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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Stat Rant: Does Facebook Trumps 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.
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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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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
FT.com Takes Free Articles Away From Unregistered Users, Except Via Search — Now the Financial Times is getting really bullish about its web access model. In another tweak, it's now ensuring that no free articles are on offer to non-registered users. — In 2007, the site introduced …
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 with a big, splashy color metropolitan section before he kicks the bucket, staffers at the Journal are burning the midnight oil.
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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.
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 …
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The Pentagon's Stringers — Ex-CNN exec Eason Jordan and author Robert Pelton say their Afghan reporting project was hijacked by a rogue DoD official. But had their unorthodox operation already crossed a line? — Post Comment — Need entrée to Afghan warlords and powerbrokers?
John Koblin / New York Observer:
It's War! Kate Taylor Quits The Journal to Join The Times — Arts reporter Kate Taylor quit The Wall Street Journal today and is joing The New York Times. — Ms. Taylor, a veteran of the Sun, joined The Wall Street Journal's New York section only six weeks ago.
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.”
Stephen Lowman / Washington Post:
The future of children's book publishing — Jeff Kinney has worked full-time for a decade designing popular kid-friendly Web games. He also writes stories, but his best-selling series, “Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” was originally published online, not in a book. This free online version regularly gets 70,000 hits a day.
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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Chris Rovzar / New York Magazine:
Ana Marie Cox: Nick Denton a ‘Completely Unrepentant, Unethical Person’ — Ana Marie Cox. — Ana Marie Cox's review in Bookforum of Emily Gould's new book, And the Heart Says ... Whatever, says a lot about Gould and what the former Wonkette editor thinks of her writing.
Media Week:
Bebo digital director Dan'l Hewitt joins VBS.tv — LONDON - Vice Media, the youth-orientated media conglomerate, has appointed Dan'l Hewitt the director of digital at Bebo, as its new director of digital strategy. — Bebo'sa Dan Hewitt joins Vice's VBS.tv
David Folkenflik / NPR:
ABC News Under Fire For Payment To Murder Suspect — text sizeAAA — ABC News is facing sharp criticism over the disclosure that it paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a Florida woman who now stands accused of killing her own infant daughter. — The $200,000 payment in August 2008 …
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