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Successes (and Some Growing Pains) at Hulu — Hulu, the popular and free online video hub, has some things to celebrate as it heads into its third year. — The site, a venture of NBC Universal, the News Corporation and the Walt Disney Company, has been profitable for two quarters …
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Michael Rose / TUAW:
Hulu coming to iPad... sometime, eventually — No date, no forecast, but it's a work in progress: in a story about the profit prospects for Hulu, the New York Times mentions that four sources familiar with the site's plans say there is a Hulu app in the works.
Rafat Ali / paidContent:
Hulu's Revenue Kimono Opens: $100 Million Revenues in 2009; Profitable
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Alex Williams / New York Times:
Latest Rising Stars of Gossip Blogs — IT had all the elements for the perfect tabloid gossip item — a clash between star financial journalists, big egos and a surprise ouster that had Wall Street buzzing: Henry Blodget, the well-known disgraced-analyst-turned-financial- pundit and co-founder …
Frank James / NPR Blogs:
Fox Defends New Palin Show's Use Of Canned Interviews — Earlier today we learned that rapper and actor LL Cool J didn't appreciate that FOX News planned to use a canned interview he did in 2008 on the new show hosted by conservative superstar Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential nominee.
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Michael Calderone / The Politico:
How to fix CNN — The future of CNN, never exactly bright the past couple of years, suddenly looked dire this week when ratings came out showing a 40 percent decline in prime time viewers since 2009. — Jon Klein, the network president, has consistently defended the network's …
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Jay Rosen / PressThink:
What CNN Should Do With Itself in Prime-Time — A media beat reporter asked me if I had any advice for CNN about what to do in prime-time. Just so happens I do. Ditch the View from Nowhere but don't go aping your rivals. Here's my alt line-up for CNN from 7 to 11 pm.
Pew Internet:
The Impact of the Internet on Institutions in the Future — By an overwhelming margin, technology experts and stakeholders participating in a survey fielded by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center believe that innovative forms …
Trevor Butterworth / Forbes:
The Future Of Journalism — Why it shouldn't receive government funding and become a public good. — For years, media leaders, editors and not a few reporters tried to ignore the coming digital storm, fiddling while technology transformed their world. Now, as that world evolves …
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon e-Book Deal Mirrors iPad — Two major book publishers have struck new electronic-book pricing deals with Amazon.com Inc., just days before the launch of Apple Inc.'s much anticipated iPad tablet device. — The agreements, with CBS Corp.'s Simon & Schuster and News Corp.'s HarperCollins Publishers …
MediaShift:
Is Digital Media Worse for the Environment Than Print? — Public opinion polls show that concern about the environment rises and falls based on the state of the economy and other factors, but concern about the negative impacts associated with using paper and printing continues to rise.
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
What Voice of San Diego wants in an “engagement editor” — One thing you should know about Voice of San Diego's new engagement editor gig: it's not (just) about social media. Yes, being active on Facebook and Twitter will be part of the job, but that's a means rather than an end.
Eric Deggans / blogs.tampabay.com:
Journalist, TV writer and social critic David Mills dies in New Orleans — In many ways, David Mills was my hero. — Not just for being a kickass journalist who transitioned into an amazing career as a TV writer, working on NYPD Blue, ER, HBO's The Corner, The Wire and its new series set in New Orleans, Treme.
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Johnston's Local Pay Site Trial Has Been ‘A Disaster’ — We could have told Johnston Press, when it announced the plans back in November, that people won't pay to read local newspapers online. But you can't begrudge the publisher finding out for sure for itself...
Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:
3 principles for reporters and bloggers in a networked era — Dina Rickman posed a question to me this week about the role of a reporter in our current networked age. I thought I'd expand on my response, shown above. Depending on your point of view, this is either a draft manifesto …
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Leonard Pitts Jr / MiamiHerald.com:
Anonymity brings out the worst instincts — It must have seemed like a great idea at the time. — There was this new medium, the Internet, and newspapers were posting stories on it, and someone decided to create a forum where readers could discuss and debate what they just read.
John Thornton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Nonprofit news outlets will be a bigger part of our future than Alan Mutter thinks — [Yesterday, Alan Mutter wrote a post detailing why he thinks nonprofit news outlets “can't possibly save news.” An interesting discussion ensued in the comments (including contributions from Jay Rosen, our C.W. Anderson, Dick Tofel, and others).
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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Hey, journos: ProPublica wants to find you a find, catch you a catch — ProPublica: investigative news outlet, public-interest advocate, matchmaker. — No, seriously. If you're a journalist, and you cover the economy — in particular, the federal mortgage modification program intended …
E.B. Boyd / WebNewser:
Ex-BizWeek.com EIC Byrne Gives Sneak Preview of Upcoming C-Change Venture — Former BusinessWeek.com editor-in-chief John Byrne provided a sneak preview of his new C-Change Media venture at a panel discussion hosted at the Horn Group in San Francisco Tuesday night.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Publisher Network To Be Axed, Customers Referred To Chitika Instead — We just received an anonymous tip from someone who claims to have received an email from Yahoo which says that the company's Google AdSense counterpart, Publisher Network, will be shut down by the company in the next 30 days.
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
FOX NEWS GOES LIBERAL (ON COPYRIGHT LAW) — Fox News loves “fair use” ... if it can help win a copyright lawsuit. — Rupert Murdoch may be on the record attacking the legal doctrine as an excuse for online piracy, but attorneys for the mogul's top-rated cable news network are hanging …
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
YouTube To Push Out Big Redesign With ‘Streamlined’ Video Pages—And More — Updated: The mantra for the major redesign YouTube is setting loose this afternoon: People just want to watch videos. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) representatives said during a press call this morning that when the company surveyed users …
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
BBC Online Video News Views Up 25 Percent in Four Months...Beet Visits the “Beeb” — LONDON — The BBC has found a growing audience for online news in the U.K., with some 5 million unique visitors watching 28 million videos in January, up 25 percent over the previous four months, according to the latest numbers from comScore.
Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
ABC Sitcom “Modern Family” Gives iPad A Serious Product Placement Slot (AAPL) — Wowsers! The iPad's marketing blitz is in full effect tonight. First the ABC News hit, then the reviews from Walt Mossberg, David Pogue and everyone else. And now this. — The ABC sitcom Modern Family built tonight's episode around the iPad.
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