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Kirk LaPointe / Kirk LaPointe's themediamanager.com:
David Carr of the New York Times on Web headline SEO — In his new Media Equations column, David Carr writes in The New York Times about a practice well-known to most modernized newsrooms: Headlines that position stories well for search engine results. — These days search engine optimization might …
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David Carr / New York Times:
Taylor Momsen Did Not Write This Headline — Don't know who Taylor Momsen is? Neither to do I, beyond that she is the mean one on “Gossip Girl.” But Facebook knows her well, Twitter loves her, and she and Google have been hooking up, like, forever. — One more fact about Ms. Momsen …
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Rebecca Mead / New Yorker:
RAGE MACHINE — Andrew Breitbart's empire of bluster. — On Sunday, March 21st, the day that the House voted to pass health-care reform, Andrew Breitbart, the conservative Internet entrepreneur, was thousands of miles away, at home in Westwood, a neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Chris Nuttall / Financial Times:
Google and Intel in web TV launch — Google and Intel are expected to announce a significant breakthrough into consumer electronics and the broadcast industry this week with the launch of a “Smart TV” platform. — Top executives from the Silicon Valley companies are reported to be ready …
Peter Lauria / The Daily Beast:
The Most Powerful Woman in Newspapers? — Hungry Beast Giving Beast Women in the World — Blogs and Stories — As the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal bash each other, the Financial Times, led by its sharp, glamorous new U.S. editor, Gillian Tett, intends to become a status symbol of American business.
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Joe Pompeo / Silicon Alley Insider:
New York Times Will Announce Paywall Specifics Toward ‘Latter’ Part Of The Year (NYT) — The New York Times will announce the “pricing and specifics” of its online metered paywall model “toward the latter part of the year,” the company's senior vice president of digital operations …
Mark Potts / Recovering Journalist:
Sneaking Around the WSJ.com Paywall — The Wall Street Journal online edition is the poster child for the argument in favor of paid subscriptions for news Web sites. WSJ.com has 400,000 paid online subscribers (hundreds of thousands more get the site along with their print subscription) …
Megan McCarthy / Mediagazer News:
Mediagazer Leaderboard brings you the top 100 media news sites — Today we're launching the Mediagazer Leaderboard - a list of our top 100 source websites, ranked in order. The ranking is based on a variable we call presence - the percentage of headline space a source occupied on Mediagazer over the past 30 days.
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Mia / YouTube Blog:
At five years, two billion views per day and counting — Five years ago, after months of late nights, testing and preparation, YouTube's founders launched the first beta version of YouTube.com in May, with a simple mission: give anyone a place to easily upload their videos and share them with the world.
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Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Fans of Gourmet Magazine Accept No Stand-Ins — Loren Shlaes, a pediatric occupational therapist in Manhattan, is the kind of amateur cook who bakes cakes for her friends' weddings and makes her own spaetzle. She's an avid reader of food magazines, and, over the years, has subscribed to Cook's Country …
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
The Oxymoronic Citizen Journalism — Let's fire a few missiles at politically correct ideas such as “Digital media makes all of us journalists”, “citizens will soon displace professional reporters”, and so on. That's nonsense (I have more explicit words in mind). Does it means public input in news should be kept at bay?
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Silicon Valley Watcher
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Howard Kurtz explores how oil spill, bombing news trumped Nashville flood — As Nashville anchor Bob Sellers watched his city submerged and spent time helping colleagues whose homes were utterly ruined, he was struck by how the disaster remained a largely local story.
Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:
WaPo wades into HuffPo's unpaid content model — A top news and politics site is packaging content written by unpaid bloggers, hoping to engage its audience, give writers a platform, and make some money selling ads. No, I'm not talking about The Huffington Post.
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Michael Hirschorn / New York Magazine:
1. Embrace Change — The industry is in turmoil. Hooray! — When all else fails, try being good. This may seem like an awfully cynical way to start an analysis of how great TV gets made. But TV is the most finely tuned of commercial instruments (up there with boy bands …
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NYConvergence
David Goetzl / MediaPost:
Upfront Challenge: Selling Buyers When Key C3 Network Ratings Down — In upfront presentations this week, networks touting ratings face a tough PR job. With talk about the business thriving despite challenges from the Web and elsewhere, advertisers looking under the hood may find engines still needing a jump-start.
Luke Harding / Guardian:
Alexander Lebedev: 'I'm thinking about alliances, not a free paper' — The Russian billionaire tells of his admiration for the UK and how he laughed with a Murdoch over the Independent's ad campaign — It was the election's biggest media bust-up. After the Independent launched …
Peter Preston / Guardian:
So you want a media career? Taking a course is only the start — With 15,000 media students out there, that's an awful lot of hopefuls in a hard world. To succeed, they'll need iron ambition — A distant relative with an 18-year-old daughter interested in a media career …
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Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
Big Publishers Circling Foursquare — In the past four months, The New York Times, AskMen.com and The Wall Street Journal have all partnered with Foursquare, a mobile Web service that allows users to “check-in” when they visit various local business, instantly alerting friends of their whereabouts while earning points.
Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
President signs press freedom act amid grumblings about pool coverage — In the Oval Office on Monday, President Obama signed the Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act, which requires the State Department to include repression of journalists in its annual Human Rights Reports.
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