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Andrew Rice / New York Times:
Putting a Price on Words — Last year, Sam Apple got the idea into his head that what the world needed was a new kind of newspaper. This was, to put it mildly, at odds with the consensus of the marketplace. At the time, several large media companies were in bankruptcy …
Charles V. Bagli / New York Times:
Condé Nast Considers Move to New W.T.C. Tower — The publishing giant Condé Nast has been talking to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey about moving to 1 World Trade Center when it is complete, a potential coup for the signature skyscraper rising from ground zero.
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Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:
Haim Saban Plans ‘Serious Look’ at Newsweek — Billionaire media investor Haim Saban said Wednesday he's planning to “take a serious look” at Newsweek magazine, which is on the auction block. — Mr. Saban said Don Graham, chairman of Newsweek parent company Washington Post Co. …
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paidContent, FishbowlNY, Romenesko, Guardian, Gawker, The Wire, mediabistro.com, New York Magazine, New York Observer, Reuters and Geekosystem
Ian Burrell / The Independent:
Will Rupert Murdoch's plans to charge for access to his websites pay off? — Next week Rupert Murdoch introduces a charge for access to the websites of his best-known news titles. Will his latest gamble pay off? — The big reveal comes next week. We'll have a better idea then whether …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
You're Welcome, You Bastards — A week ago we posted two excerpts from Fortune columnist David Kirkpatrick's new book The Facebook Effect. We're big fans of Kirkpatrick and have been following his book progress since last year. When Fortune's PR department called to ask us to print the excerpts, we quickly agreed.
iab.net:
Internet Advertising Revenues Hit $5.9 Billion in Q1 '10, Highest First-Quarter Revenue Level On Record — 7.5% Year-Over-Year Increase a Bright Spot in Marketing & Advertising Media NEW YORK, NY (May 13, 2009) — Internet advertising revenues in the U.S. hit $5.9 billion for the first quarter of 2010 …
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Hulu: HTML5 Isn't Ready for Prime Time — UPDATED: Hulu rolled out a number of updates to its video player today, including making it bigger, adding adaptive bitrate streaming, improving content recommendations and enabling users to receive more personalized ads.
Marisa Guthrie / Broadcasting & Cable:
Cable Show 2010: TV Everywhere, Money Not So Much — Media executives rehash perennial concerns about financial viability of multiplatform distribution — Moderated by former FCC chairman Michael Powell, who has segued from the federal payroll to Providence Equity Partners …
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paidContent, Multichannel, Media Buyer Planner, TVNewser, MediaPost, WebNewser and Beet.TV
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Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
A Digital Boot Camp to Groom Talent for Agencies — WHEN she founded the digital ad agency Exopolis nine years ago, Kat Egan wasn't worried about finding good talent. Although the Internet was young, she figured trained technologists would soon be pelting her with résumés.
Ctouhey / TBD:
We're Crowdsourcing Plans for TBD — While we were working on a name for our new project (we settled on TBD), we used a lot of different names to refer to it, including, well, TBD, nonameyet, and many others. — At one point, a tweep suggested that we crowdsource the name, seeking suggestions on Twitter.
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Ryan Chittum / CJR:
At the WSJ, A Question of Trust — The real issue in the Kagan softball dustup: The paper has lost credibility in the Murdoch era … Simpson is the respected former Wall Street Journal investigative reporter, and that quote is from former WSJer Sarah Ellison's new book War at The Wall Street Journal …
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Jim / Gannett Blog:
Lost in switch to USAT news: local reader opinion; what do Iowans think about Kagan? Hard to know — [Landing page, above, for Des Moines's Supreme Court news] — More than ever, Gannett's community newspapers are relying on USA Today for national and world news, both in print and online.
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Adobe targets Apple in ad campaign launched today, publishes open letter from founders — If you're reading Engadget today (and let's be honest, you're reading it right now), then you might have noticed that Adobe has launched a pretty full-force campaign to call out Apple on its anti-Flash mission.
Asmith / Richard Prince's Journal-isms:
Station Turned Down Video of Police Beating — Uproar After Photographer Shows Material on YouTube — Essayist Debra Dickerson Says She Is “Homeless” — Laid-Off Baltimore Sun Workers Share Stories — White House Defends Court Nominee on Diversity — Lena Horne Services to be Held Friday in New York
Tim Elfrink / Riptide 2.0:
Gerald Posner Hires Rush to Judgment Author Mark Lane in Plagiarism Case — Gerald Posner, Miami Beach author and admitted plagiarist, announced today that he's hired a lawyer to defend him against Miami New Times' stories about his literary thefts. — Posner's own best-seller and Pulitzer finalist …
Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk:
Private Eye backs hyperlocal Hackney newspaper in row with council — Private Eye plans to republish audio clips of a phone call that are at the centre of a dispute between Hackney council and independent community newspaper the Hackney Citizen. — The Eye will host the clips as an act …
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Jason Fry / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Why the biggest competitor to iPad news apps may be a familiar icon — Once we got done making jokes about the name, one of the more amusing aspects of the iPad's launch was how many people made up their minds about the product's worthiness and market fate without the benefit of using one for very long, if at all.
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Newsonomics of copyediting value — [Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.] — What's copyediting worth these days?
Leon Neyfakh / New York Observer:
America's Next Top Novel — On June 7, The New Yorker will publish a double fiction issue in which it will name 20 individuals under the age of 40 whom they believe to be the most talented and important American writers of their generation. The authors who are being considered for the list …
Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
Laid-off Baltimore Sun staffers tell their stories on new website — LAID-OFF BALTIMORE SUN WORKERS FIND A VOICE ON NEW WEBSITE CREATED BY FELLOWSHIP FROM WRITERS GUILD, EAST FOUNDATION — NEW YORK CITY - In the spring of 2009, more than 60 Baltimore Sun writers and staff were laid off …
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