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Rafat Ali / paidContent:
iPad Day One: Charts Show Big Media Mostly Playing In Free Apps, Not Paid — So day one of iPad launch almost over—though West Coast's still in full swing—no estimates on how many iPads have sold, but it is instructive to see how the charts for iPad apps are doing.
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Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
David Remnick Makes It Look Easy at The New Yorker — David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, is not one to waste an opportunity. After attending John Updike's funeral in Massachusetts in February of last year, he stopped by Harvard Law School to interview some of President Obama's old professors.
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Mike Taylor / mediabistro.com:
How That David Remnick Profile in The New York Times Came About — What was the origin of the glowing profile of The New Yorker editor David Remnick that appeared in this morning's The New York Times? New Yorker public relations director Alexa Cassanos says she pitched the story to Times reporter Stephanie Clifford.
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
At Snopes, a Quest to Debunk Misinformation Online — It is one of the paradoxes of the Internet. — Along with the freest access to knowledge the world has ever seen comes a staggering amount of untruth, from imagined threats on health care to too-easy-to-be-true ways to earn money by forwarding an e-mail message to 10 friends.
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Former ‘PW’ Publisher George Slowik Buys Magazine — Publishers Weekly has been acquired by PWxyz, LLC, a newly formed company headed by one-time PW publisher George Slowik. The acquisition includes the Web site publishersweekly.com and Publishers Weekly Show Daily.
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Gail Shister / TVNewser:
MSNBC Could Keep David Shuster Off the Air Indefinately — MSNBC bad boy David Shuster may be on his third strike. — Shuster won't be on the air today for his 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. shows, according to MSNBC insiders. Whether he returns before his contract expires in December is up for debate.
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Michael Hirschorn / New York Magazine:
Don't Cry for CNN — Thirty years ago, CNN, now in decline, was as revolutionary as Google. It had a pretty good run. — In the end, it's usually our principles that betray us. Former CNN chief Rick Kaplan told Ken Auletta in his 2004 biography of founder Ted Turner, “Basically, the Fox prime-time schedule is just talk radio.
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Death of the White House Press Corps — Hungry Beast Giving Beast Women in the World — Blogs and Stories — With a Twitter-savvy president and their own ailing media companies, Lloyd Grove finds the boys in the briefing room more depressed than ever.
Clint Hendler / CJR:
WikiLeaks Releases Video Showing Death of Reuters Staff — This morning at an event at the National Press Club, WikiLeaks screened a video depicting a missile strike on a van in Baghdad that killed a Reuters driver and photographer in 2007. — Wikileaks is a non-profit supported entity …
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Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
Web Publishers, Ad Nets at Odds — Publishers accuse ad nets of pitching what's not theirs — Recently, an advertiser received details on an online ad campaign delivered by the ad network interCLICK. The site list seemed ideal for the client's financial professionals target: Bloomberg.com …
Peter Kirwan / Guardian:
Is the FT the perfect digital model? — As ft.com turns 15, we examine the FT's mix of paywalls, increased subscriptions and newspaper cover price rises — Last year, amid the greatest recession in the history of the financial system, the Financial Times turned a profit.
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David Carr / New York Times:
The Media Equation: Sarah Palin's Lucrative Career in Mainstream Media — When Sarah Palin made her debut as the host of “Real American Stories” on Fox News on Thursday night, she described several triumphs of regular people over insurmountable odds, but she missed an obvious one: her own.
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Apple tried to prevent hiring of tech writer by Newsweek — Newsweek tech writer Dan Lyons was on “Reliable Sources” on Sunday morning talking about the coverage of Apple's new iPad and revealed that the company has not been happy with him for quite some time. — Here is an excerpt from the transcript:
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Branding Deals Come Early in the Filmmaking Process — LOS ANGELES — Jordan Yospe had some notes on the script for “The 28th Amendment,” a thriller about a president and a rogue Special Forces agent on the run. Some of the White House scenes were not detailed enough, Mr. Yospe thought.
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Roger Lathbury / New York Magazine:
Betraying Salinger — I scored the publishing coup of the decade: his final book. And then I blew it. — The first letter I got from J.D. Salinger was very short. It was 1988, and I had written to him with a proposal: I wanted my tiny publishing house, Orchises Press, to publish his novella Hapworth 16, 1924.
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