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Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
LL Cool J Distances Himself From Fox News, Sarah Palin (Update: Fox Responds) — Well this is an interesting twist - actor/musician LL Cool J, who is one of the celebrities who will be part of Sarah Palin's Thursday show (and is in the promo), isn't happy about the ‘misrepresentation.’
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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.
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 …
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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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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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.
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New York Times:
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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Rafat Ali / paidContent:
Hulu's Revenue Kimono Opens: $100 Million Revenues in 2009; Profitable
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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.
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 …
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.
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.
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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.
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).
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.
TBI Research:
Here Is Why The iPad Won't Save The Magazine Industry — Get The Internet Analyst in your inbox every day. To sign up, please submit your name and email address here. — Magazine industry advertising revenue declined an average of 12% the past 2 years (18% in 2009) …
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.
Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
Jay Leno Tells Joy Behar “I Got Screwed” (And So Did Conan) — In a green room chat after her appearance on The Tonight Show last night, Joy Behar and her HLN got some content as well. — And Leno didn't hold back on admitting Conan O'Brien “got screwed” by NBC. But, according to Leno, so did he.
Marisa Guthrie / Broadcasting & Cable:
‘Modern Family,’ ‘Glee,’ ‘Late Late Show’ Among Peabody Winners — Ferguson recognized for Tutu interview, HBO for ‘In Treatment’ and Ali-Frazier doc — ABC's Modern Family, Fox's Glee, CBS' The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and HBO's In Treatment and The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency …
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Anne-Sylvaine Chassany / Bloomberg:
EMI Licensing Talks With Universal, Sony Said to End — EMI Group Ltd.'s talks about licensing its northern American catalog to Universal Music Group or Sony Music have ended, according to two people with knowledge of the situation. — The negotiations could have helped London-based music company EMI raise …
Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
Digital content grows, but will news? — Redundancy, job cuts, advertising decline, falling readership... perhaps it is inevitable that it's crisis rather than opportunity that gets the news industry most of its coverage. — In the wider digital content landscape, things are not so bleak.
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