Mediagazer: The Hot News Doctrine Rides Again (Paul Levy/CL&P Blog)

8:45 PM ET, March 20, 2010

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Stat Rant: Does Facebook Trump Google For News & Can't We Measure Twitter Correctly? — Earlier this week, Hitwise put out stats suggesting that Facebook is beating Google and Twitter when it comes to driving traffic to news sites. I dug a little deeper, and I beg to differ.

Heather Hopkins / Hitwise Intelligence:
Facebook Visitors Come Back Again and Again

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James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:

An e-model for journalism in Seattle — After the 146-year-old Post-Intelligencer folded last year, 20 of 160 employees were retained to produce an online product. — From Seattle — When a bright young reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer named Monica Guzman mentioned a couple …

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Felix Salmon:

Did Charlie Gasparino get Teri Buhl fired? — It's well known that Charlie Gasparino likes getting into mini-feuds with reporters who write about him, myself included. It's part of what makes him Charlie, and he's welcome to call me a twerpy nutjob as much as he likes.

Paul Levy / CL&P Blog:

The Hot News Doctrine Rides Again — Does a firm that expresses an opinion “own” that opinion, and thus have the ability to prevent others from reporting on the fact that the firm has expressed the opinion? When a newspaper or other entity reports some facts, does it “own” …

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SlateV:

How I Ran an Ad on Fox News — Slate ad critic Seth Stevenson tries out a Google service that allows you to run your own commercial on national TV for as little as $100.

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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

March Madness: CBSSports.com Says It Served 3.4 Million Live Hours On Day One — Initial stats are in for NCAA March Madness on Demand and it looks like CBSSports.com will be able to declare victory again (unlike fans of Georgetown or Vanderbilt). Unlike NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) …

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Chris Pendleton / Bing Maps Blog:

Bing Maps for Broadcast is now Free! — A couple months ago we changed the Bing Maps Terms of Use in a post called Bing Maps Terms of Use Changes; Benefit Educators, Not-for-Profits and Developers. Well, we've gone a done it again. This time all you TV anchors are going to look so much hotter …

Rick Edmonds / The Biz Blog:

Circulation Losses May Seem to Stop as Calculations Change in the Future — A cynic might say that the newspaper industry has found an ingenious way to stop the discouraging news every six months of continuing deep circulation losses — change how total circulation is calculated.

Mac Slocum / O'Reilly Radar:

Trapping content on the iPad won't work, even if it's pretty — Wired is one of the few magazines I read cover to cover. It consistently exposes me to new ideas and topics. For that, I'm grateful (and a longtime subscriber). — But when it comes to the iPad, I really don't understand what the Wired crew is doing.

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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Amanpour's Note to CNN Colleagues: ‘So Why am I Leaving? In My Heart I am Not’ — CNN's Christiane Amanpour sent a note to her colleagues today telling them she is “stunned and humbled by all your words and thoughts and good wishes.” Amanpour announced yesterday she would be leaving CNN for ABC News to moderate “This Week.”

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Newsdesk / Tower Ticker:

Playboy.com takes off top editor — Scott Smith is out after a year at Playboy.com, the last seven months as its editor. — Playboy Enterprises, through a spokeswoman, cited “creative differences” and said Smith's responsibilities will be split by Sam Jemielity, the Web site's executive editor …

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