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Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Mike Allen, the Man the White House Wakes Up To — Before he goes to sleep, between 11 and midnight, Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director, typically checks in by e-mail with the same reporter: Mike Allen of Politico, who is also the first reporter Pfeiffer corresponds with after he wakes up at 4:20.
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Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
Politico announces hires from NYO, NYP, Newsweek, other news outlets — We have lots of exciting staff moves, so let's get straight to the news: — Hillary Frey, formerly of the New York Observer, is our new media and style editor. Hillary can flat-out write — and her mission is simple …
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
8M iPhone Gawker(s) — The next-generation iPhone that fell into the hands of an editor at Gawker Media's tech Web site Gizmodo has been returned to Apple, likely putting to rest questions about whether Gawker might be on the hook for being in possession of stolen property.
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Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:
Why Apple Should Sue Gawker Over ‘Lost’ iPhone Story
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The Awl, Inquirer, Charles Apple, Technovia, NowPublic.com, Gizmodo, Talking Biz News, Doc Searls Weblog, PC Magazine, Edible Apple, PC World, The Moderate Voice, Oddly Together and The Wire
Joel Johnson / Gizmodo:
Apple Didn't Leak the iPhone—and Why That Matters
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Media Week:
Reuters to overhaul website and hints at charging for content — LONDON - Reuters is set to relaunch its UK website, reuters.co.uk, this week and has hinted at the possibility of charging for elements of its content. — Reuters: overhauls website — The revamp of its website comes as Reuters …
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Risky Business: Omidyar's Hawaiian News Startup Civil Beat Comes With Steep Price Tag — It sounds as idyllic as the scenery: an online civic square launching May 4 where Hawaiians can, as founder Pierre Omdiyar explains, “learn about and better understand our home, the challenges we face …
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Pierre Omidyar / civilbeat.com:
Welcome to Honolulu Civil Beat — Welcome to Civil Beat! We're glad you're here. We are building a new civic square for Hawaii, and we hope you'll join us. — One thing I've noticed since moving back here four years ago is that Hawaii is blessed to have many people who are committed to making our Islands a better place to live.
Craig Newmark / The Huffington Post:
Trust, Factchecking, and the News Media Landscape To Come — What's Your Reaction: … Okay, you hear me talking “trust is the new black” and that power and influence will shift dramatically to the people and groups with the best reputations and largest networks.
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Alexandra Fenwick / CJR:
Checking In On “This Week's” Fact Checking — It's been about three weeks since ABC's “This Week” host, Jake Tapper, took up NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen on his challenge to fact check statements made by Sunday morning news show guests. — NBC's “Meet the Press” …
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:
TV Stations Record Rev Gains In Web Sites, Digital Efforts — TV stations' Web businesses fared better than newspapers' declining digital efforts in 2009, but TV is still behind in overall advertising share of media dollars. — According to new data from the Television Bureau of Advertising …
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Carl DiOrio / Hollywood Reporter:
‘Sex and the City 2’ tickets already a hot item — Sales ‘brisk’ even though sequel doesn't open for six weeks — Talk about hot to trot: Tickets to presumed summer sizzler “Sex and the City 2” began selling just over six weeks before the start of Warner Bros.' May 27 opener.
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
On the Media: KCBS ads masquerade as news — TV stations may call it “added value” advertising, but viewers are not the beneficiaries. — You would have to forgive viewers like the one who e-mailed me last month for being a bit confused about a news segment he saw on KCBS Channel 2.
Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
Late Nights at Disney Over Miramax: At $625M, Deal Close to Done — The Weinstein brothers' five-day negotiating window to try and seal the deal to buy the Miramax library from Disney expires on Wednesday, and it's not done yet. That said, the architecture of a final agreement has come into place …
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Blogs and Stories
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Gibbs: I Love the Press — Hungry Beast Giving Beast Women in the World — Blogs and Stories — Obama's press secretary Robert Gibbs tells Lloyd Grove that he loves, really loves the White House press corps. He also talks about losing weight, keeping a White House diary, and whether he'll ever run for office.
MediaPost:
Bank of America Sponsors History's ‘America’ — Cable network History is getting some unusual advertising/programming help for its massive 12-hour series “America: The Story of Us” from Bank of America. — Bank of America is not only the presenting sponsor of the series — it will produce …
Rafat Ali / paidContent:
Dow Jones Suing Briefing.com For Headlines “Misappropriation” — The news producers are getting antsier against the aggregators day-by-day, and who else but Rupert Murdoch to lead the charge. Dow Jones, part of News Corp (NYSE: NWS). has filed a lawsuit against Briefing.com, the “live” …
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Bloomberg, the Econsultancy blog, FishbowlNY, BtoB Magazine, Romenesko, The Wire and News Corp. Blog
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Alexei Oreskovic / MediaFile:
Google unveils new ads in bid to tap into local merchant market — Google is revamping its efforts to court local merchants, as the Internet search giant faces a growing band of rivals aiming for a piece of the lucrative small business market. — On Monday, Google introduced …
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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Maria Bartiromo Takes ‘Enduring Success’ to the Empire — Maria Bartiromo greets the crowd at her book party tonight. As CNBC president Mark Hoffman, correspondent Scott Wapner and anchor Trish Regan look on. — We're just back from the Empire Hotel on Manhattan's Upper West Side …
Tim Carmody / Snarkmarket:
What's the basic unit of reading? — See, we've got this problem. — We've got a bunch of conventions about the ways we read and write which don't have as much to do with how we read and write as we thought they did. — We've got books and newspapers and magazines, and articles and stories …
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