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12:05 AM ET, March 23, 2010

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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 …
The Official Google Blog:
A new approach to China: an update  —  On January 12, we announced on this blog that Google and more than twenty other U.S. companies had been the victims of a sophisticated cyber attack originating from China, and that during our investigation into these attacks we had uncovered evidence …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Chinese Media On The Google Situation: Nothing To See Here, Move Along
Discussion: Guardian and The Next Web
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.
Discussion: Techie Buzz and TechCrunch
Media Decoder:
Perseus Signs an EBooks Deal for the iPad  —  Apple's iBookstore on the forthcoming iPad is set to get larger.  The company has just signed a deal with the largest distributor of independent publishers to sell electronic versions of it books on the new device.
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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 …
Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat:
Fake Area Newspaper Gets Real Television Show  —  The Onion, the satirical news organization that broke the fake story that the smoke monster from “Lost” would receive its own spin-off series and cheekily reported that television critics who praised “The Wire” had never seen the show, is itself headed to the small screen.
Ryan Chittum / CJR:
Murdoch's Unhealthy Obsession  —  Taking on The New York Times isn't risk-free for the Journal  —  Richard Pérez-Peña has several interesting bits in his piece on the soon-to-commence Battle for New York between his own New York Times and Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.
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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.
Knight Foundation:
Initiative Will Seek New National Model For Investigative Journalism  —  $400,000 grant from Knight Foundation will fund project at New England Center for Investigative Reporting  —  BOSTON — Boston University's New England Center for Investigative Reporting (NECIR) is launching a new initiative …
Discussion: KnightBlog
Brian Steinberg / AdAge:
Online TV-Watching Becomes Interactive Experience  —  NBC to Unveil Video Viewer Placed Amid Brand-Sponsored Web Content  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Is a computer terminal like a movie screen?  Well, for the past few years, TV networks and other purveyors of TV programs online have tried …
Discussion: WebNewser
Steve Rosenbaum / The Wire:
Bob Garfield: Mad Prophet of Madison Avenue  —  Bob Garfield has spent most of his professional career in and among the makers of what is now mostly called “Old Media.”  TV shows, magazines, television commercials, and advertising.  —  So when The Mad Prophet of Madison Avenue wandered …
Discussion: AdPulp and ChasNote
Steve Buttry / Pursuing the Complete Community …:
Wanted: Vision for community engagement  —  One of the exciting things about my new job is that we're going to try some things that haven't been done before.  We're going to try some things that haven't been done before on the scale we're doing them.  We're going to try different ways …
Frances Martel / Mediaite:
Hugo Chavez, Tired Of Oppressing Bloggers, Becomes One  —  Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez is ready to find out what all the hype surrounding this “internet” thing is all about.  Chavez announced on his weekend variety show Aló Presidente yesterday that he is about to expand his media empire …
Stephen Castle / New York Times:
As the E.U. Does More, Fewer Tell About It  —  BRUSSELS — Winner of a prestigious award in her home country and fluent in three languages, Ina Strazdina is the most influential Latvian journalist in Brussels, the home of the European Union.  —  But even she admits that the competition is not too tough.
Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
My chat with Google News founder, Krishna Bharat, with video  —  Krishna Bharat, the creator of Google News, has never been a journalist.  Though he's often asked what is more important for the search giant's news site: editorial judgment or Google's famous attention to its algorithms.
Discussion: The Business Insider
Kirk LaPointe's themediamanager.com:
Society of Professional Journalists releases digital media guide  —  The best practices and how-to guides comprise an extensive first look from the Society of Professional Journalists on digital media.  —  The SPJ has commissioned a series of essays from strong practitioners on social media …
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
News site visitors look like early tech adopters  —  Far from being fuddy-duddy Luddites, newspaper website visitors actually appear to be early and passionate technology adopters.  —  The surprisingly high interest in high tech among online news consumers is revealed in a ground-breaking poll …
Discussion: Online
Mark McLaughlin / Media on HuffingtonPost.com:
Audiences Don't Pay for Content  —  The media industry needs to get healthy but we won't get there if we think about the Internet as the reason that consumers have stopped paying for content.  Instead, we need to take a dispassionate view of mass media content and ask ourselves why the Internet …
Jane Martinson / Guardian:
Elisabeth Murdoch on Shine, family succession and ambition  —  Interview: Elisabeth Murdoch reveals her plans for her independent producer, Shine  —  Elisabeth Murdoch sits down, eyes the voice recorder, and says “I have to be careful”.  The head of Shine, the UK's largest independent producer …
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter
blogs.journalism.co.uk:
Guardian publishes correction... before the readers write in  —  A curious correction in the Guardian on Saturday: for “inappropriate language” in its Guide magazine, published in the same newspaper.  It would seem that someone spotted the potential fall-out, in time for a correction …
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.
Patricia Sheridan / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Patricia Sheridan's Breakfast With ... Bill Hemmer  —  Co-host of “America's Newsroom” on Fox News Channel, Bill Hemmer started his broadcast career as a sportscaster before being plucked from local markets to work as an anchor on various CNN programs, including “American Morning.”
Discussion: Romenesko and Inside Cable News
Richard Prince's Journal-isms:
Viewers Peek at Politico's Diversity — or Not  —  Editor says camera shots, reputation mislead  —  Editor Says Camera Shots, Reputation Mislead  —  CNN took viewers Sunday to an editorial meeting at Politico, the buzz-creating Web-and-print operation that launched in Washington three years ago.
Discussion: Editors Weblog, Mediaite, Romenesko and CNN
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Print Vets Looking to Go Digital Find Switch Difficult  —  Changing Times, Greater Competition Make for a Difficult Transition to the Other Side  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — A few months ago, a longtime print publisher exploring new employment in digital media met with Greg Coleman …
Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …
 
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