — AOL (NYSE: AOL) practically added two new sites a month last year as part of its goal to reach 100 sites under its MediaGlow content group. While the content strategy has lately rested on building up its freelance content site Seed.com …
Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL Says It Never Expected To Interview All 2,000 SXSW Bands (AOL) — How is AOL's big music writing experiment in SXSW going? According to AOL's Saul Hansell, “great,” but he admits AOL won't be interviewing all 2,000 bands as hoped. — In an email to us, Saul tries moving the goal posts:
Martin Moore / MediaShift Idea Lab:
10 Reasons Why News Organizations Should Use ‘Linked Data’ — On a news organization's list of priorities, publishing articles as “linked data” probably comes slightly above remembering to turn the computer monitors off in the evening, and slightly below getting a new coffee machine.
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