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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 …
Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Washington Post tool integrates Facebook with its site — In a move to create a more social experience on its site, The Washington Post has launched a new tool that integrates Facebook with how users navigate the site, allowing users to “like” any story and follow what their friends like or share …
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Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Facebook to Kill Facebook Connect — Facebook Connect, the company's tool for bringing your social graph to third-party websites, will soon be no more. — During a press conference today at Facebook's F8 conference in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the Facebook Connect brand …
Sebastien Provencher / The Praized Blog:
Facebook Launches Like Button for the Web: Why It Might Not Be For Your Site
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism:
Guardian's Emily Bell named director of Tow Center for Digital Journalism — Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism today announces that Emily Bell, Director of Digital Content for Britain's Guardian News and Media, has been named the Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism.
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Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
The Guardian's Emily Bell Splits to Head Columbia Journalism School's Digital Center — Emily Bell, appearing here at the Association of Online Publishers' Digital Publishing Summit 2008, will head Columbia University's new digital journalism program (photo courtesy of AOP).
Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:
Student journalists need to learn SEO more than they need AP style — By Robert Niles: Last week, journalists reacting to the Associated Press's announcement that it would replace “Web site” with “website” in the AP Stylebook pushed the phrase “AP Stylebook” onto Twitter's trending topics list.
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
MSNBC Pulls the Plug on Donny Deutsch's Weeklong Anchoring Stint — A week-long anchoring stint on MSNBC by Donny Deutsch ended abruptly on Wednesday, and four people briefed on the decision said the cancellation stemmed from an unflattering mention of that channel's No. 1 anchor, Keith Olbermann, a day earlier.
Choire / The Awl:
Gabriel Snyder Now Executive Editor of ‘Newsweek’ Digital — Oh, it's a tricky job—as Devin Gordon found out. The former editor of Gawker, however, is yet just the latest victim of the hiring thaw in Manhattan media!
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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David Kaplan / paidContent:
State Of Gadget Media: Gawker's ‘Lost’ iPhone Story: Denton Would Do It Again — The big device news this week was Gizmodo's post about the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) engineer who lost a prototype for the next generation iPhone. Naturally, that was the lead topic kicking off paidContent parent ContentNext's State …
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New York Post:
CBS wants to take on ‘The View’ — CBS President Les Moonves' wife, Julie Chen, could soon be the face of a new daytime panel chat show for mothers. Chen — who has a son, Charlie, with Moonves — and “Roseanne” star and lesbian mom Sara Gilbert are preparing to shoot a pilot for the network for a show to rival ABC's “The View.”
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Anil Dash:
Know Your S**t: Ten Years of Twitter Ads — Last week, Twitter announced its new advertising system, called promoted tweets. I was at Twitter's Chirp conference as a speaker, so I got an up-close look at the reaction to the big news, along with the (frankly, more interesting to me) announcements for developers and media.
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Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Free advice on how to charge for content — This column originally was published in the April edition of Editor & Publisher Magazine and is being reprinted with permission. To subscribe to the magazine so you can see the full array of industry coverage when it first appears in print, click here.
Edmund Lee / AdAge:
Study: Marketers Shifting Online Budgets to Content Sites — Expect Ad Dollars to Flow as Recession Loosens Grip — NEW YORK (AdAge) — With their ability to cheaply reach eyeballs, online ad networks have commanded more money and attention from marketers in the past few years …
Jason Fell / Folio:
Hearst Rolls PopularMechanics.com Onto In-House Digital Content Platform — How publisher's digital back-end helped sell 10 million print subs. — Hearst Magazines Digital Media recently relaunched Popular Mechanics' Web site, which now operates on a multi-component digital platform the company developed and built in-house.
David Cohen / WebNewser:
The Florida Independent Names Editor for Its June 1 Launch — The American Independent News Network named an editor for The Florida Independent, which will launch June 1, tapping Cooper Levey-Baker, who is currently editor of an alternative weekly newspaper in Sarasota, Fla., Creative Loafing.
Meghan Keane / the Econsultancy blog:
Jeff Jarvis: Online comments should be more like Twitter — At the 140 Character Conference in New York this week, Jeff Jarvis had a bone to pick with the media industry (surprise!). This time, his issue is with comments. Namely, he thinks the process of commenting online is broken.
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John Plunkett / Guardian:
Daily Star pulled from airports over volcano ash splash — Paper removed from shops in Gatwick and Manchester airports over computer-generated image of 747 with engines ablaze — Copies of today's Daily Star have been removed from airport newsagent shelves today over fears that its splash …
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Epic! Jon Stewart: Fox News “Is Truly A Terrible, Cynical News Organization” — After receiving some relatively harsh criticism from Fox News analyst Bernie Goldberg earlier this week, Jon Stewart returned the favor. And how! In an epic retort that was equal parts comedy, reasoned argument …
Josh Dickey / The Wrap:
Exclusive: Disney Names MT Carney Chief of Marketing — By Sharon Waxman — EXCLUSIVE Disney Studios Chairman Rich Ross has found his Cinderella. The head of marketing — the missing piece in the puzzle of Walt Disney Pictures' new regime — will be named this Thursday, WaxWord has learned.
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Updated: IAC, DJ Shutting Down Personal Finance JV FiLife Following Dramatic Traffic Decline — IAC (NSDQ: IACI) and Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) are shutting down FiLife today, paidContent has learned and IAC has confirmed. We reported last month that the plug could be pulled but sources then insisted that all options were being explored.
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” …
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