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Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Conan O'Brien Will Do a Late-Night Show on TBS — In a move that qualifies as a shocker, Conan O'Brien has made a deal to return to television in a new late-night show on cable—not network—television. — The former “Tonight Show” host has agreed to start up a new show on TBS …
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Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
How the Conan O'Brien-TBS Deal Happened — Conan O'Brien's manager, Gavin Polone, said that a whirlwind negotiation of only about 10 days led the late-night star to leave network television and jump to the cable network, TBS. — “They called us about a week and a half ago,” Mr. Polone said, in outlining how the negotiations began.
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Josef Adalian / The Wrap:
Shocker: Conan Headed Back to TV— On TBS, Not Fox — You snooze, you lose: Conan O'Brien is bringing his late-night act to Time Warner-owned cable network TBS, breaking off talks with Fox and making plans to move to cable in November. — O'Brien and Fox had been enaged in serious discussions …
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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The future is mobile, and other thoughts from Google CEO Eric Schmidt's speech at ASNE — Yes, he got the inevitable “shouldn't you pay content providers?” question from an audience member. And, yes, he gave the inevitable “most news organizations actually want the traffic we provide” answer.
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
@ ASNE: Google's Schmidt: ‘We Have A Business Model Problem, Not A News Problem’ — Eric Schmidt came to DC Sunday night to praise, not to bury newspapers, deftly massaging egos about the value of journalism while sliding in all the reasons they should still be concerned about the future …
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2010 Pulitzer Prize winners: — Journalism — Public Service - Bristol (Va.) Herald Courier — Breaking News Reporting - The Seattle Times Staff — Investigative Reporting - Barbara Laker and Wendy Ruderman of the Philadelphia Daily News and Sheri Fink of ProPublica, in collaboration with The New York Times Magazine
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John Koblin / New York Observer:
Washington Post Edges Times in Pulitzers; Journal Shut Out Once Again — The Washington Post edged out the Times today and took home four Pulitzers to lead all newspapers in the 2010 Pulitzer Prizes. — It's a big win for Post editor Marcus Brauchli who has gone through a year marred …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Twitter Launches A New Guide For Media Organizations — Twitter has just launched a new site called Twitter Media, where it's offering media organizations and journalists some case studies and guidelines to better connect with their Twitter fans. Alongside the new portal, Twitter has also launched an official Twitter Media account.
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Pew Poll Finds Pessimism Among Journalists — Most newspaper and broadcast news editors think American journalism is in decline, and about half believe that their employers will go out of business if they do not find new sources of revenue, according to a survey to be released on Monday.
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NEWS LEADERS AND THE FUTURE — NEWS EXECUTIVES, SKEPTICAL OF GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES, — SEE OPPORTUNITY IN TECHNOLOGY BUT ARE UNSURE — ABOUT REVENUE AND THE FUTURE — America's news executives are hesitant about many of the alternative funding ideas being discussed for journalism today …
Lauren Collins / New Yorker:
Kitty Kelley takes on Oprah Winfrey. — In February of 1988, Oprah Winfrey, the host of a year-and-a-half-old, already extremely popular talk show, landed her first big celebrity guest and flew to Los Angeles for what she has called “the worst interview of my life.”
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Guy Adams / The Independent:
The power of Oprah — Virtually no television network has shown interest in Kitty Kelley's new biography of the chat-show host — She has built her fame and considerable fortune by baring her soul to a nation of telly addicts on an almost daily basis. But despite her carefully cultivated …
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
News Sites Rethink Anonymous Online Comments — From the start, Internet users have taken for granted that the territory was both a free-for-all and a digital disguise, allowing them to revel in their power to address the world while keeping their identities concealed.
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Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
NSFW: I Admit It, The iPad Is A Kindle Killer. I Just Wish It Weren't Going To Kill Reading Too — For one reason or another, I've spent the past few weeks down at the TechCrunch offices. As a result, it's proved almost impossible to avoid iPad fanboy hysteria.
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Media Notes: Are newspaper critics old hat amid the flood of online critics? — In the broad sweep of media history, the cancellation of “At the Movies” may simply mark the end of a program that had passed its sell-by date. — Or the demise of the old Siskel & Ebert vehicle may …
Bill Carter / New York Times:
Leno at Top of Late Night TV, With Older Viewers — EUGENE, Ore. — As Conan O'Brien starts his post-NBC career on a stage here Monday night with the kickoff of his Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour, his former employer, NBC, finds itself reliving the good old days …
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Nielsen Wire:
Nielsen's Inaugural ‘Fourth Screen Report’ for Location-Based Video Ad Networks — An estimated 237 million place-based video ads were displayed to adult audiences each month in the last four months of 2009, according to a new report released today by Nielsen.
Joe Strupp / Strupp:
NBC News Partners With The Advocate — NBC News has cut a deal with The Advocate for its NBC News Channel affiliate service that will allow the two sides to trade stories and reporting, according to Sharon Houston, an NBC executive producer overseeing the partnership.
Felix Gillette / New York Observer:
Amid Major Staff Reductions, ABC News Teams Up With Daylife to Ramp Up Aggregated Content — Today, ABC News announced that is has teamed up with New York based company Daylife (creators of a publishing platform once described in The Observer as “Huffington Post in a box") to boost its digital reporting with some 70,000 topic pages.
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Digital ad share at newspapers hits new low — The newspaper industry is falling farther and farther behind in the life-or-or-death mission of shifting its revenue base from print to the interactive media. — New data released last week show that online advertising revenues at newspapers …
Josh Kosman / New York Post:
Unclear future — If radio giant Clear Channel Communications can't restructure its debt in the next few years, it will likely collapse, sources told the Post. — And that is exactly what some of its large creditors want. — Clear Channel, the nation's largest radio station owner …
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Mark Walsh / MediaPost:
Yahoo Strikes Content Deal With Reveille, Debuts Toyota-Backed Show — Yahoo Monday announced a new content production deal with Reveille—the studio behind TV hits including “The Office” and Showtime's “The Tudors”—and the launch of its first original daily news show, “Who Knew?” with Reveille and sponsor Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A.
Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:
Journalism is not a zero-sum game — Last Friday I took part in a debate organised by UNESCO to promote World Press Freedom Day (full video here). Lined up to argue in support of the motion that “Unregulated political comment online helps the democratic process” were Sunny Hundal …
Sara Libby / Salon:
What about the next great female pundit? — Respected Op-Ed pages may be getting young new blood, but they're still mostly made up of white men — Late last week, Politico's Michael Calderone fretted over the fact that so many young, wonder-boy pundits were climbing to the top …
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