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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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Silicon Alley Insider, Fast Company, Online Video News, Mashable!, VentureBeat, 9 to 5 Mac, Gizmodo, The Wire, NewTeeVee and Engadget
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Rafat Ali / paidContent:
Hulu's Revenue Kimono Opens: $100 Million Revenues in 2009; Profitable — Hulu, stung perhaps by some recent questions over its business model and the partial Viacom/Comedy Central retreat from the video service, is finally publicly disclosing some numbers on its revenues. Well, a number, and some other milestones.
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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.
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 …
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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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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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 …
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 …
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.
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.
Chicago Breaking Business:
Tribune Co. buys more time for reorganization plan — With the clock ticking on a March 31 deadline, Tribune Co. bought more time to negotiate with its fractious creditors Wednesday when it filed a motion in Delaware bankruptcy court to extend until April 30 its exclusive right to propose …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Joanna Shields moves to Facebook — The former Bebo president has left Shine after just a few months to join Facebook as a vice-president of sales and business development — The former Bebo president Joanna Shields has joined Facebook in a senior European role, leaving the venture …
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.
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 …
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 …
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).
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...
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Journalism.co.uk, Guardian, malcolm coles, The Wire, Jon Slattery, eMedia Vitals, Editors Weblog, Press Gazette and Holdthefrontpage.co.uk
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.
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.
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 …
Rafat Ali / paidContent:
Jeremy Philips, News Corp's Digital M&A Exec, Leaving — More change in News Corp.'s digital division, though this one is a more logical than others: Jeremy Philips, once the star digital M&A guy and promoted to his current position four years ago by Rupert Murdoch himself, is leaving the company for entrepreneurial ventures.
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