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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.
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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Gillian Reagan / The Wire:
New York Times Executives Take On Wall Street Journal In Earnings Call (NYT) — The New York Times Co. (NYT) executives aren't afraid of Rupert Murdoch. On the earnings call this morning, CEO Janet Robinson addressed the competition, with the Wall Street Journal's new New York section debuting on April 26th.
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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Choire / The Awl:
‘NYT’ 1st Quarter: Online Growth Totally Eroded by Print Tailspin
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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Making the case for fact-checking the Sunday chat — The audience for Sunday morning public affairs shows traditionally skews older. But two college students are now trying to shake up the longest-running Sunday talk franchise of them all: NBC's “Meet the Press”
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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 …
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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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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.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Maurice Lévy to leave Publicis — Chairman and chief executive of French advertising giant Publicis Groupe will not seek to renew contract at end of 2011 — Maurice Lévy, the chairman and chief executive of the French advertising giant Publicis Groupe, is to step down after 40 years.
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.
Mark Fitzgerald / Editor and Publisher:
McClatchy Turns to Profit in Q1 on ‘Improving’ Advertising Environment — CHICAGO The McClatchy Co. Thursday reported first-quarter net income including discontinued operations of $2.2 million, or $0.03 per share, compared to a loss of $37.52 million, or $0.45 a share, in the year-ago period.
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.
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 …
Guardian:
James Murdoch at the Independent: ‘like a scene out of Dodge City’ — In common with so many problems involving young men in modern London, it was a squall about reputation and respect — After a lifetime at the helm of the world's most powerful media organisation and in the crosshairs of the left …
Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat:
‘South Park’ Episode Is Altered After Muslim Group's Warning — A message posted on SouthParkStudios.com, the Web site of Trey Parker and Matt Stone's production company. — 8:56 a.m. | Updated — An episode of “South Park” that continued a story line involving the Prophet Muhammad …
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Choire / The Awl:
The New Media and the Attention Economy: “Syndication” — A couple of times in the last month, Gawker Media sites have been all, “Hey that piece on your site was great, can we syndicate it?” Now, I am old. And for us olds, “syndication” is a term of art in the world of publishing things.
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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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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 …
Dylan F. Tweney / Gadget Lab:
26 Percent of Wired's Mobile Traffic Comes From the iPad — Less than three weeks after its launch, Apple's iPad already accounts for 26 percent of the mobile devices accessing Wired.com. — Overall, mobile devices account for between 2.3 percent and 3.5 percent of our traffic.
Editor and Publisher:
Nielsen Online, NAA: Newspaper Companies Drew Record Traffic in Q1 2010 — NEW YORK Newspaper companies drew unprecedented traffic to their Websites in the first quarter of 2010, on average attracting 74.4 million unique visitors per month — more than one-third of all Internet users …
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