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Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Three ways Apple's iAd might impact the news industry's continued advertising woes — Apple's Steve Jobs just unveiled iAd, the company's new advertising platform for the iPhone and iPad. It's an ad platform designed for apps, like the news apps that many news organizations make …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Did Apple Just Kick Adobe (And Wired Magazine) in the Teeth? — It looks like Apple just stepped up its attacks against Adobe and its Flash standard — used throughout the Web and apparently hated with much passion by Steve Jobs. — If Daring Fireball's John Gruber is correct in parsing Apple's …
Kunur Patel / AdAge:
Apple's iAd Not Game-Changing, but Will Move Market — Developers to Get 60% of Ad Revenue Sold for Apps — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Apple unveiled its take on mobile advertising — the iAd — which looks a lot like the kind of rich media units we've begun to see on many mobile ad networks.
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
In Big Bet, Oprah to Become Nocturnal — The Queen of Daytime Is Becoming Nocturnal; A Big Bet for Her Network — Ms. Winfrey at a ‘Precious: Based On The Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire’ press conference in 2009. — America's daytime talk-show queen is heading out at night.
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
HuffPo Launches Separate ‘Twitter Edition’; More Focus On Real-Time News — The Huffington Post is launching a “Twitter edition” that is intended to serve as an extension and a distinct entity from the main news and opinion site, the company told paidContent.
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Michael Wolff / Newser:
Sound and Fury: Here's What Sharon Waxman Really Wants — Follow him on Twitter @MichaelWolffNYC — Sharon Waxman, who runs a website called the Wrap, which covers show business, continues to accuse Newser of various ethical sleights of hand with regard to the way we present the news …
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Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
Tribune announces settlement among major creditors — “This agreement will enable us to file our [bankruptcy reorganization] plan prior to next Tuesday's court hearing,” says a memo to Tribune employees. “It is another significant step forward as we continue to transform our media businesses …
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Chris Rovzar / New York Magazine:
The Journal New York Newsroom vs. the Times: A Tale of the Tape — The Wall Street Journal's brand-new New York city section is set to debut on April 26, with the not-so-hidden goal of escalating Rupert Murdoch's turf war with Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and the New York Times.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Wall Street Journal Pro Edition Now Available For Consumers ($49 per Month) — Back in October 2009, Dow Jones debuted a premium business news site dubbed The Wall Street Journal Professional Edition in an attempt to get companies to pay up $588 a year for access to more personalized, business-related news and analysis.
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Lauren Hatch / The Wire:
How Mediaite's Traffic Jumped More Than 50% Last Month — Mediaite.com, the media news site launched by NBC News chief legal analyst Dan Abrams, had a recent surge in traffic that hints at a bright future for the nearly one-year-old site. — Unique monthly visitors jumped from 1,051,283 …
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Lacey Rose / Forbes:
Glenn Beck Inc — In his empire there's the ideology—and then there's the money machine. — Five and a half hours before showtime Glenn Beck still isn't quite sure how he'll provide tonight's entertainment, “The Future of History”—two hours of monologue (and answers to preselected questions) …
Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
Nikkei Restricts Links to Its New Web Site — TOKYO — As news sites the world over scramble for revenue online, the largest Japanese business newspaper, The Nikkei, unveiled a new pay-to-view Web site last week. But it shocked readers with its hard-line policy banning links — even to its home page.
New York Times:
Hollywood Tries to Block Veriana and Cantor Futures Markets — LOS ANGELES — In a show of solidarity, many of the film industry's major players, and some sympathetic lawmakers, have aligned in an 11th-hour push to block new financial instruments that would allow traders to swap contracts tied to box-office results.
Political Punch:
THIS WEEK Joins With Politifact to Fact-Check the Newsmakers — As you may know, we're trying out some new things on THIS WEEK. Two weeks ago we started live-tweeting of the show (which will next happen at 10 am ET this Sunday). — This week we've invited Pulitzer Prize winning website PolitiFact …
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Freedom Communications' Valley Morning Star Drops Its Pay Wall — The Valley Morning Star in Harlingen, Texas, which was a test-bed for Freedom Communications' plans to potentially charge users for online access to its papers, returned to a free site last week less than a year after beginning to charge for online content.
Jason Fell / Folio:
Lawsuit Alleges Darker Side of Regional Lifestyle Publisher — Sometimes even the fastest-growing media companies hit a financial wall. Arizona-based magazine publisher 944 Media, which just last year said it was the largest and fastest growing lifestyle media conglomerate in the industry …
Business Week:
Conan O'Brien's Work in Progress — The former Tonight Show host is in play, but prospective TV and cable networks are struggling to find him the right time slot — The last time America saw Conan O'Brien, the red-haired, late-night talk show host was riffing on an electric guitar as comedian …
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Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
Orlando TV news director tells staff to name newsroom ‘battery drainers’ — WKMG Orlando news director Steve Hyvonen has ordered his staff to name “battery chargers” in the newsroom — people who have “a positive influence on what we do every day” — as well as the “battery drainers.”
Todd Spangler / Multichannel:
Juniper To Buy Startup To Deliver Internet TV — Networking Company to Acquire Ankeena for Less Than $100 Million — Juniper Networks plans to acquire startup Ankeena Networks, which has developed an Internet streaming-video system aimed at providing a “television-like viewing experience” …
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Helia Ebrahimi / Telegraph:
Gorkana founders online for £20m windfall — Online media business Gorkana has been sold to a private equity firm in a deal that will net its two entrepreneur founders a windfall of up to £20m. — Gorkana, an online jobs site with a database of more than 130,000 journalists …
Anthony De Rosa / Mediaite:
Staff Exodus Hastens Gawker's Next Evolution (Or De-Evolution?) — Gawker is losing one of its longest tenured writers, Alex Pareene, after it was reported by John Koblin at the New York Observer that he was leaving Nick Denton's employ for Salon's “War Room” blog.
Judith Thurman / The New Yorker Blog:
Libero's Reply — Correction appended. — Yesterday, I received an e-mail from Francesco Borgonovo, the editor of Libero, the conservative Italian newspaper that published Tommaso Debenedetti's fabricated interview with Philip Roth in November last year.
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