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Joseph Plambeck / New York Times:
Big Paydays for Chiefs of Top Media Companies — The media industry may be going through some rough times, with the landscape changing day to day, but at least one aspect is business as usual: big paydays for the people at the top. — Top executives at the country's largest media companies continued …
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Rattled Journal Staff Renew Pursuit of Pulitzers — Last week, Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal tried to take his battle with the New York Times into the streets — and sometimes the gutters — with the launch of the Journal's “Greater New York” section.
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TheAustralian:
WSJ takes no prisoners in home-turf tussle with Times — WHEN ace pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger was forced to ditch his US Airways jet in the Hudson River in New York, heroically saving the lives of all on board, it was a big story. — But that January 15, 2009, is remembered at the Wall Street Journal for other reasons too.
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New York Observer
David Carr / New York Times:
The Media Equation: A Lost iPhone Reveals Apple's Churlish Side — Journalists are already getting warmed up for the next big Apple event, the Worldwide Developer's Conference in June, where they will most likely get a look at the next generation of the iPhone.
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Bill Carter / New York Times:
NBC Changes Strategy of Cutting Prime-Time TV Costs — LOS ANGELES — For Jeff Gaspin, handed the task of pulling NBC's prime-time schedule out of a long, precipitous slide, the first priority is reality — as a concept, not a program genre. — “This is the first year in quite …
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Norman Gomlak / Washington Post:
AOL seeks to fill need for local news with online news site Patch — AOL Inc. is apparently gearing up to launch dozens of community news sites in the Washington-Baltimore area, part of an aggressive push to fill the void left by newspaper cutbacks and to tap the region's local online ad spending.
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Twitter Media:
Tweets are the new quotes — Have you ever been quoted in a news article or blog post? If so, you know it can be a strange experience: you recognize your words, but they never sound quite right. It's the peril of transcription. — That's just one of a couple reasons we like ReadWriteWeb's approach …
Scott Patterson / MarketBeat:
Buffett: Mind Blowing How Fast Newspapers Losing Ground — Warren Buffett delivered more doom and gloom news for the state of the newspaper industry. — Asked about his views on the struggling industry, which has seen a rising trend of diminishing revenues and distribution in recent years …
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Success of Pay Walls at Smaller Papers Is Good Sign for Print — Positive Numbers at Local Dailies Give Hope to Bigger Players, but Recipe Has Not Worked for All — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — If you want to know what paid content on the web can do for newspapers' paid circulation …
Fern Siegel / MediaPost:
China Starts 24-Hour English Channel — China's biggest national news agency is set to launch its global, English-language television news network, part of efforts to expand the government's media influence abroad. Starting Saturday, May 1, China Xinhua News Network Corp. (CNC) …
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CBS News:
Conan Breaks Silence on “Tonight Show,” NBC Exit — O'Brien Tells “60 Minutes” Not Possible Show Lost Money Under His Watch; Says Six Months Was Too Soon To Judge His Potential — (CBS) Very few things in this country galvanize public opinion like someone trying to mess around with people's preferences in the bedroom.
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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Obama Trounces Leno — Hungry Beast Giving Beast Women in the World — Blogs and Stories — The returns from the White House Correspondents' Dinner are in. Lloyd Grove on how the president thoroughly upstaged the king of late-night comedy at Washington's media prom. Plus, watch the nine best moments.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Close Encounters of the Regulatory Kind: Google-AdMob Brace for the Worst — While executives at both AdMob and Google are pulling out all the stops to convince federal government regulators otherwise, multiple sources close to the situation said that the pair now expect the Federal Trade Commission …
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Andrew Adam Newman / New York Times:
Advertising: Pregnancy Test Maker Finds Opportunity in Personal Stories — IN a new Web-only reality series on TLC.com, “A Conception Story,” Mary, 34, sits in the living room of her home in Virginia and explains why she and Mike, her husband of 10 years, put off having children.
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