Mediagazer: ‘Advertisers should fear Twitter and Facebook more than regulators’ (Mark Sweney/Guardian)

3:00 PM ET, March 19, 2010

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@ 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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Michael Wolff / Newser:
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Claudia Eller / Company Town:

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Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:

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Brian Aguilar / Wall Street Journal:

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Jay Yarow / The Wire:

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Heather Hopkins / Hitwise Intelligence:

Facebook Visitors Come Back Again and Again — A few weeks ago when I posted my blog entry about Facebook being the largest news reader I received a few comments and emails noting that visitors aren't as valuable if they don't come back. Advertisers and retailers need some assurance that visitors will return again and again.

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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 …

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 …

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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Fiori on firing line — HEARST Magazines President Cathie Black is said to have quietly begun a search to replace Pamela Fiori, the longtime editor-in-chief of Town & Country. — Like all magazines tied to the luxury market, Town & Country has been reeling, and Black, like all publishing executives, is under pressure to cut losses.

Discussion: The Wire