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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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Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Facebook to Kill Facebook Connect — Facebook Connect, the company's tool for bringing your social graph to third-party websites, will soon be no more. — During a press conference today at Facebook's F8 conference in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the Facebook Connect brand …
Sebastien Provencher / The Praized Blog:
Facebook Launches Like Button for the Web: Why It Might Not Be For Your Site
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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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Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
The Guardian's Emily Bell Splits to Head Columbia Journalism School's Digital Center — Emily Bell, appearing here at the Association of Online Publishers' Digital Publishing Summit 2008, will head Columbia University's new digital journalism program (photo courtesy of AOP).
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Ben Hammersley's return …
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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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 …
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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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Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Mike Allen, the Man the White House Wakes Up To — Before he goes to sleep, between 11 and midnight, Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director, typically checks in by e-mail with the same reporter: Mike Allen of Politico, who is also the first reporter Pfeiffer corresponds with after he wakes up at 4:20.
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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.
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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.
Choire / The Awl:
Gabriel Snyder Now Executive Editor of ‘Newsweek’ Digital — Oh, it's a tricky job—as Devin Gordon found out. The former editor of Gawker, however, is yet just the latest victim of the hiring thaw in Manhattan media!
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
MSNBC Pulls the Plug on Donny Deutsch's Weeklong Anchoring Stint — A week-long anchoring stint on MSNBC by Donny Deutsch ended abruptly on Wednesday, and four people briefed on the decision said the cancellation stemmed from an unflattering mention of that channel's No. 1 anchor, Keith Olbermann, a day earlier.
Edmund Lee / AdAge:
Study: Marketers Shifting Online Budgets to Content Sites — Expect Ad Dollars to Flow as Recession Loosens Grip — NEW YORK (AdAge) — With their ability to cheaply reach eyeballs, online ad networks have commanded more money and attention from marketers in the past few years …
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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 …
David Schlesinger / Guardian:
War journalists have a right to safety — Wikileaks video of my colleagues' deaths shows transparency, acknowledgment and accountability from the Pentagon is vital — When Wikileaks published the harrowing video of the deaths in Iraq of my colleagues Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22 …
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Journalism and the World
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.
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 …
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.
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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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.
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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.
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
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