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Phil Bronstein / SFGate:
Bill Gates on Journalism and Social Media (and the iPad, too) — Bill Gates strikes me as a guy who rarely says anything other than what he wants to say. And these days he's largely talking about the big, multi-billion dollar philanthropic work of his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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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Jack Neff / AdAge:
Nielsen: Facebook's Ads Work Pretty Well — When Social Ads Collide With Stated Interests, Awareness Goes Up — BATAVIA, Ohio (AdAge.com) — It pays to have fans on Facebook if you want your ads to work there too, according to the first public study to come out of the collaboration of Nielsen Co. and Facebook.
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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.
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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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Choire / The Awl:
How Much Gizmodo Paid for the Next iPhone: $5K Plus Bonus
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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 bet on it before. Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures have poured another $5 million into Tumblr …
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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:
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Forbes Offers Media Bloggers Chance to Work For Free — Forbes is seeking to put together a top-flight team of media bloggers! They offer bloggers the chance to write for “millions of Forbes readers.” In return, bloggers get no money. Sound good? — Sad to see such an established name falling …
Jason Fell / Folio:
Reedtown Massacre Reveals the Future of the Trade Media Business — The trade media business, such as it was, has been ripped apart and largely destroyed by Google. The musical chairs game that private equity players have been playing is finally out of seats and many household names …
Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
Kate Kelly: CNBC's New Charlie Gasparino — CNBC made its official announcement yesterday that it had hired veteran Wall Street Journal reporter Kate Kelly. We jumped on the phone with her to talk about the move. — “I wasn't looking to leave The Journal per se,” she told us.
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Tom Shales / Washington Post:
Tom Shales on TV: Is Larry King's CNN reign nearing its end? — “Respected U.S. newsman Larry King has filed for divorce from his country-singer wife, Shawn Southwick,” the wire service story says dryly. It seems simple enough until you stop to wonder: Is “respected U.S. newsman Larry King” …
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:
MediaBugs Launches with Plan to ‘Fix the News’ by Tracking Mistakes, Corrections — MediaBugs — an open-source, correction-tracking service — plans to launch publicly today with the goal of helping to build trust between journalists and the audiences they serve.
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Yahoo Buys The Me.me Domain For Its Twitter-Like Microblogging Site — Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is apparently still going full-force with its Twitter competitor, Yahoo Meme. The company has now bought up the oh-so-clever domain name, Me.me, from the .ME domain registry, which is based in the country of Montenegro.
Mark Briggs / Journalism 2.0:
NPR executing the ultimate distribution strategy — Still think NPR is a cute little public radio station? Think again. — The same technology that brought Google Maps to so many websites - the Application Programming Interface (API) - is now enabling NPR to become a distribution juggernaut.
Greg Braxton / Los Angeles Times:
Los Angeles newscasts are waking up earlier — TV stations are pouring considerable resources into winning the race for early morning viewers. — The streets are dark, the sun has not yet risen and most residents are still sleeping. But the daily war on the local TV front is already blazing.
Editor and Publisher:
Newspaper Guild President to FCC: Media Consolidation Impairs Journalism, Democracy — NEW YORK Newspaper Guild-CWA President Bernard Lunzer, scheduled to speak Tuesday afternoon in Tampa, Fla., at a Federal Communications Commission workshop on broadcast-newspaper cross-ownership …
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 …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Hitler Is Very Upset That Constantin Film Is Taking Down Hitler Parodies — For my money, memes on the Internet don't get any better than the Hitler one. You know, the one in which you take some current event (the more mundane, the better) and shove it into the scene from the German film Downfall …
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
Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
Research: Music recommendation is *the* big opportunity — For all the talk of recommendation systems, serendipity currently plays a more important part in triggering searches for music online. — That's one of the surprising conclusions from new research by Gartner into how UK consumers find music online …
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 …
/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 …
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