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Felix Salmon:
Blogonomics: Revenue per page — In the wake of the debate we had earlier today, Henry Blodget took to Twitter to explain the numbers behind ad-supported blogs. The most interesting tweets, to me, were these: … If $10 is “a good monetization rate”, then let's be generous and say that Blodget is making $15 at TBI.
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Reuters Blogger Attacks Business Insider On Twitter, We Defend Ourselves — A Reuters blogger attacked us on Twitter this afternoon. — Having gotten used to having his own journalistic efforts funded by a multi-billion-dollar finance-terminal business (which we, sadly, lack) …
Juli Weiner / Vanity Fair:
Tweet Fight!: Henry Blodget vs. Felix Salmon — The Business Insider C.E.O. Henry Blodget and Reuters finance blogger Felix Salmon are currently enmeshed in an epic Twitter fight about journalistic ethics. Sing, goddess, the anger of Felix Salon, who pointed out that a Business Insider piece …
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Henry J. Gomez / Metro:
Plain Dealer sparks ethical debate by unmasking anonymous Cleveland.com poster … CLEVELAND, Ohio — By unmasking an anonymous poster at its companion Web site, The Plain Dealer finds itself in an ethical quandary, stirring a debate that balances the public's need to know against the privacy concerns of online participants.
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Cisco “Live” on MSNBC's “Rachel Maddow Show” in Broadcast Debut — NEW YORK — Cisco Systems, which has a big* video teleconference business with a product called TelePresence, is entering the broadcast world with the MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, who is using the system to conduct remote interviews.
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
For Fox's ‘24,’ Terror Fight and Series Near End — If any one show has represented the post-9/11 era on television, it is “24,” the Fox drama that has offered counterterrorism as entertainment for nine years. — On “24,” torture saves lives. On “24,” phones are tapped, plots are disrupted …
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
John Humphrys argues in favour of newspaper paywalls — Now this comes from left field. John Humphrys, a BBC presenter who works for an organisation offering free online news content, contends that we should all be happy to pay for content on net. — Writing in The Sun today …
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USA Today:
Crazy like a Fox? — Fox News is one voice in a massive and growing media environment. Cal and Bob say our noisy democracy can handle the right-leaning Fox — or any and all other media voices. … Today: Bias and Fox News. — Cal: We've been around politics long enough to know that an …
Mark Fitzgerald / Editor and Publisher:
IAPA: Two Months On, Haitian Press Still Devastated by Earthquake — CHICAGO In a special report to its biannual meeting in Aruba this week, the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) described a Haitian media landscape two months after the catastrophic earthquake that is every bit as devasted as the island itself.
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Joe Mandese / MediaPost:
Apple Poised To Unveil ‘iAd,’ New Mobile Ad Platform Is Jobs' ‘Next Big Thing’ — Even as the buzz builds toward the April 3rd ship date of the iPad, Apple is preparing to announce its “next big thing” — a new personalized, mobile advertising system that could well be called the “iAd” — Online Media Daily has learned.
David Hinckley / NY Daily News:
Morning Joe's a hit, even with opponents — Joe Scarborough of MSNBC's Morning Joe — One of Joe Scarborough's favorite viewers, senior presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett, disagrees with almost everything he says. — In fact, says Scarborough, host of “Morning Joe” …
Katy Bachman / Mediaweek:
ESPN to Launch Local New York Site — ESPN announced Thursday (March 25) that it would launch a local Web site in New York on April 2. The launch of ESPNNewYork.com is timed to coincide with the ESPN2 telecast between the 2009 World Series Champion New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park on April 4.
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Steve Smith / MediaPost:
A Pandora For Content? — The personalized music service Pandora is a huge hit in my family, where almost everyone has his or her own custom “channel” of Internet radio. Over time, Pandora learns the kinds of tunes we like — and don't like. It requires minimal and only occasional interactivity …
Cglynch / The Lynch Blog:
What The Reader Elite Means for Journalism Schools — In the wake of my last post about The Reader Elite, I had several discussions with friends in the media industry about what such an audience would mean for journalism as an academic concentration. The Reader Elite is what I call the group …
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Ravi Somaiya / Gawker:
Journalism Schools May Die. Good.