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Joe Coscarelli / Runnin' Scared:
Talking Points Preview: Early Notes on New York Magazine's “Life is Tweet” Start-Up Guide — Every week, as the clock strikes midnight and Monday begins, New York magazine releases its new issue online. Because the April 26 issue is about the internet, I went to the corner magazine store …
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Doree Shafrir / New York Magazine:
Tweet Tweet Boom Boom — A new generation of tech entrepreneurs in the city is trying to overthrow old media and build a better New York—with the help of their iPhones. Are they dreaming? Definitely. But in a good way. — On any given day in New York City, there are usually close to a dozen …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Volcano-Stranded Travelers Turn to Social Media — The Icelandic volcano eruption that stranded hundreds of thousands of travellers in Europe and elsewhere on Friday showed no signs of letting up on the weekend, continuing to belch a plume of ash that covered much of the European continent.
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Press airs grievances to Gibbs — White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs met with a delegation from the White House press corps for 75 minutes on Thursday in an effort to improve frayed relations between the two sides. — Ed Chen, a White House correspondent for Bloomberg News …
Jay Rosen / Public Notebook:
David Gregory: “No, I won't fact check my guests and you guys can't make me...” A time line. — David Gregory, the host of NBC's Meet the Press, has painted himself into a strange corner with his assertion that there's no need to fact check what his guests say on the air because viewers can do that “on their own terms.”
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New York Post:
CNBC ‘Power’ shuffle — Change is afoot at CNBC. We hear the cable network is cutting its two-hour “Power Lunch” show in half and will devote the leftover hour to a new show, “Strategy Session,” hosted by David Faber, and an expanded version of “Fast Money Halftime Report,” from 15 minutes to 30.
Laura Sydell / NPR:
Is Apple Acting Like An Old-Time, Broadcast Network? — Back in the day when broadcast networks ruled, they cast a wary eye on anything too political or provocative. — When Joan Baez went on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1968, CBS censored the dedication to her husband who was in jail for resisting the draft.
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Ian Shapira / Washington Post:
After Pulitzer win, saga for reporter and story continues — BRISTOL, VA. — The scrappy reporter just a few years out of college got a tip from a reader: Thousands of property owners who controlled the rights to the natural gas beneath their land were being stiffed out of millions of dollars in royalties.
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Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
CNBC Guest Calls Jim Cramer “Public Relations Officer” For Goldman Sachs — The Goldman Sachs fraud lawsuit news today has the business news networks becoming must-see TV - and not just for the occasional curse word that slips out on-air. — Today during Jim Cramer's segment on CNBC's Street Signs …
Benedict Evans / paidContent:
Why iPad Won't Silence The Newspaper Presses — The iPad is a beautiful device that offers new ways to consume and interact with content. — Newspapers are piling in with paid services that some - like Rupert Murdoch - hope will offset the decline of their print businesses.
David Gelles / Financial Times:
Facebook to target ads based on users' trail — Facebook has laid the ground for a new system that would track its users' behaviour as they visit other sites around the internet, using the information to deliver highly targeted advertisements to them on the social networking site.
Michael Roberts / The Latest Word:
Ignore user: New web tool lets readers block other kinds of tools — annoying commenters — The more often a given commentator visits a newspaper website, the more likely he is to decide that some of the other commentators bug the hell out of him. — But now, readers …
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