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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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Arianna huffs about overbooked celebs at WHCD — Like a Real Housewife of New Jersey, Arianna Huffington was flipping tables, well, at least metaphorically. — Because like most media organizations that placed a bid for White House Correspondents dinner tables, the Huffington Post founder didn't get her way.
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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.
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).
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 …
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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.
Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
Financial Site: ‘Hot News’ Ruling Drives Away Customers — The financial newsletter TheFlyonthewall.com says that it's losing subscribers due to a court order banning it from posting early morning summaries of banks' stock recommendations. — “Defendant is presented with the day-to-day challenge …
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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David Kaplan / paidContent:
IAB Hopes To Head Off Regs With ‘Transparency Seal’ — With the online ad industry's self-policing regime constantly under attack from privacy advocates and lawmakers, the Interactive Advertising Bureau is working with the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) on doing more outreach to consumers …
Meghan Keane / the Econsultancy blog:
Will the iPad usher in a “post-scroll era”? Gawker's a convert. — Publications large and small are looking to the iPad as a way to revolutionize digital content consumption. But one potential flaw in their iPad strategy is the issue of price. Many publishers are charging …
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Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Advertising: Marketers Placing More Products Into Plots — FOR decades, the logo “As seen on TV” has appeared in advertising to indicate that the product in question is promoted in television commercials. Now the logo is taking on another meaning: the product may be incorporated into the plot line of a show.
Jennifer Saba / Editor and Publisher:
J.P. Morgan Forecasts a ‘Strong’ Q1 for Newspapers — NEW YORK Newspaper advertising revenue is expected to make a modest comeback this year with overall percentage declines estimated to be in the low single-digit range, according to a Q1 preview from J.P. Morgan.
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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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Russian Billionaire/Former Soviet Spy to Speak at World Editors Forum — NEW YORK Russian billionaire banker and former Soviet spy Alexander Lebedev, who now owns the London-based Evening Standard and the Independent, has joined the program of the World Editors Forum, June 7-10 in Beirut, Lebanon.
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.
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