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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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Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Sulzberger Protects His Pretty Face as War Rages Around Him (Update: NYT Demands WSJ Apologize to Readers!) — The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal are locked in an old-fashioned newspaper war that will likely cost them both millions. But NYT publisher Pinch Sulzberger is still worried about being called a girly-man.
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Entertainment Weekly IPad App Recommends Music, TV and Movies — Then Lets You Buy — Integration With ITunes Provides a Cut of Sales for EW — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — When it comes to magazines on the iPad, interactive versions of regular print editions have gotten the spotlight so far.
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.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Twitter COO Dick Costolo Spills The Beans On The @anywhere Platform — Last month at SXSW, Twitter CEO Ev Williams announced @anywhere, a new platform that would allow external sites to integrate some key Twitter features (it sounds a lot like Facebook Connect).
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Twitter to Rival Ad Players: Tread Carefully
Twitter to Rival Ad Players: Tread Carefully
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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 …
Ethan Smith / Digits:
ABC Sees Success in iPad App — ABC is the only television network so far to offer an application for watching its shows free—with ads—on Apple Inc.'s new iPad tablet computer, and it says its business model is proving fruitful. … The network said that in the 10 days since the iPad's debut …
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:
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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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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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Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:
Dear Professor Krugman ...
Dear Professor Krugman ...
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Michael Triplett / Mediaite:
WorldNetDaily Blames Obama for WH Correspondent Dinner Snub — In between passing health care reform and negotiating a nuclear arms deal, President Obama influenced the White House Correspondents Association to deny conservative news outlet WorldNetDaily the three tables they requested …
Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
Advocates warn court of Viacom's “dangerous” DMCA proposals — A small battalion of public interest groups filed an amicus brief on Monday on behalf of YouTube in its battle with Viacom. The latter accuses the Google-owned company of massive, even “brazen,” copyright infringement of its content.
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
A Lot of ‘Jersey Shore’ Wannabes (But None for MTV) — MTV is not, I repeat, is not, preparing spinoffs of “Jersey Shore” featuring hard-partying Persian-Americans in Beverly Hills or blue-collar Red Sox fans in Boston. — Some bloggers presumed that MTV was behind the casting calls …
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
Ex-Gannett Digital Exec Saridakis Named CEO Of GSI Commerce Marketing Unit — A week after he announced his departure as Gannett's chief digital officer, Chris Saridakis has been tapped as CEO of GSI Commerce's (Nasdaq: GSIC) Marketing Services unit. Saridakis will oversee GSI's existing …
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
On the Media: Why no Pulitzer for the National Enquirer? — The tabloid's exposé of John Edwards' dalliance did get consideration, but perhaps a special prize is in order. — Deliberations on the Pulitzer Prizes in journalism can be a bit like the work of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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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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.
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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