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John Koblin / New York Observer:
Battle of the Barons! — Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson and Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. met last week for the first time. They were at the Manhattan apartment of Sir Martin Sorrell, head of the big WPP advertising firm, and they were there for a dinner on the night of April 6.
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Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:
Shots Fired: New York Times Columnists Andrew Ross Sorkin and Paul Krugman's Beef Officially Cooked — Well-paid media celebrity and (purportedly) boyishly good-looking New York Times' star finance reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin is, as they say on the streets, “starting some s**t.”
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Obama's disregard for media reaches new heights at nuclear summit — World leaders arriving in Washington for President Obama's Nuclear Security Summit must have felt for a moment that they had instead been transported to Soviet-era Moscow. — They entered a capital that had become a military encampment …
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Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Politico parent's new local news site prepares for launch with audience and conversation at the forefront — The new D.C. local news site from Politico parent Allbritton still doesn't yet have a name, an official launch date ("June-ish," I hear), or a solid staff of reporters in place.
Chris Stevens / Recombu:
iBrothers Grimm: The eBook is dead, long live the eBook — This is a guest post by Chris Stevens. Chris is one half of Atomic Antelope, a small iPhone app studio with just two staff — one based in London, the other in Seattle, USA. They have made the iPad's best-selling children's book app to date.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter's Entire Archive Headed to the Library of Congress — The U.S. Library of Congress announced this morning via its official Twitter account that it will be acquiring the entire archive of Twitter messages back through March 2006. In addition to a massive printed collection …
Erica Jong / The Huffington Post:
Oprah, Kitty and Me — I've never been able to control my public image. Because my first successful book was thought to be about sex, sex, sex, I got stuck being the happy ho of literature and that image has been hard to dodge — especially in sex-crazed puritanical, America.
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Southern uncomfort — Time Inc. Executive Vice President Sylvia Auton actively lobbied Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes to spin off the embattled magazine unit, saying it was hampered by being part of the media conglomerate. — The move, which Auton denies, was said to have come last November …
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Piet Bakker / Newspaper Innovation:
Interactive newspaper pages on iPhone — Software developer Kooaba.com introduced an iPhone application that can recognize print content. Swiss free daily 20 Minuten now has its pages made available for the application. — Taking picture of the content stores it on the iPhone …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Apple: U.S. iPad Sales Are Booming, So Everyone Else Has to Wait Another Month — Live outside the U.S. and want to get your hands on an iPad? You're going to have to wait an extra month, says Apple (AAPL). — Release:
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
@ ASNE: Brady: 'Can't Build Business Models On What People Should Pay For' — For all the coverage and all the talk about paywalls, you might expect a full house when Journalism Online consultant Merrill Brown asked a roomful of editors how many worked in newsrooms considering the notion.
Philip M. Stone / FollowTheMedia:
Would You Want To Buy A Newspaper Business These Days? — Owning a newspaper once was likened to owning a license to print money - margins above 30%, fabulous cash flow — it was a great business to be in. We won't dwell on the past few years when that stack of cards came tumbling down …
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Julia Boorstin / Media Money with Julia Boorstin:
Google's Chief Economist on Data and Ad Strategy — I'm reporting from the Ad Age Digital conference in Manhattan, where Google Chief Economist Hal Varian spoke about the role of data in ad strategy. Varian is Google's chief number cruncher, the guy who sorts through the limitless piles …
Jonathan Fuhrman / Mediaite:
Jimmy Fallon Blossoms Into A Late Night Staple — Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is funny. There, I said it. Getting it out there in the open for all to see/hear/read/absorb/inhale (you get the point) is therapeutic. I honestly feel better already. If you have been staying …
Eve Conant / Newsweek:
Have Republicans Been Out-Foxed? — Some conservatives are beginning to question whether Fox News is good for their movement. — GOP Sen. Tom Coburn scored a perfect 100 on the American Conservative Union's rankings for lawmakers last year. That makes him one of the last people you'd expect …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Twitter to Rival Ad Players: Tread Carefully — Twitter has started showing ads to its users. But Twitter is not the only one doing this-there's a host of start-ups trying to insert ads into the Twitter stream, and more on the way. — So here's a question: Will Twitter force publishers …
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Frank Sennett / The TOC Blog:
Huffington Post denies controversial quote about Kachingle — Last Thursday, media reporter Mike Miner posted an addendum to his latest column on the Chicago Reader's blog. The post, headlined, “HuffPo — We Can't Have That...,” contained a serious allegation about The Huffington Post.
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Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:
Whedon To Direct Marvel's ‘The Avengers’ — I'm told Marvel Studios is in final negotiations for Buffy the Vampire Slayer series architect Joss Whedon to direct Marvel Studios' The Avengers. That's the fast-tracked film that would amount to an all-star team of Marvel superheros …
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Maria Conde / Editors Weblog:
British PM Brown: readers unlikely to pay for basic online news — Gordon Brown is the latest public figure to voice his opinion on the feasibility of pay walls. Although Brown admitted that readers should be encouraged to pay and would probably do so for some online content …
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Felix Salmon:
Questions answered on business blogging — I got an email this morning from a journalism student with a few questions; I thought if I was answering them I might as well do so on the blog, for anybody else interested. — 1) How and why were business bloggers able to gain so much respect …
Andrea Pitzer / Nieman Storyboard:
From Treme to the 9/11 Commission Report: index as story — Sunday night's Treme debut found a companion in Monday morning's Times-Picayune: “HBO's Treme Explained.” The New Orleans paper will offer a weekly encyclopedic post explaining culture and geography from each episode of the show …
Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig:
The Future of Journalism Is Written in Neon — My search for the I.F. Stone of the 21st century took me to the campus of the University of Southern California and the highly energized office of the Web-based news operation Neon Tommy, sponsored by USC's Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism.
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Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
ABC News Employees Upset Over Amanpour This Week Hire — Ever since the non-ABC News hire of Christiane Amanpour for This Week anchor, rumors have circulated about employee discontent over the decision as well as questions over what the show would become with a more internationally-focused anchor at the helm.
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