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Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk:
Interview magazine: ‘The iPad is the future and we embrace it openly’ — For a device that's not even being sold yet - though we're told it is imminent in the US and UK - getting on the iPad has quickly jumped to the top of many news organisation's to do lists.
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Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Amanpour: A surprise - and a risk — In choosing Christiane Amanpour to host “This Week,” ABC defied the Sunday show conventions that have resulted in a succession of hosts who were male political journalists steeped in Washington culture. — Passing over more traditional choices …
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
@ CMS2010: A Dose Of Wolff: Rupe's Mad As Hell, Newspapers Are Over — Nothing like a good, hard dose of scathing reality to scare the hell out of a media audience. Michael Wolff - the Vanity Fair columnist, Newser operator and Murdoch biographer - happily obliged at MediaGuardian's Changing Media Summit in London...
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Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:
WSJ's New Union Contract: Wage Freeze to July 2011! — As the Wall Street Journal hurries to ready Project Amsterdam, Rupert Murdoch's bid to rock the New York Times dead before he kicks the bucket with a big, splashy color metropolitan section, staffers at the Journal are burning the midnight oil.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
YouTube and Viacom Find Lots of Emails, but No Smoking Gun — The YouTube-Viacom documents released today are chock full of interesting morsels. Feel free to ignore most of them. — Because if you're trying to handicap the way the copyright lawsuit pans out, today's document dump won't do much to help you.
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Aaron / YouTube Blog:
Broadcast Yourself — Around the globe, YouTube has become …
Broadcast Yourself — Around the globe, YouTube has become …
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Brian Aguilar / Wall Street Journal:
A History of Wall Street Journal Hedcuts — When job-seeking illustrator Laura Levy first met the team of Wall Street Journal hedcut artists in the early 1980s, she was struck by their peculiar task. — “I saw what these people were doing and I thought, 'they're insane,'” says Levy.
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
More News about Omidyar's Peer News — I'm at the NewsMorphosis Conference in Hawaii today locked in a day of debates about the state of news quality and how the hell we find a business model to keep paying for it. It's a big issue locally- earlier this year three of Hawaii's five largest …
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Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
The REAL Reason NBC, FOX, And ABC Execs Want To Kill Hulu (CMCSA, GE, DIS, NWS) — Hulu's sales team is “actively subverting” the ad sales of its parent companies that are also trying to sell ads for their shows on Hulu, according to a source at one of the parent companies.
Claudia Eller / Company Town:
Carl Icahn launches hostile takeover bid for Lions Gate [Updated] — One week after Lions Gate Entertainment rejected his bid to raise his stake in the studio, investor Carl Icahn is launching a hostile takeover bid for the entire company. [For the record, updated 9:41 a.m. …
Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:
Interview: Nicolas Kayser-Bril, head of datajournalism at Owni.fr — Past OJB contributor Nicolas Kayser-Bril is now in charge of datajournalism at Owni.fr, a recently launched news site that defines itself as an “open think-tank”. — “Acting as curators, selecting and presenting content taken deep …
Michael Corkery / Deal Journal:
A Guy Named Bob Wants to Buy Newsday — Who wants to buy Long Island's largest newspaper, Newsday? — Is it The New York Times' Arthur Sulzberger Jr.? How about News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch? — No, it is Robert “Bob” Toussie, a real estate developer and investor.
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Stephen Brook / Guardian:
Telegraph Media Group makes strong return to black with £53m profit — Publisher of Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph turns round last year's £15.7m loss, thanks to ‘tight control on costs’ — Telegraph Media Group, publisher of the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph …
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Matea Gold / Los Angeles Times:
Bill O'Reilly's indie instincts — In a time of political turmoil, can the Fox News commentator be seen as a moderate? — Fox News' top-rated host Bill O'Reilly has helped to make the network a ratings leader. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) — Reporting from New York
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
‘Advertisers should fear Twitter and Facebook more than regulators’ — Havas chief David Jones says companies must work harder to prove that brands are socially responsible following the downturn — David Jones, the global chief executive of Havas Wordwide, has warned that advertisers …
Tim Elfrink / Riptide 2.0:
Video: Gerald Posner Apologizes for Ripping Off Parts of Miami Babylon, Then Things Get Ugly — Gerald Posner showed up at Miami Beach Botanical Garden last night fresh off New Times' revelations that he had plagiarized significant text from author Frank Owen's Clubland in his book Miami Babylon.
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Video: Michael Kinsley @ The ‘Separate But Equal’ Digital Ellies — The greatest benefit of moderating a session at the Magazine Publishers Association conference on e-reading today was the chance to witness Slate founding editor Michael Kinsley's induction into the Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame.