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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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Romenesko
Stop / Twitter Blog:
Tweaking the Twitter homepage — Twitter's homepage is a work-in-progress. Today, we're testing a new design that bubbles up more of the information flowing through Twitter. This builds on a series of changes starting last year when we redesigned the homepage to make search and trending topics …
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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 …
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
The FT promotes its Twitter feed as alternative to newspaper — Hear first and act fast with Twitter feeds. Get the news you need as it happens, with FT Twitter feeds. Delivering breaking FT news, features, blogs, and multimedia, they'll alert you to the developments that matter.
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George Dearing
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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.
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.
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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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Vanity Fair
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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Fitz & Jen
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
A “reader affection” formula: Gawker creates a metric for branded traffic — Influence, engagement, impact: For goals that are, in journalism, kind of the whole point, they're notoriously difficult to quantify. How do you measure, measure a year, and so on.
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.
News & Tech:
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 …
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 …
Dan / College Media Matters:
Exclusive: UWIRE Set to Relaunch After Six-Month Hiatus — UWIRE is back. The predominant, temporarily dormant student press content sharing service will once again be live online- most likely later this week or early next week. According to Tom Orr, UWIRE overseer and general manager …
Michael Calderone / Michael Calderone's Blog:
Time's Tumulty joins WaPo — Time magazine's Karen Tumulty will soon be joining The Washington Post as the paper's national political correspondent, according to a memo obtained by POLITICO. — Tumulty has spent the past 16 years at Time, writing cover stories and regularly contributing to the magazine's “Swampland” blog.
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.
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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Gawker
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.
MediaShift:
Portability, Participation Rule for New Media Consumer — We're spoiled by technology. Today, we expect more from our media than we can get from print, radio or linear TV. — If you're like me — and, increasingly, evidence shows people are — you crave portability, fungibility …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Guardian ads poke fun at new Independent ownership — Masthead redrawn in Cyrillic-style type to point to paper's acquisition by Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev — The Guardian is running an ad in media trade magazines this week questioning the editorial independence of the Independent under …
Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:
“Follow, Then Filter”: from information stream to delta — A year or two ago, as Twitter and FriendFeed in turn made headlines, much was made of how we were increasingly consuming information as a stream. Last January I blogged along those lines on why and how I followed 2,500 people on Twitter - why?
Sree Sreenivasan / DNAinfo.com:
Lessons from A Week Without Newspapers — For all the time I spend talking about Twitter, Facebook and other digital journalism tools, I am a newspaper and magazine guy at heart. I believe there's still something magical about print. — My most productive mornings are when I get up early enough …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Automattic Opens Up VaultPress, A Safe Place To Back Up Your Blog — Over the past few months, Automattic's popular blog platform WordPress.com has taken an in-depth look at their blogging ecosystem, and realized that one of the major pain points for the 12.1 million users who self-host …
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 …
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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