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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.
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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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Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:
How Checkbook Journalism Gave Gizmodo Its iPhone Scoop
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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.
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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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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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 …
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:
Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Apple approves Pulitzer winner's iPhone app; cartoonist now free to mock the powerful on cell phones — Big update on the Mark Fiore story: His editorial cartoon app, NewsToons, is finally available for sale in the iTunes App Store. The app — smartly marketed as “the app Steve Jobs was talking about!”
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” …
John Koblin / New York Observer:
The New Yorker Names Nicholas Thompson Senior Editor — Nicholas Thompson is going to be a senior editor at The New Yorker. He starts on May 3. — Mr. Thompson, who has been a senior editor at Wired, is the third editor to be hired by the New Yorker in the last eight months.
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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.
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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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 …
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 …
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.
Katie Goldsmith / New York Magazine:
Anna Wintour Discusses Fashion Bloggers, Irving Penn, and Hamish Bowles's Surfing Lesson — Vogue's March feature on style bloggers may have been one indication that Anna Wintour embraces her fashion-obsessed Internet counterparts. But last night at Pratt Institute, where she spoke …
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Google Tunes Up Its Pitch For Local Ad Dollars — Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is renewing its push for the ad dollars of local businesses with an overhaul of its Local Business Center, which it is now calling Google Places. Via the Local Business Center, businesses have for more than eight months …
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.
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.
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 …
Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
Eggers tells editors how much he loves the print edition — “I don't know what I would do if I didn't have two, three daily papers a day to read,” Dave Eggers said at last week's ASNE conference. “I don't want to read online. I don't want to wake up and look at a screen. ...
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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 …
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 …
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