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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
CBS News and CNN Are Back in Partnership Negotiations — CBS News and CNN are in advanced negotiations about signing a news-gathering partnership, according to executives familiar with the discussions. The talks revolve around how the two news divisions can combine operations in a bid to cut costs and expand audiences on both sides.
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MediaPost, New York Observer, The Wire, LocalNewser, Lost Remote, CJR, Nieman Journalism Lab and Tuned In
Wall Street Journal:
Google Moves on e-Books — Google Inc. will begin selling digital books in late June or July, a company representative said Tuesday, setting off a three-way battle between the Internet giant and Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc. — Chris Palma, Google's manager for strategic-partner development …
Choire / The Awl:
Pink Weekly Debuts Cash-for-Traffic Reporter Bonus Jackpot Scheme — At last Wednesday's weekly staff meeting at the New York Observer, an old-fashioned paper memo was distributed; it was not sent out by email. It explained a new trial incentive program for reporters, to begin immediately.
Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
The Man Who Tried To Manage Murdoch — As Rupert Murdoch's jaws closed around The Wall Street Journal, managing editor Marcus Brauchli became the latest in a long line of editors who thought they could win over the conquering mogul. Brauchli set about feverishly redesigning the paper …
BrauBlog:
Star Tribune CEO Mike Klingensmith talks new paywall, digital re-do — Mike Klingensmith is no rocket scientist, just the son of one. The new Star Tribune publisher/CEO's dad was an aeronautical engineer for Honeywell in Minneapolis during the Apollo era; the son faces a challenge nearly …
Mark Leccese / Gatekeeper:
Tweeting the water story — I've been on Twitter (@mleccese) daily for a couple of months now trying to figure out if there's any useful journalism there. I've learned that nearly every tweet is inane, self-promotional (I'll be self-promoting this blog post on Twitter as soon as I finish it …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
News Corp.'s Fabled Subscription Plans A Month Away — Remember Rupert Murdoch's plan to convince other media companies to join him behind a pay wall, and offer their stuff only via subscription? It's still around, in some form. We'll hear more about it in “three to four weeks” Murdoch said today during News Corp.'s earnings call.
David Kaplan / paidContent:
‘Tentative Recovery’ Eases Thomson Reuters' Falling Profits — Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) CEO Tom Glocer pointed to the “tentative recovery” as helping fuel momentum for the company in the past quarter, as the company's profits fell less than analysts anticipated.
Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
eBay Founder Pierre Omidyar's $20-Per-Month Hawaii News Site Is Live — Honolulu Civil Beat, the new Hawaii-based online news site and community hub launched by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, went live this morning. — A little background: Omidyar describes the site as a “civic square for Hawaii …
Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Cable news most trusted in new opinion survey — President Barack Obama, who in the past has dismissed TV talking heads and horse-race politics as “cable chatter,” revived his career as a bully-pulpit media critic this weekend. Delivering a commencement address to the University …
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Gawker, Romenesko, Runnin' Scared, Editors Weblog, mediabistro.com, Fitz & Jen, Mediaite, The Wire and CBS News
Markcuban / blog maverick:
The Future of TV is......TV — Before I get into the topic at hand, I want to first commend Google and Youtube. Just read the article “Are Live Sports the Next Frontier for Youtube?” Dang, why didn't I think of that 15 years ago ??. Oh well. And one more thing.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Any Good Live Video on the Web Right Now? Ask Clicker. — For a bunch of reasons, Web video tends to work better when it has already been recorded. But here's one way to make live Web video more palatable: Make it easier to find. — Clicker, the would-be TV Guide for Web video, is now indexing live video streams, too.
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Debt-Laden Private Buyouts Are Back - Pearson Sells IDC For $3.4 Billion — Pearson (NYSE: PSO) said back in January it wanted to sell Interactive Data Corporation, its financial market data analytics provider. And now it is - for a pretty sum. — Silver Lake and Warbug Pincus funds …
Sree Sreenivasan / DNAinfo.com:
Some Thoughts After Six Months of DNAinfo — DNAinfo has been around for six months. Time to reflect on what it's accomplished. — The notification came via e-mail from the oldest press club in the United States: “We are pleased and honored to inform you that DNAinfo.com is the recipient …
Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
NYT's Goldman Scoopster, Louise Story, Joins Bloomberg TV As Contributing Editor — Louise Story, one of the two New York Times reporters who broke the news on April 16 about the S.E.C. suing Goldman Sachs for fraud, has joined Bloomberg TV as a contributing editor.
Alexandra Jaffe / Editors Weblog:
Living Stories launch for WordPress could mean integration in newspaper sites — In February of this year, Google announced plans to open-source its Living Stories code, offering the program for development for news sources and blogs worldwide. Though there hasn't since been a large influx …
Greg Mitchell / The Nation:
Welcome to MEDIA FIX, Day One! — OUR media watchdogs require close watching. It's been an article of faith for Nation editors and readers since the founding of the magazine. In recent decades, Nation writers have provided smart, often witty, media coverage.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Nielsen Acquires Online Video Analytics Company GlanceGuide — Analytics and audience measurement giant Nielsen has acquired video analytics company GlanceGuide. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. — GlanceGuide's analytics and measurements provide insights into how consumers interact with the video they watch online.
Martin Langeveld / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Moderating declines: Parsing the NAA's spin on newspaper circ data — Newspapers could borrow a line from a recent Dilbert comic strip: “We've been doing great since we redefined success as a slowing of failure.” Or perhaps it was the other way around, and Dilbert creator Scott Adams …
Peter Rothberg / The Nation:
The Nation Goes Open Source — Of all the many changes at TheNation.com, the one you won't readily detect is the technology underlying the new site - the open source content management platform “Drupal.” With redesigns, readers naturally focus on the “front-end,” (did the colors change? …
Twitter Media:
Fresh-baked tweets for your posts — Here at Twitter Media, we want to experiment in exactly the same way we're encouraging you to experiment. We want to implement the things we're recommending that you implement. And we want to share tools that we develop—even when they're quite simple.
ABCNEWS:
The Appalling Reaction to the iPhone Leak — The Apple G4 iPhone Debacle Shows Journalism Has Lost Much of Its Muscle — Remember when reporters had guts? — In the late '70s, when I was just out of college, and even before I began my career as a journalist, I worked in public relations at Hewlett-Packard Co.
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Christian Science Monitor
Ben Elowitz / paidContent:
Traditional Ways Of Judging ‘Quality’ In Published Content Are Now Useless — Ben Elowitz (@elowitz) is co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, a platform for social web sites, and author of the Digital Quarters blog. Prior to Wetpaint, Elowitz co-founded Blue Nile, the online retailer of luxury goods.
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