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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Effort at Wall Street Journal to Attract More New Yorkers — Maybe newspapers really are dying, as some media analysts have been predicting for decades, but apparently that does not apply to newspaper wars. A doozy is shaping up at the moment between The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
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Richard Perez-Pena / Media Decoder:
The Times Introduces a Daily Video Report — The New York Times on Monday began producing a daily video on its Web site, summarizing the big news stories of the day. — The program, called TimesCast, lasting a few minutes, will appear on the nytimes.com home page at 1 p.m. each day …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
TechCrunch Poaches Forbes Anchor To Launch Video Product — TechCrunch has hired former Forbes video anchor Evelyn Rusli to launch a Web video product, we've learned. — Beyond whatever video she makes for the site, we imagine she'll also represent TechCrunch on TV as well.
Jxpaton / John Paton's Blog:
The Change So Far. And Still So Far To Change — Today marks my 49th day on the job as Chief Executive Officer of Journal Register Company. — I promised you, with your help, to craft a plan to transform our Company from a newspaper company to a multi-platform news and information company serving …
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Media Notes: Journalism's slide into health-debate weariness — It was the story that refused to die. — Sunday's last-gasp passage of President Obama's health care bill will finally liberate the journalists who have been chained to this complicated, arcane, often tedious story for 14 long months.
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Ravi Somaiya / Gawker:
Fox News Says Healthcare Reform is the Beginning of Armageddon
Fox News Says Healthcare Reform is the Beginning of Armageddon
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Paywall On-Ramps Get A Workaround — Remember BugMeNot.com? The site was started in 2003 to let users, peeved by a growing crop of news site registration walls, borrow someone else's login. — Seven years on - for registration wall workaround, read pay wall hack.
Hollywood Reporter:
Conan-Fox talks resume amid ‘Idol’ offer — THR EXCLUSIVE — After a two-week stall, Fox and Conan O'Brien have resumed talks about a potential late-night talk show fronted by the former “Tonight Show” host. — But a wrinkle in the courtship has emerged that involves the biggest show on television …
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Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
Managing the magazine component of newspapers — This is the second part of a series about the evolution of print media. Part I here. — A few years ago, the founder of the French daily Liberation was asked what he would do if he had unlimited resources to run his paper: “I would do a magazine everyday”, he said.
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Rafat Ali / paidContent:
Local Blog Network Gothamist Being Bought by Cablevision's Rainbow Media — Gothamist, the local city blog network that is best known for its New York City edition, is being acquired by Cablevision-owned Rainbow Media, paidContent has learned. The price is between $5 million to $6 million …
Nielsen Wire:
Americans Using TV and Internet Together 35% More Than A Year Ago — Americans increased their overall media usage and media multitasking according to The Nielsen Company's latest Three Screen Report, which tracks consumption across TV, Internet and mobile phones.
New York Times:
The iPad App Derby Gets Under Way — It can be difficult to write software for a gadget without being able to touch it. But that has not stopped developers from rushing to create applications for the Apple iPad. — For small start-ups and big Internet and media companies alike, the iPad …
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New York Times:
Chinese Official's Threat to Reporter Ignites Furor — BEIJING — In another era, the brusque response of Li Hongzhong, the governor of Hubei Province, to a reporter's question about a scandal on his home turf might have been the end of it. — Infuriated that the reporter would even ask about the case …
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Andrew Hampp / AdAge:
Fox News: We're an Upscale Buy on Par With Mainstream Nets — Cable Channel Broadens Competitive Set Beyond Historical Archrival CNN — LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) — For years, Fox News' pitch to advertisers and the press was that it was bigger and better than any other cable- news network.