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Dawn Chmielewski / Company Town:
Hulu pushes forward with $9.95 subscription service — Hulu, the popular online site for watching television shows, plans to begin testing a subscription service as soon as May 24, according to people with knowledge of the plans. — Under the proposal, Hulu would continue to provide …
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Times Company Reports Profit — The New York Times Company reported results on Thursday that reflected a turnaround driven by cost-cutting and an improved advertising market. — The Times Company reported a net income of $14.1 million for the first quarter, compared with a loss of $74.3 million in the period a year earlier.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
New York Times Reports Q1 Profit, Digital Ad Revenues Now 26% Of Total — After significantly scaling down costs, The New York Times Company this morning announced upbeat Q1 2010 results, reporting a profit and growing digital advertising sales. — NYT's operating profit grew more than fivefold …
Choire / The Awl:
‘NYT’ 1st Quarter: Online Growth Totally Eroded by Print Tailspin — The headline, once again, is going to be that the New York Times Company 1st quarter profit is up five times over a year ago! Wow, right? Yeah, that would be misleading. Here's what's actually up, if you read on past the first page of their report.
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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Sebastien Provencher / The Praized Blog:
Facebook Launches Like Button for the Web: Why It Might Not Be For Your Site
Rafat Ali / paidContent:
Cheat Sheet on BusinessWeek's Relaunch, Under Bloomberg — Since we didn't get early access, but WSJ did and wrote two long stories on it, we can only make it easier for you to digest those. Hence the cheat sheet: —Michael Bloomberg was keen on buying BusinessWeek …
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Bloomberg Signs Willow Bay to Cover Milken Conference — Bloomberg Television has signed Willow Bay, the former CNN business anchor, as a special correspondent for next week's Milken Institute Global Conference. — The short-term hiring of Ms. Bay, the wife of the Disney chief executive Robert Iger …
Jan Schaffer / J-Lab:
Exploring a Networked Journalism Collaborative in Philadelphia — An Analysis of the City's Media Ecosystem with Final Recommendations — In the nation's sixth largest city, a vibrant media landscape exists with niche reporting sites, legacy newspapers and an active community of creative technologists.
Ian Burrell / The Independent:
Journalism's next generation: A new wave of writers are going online to get their message across — High-quality reporting is flourishing outside traditional newsrooms. — Being the former dance critic of the The Daily Telegraph didn't make it any easier for Ismene Brown to learn business skills on the hoof.
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Holly Yeager / CJR:
The Future? We Hope Not — NYT's Politico Profile Paints a Scary Picture — The New York Times magazine profile of Mike Allen, the force-of-nature Politico reporter, has been much anticipated—at least in the Blackberry-dependent Washington media and politics crowd—and, after all the hype …
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Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
Politico announces hires from NYO, NYP, Newsweek, other news outlets
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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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Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
News Corp. raises bet on digital music — News Corp.—the newspaper, TV, and film company built by media mogul Rupert Murdoch—sees something in digital music it likes. — News Corp. has acquired a small stake in music start-up Beyond Oblivion, which plans to enable consumer electronics makers …
Jason Fell / Folio:
Publisher Out at WWD — More management changes at Condé Nast's fashion trade unit. — Management changes continue at Condé Nast's Fairchild Fashion Group. A company spokesperson tells FOLIO: that WWD publisher Christine Guilfoyle is leaving the company.
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Lucia Moses / Mediaweek:
Rolling Stone Publisher Schenck Headed to Condé Nast — Will Schenck is leaving Wenner Media, where he was publisher of Rolling Stone, to become vp, chief revenue officer of Fairchild Fashion Group, Condé Nast's fashion B2B unit. — Schenck is a vet of Condé Nast …
Chris Ariens / WebNewser:
Group Launches “Meet the Facts” to Pressure NBC Show to Bring on Fact-Checkers — The Sunday morning fact-check story is getting interesting. A few weeks ago, ABC's Jake Tapper, who's hosting “This Week” until Christiane Amanpour joins later this summer, is now having Bill Adair …
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner / New York Times:
E-Playgrounds Can Get Vicious — Photo illustration by The New York Times, Photograph by Robert Kohlhuber/Getty Images — LAST February, I wrote a piece for Salon about the Postpartum Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder I experienced after the traumatic delivery of my son.
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.
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Chris Anderson: Tablets to Reach Advertising Rate Parity with Print Publications — SAN FRANCISCO — The tablet computers, which provide a more engaging, extended interaction with content, akin to reading a book or magazine, could be a big boon to publishers, says Chris Anderson, editor in chief of WIRED and author.
BBC:
Top Gear to have spin-off in US — Popular BBC Two motoring show Top Gear is to be remade in the US this autumn, with a new trio of male presenters. — Comedian Adam Ferrara, racing analyst Rutledge Wood and stunt driver Tanner Foust will host the show, which will air on the History Channel.
Evelyn Rusli / TechCrunch:
Media Temple Raises $15 Million, Hungry For New Acquisitions — Virtualization provider Media Temple has raised $15 million from a group of investors led by Triangle Capital (also includes GMB Mezzanine Capital). Founded in 1998, Media Temple is a web hosting and software service provider …
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.
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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.
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