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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 …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Why $10 a Month for Hulu Is Too Much. And Too Little. — Is ten bucks a month too much to pay for “Hulu Plus”? Or too little? — Perhaps both. — The Web video site is getting ready to roll out its much discussed subscription offering of $9.95 a month, the Los Angeles Times reports.
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 …
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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.
Michael Triplett / Mediaite:
Washington Post Swings, Misses in Ramp Up for Rival TBD.com — With former Washington Post online executive editor Jim Brady getting closer to launching his local D.C. news operation TBD.com, WaPo announced a new local blogger opinion feature yesterday to tap into the news on the streets …
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Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:
Hoax or Legit? AllBritton's New Local Site Gets a Name: ‘TBD’ — > UPDATE: It's TRUE. TBD is the name. — A site claiming to be Robert Allbritton's new local D.C. project headed up by Jim Brady has finally come up with a name: “TBD”. — Seriously, that's the alleged name. — An excerpt:
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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
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Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Facebook to Kill Facebook Connect
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Mallory Simon / This Just In:
NCAA reaches 14-year tourney deal with Turner, CBS Sports — CBS Sports and Turner inked a 14-year agreement with the NCAA. — The NCAA announced a new 14-year online and TV deal with Turner Broadcasting and CBS. — Under the $10.8 billion deal all men's basketball games …
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 …
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Clay Shirky: On the necessity of waste, the power of institutions, and the safety of the infinite time horizon — Internet thinker Clay Shirky and veteran investigative journalist Walter Robinson came to Harvard this week to talk about how the Internet has changed the art of digging up dirt on powerful institutions.
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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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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
Nick Dellamaggiore / The LinkedIn Blog:
Sharing News on LinkedIn just got easier — Most of us turn to blogs, newspapers, magazines, trade publications, and more when we're looking for the info we need. But just as often, we count on our colleagues and peers to point out the stuff we should read.
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.
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.
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