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David Carr / Media Decoder:
Wall Street Journal Says It's Up to You, New York, New York — The Wall Street Journal's much-anticipated New York edition hit the doorsteps of the city and brought with it the first broadsheet newspaper competition in decades. — Soon after buying The Wall Street Journal in 2007 …
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Gillian Reagan / The Wire:
New York Times Executives Belittle Murdoch's Wall Street Journal To Advertisers In Staff Memo (NYT) — As the Wall Street Journal paper-bombs the city with their new New York section, New York Times' top executives publisher Arthur Sulzberger and CEO Janet Robinson send out a message to their staffers.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
In Its Local Brawl With The NYT, The WSJ Pulls Out Some Foursquare Badges
In Its Local Brawl With The NYT, The WSJ Pulls Out Some Foursquare Badges
Matthew Flamm / Crain's New York Business:
NY's paper tigers
NY's paper tigers
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paidContent, Talking Biz News, Guardian, Romenesko, Strupp, The Wire, FishbowlNY, The Awl, mediabistro.com, Gothamist, Mediaite, Agence France Presse, Garcia Media and Associated Press
Gizmodo:
Police Seize Jason Chen's Computers — Last Friday night, California's Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team entered editor Jason Chen's home without him present, seizing four computers and two servers. — They did so using a warrant by Judge of Superior Court of San Mateo.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Cops Bust Into Gizmodo Editor's Home And Seize Computers, Documents In iPhone Probe (AAPL) — Police raided Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's home in Fremont, Calif. last week, seizing computers and other gadgets, as detectives probe how the gadget blog editor obtained an Apple iPhone prototype …
David Carr / New York Times:
The Media Equation: How Gizmodo Monetized an iPhone Spectacle — We all know that advertisers need to pay for clicks to keep the Web spinning. But what does it mean when publishers start paying for them as well? — I'm not talking about some seedy click-mills in the Far East …
Editor and Publisher:
Growing ‘Wall St. Journal’ Tops Daily Circulation List — CHICAGO On the same day it launched its “Greater New York” edition, The Wall Street Journal Monday topped the list of the nation's largest-circulation daily newspapers. The Journal was the only daily among the 10 largest to gain circulation …
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Andrew Vanacore / Associated Press:
US newspaper circulation down 8.7 percent — US newspaper circulation down 8.7 percent; pace of decline eases — Related Quotes — NEW YORK (AP) — Circulation continues to drop at U.S. newspapers. — Figures released Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations show average weekday …
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
The Revolution Will Be Commercialized — Sarah Palin is already president of right-wing America—and it's a position with a very big salary. — On the morning of July 3, 2009, a national holiday, Sarah Palin placed a call to her communications director and told her that she wanted to hold …
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Lucia Moses / Mediaweek:
Newsweek.com Explores Amazon Cloud Computing — Newsweek, under a cloud, is going to the cloud. The site is outsourcing its Web site hosting duties to Amazon, joining a small but growing number of companies experimenting with cloud computing. — Until now, Newsweek.com had been hosted …
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Bloomberg and Businessweek Mesh Gingerly — When Bloomberg L.P. bought Businessweek in December, a group of the magazine's writers, who were being transferred to the Bloomberg newswire, attended a two-week training session. They learned that the terminals, costing about $20,000 a year …
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Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
Yahoo's Identity Heft — Web publisher to tap more journos to help find its ‘voice’ — Yahoo is on the verge of hiring more traditional journalists as it plans to aggressively beef up original content for its top verticals, including news, business and entertainment.
Brian Steinberg / AdAge:
What Is Conde Nast Doing Making Kenneth Cole's YouTube Ads? — Under Threat, Media Push Further Into Agency Territory — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Could the day soon arrive when a marketer will consider NBC Universal, Meredith Corp. or Conde Nast alongside BBDO, Wieden & Kennedy or JWT …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
The Tribune Company Finds An Audience For Homegrown Hyperlocal News Site ChicagoNow — As AOL pours $50 million into its hyperlocal news site Patch.com to expand its sites around the country, smaller competitors are maintaining confidence that their platforms can survive AOL's aggressive content strategy.
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Jacqueline Reis / Worcester Telegram & Gazette:
T&G plans paid website — Print subscribers read free — WORCESTER — The Telegram & Gazette will begin charging some online readers for locally produced news content on its website, telegram.com, starting this summer. — Newspaper subscribers will continue to be able to access all content at no charge.
Robert Quigley / Geekosystem:
The Simpsons Stand Behind South Park with Help of Bart's Chalkboard [Video] — The Simpsons and South Park have made fun of each other in the past, but tonight's Simpsons opened with a quick but touching show of inter-cartoon support, courtesy of Bart's chalkboard.
Financial Times:
Buy-out firms prepare to float Nielsen — Nielsen, the world's largest TV and consumer measurement company, will begin auditioning bankers next month for one of the largest US initial public offerings in recent years
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
EveryBlock Partners With SeeClickFix To Add Local Complaints To Its Feeds — EveryBlock—the MSNBC Interactive-owned hyperlocal aggregator—is bulking up its site with data from SeeClickFix, a startup that lets anybody report an issue in need of government action in their community.
Steve Cohn / MinOnline:
Burgess Leaves OK! for Hollywood Reporter — Lori Burgess, OK! publisher since September 2008, resigned this morning (April 26) to join the Richard Beckman-led e5 Global Media as The Hollywood Reporter publisher. — “I'm very excited—we've got ambitious plans in the works,” she tells min.
Teddy Wayne / New York Times:
Drilling Down: Internet Eclipses Magazines in Ad Revenue in 2009 — For the first time, marketers spent more in 2009 on Internet advertising than in magazines, according to a report from ZenithOptimedia, which said online ad spending would rapidly close ground on newspapers.
James Hibberd / Hollywood Reporter:
'America's Got Talent' pacts with YouTube — Acts can submit videos to be voted on; 12 to perform on show — NBC and the producers of “America's Got Talent” are partnering with YouTube to put the show's audition process online. — Starting Monday, acts can upload their videos onto …