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James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
How to Save the News — Plummeting newspaper circulation, disappearing classified ads, “unbundling” of content—the list of what's killing journalism is long. But high on that list, many would say, is Google, the biggest unbundler of them all. Now, having helped break the news business …
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BuzzMachine, MediaMemo, Editors Weblog, Romenesko, New York Magazine, Prof Chris Daly's Blog, Talking New Media and Kirk LaPointe's …
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Choire / The Awl:
Google Believes Online Ads Could Be Worth More Than Print Ads by 2012
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Gawker
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
“Always collaborate”: Say hello to OpenFile, the local news site putting those new media maxims to the test — The thing about new media maxims is that, all too often, they remain just that — maxims. Smart ideas that guide our thinking, yes, but that don't get much tangible testing in the hectic, messy space where journalism lives.
Canadian Press:
Group to acquire Canwest papers for $1.1 billion … TORONTO — Canwest Global Communications has approved the sale of its newspapers to a group led by National Post president and CEO Paul Godfrey in a $1.1-billion deal that preserves jobs and pays off the insolvent company's bankers.
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
PCC clears Loaded magazine for ‘epic boobs girl’ pictures taken from internet — The Press Complaints Commission has rejected a privacy complaint from a woman about an article and pictures of her in Loaded magazine under the headline “Wanted! The epic boobs girl!”
Tony Ortega / Runnin' Scared:
MEMO TO FOSTER KAMER, RE: DICK JOKE — Hey, Kamer. — Ortega here. — I want you to do something for me. — I want you to stop apologizing for the damn dick joke. — I caught the mea culpa at your Tumblr, and frankly, I wish you'd knock that s**t off.
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
NBC Universal exec's cable ties add to her pull — Bridget Baker, who has been negotiating to secure distribution deals for not only NBC but also CNBC, MSNBC, USA and Bravo, has moved to the forefront amid Comcast's proposed $30-billion takeover. — Bridget Baker's corner office …
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Company Town
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Disney Digital Narrows Losses As Revs Rise 20 Percent — The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) posted healthy gains this past quarter, and the company cited box office successes such as Alice In Wonderland and the acquisition of Marvel, which has the number one film at the box office with Iron Man 2, as the reasons for the growth.
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Comcast to Revamp Its TV Everywhere Service — Comcast will soon streamline the authentication process for subscribers that want to log in and access premium, on-demand video content online, according to CEO Brian Roberts. In a conversation with former News Corp. chief Peter Chernin …
Bill Gorman / TVbytheNumbers:
HuffPo Touts CNN's “Major Ratings Victories” Last Week; Really? — If you read the Huffington Post, you'd think that CNN had a turned its recent ratings doldrums around during the oil leak/Euro-stock market meltdown/Times Square bombs/British election/flood jam packed news bonanza that was last week.
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George O'Brien / BusinessWest:
Teaching Aspiring Journalists How to Write — and Be Entrepreneurial — B.J. Roche says that today's journalists must be, in a word, entrepreneurial. — B.J. Roche says she was talking recently to one of her journalism students about what he'd like to do career-wise.
Mark Fitzgerald / Editor & Publisher:
Burned by Bankruptcies, But Betting on Newspapers — CHICAGO — While JPMorgan Chase was negotiating with debtor newspapers where its investments went badly, such as bankrupt Tribune Co., it was also making a big bet on the business — tripling its holdings in the nation's largest newspaper publisher, Gannett Co.
Stephanie Clifford / Media Decoder:
A Peek at Vanity Fair's iPad App — “Magazines are actually pretty brilliant concepts the way they are,” said Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter on Tuesday as he previewed his magazine's new iPad app. “At the same time, we have a few bells and whistles that a magazine cannot provide.”
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New York Observer
wan-press.org:
World Newspaper Congress called off, World Editors Forum postponed — Français Español Deutsch — The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has been forced to call off the World Newspaper Congress and postpone the World Editors Forum …
David McKay Wilson / Columbia College:
Watching the Watchdogs — Journalists may be society's watchdogs, but public editor Clark Hoyt '64 is the man who watches over the watchdogs at The New York Times — Clark Hoyt '64, who won a Pulitzer Prize in the 1970s and was for many years Washington bureau chief for the Knight Ridder chain …
Georg Szalai / Mediaweek:
CBS CFO: Net May Hold Back Ads From Upfront — CBS Corp. CFO Joe Ianniello on Monday once again touted the CBS network's positioning ahead of the broadcast network upfront next week and said it will hold back advertising spots if it doesn't get the ad price increases it is looking for.
Bill Mickey / Folio:
Ripp Promoted to Publisher of TIME — New position includes oversight of digital sales. — Time Inc. today announced the promotion of Brendan Ripp to publisher of TIME. The position will also be responsible for overseeing digital ad sales for Time.com and Life.com.
currybetdotnet:
Do journalists need to learn to be programmers? Yes. And no. — There has recently been a resurgence in the debate about whether journalists need to learn to be programmers. Partly, it seems, this has been fuelled by the announcement of a qualification that combines journalism and computer science …
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The (e)Grommet
Marc Brownstein / AdAge:
Overreliance on Social Media Will Damage Your Brand — It's Good for Maintaining Relationships, but How Will New Customers Find You? — Last year, a friend of mine who is the CEO of a successful retail apparel brand gleefully told me how he cut his $5 million advertising budget, in lieu of a 100% Facebook/social-media strategy.
Alex Beam / Boston Globe:
Ye Olde Newsweek — When a being a journalist-on-the-rise was a glass half-filled job — My first job in journalism was at the now-foundering Newsweek magazine, which the Washington Post Co. has put up for sale. This was — gasp — more than 30 years ago, and my memories are grossly irrelevant …
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Romenesko
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Another Web Ad That Wants to Eat Your Screen (With Your Permission) — Another entrant from the giant-ad-that-takes-over-your-entire- screen competition: Firefly Video, which is launching an ad network today. — Firefly's ad unit is a mashup of lots of things we've seen in the past …
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Digits:
Amazon: A Patch for Your Novel Is Ready To Download — As e-books go mainstream, authors are gaining an opportunity to literally rewrite history. — Eagle-eyed owners of the Amazon Kindle e-reader, like Paul Biba of the site TeleRead, have taken note of messages from Amazon letting …
Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
Foursquare Mulling Ad Options — Digg Account Director Emily Crume checks in on Foursquare nearly everywhere she goes. Sunday night she checked in at the Los Angeles International Airport with 45 others. That would have been the perfect opportunity for American Airlines or Virgin America …
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