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5:05 PM ET, March 23, 2010

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Tom Shales / Washington Post:
ABC's choice of Amanpour for ‘This Week’ has critics inside the network and beyond  —  If being the moderator of “This Week,” ABC's Sunday morning news-talk show, required Senate approval, then journalist Christiane Amanpour — recently named by ABC News President David Westin to take over the job — would already be in big trouble.
Joe Wilcox / Oddly Together:
The Difference Between Blogging and Journalism  —  For the most part, blogging is not journalism.  That's my response to the longstanding debate about whether bloggers are journalists.  Bloggers who don't apply good standards of journalism shouldn't be offered the same privileges as journalists.
Laurie Burkitt / Forbes:
Yahoo's Display Ad Target: Neighborhoods  —  Yahoo wants to remain the top display ad seller.  Its strategy is to go local.  —  National advertisers spend more than $120 billion on advertising in local markets and Yahoo wants it.  —  This year the Sunnyvale, Calif. …
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Advertising: The ‘Jersey Shore’ Is Going Global  —  THE Jersey Shore is about to be exported.  —  MTV is taking its wintertime hit series, “Jersey Shore,” about a boozy, spray-tanned summer in Seaside Heights, N.J., and showing it in more than 30 countries starting this week.
Discussion: The Wire and Gawker
MediaShift:
Why Newsrooms Don't Use Plagiarism Detection Services  —  Six years ago, in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal at the New York Times, Peter Bhatia, then the president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, gave a provocative speech at the organization's 2004 conference.
Discussion: Romenesko and CopyByte
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.
Michael Schneider / On The Air:
Discovery expected to land “Sarah Palin's Alaska”  —  Sarah Palin to Discovery?  You betcha.  —  Discovery Communications is expected to announce that it has won the Sarah Palin tourney.  The cabler had been a front-runner to land the untitled Alaska-themed series, to be produced by Mark Burnett Prods., along with A&E.
Steve Borsch / Minnov8:
WCCO News' new ‘Wire’ lets the audience interact and help report the story  —  A screenshot of WCCO's The Wire zoomed in on the timeline  —  People in Twin Cities social media circles got a sneak peek at WCCO's The Wire last October, and its promise looked intriguing.
Stephanie Clifford / Media Decoder:
Stefano Tonchi to Edit W Magazine  —  12:15 p.m. Updated with comment from Stefano Tonchi.  —  11:50 a.m. Updated with comment from The New York Times and Condé Nast.  —  Stefano Tonchi, the editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine, has been appointed editor of W, the fashion magazine published by Condé Nast.
John Plunkett / Guardian:
Grazia publishes 3D issue  —  The women's glossy magazine features augmented reality codes, with music and 360-degree views of spring fashions  —  Bauer Media's women's fashion glossy Grazia will jump on the 3D bandwagon today with an augmented reality issue featuring Florence and the Machine singing and dancing on the front cover.
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
‘USA Today’ in War of Words With ‘WSJ’  —  Gannett's daily has fired the latest salvo vs. the News Corp. property  —  Gannett's USA Today has fired the latest salvo in the national newspaper war.  —  Six months after News Corp.'s The Wall Street Journal trumpeted that it had edged USA Today …
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.
Sam Bayard / citmedialaw.org:
Barclays v. TheFlyOnTheWall.com: Hot News Doctrine Alive and Kicking; Will News Aggregators Be Next?  —  in - New York - Copyright - Free Speech - Hot News Misappropriation  —  In 2003, prolific legal scholar and 7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner published a law review article entitled …
Discussion: ContentBlogger and NYConvergence
Dirk Smillie / Forbes:
Hearst's Big Bounce  —  Ad sales for May are up 17%—and climbing.  —  It's only March, but Hearst Magazines' chief marketing officer, Michael Clinton, expects ad sales for his titles will be burning up this summer.  —  Sales for April rose 12% compared to the same period last year.
Discussion: eMedia Vitals
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Anonymous Economist Writers Get Initials on Posts — New Technology Blog Launches Today  —  LONDON — The lack of a by-line for Economist writers provides a high degree of access, which is a big benefit in the reporting process, says Executive Editor Daniel Franklin in this interview with Beet.TV at The Economist's headquarters.
Discussion: WebNewser
The Official Google Blog:
European Court of Justice rules in Google's favour  —  Google aims to provide as much information as possible to users so that they can make informed decisions.  For this reason, we have been awaiting a series of decisions by the European Court of Justice that explore the extent …
Owen Bowcott / Guardian:
New 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 …
Discussion: Press Gazette and Journalism.co.uk
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Another Ad Exchange Player: Microsoft Vet Jeff Green Launches The Trade Desk  —  Last fall Jeff Green left his job running AdECN, Microsoft's (MSFT) entry into the real-time ad-exchange business.  He didn't go far.  Green is building The Trade Desk, a start-up designed to help marketers buy advertising …
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.
Discussion: Brainstorm Tech
Jason Boog / GalleyCat:
Random House Reports “Stable Revenues” in 2009  —  In a report on the fiscal year for 2009, Bertelsmann (Random House's corporate parent) reported that Random House revenues were up 0.1 percent at €1.7 billion (previous year: €1.7 billion, +0.1 percent).  Operating profit held steady at €137 million.
Discussion: Publishers Weekly
Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
MaineToday Media Web staffers lose their jobs  —  Of the more than 60 positions cut at MaineToday — owner of the Portland Press-Herald, and the Kennebec Journal/Morning Sentinel — all but a few came from the online side, reports Al Diamon.  Reporters and editors will now be responsible for updating the Web sites during the day.
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Papers exiting bankruptcy dump 75% of debt  —  The four newspaper companies that have exited bankruptcy to date have shed three-quarters of their of debt, collectively trimming nearly $2 billion in burdensome obligations.  —  In so doing, the publishers will take some pressure off …
Rupert Neate / Telegraph:
Times Newspapers loses £88m as advertising drops  —  The publisher of the The Times and The Sunday Times lost £87.9m in the year to June 28, 2009, as a collapse in advertising pushed revenues down 13pc to £385m.  —  Losses at Times Newspapers Limited widened from £51.3m …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Independent News & Media races to close Alexander Lebedev deal  —  Owner of the Independent titles keen to announce sale to shareholders after months of talks with Alexander Lebedev  —  Independent News & Media is in a race against time in a bid to secure a deal to sell the Independent titles …
 
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Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
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Knight Foundation:
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Discussion: KnightBlog
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