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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Associated Press profit and revenue slide in 2009 — The Associated Press said Thursday its net income plunged as revenue fell nearly 10 percent last year. The news cooperative also expects a decline in revenue this year, which would be its first back-to-back drop since the Great Depression.
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AP Directors vote to launch wide range of collaborative new digital initiatives — News Registry rolls out in July; AP will also launch college football hub and offer members ability to create locally branded apps — NEW YORK — The Associated Press Board of Directors voted unanimously today …
Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:
Apple to Charge a Premium to Put Ads in Mobile Apps — Setting a high bar for its debut in the advertising business, Apple Inc. aims to charge close to $1 million for ads on its mobile devices this year and perhaps even more to be among the first, ad executives say.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Huffington Post Starts To Give Out Badges To Readers — The Huffington Post is taking on more of the trappings of a social network. Borrowing from Foursquare, today it will start giving out badges to loyal readers who comment like crazy and share HuffPost stories via Facebook and Twitter …
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Before The Paywall, Murdoch Stops Disclosing UK News Site Traffic — With nearly a month to go before News International raises its first paywall in June, both Times Online and Sun Online have stopped publishing their user numbers through the ABC in the UK.
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Steve Jobs / Apple:
Thoughts on Flash — Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe's founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe and owned around 20% of the company for many years.
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Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Linking Customer Loyalty With Social Networking — PEPSICO wants to sell its customers sodas whether they are near a grocery store, a restaurant or a gas station. With a new partnership that weaves its loyalty program into the location-based network Foursquare, PepsiCo gets a live notification …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
U.S. Subpoenas Times Reporter Over Book on C.I.A. — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is seeking to compel a writer to testify about his confidential sources for a 2006 book about the Central Intelligence Agency, a rare step that was authorized by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.
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John Cook / Yahoo! News:
Times-Union case puts newspaper in awkward position of blocking reach of state ‘sunshine’ law — Newspapers are supposed to support sunshine laws, right? That's how they pry crucial documents from the hands of secrecy-obsessed government bureaucrats. — That's also why states such as New York …
John Koblin / New York Times:
Reporter Jim Baumbach Leaves Journal to Return to Newsday — Before he even had one byline for the paper, Yankees beat reporter Jim Baumbach has left The Journal. He is returning to Newsday. — “It's over. He made a decision. We're moving forward,” said John Seeley, the editor of The Journal's Greater New York section.
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New York Times:
Director Is Elected at Times Co. — Carolyn Greenspon, a fifth-generation member of the family that controls The New York Times Company, was elected as a director. — Ms. Greenspon, 41, a psychotherapist, was approved by shareholders to serve on the board at the company's annual meeting on Tuesday.
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Tim Wu / Slate:
Don't Prosecute Gizmodo for the iPhone That Walked Into a Bar … - The Senate Tries To Get Goldman Sachs To Admit They're a Bunch of Jerks- Now Doulas Are Assisting During Abortions as Well as Childbirth- The Incredibly Unfair Trial of Muslim Activist Syed Fahad Hashmi- Troy Patterson: Is Happy Town the Next Lost?
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Claude Brodesser-Akner / New York Magazine:
Vulture Exclusive: J.J. Abrams' Next Movie Is a Collaboration with Steven Spielberg — Vulture has learned that J.J. Abrams has picked his next movie, and it's both a tribute to and a collaboration with Steven Spielberg. An insider tells us that Abrams is just now finishing a script described as …
Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
NYTer's tweet sparks ‘off the record’ definition debate — Nick Bilton (left) tweeted that a Facebook employee told him “off the record” that CEO Mark Zuckerberg doesn't believe in privacy. The Times reporter contends “'off record' means there is no attribution to who it is but conversation …
The Live Feed | THR:
Conan: I would not have done the same to Leno — CBS has released an excerpt from Sunday night's highly anticipated “60 Minutes” interview with Conan O'Brien: — “He went and took that show back and I think in a similar situation, if roles had been reversed, I know— I know me, I wouldn't have done that,” O'Brien says.
Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
Viacom's Sumner Redstone: We'll ‘Engage Audiences On Every Screen, On Every Device’ — Except Hulu (VIA) — At the beginning of Viacom's first-quarter 2010 earnings call this morning, Viacom's Executive Chairman Sumner Redstone proclaimed: “We'll engage audiences on every screen, on every device and every place on this planet.”
Eric Zhang / Google News Blog:
Bringing Living Stories to WordPress — For the last few months we've been talking with publishers about ways to make it easier for them to use Living Stories, our experimental format for displaying news coverage, on their own websites. Today we're releasing a Living Stories plugin and theme for WordPress.
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C.W. Anderson / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Why Philly matters: The intersection of bankruptcies, Pulitzers, networks, foundations, and geeky “edglings” — I've been studying the Philadelphia media ecosystem since before we had the name “ecosystem” to describe the new journalistic world we were entering.
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Shelley DuBois / Fortune:
Steve and Tim Forbes head upstairs, eye new COO — (Fortune) — After 19 years running Forbes magazine, CEO Steve Forbes and his brother, COO Tim Forbes, are planning a reshuffle in management. Headhunter Michele James, CEO and founder of James & Co, has contacted at least one bona fide candidate for the job of COO of Forbes.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Skype targets TV shows with Crystal Entertainment deal — Internet phone company looking to get its services - particularly video calling - used in shows such as This Morning — The internet phone company Skype is aiming to break into TV programming through a deal with Crystal Entertainment …
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:
How News Organizations Hope to Benefit from Facebook's New Features — Facebook's new plugins, which help integrate the social networking site with the rest of the Web, have presented news organizations with an opportunity to think more creatively about how they can use social media to meet their audiences' needs.
Mike Taylor / FishbowlNY:
Glenn Beck, Nay Phone Latt Among Media Types to Crack the Time 100 — Time released its “Time 100” list today. Most of the heavy hitters to make the cut fall outside the media sphere, with a few notable exceptions. — Clearly the most serious among the selections is Nay Phone Latt …
Carol Midgley / Times of London:
Say what you like about journalists, we'd say it better — The spread of unsubstantiated celebrity rumours by “citizen reporters” shows how important it is to have professionals — I started getting the calls and texts last week from friends, associates and virtual strangers.
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