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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 …
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Mark S. Luckie / 10,000 Words:
Online and multimedia storytelling from the 2010 Pulitzer Prize winners — In today's digital media environment, it's not enough to produce a lengthy print piece — you've got to have some sort of web element that adds to and enhances it. The following Pulitzer Prize-winning stories show …
Charles McNulty / Los Angeles Times:
Critic's Notebook: On this year's drama award, the Pulitzer board blew it — In honoring ‘Next to Normal,’ the board ignored the advice of its drama jury in favor of its own sentiments, says Pulitzer jurist Charles McNulty. — The musical's rock score may be generic and its understanding …
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Twitter Unveils Plans to Draw Money From Ads — Twitter will unveil on Tuesday a much-anticipated plan for making money from advertising, finally answering the question of how the company expects to turn its exponential growth into revenue. — The advertising program …
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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Twitter Has a Business Model: ‘Promoted Tweets’ — Search Ads For Twitter That Split Difference Between ‘Earned’ and ‘Paid’ Media — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — In the four years since Twitter launched, two questions have hung over the micro-blog service: Can it make money? If so, how?
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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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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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Angela Natividad / mipblog:
MIPTV Liveblog: Twitter as Friend, Not Foe, to Media Players
Stuart Dredge / Mobile Entertainment:
Twitter: ‘We almost make the EPG irrelevant’
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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AdAge:
Apple to Lend Hand to IAd Producers — Early Adopters Get an Added Bonus: Some Fairy Dust From Company Itself — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Apple's not just getting into the business of selling ads. They're going to make them as well, at least in the beginning for the earliest adopters of the new iAd format.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Is Apple Closing Off the iPhone to Rival Ad Networks?
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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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
YC's NewsTilt Aims To Help Journalists Create A Business Model For Content — The business and content models behind news have been changing dramatically over the past few years; with the mechanisms by which journalists interact with their audiences constantly transforming along the way.
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Reinventing the Newsroom:
Putting Demand Media to the Test — Last week I read in the Los Angeles Times that Demand Media is now supplying text and video to USA Today, creating a new section called Travel Tips. — I've gone on record as not exactly being a fan of Demand Media, though I think my perspective …
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Nat Ives / AdAge:
New York Times Revamps Business Section Online — Move Is Latest, but Not First, Play for Wall Street Journal's Readers and Advertisers — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Even as The Wall Street Journal prepares a New York edition aimed squarely at New York Times readers and advertisers …
Journalism.org:
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 …
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Google to Open-source VP8 for HTML5 Video — Google will soon make its VP8 video codec open source, we've learned from multiple sources. The company is scheduled to officially announce the release at its Google I/O developers conference next month, a source with knowledge of the announcement said.
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Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:
‘Modern Family’ Cast Will All Compete For Supporting Emmys After Ed O'Neill Gesture — EXCLUSIVE: When Modern Family star Ed O'Neill submits himself this week for Emmy Awards consideration, he will do it in the Supporting Actor category, despite being the biggest name star on the hit ABC sitcom.