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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Gawker Media seeks legal reversal in Gizmodo search case — Shortly after Silicon Valley police entered the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen last Friday armed with a search warrant and walked out with four computers and two servers, Gawker Media raised the issue of California's shield law protecting journalists.
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Jack Shafer / Slate:
Why Not Pay Sources? … - The United States Is Completely Unprepared To Fight a Cyberwar- British Candidates Woo Voters Over Artisanal Cheese at the Farmers' Market- Why Do Insurers Ignore the Most Promising Way of Cutting Health Costs? - The Only Thing That Will Save the Earth …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Waiting for iTunes.com? Don't Hold Your Breath — Apple is shutting down its Web-based music service in a month. When will it open a new one? — No time soon, from what I can tell. — I've been on the phone all day with music industry sources. None of them know of any specific plans Apple …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Apple To Shut Down Lala On May 31, iTunes.com Launch Impending?
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Mark Fitzgerald / Editor and Publisher:
What Does Philadelphia Newspaper Auction Say About the Value of Newspapers? — CHICAGO The furious last-minute bidding for Philadelphia Newspapers — which saw the price bumping up $10 million in cash each round, according to participants — thrilled some newspaper brokers as much as losing bidder Brian Tierney.
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Will Bunch / Philly.com:
Papers' new publisher, CEO to push digital content — The brave new world for the Daily News, Inquirer and Philly.com under new ownership quickly got newer and braver last night as Internet and mobile-phone journalism pioneer Greg Osberg was announced as the new publisher and chief executive.
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Jim / Gannett Blog:
In farewell, Digital Chief Saridakis attacks pay wall strategy, saying: ‘Industry going about it all wrong’ — In a long memo that's part manifesto and farewell letter, departing Chief Digital Officer Chris Saridakis slams the leading pay wall strategy as wrongheaded, an attack …
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Washington Post Plans Hundreds of LiveTV Shows from Newsroom Staff — The Washington Post, the first and most innovative major U.S. newspaper to use video as part of its online news offering, is launching a platform for hundreds of reporters to host their own programs live from their desks on Webcams …
John Eggerton / Multichannel:
Genachowski: FCC Should Not Dictate Programming — Chairman Says Commission Will Be ‘Active Partner’ In Supporting Public Media — Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski said the commission will be an “active partner” in supporting public media as one response …
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James McQuivey / paidContent:
Why Some Media Companies Are Quietly Cheering The Apple-Adobe Tiff — The Apple-Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) tussle is heating up to bizarre proportions, with Steve Jobs yesterday issuing a public defense for Apple's anti-Flash stance. Call it a blog-heard-round-the-world, due to how quickly Jobs' comments spread.
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
CNN Is ‘Standing With’ Stressed-Out War Correspondent — Michael Ware has spent so much of the past nine years reporting from war zones for Time magazine and CNN that it's almost like he's a citizen of Iraq. — That experience, he says, has left him with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Cuts Prices in Tiff With Penguin — In the latest round of the book pricing wars, Amazon.com Inc. has begun selling a number of new hardcover books published this month by Pearson PLC's Penguin Group (USA) for only $9.99 amid a dispute between the two companies over electronic books.
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Henry Blodget / The Wire:
Gillian Reagan Leaving BI To Become Founding Editor At New NYC Site “Capital” — Some sad news for us (and excellent news for her new colleagues): — Media editor Gillian Reagan is leaving to join former New York Observer editors Tom McGeveran and Josh Benson as a founding editor of a new site called “Capital.”
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Job Cuts at ABC Leave Workers Stunned and Downcast — If “Good Morning America” or “World News” look any different in the coming weeks, it might be because ABC News is employing nearly 400 fewer people. — Earlier this week, ABC News, a unit of the Walt Disney Company …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
FT ad revenue growing again — Owner Pearson reports 7% group revenue increase in first quarter, with improving but ‘volatile’ newspaper ad market — Pearson, the publishing group that owns the Financial Times, has reported a 7% increase in revenues in the first quarter, helped by …
Claire Atkinson / Broadcasting & Cable:
Discovery's Q1 Earnings Show Big Boost in Ad Revenue — Ratings, ad recovery help factual programming giant record strong gains — Discovery Communications again appeared to set the bar for top tier cablers, reporting a 9% increase in domestic ad revenue for the first quarter.
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Economist:
The great survivor — TV has coped well with technological change. Other media can learn from it — From The Economist print edition — NEWSPAPERS are dying; the music industry is still yelping about iTunes; book publishers think they are next. Yet one bit of old media seems to be doing rather well.
/Film:
Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and Akiva Goldsman Moving to Adapt Stephen King's Dark Tower — Stephen King fans were very optimistic over the last couple of years as J.J. Abrams' company Bad Robot held the option on King's expansive, ambitious series The Dark Tower.
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
The dangers of embedded journalism, in war and politics — The American news media have made great use in recent years of a practice called embedding, in which journalists travel with the U.S. military to cover wars. — I've taken advantage of this chance to see the military up close.
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Jason Fell / Folio:
Report: Social Media Impacting B-to-B Buying Process — Buyers indicating they're no longer following ‘traditional’ purchase phases. — A recent study by DemandGen Report is indicating that b-to-b buyers have changed the way they research and engage in the buying process.
Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
Todd McCarthy Goes Digital - Joins IndieWire Network — In the saga of the death of Variety and the rise of its online replacement, this one will be a marker: Todd McCarthy, the respected film critic who worked for 31 years at the trade paper, is starting his own blog within the IndieWire network.
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