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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 …
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BlogBeat: Gothamist Sells Out to Cablevision, James Dolan Presumably Excited to Ruin Another News Outlet — Gothamist — the New York City metro news blog and subsequent locally-based “Ist” properties — long a punchline among bloggers who poked at its overly excitable tones …
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Steven Levy / Wired:
How the Tablet Will Change the World — Everyone who jammed into the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on January 27, 2010, knew what they were there for: Apple CEO Steve Jobs' introduction of a thin, always-on tablet device that would let people browse the Web, read books, send email, watch movies, and play games.
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Geoffrey A. Fowler / Digits:
Let the E-Reader Price War Begin? Sony Drops to $169 … Sony says it is cutting the price on its entry-level e-book reader, dubbed the Pocket Reader, to $169 — perhaps the first in a coming price war for the devices. — Sony's $30 discount only lasts through April 4 …
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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.
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 …
Jason Fry / Reinventing the Newsroom:
Facebook and the Future of Refrigerator Journalism — Last month I wrote about how finding information and choosing what to read makes the Web a more personal medium, an idea that came to me after reading a Q&A with Batavian publisher Howard Owens. In the comments, Roy Peter Clark raised a good point that's nagged at me ever since:
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Show by Rosie Is Envisioned as Replacement for Oprah — LOS ANGELES — Rosie O'Donnell's forthcoming talk show will be squarely positioned as a suitable replacement for Oprah Winfrey, her producers said on Monday, adding a new twist in an effort by local stations to revamp their lineups in a post-Winfrey era.
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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 …
Owen Bowcott / Guardian:
Legal reform bill to tackle ‘libel tourism’ — The government plans to prevent claims stemming from online publication and protect investigative journalism — Foreign claimants will find it more difficult to initiate libel cases in UK courts and a “public interest” defence should be introduced …
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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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Marisa Guthrie / Broadcasting & Cable:
Cable Ratings: Breaking Bad Does Good For AMC — Third season premiere delivers series best ratings — . The third season premiere of AMC's Breaking Bad March 21 was the show's highest rated episode ever. — The premiere pulled in 2 million viewers (posting a 1.4 household rating) for it's 10 p.m. bow, according to Nielsen.
Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Lauren Victoria Burke's WDCPIX: A photojournalist builds business by aiming at sites that can't afford wires — Lauren Victoria Burke's strategy for success in the world of political photography is simple: undercut the Associated Press. — Burke runs a one-woman photography wire service in Washington …
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Mercedes Bunz / Guardian:
How investigative reporting makes use of the internet — With the help of reporting readers the political blog Talking Points Memo revealed the political pattern behind the sudden departures of United States attorneys in the Bush era, as readers accumulated evidence from around the country on who the axed prosecutors were.
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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Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
TV Sports: Woods's Interviewers Had Limited Time but Missed Chances — In five minutes on ESPN and six on the Golf Channel, Tiger Woods did not say much that was new Sunday night. — But that does not matter. Whatever Woods does now is more interesting than it was before his glorious golf career turned …
Jason Boog / GalleyCat:
Adult Hardcover Sales Down 8.1 Percent in January — In a release today, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) reported that overall book sales for January 2010 had dropped 0.7 percent to $814.9 million. Adult hardcover sales dropped 8.1 percent over that same period …
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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 …
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 …
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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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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
News Corp. Throwing Away The Crown Jewel: Fox Audience Network — News Corp. isn't beating around the bush with its digital assets. Rotten Tomatoes has been sold off to Flixster. Photobucket went to Ontela. IGN had 20% staff cuts, and MySpace is dealing with co-presidents.
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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 …
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