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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, New York Magazine, Romenesko, 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
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!”
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
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.
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.
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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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
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.
Max Read / Gawker:
How Did the Miami New Times Catch George Rekers with a Rentboy? — Catching a well-known homophobe in hot gay rentboy action is the dream of every budding young journalist. But short of following Rick Warren around with a camera all the time, how do you do it?
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 …
Ian Schafer / AdAge:
How Facebook's Geo-Networking Plans Will Change Everything — What a Check-in on Facebook Will Mean for Foursquare, Gowalla and Marketers — As reported by Ad Age, Facebook is preparing to launch functionality that allows people to instantly broadcast their present locations and whereabouts …
Adweek:
Born-Again Ads — The first generation of iPad marketing aims to give brands a turbo-charged sheen — Michael Ancevic, svp, group cd at Mullen, is nearly as excited about Apple's iPad as those in the publishing industry. (The only difference: his future may not depend on it.)
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 …
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.
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 …
Alastair Harper / Prospect Magazine:
George Orwell, patron saint of hacks — No-one, ultimately, had a clue about the election. The pollsters, the politicians, the pundits got it wrong. Even the bookies, who are always meant to be right, having a financial interest in being so, were wrong. No-one predicted the result we got or understands it now we've got it.
Christopherfountain / For What It's Worth:
CNBC - on top of the world, but not world news — British P.M. Gordon Brown Resigns - But you wouldn't know it if you watched CNBC — By Teri Buhl — Smack dab at the top of the lunch hour UK's Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced he's going to resign. Surprise-Surprise.
Anna Leach / Shiny Shiny:
Apple's no-nipples policy means fashion mags are censoring their iPad editions — Magazines planning to launch iPad editions for the Apple's glossy e-Reader device will have to censor themselves to make into Apple's No Porn app store, I heard yesterday. — And we're not just talking about Nuts …