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Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:
Why Apple Should Sue Gawker Over ‘Lost’ iPhone Story — How hard must the finder of lost property try to return it to its owner before deciding it's his to keep or sell? The answer to that question could determine whether Monday's iPhone scoop results in millions of dollars in legal damages …
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Joel Johnson / Gizmodo:
Apple Didn't Leak the iPhone—and Why That Matters — A controlled leak? The lost iPhone planted by Apple? You have no idea how Apple PR works—and how, like it or not, Gizmodo finally beat them at their own game. — The only way the iPhone 4 was a controlled leak is if Apple …
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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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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 …
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.
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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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 …
Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
Late Nights at Disney Over Miramax: At $625 M, 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 …
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!”
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Financial Times appoints Caroline Daniel as new editor of FT Weekend — Daniel has been at the FT for 11 years and replaces Andy Davis — The Financial Times has appointed Caroline Daniel as the new editor of FT Weekend. — Daniel, who currently holds the role of assistant editor, takes over on 1 June and will replace Andy Davis.
Bill Mitchell / Poynter Online:
Xconomy Detroit Tracks Innovative Ventures with Innovative Journalism — Xconomy is a journalism startup with a look and feel that's part trade pub, part community blog and part old-fashioned news wire. — Focused on coverage of high-tech innovation, the site was launched in Boston in 2007 …
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Mark Redgrave / MediaPost:
Are Buzz Monitoring Companies Racing Towards a Cliff? — The exponential growth in social media has seen a rapid proliferation in buzz monitoring tools and so-called listening platforms. However, what was once a lucrative seller's market is now becoming increasingly commoditized.
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
The new-look Independent: a review — Let me begin by making the most obvious declaration of interest. I am writing on The Guardian website about the redesign of The Independent, which is this paper's most obvious rival for a left-of-centre serious audience.
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Ojb / Online Journalism Blog:
Telegraph launches powerful election database — The Telegraph have finally launched - in beta - the election database I've been waiting for since the expenses scandal broke. And it's rather lovely. — Starting with the obvious part (skip to the next section for the really interesting bit) …
Editor and Publisher:
Journal Register Papers Sign on With Hyperlocal Complaint Portal SeeClickFix — CHICAGO Journal Register launched SeeClickFix — the portal that allows citizens to report on hyperlocal problems like litter, potholes and even speeding cars — at the Websites of all its 18 daily newspapers Tuesday.
Associated Press:
Earnings Preview: Ad slump hangs over NYT Co.'s 1Q — New York Times Co. expected to sustain less severe erosion in first-quarter ad revenue — Related Quotes — NEW YORK (AP) — Newspaper publisher New York Times Co. is scheduled to report its first-quarter earnings before the stock market opens Thursday.
Editor and Publisher:
Unpaid Staff Keeps Caribbean Daily Going After Arrest of Ponzi Scheme Owner — ST JOHN'S, Antigua The staff of a daily newspaper owned by jailed Texas financier Allen Stanford is still putting out the paper despite an announcement that it would close, an editor said Monday.
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NetNewsCheck Latest:
Local TV Grew Web Sales Faster Than Papers — Local TV stations grew online revenues by 10 percent in 2009 and outpaced newspapers to grow overall market share, according to a report released today by the Television Bureau of Advertising. — “In a year where the IAC reported flat revenue internet revenues …
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.
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.
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.
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Yahoo Posts A 20 Percent Jump In Sales Of Display Ads — Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is cashing in on a rebounding online ad market—reporting a 20 percent increase in sales of display ads on its own sites. That, however, wasn't enough to make up for a continuing fall-off in the sale of the company's search ads …
Rafael Guerrero / The Daily Illini:
CBS producer Rick Kaplan speaks on media fracture and the future of young journalists — Rick Kaplan, executive producer for CBS News with Katie Couric, gives a speech at the I-Hotel on Monday. Kaplan visited the university for the department of advertising's “An Evening with University Alumnus” series.
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