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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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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.
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.
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 Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Bloomberg launches new Businessweek, ballyhoos its influence — No one can accuse Bloomberg News of lacking ambition. — Paul Bascobert, who joined Bloomberg from Dow Jones a few months ago, tells Yahoo! News that the goal behind Thursday's relaunch of Businessweek …
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.
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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Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Mike Allen, the Man the White House Wakes Up To
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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 …
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 …
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.
Arnon Mishkin / paidContent:
Reality Check: For Many Media Companies, Google Isn't As Big A Crutch As You Think — Arnon Mishkin is a consultant focused on media and internet companies. — The easiest way to clear a room of internet-savvy media executives is to suggest that maybe they should close their sites to crawling …
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 …
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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.
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 …
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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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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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.
Sebastien Provencher / The Praized Blog:
Facebook Launches Like Button for the Web: Why It Might Not Be For Your Site — This morning at the F8 conference, Facebook announced the launch of a distributed or deportalized “Like” functionality. Techcrunch explains how it works: … I've tried it on IMDB, the movie database site …
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Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Washington Post tool integrates Facebook with its site
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