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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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Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:
How Did The Wall Street Journal Escape Its $80 Million Hole? — Maybe Les Hinton did deserve that publisher of the year award after all. Anyone who can take a newspaper from an $80 million loss in one year to a profit in the next year — and in this economy, no less — deserves some kind of prize.
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.
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 …
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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.
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 …
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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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 …
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).
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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Guardian:
“Journalism in the digital age: trends, tools and technologies” — At the recent Edinburgh International Science Festival, The Guardian hosted a panel event which featured Scotland correspondent Severin Carrell, Guardian Local launch editor Sarah Hartley and Iain Hepburn of the Daily Record.
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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Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat:
‘South Park’ and ‘Avenue Q’ Guys Bringing ‘Book of Mormon’ to Broadway — Oh my God: they're going to Broadway. A long-gestating musical from the “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and Robert Lopez, a co-creator of “Avenue Q,” is bound for the Great White Way in March 2011, its producers announced on Wednesday.
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.
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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 …
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.
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