Mediagazer: As Facebook Takes a Beating, a Brutal Movie Is Set to Make Things Much Worse (Nick Summers/Newsweek Blogs)

6:05 AM ET, May 14, 2010

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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 …

Discussion: Media Decoder, The Reformed Broker, Shaping the Future …, New York Observer and MEDIA BEESWAX

Deadline.com:

NBC CANCELS ‘LAW & ORDER’ FLAGSHIP: Dick Wolf Furious That Net Reneged On Deal And May Take Show To TNT; Should NBC Reconsider? — BREAKING NEWS! KEEP REFRESHING! 3:30 PM UPDATE! Here's the latest news on this fast-moving story. A deal was in place if NBC picked up the Law & Order flagship …

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Josef Adalian / New York Magazine:

Vulture Exclusive: NBC Offered to Renew Law & Order, But Did Dick Wolf Play Chicken? — Is Law & Order really over? After multiple reports suggesting that the iconic New York-based crime procedural would definitely be back for a 21st season next fall — allowing Dick Wolf his life-long dream …

Discussion: B&C, The Daily Beast and Gawker

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.

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Nick Summers / Newsweek Blogs:

As Facebook Takes a Beating, a Brutal Movie Is Set to Make Things Much Worse — A passage from Sorkin's The Social Network screenplay. — Ever since its launch in 2004, Facebook has rolled along like a juggernaut. Users occasionally protest its policies and privacy changes …

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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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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.

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rbr.com:

NBC taps Microsoft for digital ads — NBC and Microsoft Advertising announced a unique digital marketing partnership designed to promote NBC's “More Colorful” Fall 2010 program lineup. The partnership will be executed through an extensive multi-screen advertising campaign that includes MSN, X-box, Microsoft Mobile and Bing.

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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 …

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Phil Rosenthal / Chicago Tribune:

‘Annie’ left a homeless orphan in newspaper world — Through more than 85 years of hardships and challenges — spanning the Great Depression, a world war, foreign cabals, corruption at home, several kidnappings and, well, being an orphan — she somehow always found a way to triumph.

Discussion: Romenesko, Jezebel, Speakeasy, FishbowlNY, Associated Press and The New Republic

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Media Meets Commerce, As Thrillist Buys JackThreads (Plus, 1,000 Invites) — It was only this past weekend that Dave Chase argued in a guest post here on TechCrunch that online media companies should get into e-commerce through group buying and flash sale sites.

Discussion: MediaPost, paidContent, Speakeasy, FishbowlNY and Silicon Alley Insider

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 …

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comScore, Inc.:

Americans Received 1 Trillion Display Ads in Q1 2010 as Online Advertising Market Rebounds from 2009 Recession — Facebook Was Top Display Ad Publisher in Q1, AT&T Ranked as Top Advertiser — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released an overview …

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Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:

Murdoch-Owned Sun Online Blocks Meltwater Media Monitor — The Sun's website has fallen in behind its News International stablemate Times Online by barring the PR media monitoring service Meltwater from crawling its articles. — Sun Online used the robots.txt protocol to block the service on Thursday …

Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:

Media execs embrace the iPad — Chase Carey, Brian Roberts praise device's earnings potential — When asked about digital technology last month on a stage in Beverly Hills, Chase Carey went off on the wonders of Apple's new iPad. — “Digital,” said former Warner Bros. and Yahoo honcho Terry Semel.

Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!:

Gowalla Partners with National Geographic and Washington Post for Branded Trips — Location-sharing service Gowalla has just revamped its website and expanded its Trips feature. The Foursquare competitor is launching the new feature set with two big business partners …

Discussion: TechCrunch

Allison Schaefers / Star Bulletin:

Combined newspaper to employ up to 500 workers — Nearly 400 employees from both publications might lose their jobs in the consolidation — Oahu Publications Inc., which is consolidating the state's two largest daily newspapers into the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, expects to employ between 450 …

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Crain's New York Business:

Ratings system highlights the reach of new media — Matthew Flamm - NBC's cult comedy The Office may have ranked 60th last year in the Nielsen ratings universe, among viewers over the age of 18. But in terms of overall impact and buzz, the show came in seventh, according to media buying and planning agency Optimedia U.S.

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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:

CBS Buys ‘Green’ Media Firm EcoMedia — CBS (NYSE: CBS) has made a small acquisition, buying EcoMedia, an environmental media firm. The two companies had already been working together in local CBS markets; under their partnership, advertisers could allocate a portion of their CBS ad spending …

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