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Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Glamour Named Magazine of the Year — Glamour took the top honor at the National Magazine Awards on Thursday, winning in a new category called Magazine of the Year that awards both print and digital efforts. — The annual awards, given by the American Society of Magazine Editors, are considered the central awards in the industry.
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2010 National Magazine Awards Winners and Finalists — NOTE: All nominated issues are dated 2009 unless otherwise specified. The editor whose name appears in connection with finalists for 2010 held that position. or was listed on the masthead, at the time the issue was published in 2009.
Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:
Happy Birthday, HuffPo. (Hint: Give Money) — Huffington Post is an impressive 5-year-old, ahead of its class, as it approaches its May 9th birthday. It seems like yesterday that it broke into the top 25 news rankings and now it has landed in the top 10.
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Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Newsonomics of HuffPo's pinball wizardry
The Newsonomics of HuffPo's pinball wizardry
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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.
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Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Times Company Swings to a Profit
Times Company Swings to a Profit
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
New York Times Reports Q1 Profit, Digital Ad Revenues Now 26% Of Total
New York Times Reports Q1 Profit, Digital Ad Revenues Now 26% Of Total
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Katie Benner / Fortune:
Bloomberg's ambition … (Fortune) — BusinessWeek relaunches this week with a new name, a new design, and a new editorial vision, just four months after it was bought by financial information giant Bloomberg LP. Viewed through the lens of an acquisition, it's therefore perplexing …
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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.
Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:
Gawker Owner: Gizmodo's iPhone Scoop Didn't Make Me Money — With characteristic humility, Gawker Media owner Nick Denton describes his company's acquisition of an iPhone 4Q — two months before Apple (AAPL) was set to unveil it — as “pretty much the biggest tech scoop ever.”
Chris Treadaway / ReadWriteWeb:
Why Newspapers Need to Heed Facebook, Now — Given Mark Zuckerberg's announcements at the Facebook F8 conference, one thing is certain: newspapers can no longer ignore Facebook's impact and reach. Whereas publishers continue to scapegoat Google for many of their current troubles, they should be equally, if not more, wary of Facebook.
David Cohen / WebNewser:
BUZZMEDIA Adds Two Former Editors in Chief — BUZZMEDIA is looking to expand its buzz with the addition of former AOL News editor in chief Mike Porath and former MSN Wonderwall founding editor in chief Alex Blagg. — Porath, who was named senior vice president of programming …
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”
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
History Channel Turns Foursquare Into A Real World Pop-Up Video — For all the talk about Foursquare, one of the coolest features that gets very little buzz is the Tips area. Here, you'll find suggestions about venues from other users of the service. And if you're friends with a user …
Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat:
After ‘Office’ Hours, Mindy Kaling Writes a Book — On “The Office,” the bubbly Kelly Kapoor does not seem capable of writing much more than her name (with smiley faces in the o's). In real life, Mindy Kaling, the actress and writer who portrays her on that NBC comedy, is much more prolific …
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.
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Updated: Right Media's Bill Wise Leaving Yahoo — Bill Wise is leaving Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), paidContent has learned and the company has confirmed. Wise, who was president of Right Media when Yahoo acquired the company, has been VP of Yahoo's Display Ad Platforms, including APT and Right Media.
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Gavin O'Malley / MediaPost:
Report: Pre-Roll Still Controls Ad Budgets — Nearly all ad executives and media buyers plan to increase spending on online video this year, according to new research from branded video ad network BrightRoll. Indeed, 94% of respondents said they plan to increase their spending on video — up from 87% last year.
James Poniewozik / Tuned In:
Biting the Hand: When Media Companies Attack (Themselves) — It's always entertaining when Fox News takes on Fox Entertainment; nothing better captures the exciting contradictions of Rupert Murdoch's blend of conservative punditry with anything-goes entertainment.
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Fifteen Minutes Problem — From the NYT Magazine profile of Mike Allen: … I think the 15 minutes thing is really pernicious and by no means restricted to Allen. Journalism, as a vocation, highly valorizes breaking news. In part this is about making money, but it's more fundamentally about the value system of the profession.
Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk:
Outsourcing photography - what cost to local news organisations? — Last week, the Associated Press' (AP) commercial photography arm, AP Images, launched a new service and a new revenue stream. The new Editorial Assignment Service offers other news organisations the chance to hire …
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 …
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
MXP4 Raises $4 Million Funding For Its Interactive Music Widgets — VCs are still keen to put their money in to online music startups, it seems. Paris-based MXP4, which makes web players that let users remix and otherwise “engage” with songs, is taking a $4 million third round.
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Kate Taylor / New York Times:
New York Public Library Sorts Books by Scanner — A couple of years ago Salvatore Magaddino, who oversees the distribution of materials for the New York Public Library, complained at a meeting that he was having trouble recruiting book sorters, the people responsible for sorting the millions …
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