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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
How Apple Lost the Next iPhone — The Gourmet Haus Staudt. A nice place to enjoy good German ales. And if you are an Apple Software Engineer named Gray Powell and you get one too many beers, it's also a nice place to lose the next-generation iPhone. — The 27-year-old Powell …
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Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:
Gizmodo's iPhone Scoop: The Nick Denton Interview — Maybe you heard, but yesterday, Gawker Media's gadget site Gizmodo published quite a story. It might be short of hyperbole to note their “get” of a new iPhone prototype as one of the biggest scoops in tech reporting history.
Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert To Stay on Comedy Central Through 2012 Election — With Conan O'Brien about to change the calculus of late-night cable programming, the Comedy Central channel has made a move to lock up its two dominant stars, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
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The Wire:
News Corp Will Reap An Additional $1 Billion Making People Pay For Content, Says Macquarie (NWS) — After meeting with News Corp management, Macquarie is reiterating their positive stance on the company, and highlighting the enormous revenue opportunities ahead. — Macquarie's Ben Stretch:
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Tumblr Raises Another $5 Million From Spark and Union Square. Now It Wants Your Money. — Who wants to bet on a Web company with lots of users but very little revenue? The same people who have bet on it before. Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures have poured another $5 million into Tumblr …
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Facebook, Nielsen Try To Put A Value On ‘Earned’ Media — Lots of nifty stats from Nielsen and Facebook in the first major report since they started partnering on data last fall—and you won't be shocked to hear that it all bolsters their ideas about the value of social media advertising.
David Eaves / eaves.ca:
Why Old Media and Social Media Don't Get Along — Earlier today I did a brief drop in phone interview on CPAC's Goldhawk Live. The topic was “Have social media and technology changed the way Canadians get news?” and Christoper Waddell, the Director of Carleton University's School of Journalism …
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Reinventing the Newsroom
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
BlackArrow Raises $20 Million More For “New TV” Ad Systems — BlackArrow, which sells ad systems designed to reach what the company calls users of “new-TV” (DVR customers, mobile TV etc.) has raised $20 million in a third round of funding. The round was led by NDS Group …
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Updated: AdAge.com's Paywall Shifting To Metered Model — AdAge.com will significantly limit free access to articles on its website later this week, when it institutes a metered paywall. Starting Wednesday, non-subscribers will be able to access up to three stories in a given 24-hour period …
Paige Albiniak / Broadcasting & Cable:
Litton to Produce Six New E/I Shows For ABC Stations — ‘Ocean Mysteries,’ ‘Earth: Angry Planet,’ and ‘CultureClick’ among new offerings — Litton Studios, a division of Litton Entertainment, has signed a deal to exclusively produce six new half-hour educational and informational series …
/Film:
Development on Bond 23 Suspended Indefinitely; MGM Woes to Blame — Remember last year when MGM's bankruptcy troubles first came to light and we were relatively optimistic that the future of the James Bond franchise was not much in doubt? Well, we're less optimistic now …
Danny Shea / The Huffington Post:
Oprah Dismisses Kitty Kelley Book: ‘So-Called Biography’ — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Oprah dismissed Kitty Kelley's controversial book about her at a luncheon Monday afternoon in New York. — Speaking at the New York Women in Communications' annual Matrix Awards lunch …
Dean Starkman / CJR:
Mangling “Power Problem” — Heidi N. Moore, an ex-WSJ staffer and vocal defender of the business press, has been Twittering like mad to lambaste anyone who might question the MSM's performance covering financial institutions before the great crash of '08, which, of course, took everyone …
Yvette Kantrow / The Deal LLC:
Franchise player — When The New York Observer broke the news that Jeffrey McCracken, The Wall Street Journal's mergers and acquisitions reporter, was leaving the paper for Bloomberg, it called the deal beat “one of the biggest and most vital franchises at the Journal.”
Rachel Whetstone / The Official Google Blog:
Controversial content and free expression on the web: a refresher — Two and a half years ago, we outlined our approach to removing content from Google products and services. Our process hasn't changed since then, but our recent decision to stop censoring search on Google.cn has raised …
Tom Petner / TVWeek.com:
Sign Off: Multimedia, Multitasking and Mediocre Everything — Sign Off: Multimedia, Multitasking and Mediocre Everything — There's good news and bad news to report in the homogenization of local TV news. — The good news is who's getting hired these days in the reporting ranks.
Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:
Did ‘Wall Street Journal’ Editor Fudge His Role in Sulzberger Photo Prank? — Rupert Murdoch's minions may have thought they were engaging in a bit of harmless fun when they used the face of Arthur Sulzberger Jr., publisher of The New York Times, in a photo illustration for a story …
Steven Levy / Wired:
Steven Levy on Typos in the Kindle Age — Before a recent trip, I downloaded the latest Stephen Hunter novel to my Kindle. Hunter writes about shooters, so it's not surprising that the name of the book is I, Sniper. — Not that you'd know it from the title screen. The only words on that e-ink page were “I, Snipper.”
Mike Stern / Media Life Magazine:
For radio, alas, fading of the shock jock — Indecency complaints to the FCC are down dramatically — Is the shock gone from shock jock radio? — So it appears. — Not so many years ago, much of American radio's mornings, indeed much of its day, were filled with off-color musings …
MediaPost:
CNBC Hires 2 New ‘Business Day’ Reporters — CNBC announced that Herb Greenberg and Kate Kelly will join the network. Greenberg will be senior stocks commentator and Kelly will be a reporter focusing on Wall Street. Both will appear daily during CNBC's “Business Day” programming and on CNBC.com.
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Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
People StyleWatch Gains as It Blurs Ad Lines — It may be a dreary time in the magazine business, but you wouldn't know it inside the offices of People StyleWatch, a bright spot in the industry. Here, on the 29th floor of the Time & Life building, it is girlie heaven …