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Bill Carter / New York Times:
CNN Fails to Stop Fall in Ratings — CNN continued what has become a precipitous decline in ratings for its prime-time programs in the first quarter of 2010, with its main hosts losing almost half their viewers in a year. — The trend in news ratings for the first three months of this year …
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Non-profits can't possibly save the news — An amazing number of smart and sophisticated people continue to harbor the fantasy that philanthropic contributions can take over funding journalism from the media companies that traditionally have supported the press.
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Felix Salmon:
The economics of non-profit newspapers — Alan Mutter is a genuine expert on newspaper economics, which is one reason why his bizarre blog entry today on the economics of non-profit newspapers is so puzzling. This has to be one of the most innumerate things he's ever written:
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Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:
Blodget and Salmon on Blodget vs. Salmon: The Last Word — Last week, a war of words broke out between two fairly notable New York media presences. It was started after an editor was fired last week, the news of which we broke here. And we thought we'd try to end it here, too, by speaking with both about the spat.
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Christopher Conklin / The Awl:
How Web Writers Get Held Responsible for the Lawyers, the Sales Guys and Even the Coffeemaker — After Henry Blodget fired editor John Carney from his role as the editor of Clusterstock last week, some clearly felt that Blodget, the Business Insider cofounder and CEO, owed an explanation.
J. David Goodman / City Room:
Ads for Community Papers, but Are They Local? — An ad campaign promoting community papers displays images of failure with the tag line “Your Community Paper. Told Ya.” — The story of newspapers' woes is well known, and the news is almost continually dire.
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Mike Taylor / FishBowlNY:
A Conversation With Mark Coatney, the Man Behind Newsweek's Tumblr — One of the first major publications to make its presence felt on Tumblr, Newsweek has been one of the pioneers of the social-media/blogging site. Thanks in part to its highly personalized voice, Newsweek.tumblr.com has collected 6,000 followers.
David Carr / Media Decoder:
The Financial Times: A Newspaper With Good Business News — About Itself — On Monday, Decoder came across a rare site in the wilds of Manhattan: a happy publishing executive. — John Ridding is the chief executive of The Financial Times, a global business newspaper based in London.
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Chicago Tribune turning old photos into new revenue stream — The Chicago Tribune is kicking off an effort to turn its dusty archived photographs into a shiny new revenue opportunity. — “The overall goal is to figure out how the company can monetize its resources that are currently archival in nature …
Tim Elfrink / Riptide 2.0:
More Gerald Posner Plagiarism in Miami Babylon, From New Times, PBS, and Many Others — Back on March 16, Riptide broke the news that South Beach-based author Gerald Posner's latest book, Miami Babylon, had stolen eight passages from Frank Owen's 2003 work Clubland.
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Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
For Photographers, the Image of a Shrinking Path — By the time Matt Eich entered photojournalism school in 2004, the magazine and newspaper business was already declining. — But Mr. Eich had been shooting photographs since he was a child, and when he married and had a baby during college, he stuck with photography as a career.
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Page Six Effect: Richard Johnson's Continued Influence On Today's Media — Reviewing Mediaite's Power Grid ranking of the top Print and Online Columnists is like looking at the modern day Journalistic Hall of Fame. Familiar bylines - from business models old and new …
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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
What does This American Life look like? A designer visualizes the radio — Most New Year's resolutions are as predictable as they are short-lived: Quit smoking. Lose weight. Be more patient. Stop procrastinating. Use the occasion of a sparkling new year to become happy of mind …
Jon Healey / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Hollywood wins another lawsuit against a search engine — Chalk up another legal victory for the Motion Picture Assn. of America in its battle against websites that make it easier for people to find and download bootlegged Hollywood movies. Monday, a judge in London's High Court of Justice ruled …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Daily Mail & General Trust reports display ad rise at national papers — Group that owns Daily Mail and about 100 regional titles says overall revenues fell 13% in five months to end of February — Daily Mail & General Trust has a reported a 13% fall in total revenues in the five months …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
GOOD Adds YouTube CEO Chad Hurley And Pepsi CMO Jill Beraud To Advisory Board — GOOD, the company behind the integrated media platform for “people who give a damn”, has added some serious weight to its leadership team with the addition of three high-profile advisors.
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Barbara Casassus / theBookseller.com:
French publisher Gallimard to sue Google — Gallimard and two other French publishers plan to sue Google for scanning books without prior permission. The move was announced at the Paris Book Fair by Gallimard chief executive Antoine Gallimard. — Gallimard told an audience at a conference …
Mike Reynolds / Multichannel News:
Time Warner Cable Connects On YES's Live Streaming Service — MSO Becomes Fourth Affiliate For RSN's ‘Yankees On Yes Live Game Streaming’ In-Market Package — YES Network has found a fourth hitter for its “TV Everywhere” lineup of live streamed New York Yankees games: Time Warner Cable.
New York Times:
CKX Inc., Owner of ‘American Idol,’ Planning a Sale — By BRIAN STELTER and MICHAEL J. de la MERCED — The “American Idol” television brand may soon be in the hands of private equity. — CKX Inc., which owns a majority stake in “Idol,” confirmed on Monday that it was discussing a sale of the company.
Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk:
New Guardian.co.uk homepage adds multimedia and flexible storytelling to design — The Guardian has today launched a new homepage for its website, Guardian.co.uk. — While the design is similar to other pages on the site, it has been revamped to give more prominence to long-running stories …
Markus Goebel / TechCrunch Europe:
Europe's biggest publisher embraces the WePad — [Germany] Billed as an iPad competitor, the WePad is not vaporware, but is in fact, The Chosen One. At least, that's the view of some, who are hailing the WePad as the saviour of the German print publishing industry.
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Hulu's a Towering Success — Just Not Financially — Web-Video Future Hinges on It Working Out Pay Model — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Hulu is everyone's favorite provider of TV on the web, but it's facing an ideological battle over its future. On one side are its network backers, which would like Hulu to become a paid service.
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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Reuters teams up with legendary investigative journalist Bergman — Reuters latest investigative story got some help from one of the most famous investigative journalists of all time. — Award-winning investigative journalist Lowell Bergman, whose investigation of the tobacco industry for …
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Judith Townend / Journalism.co.uk:
PCC upholds complaint over Rod Liddle's Spectator post; first ever blog censure — Just in from the Press Complaints Commission: its first ever magazine/newspaper blog censure - for Rod Liddle's 92 word Spectator post on 5 December 2009, that claimed an “overwhelming majority of street crime …
Peter Kirwan / Media Money:
What will the Guardian do if Murdoch's paywall succeeds? — Conventional wisdom suggests that the Guardian will emerge as one of the champions of free-to-air digital content when the Times and Sunday Times erect their paywalls in June. — This, after all, is a newspaper that employs Jeff Jarvis as a columnist.
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