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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.
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.
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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.
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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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 …
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.
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 …
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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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.
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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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.
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.
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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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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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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