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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 …
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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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Editor and Publisher:
Michael Golden, Katharine Weymouth Join AP Board — NEW YORK Michael Golden, vice chairman of the New York Times Co. and COO of its Regional Media Group, and Katharine Weymouth, publisher of The Washington Post and CEO of Washington Post Media, were elected to the board of directors …
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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 …
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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.
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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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.
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 …
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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 …
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Advertising: Linking Customer Loyalty With Social Networking — Through smartphones and social applications, retailers can track consumers and entice them with discounts.
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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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.
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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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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.”
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
YouTube Rolls Out New Video Player — Updated: YouTube has started to roll out a new Flash video player across its site that features not only a completely new design, but also offers some nifty bits of information about the performance of the current video.
comScore, Inc.:
comScore Releases March 2010 U.S. Online Video Rankings — YouTube Viewers Watched Average of 96 Videos per Viewer in March — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released March 2010 data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing …
Editor and Publisher:
Lancaster Newspapers Shuts Down ‘TalkBack’ Online Forum — CHICAGO Lancaster (Pa.) Newspapers pulled the plug on its online TalkBack Thursday morning, blaming the “blatant misuse” of the public forum by anonymous posters of racist material. — President and CEO Harold E. Miller Jr …
Jason Boog / GalleyCat:
Malcolm Gladwell, William P. Young, & Dan Brown Top “Most Highlighted Passages of All Time” List on Amazon Kindle — Amazon recently launched a “Popular Highlights” feature that showcases the book passages underlined by Kindle readers—a 21st Century twist on literary quotation.
Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
Firestone replaces Cohen on NYT's editorial board — New York Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal's memo to staff — Carla Robbins and I are delighted to announce (or for some of you confirm) that David Firestone will be joining the editorial board. — David's experience will make a great addition to our team.
Mike Farrell / Multichannel News:
Time Warner Cable Beats Expectations In Q1 — Cash Flow Growth Tops 10% For First Time In Two Years — Time Warner Cable soundly beat analyst expectations in the first quarter, reporting a 5.4% rise in revenue and a 10.9% increase in cash flow, its first double-digit growth performance in that metric in two years.
Alison Gow / Headlines and Deadlines:
Journalism students and work experience: getting the most out of a newsroom — Journalist Patrick Smith tweeted some sensible advice for student journos preparing for the world of work experience this week: — He followed it up by urging workies not to be scared of suggesting ideas …
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 …
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