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Edmund Lee / AdAge:
Yahoo Buys Associated Content for $100 Million — Deal Will Shore Up Portal's Content Offerings, Help Produce Low-Cost Media — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Yahoo has acquired startup Associated Content for slightly more than $100 million in a deal the at gives the portal new technology and a new strategy for producing low-cost media.
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Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:
Yahoo's Buy of Associated Content Makes It a Publisher, Syndicator, Wire, Ad Rep...and More — So what indeed is Yahoo? CEO Carol Bartz has been trying to paint the new picture of it not being in Google's space, but being different. Not a search company, to be sure, a media company of some sort …
Yodel Anecdotal:
Welcoming Associated Content to the Yahoo! Family — Interview with Luke Beatty, Associated Content @ Yahoo! Video — Today we announced we are acquiring Associated Content, a pioneer in delivering crowd sourced content. We are at their headquarters today talking with employees and I spent …
Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
Breaking: Campbell Brown Leaving CNN After Network Grants Release From Contract (UPDATE) — Mediaite has learned CNN has granted anchor Campbell Brown's request to be let out early from her contract. — She has agreed to stay on and anchor the 8pmET hour until a replacement is found.
Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:
GQ's Men of the Year Issue on iPad: 365 Copies Sold — GQ, one of the first magazine titles to appear on the iPad, has sold 365 copies of its December 2009 Men of the Year issue, according to publisher Pete Hunsinger. — The issue was priced at $2.99 per download — $2 less than the newsstand price …
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John Gapper / John Gapper's Business Blog:
Google is agnostic about charging for news — Erich Schmidt's remarks today at the Google Zeitgeist conference on how the company is trying to work with with news groups including Rupert Murdoch's News Corp on new revenue models reminded me of what I find striking about Google's attitude.
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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Blumenthal scandal lifts veil on how political campaigns shop opposition research to the press — The New York Times' big scoop on Democratic Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal's misrepresented record of service during the Vietnam War wasn't even an hour old when one of Blumenthal's rivals …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Waiting to Pay for Hulu? Wait a While Longer. — A public service announcement for those of you eager to start paying for Hulu: Be patient. You're going to have to keep waiting. — Last month, the Los Angeles Times said Hulu was set to roll out a subscription service “as soon as May 24.”
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MediaPost, NewTeeVee, Fast Company, Online Video News, CrunchGear, Lifehacker and Gizmodo
Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Mediagazer: From zero to big traffic driver in just two short months — Last week we were perusing our Google Analytics report here at the Lab and one data point stood out: A site barely two months old had inched into our top 10 referring sites for the previous month.
Peter Osnos / The Atlantic Online:
The Rise of Bloomberg News — By any standard, Michael Rubens Bloomberg is one of the most successful public figures of our age. As the third-term mayor of New York, a billionaire many times over, and in the top tier of global philanthropists, he has stature nonpareil among his mogul peers …
Clifford J. Levy / New York Times:
It's Open Season on Journalists Near Moscow — Journalists have been attacked in a region along the M-10 highway. More Photos » — “Last spring, I called for the resignation of the city's leadership,” Mr. Beketov said in one of his final editorials. “A few days later, my automobile was blown up.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Five Years Later, The Huffington Post (And Online Media) Are Coming Of Age — The Huffington Post is now five years old. — In those five years, the site has gone from a tiny blog featuring posts from famous friends of founders Arianna Huffington and Ken Lerer to one of the largest independent news sites in the world.
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Maureen Tkacik / CJR:
Look at Me! — A writer's search for journalism in the age of branding — When I was nineteen and chose to accept the creeping suspicion that I would turn out to be a writer and, by extension, chronically deficient of funds, I made the fiscally prudent decision to drop out of school.
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Michael Wolff / Newser:
Who Killed Journalism? Jonathan Alter? — Follow him on Twitter @MichaelWolffNYC — Jonathan Alter has been Newsweek's lead writer for many years—which may not be, at this point, the first item that you'd want on your resume. — The other day I suggested that his pomposity might be one reason for Newsweek's terrible decline.
Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Google to fight government if AdMob deal blocked — (Reuters) - Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Tuesday his company is prepared to fight the U.S. government “very hard” if regulators block the search leader's acquisition of mobile advertising firm AdMob.
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Tercek Out As OWN Digital Head; Vision Differed From CEO's Plans — His LinkedIn profile still says president of OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Digital Network but paidContent has learned—and confirmed with the company—that Robert Tercek is no longer with the new network.
Adam Yamaguchi / The Huffington Post:
Laura Ling: Captive in North Korea — When the phone rings at 1 a.m., I usually ignore it. But early in the morning of March 19, 2009, I awoke to the sound of my cell phone buzzing on the nightstand. It was a call I never expected to get. — Laura Ling and Euna Lee …
Richard Rainey / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Steve Theriot drops Jefferson Parish lawsuit against Internet commenters — Jefferson Parish President Steve Theriot dropped a parish lawsuit Monday that sought the identities behind 11 anonymous user names on www.NOLA.com who made critical comments online about his administration and former parish officials, court records show.
Matthew Belloni / Hollywood Reporter:
NIKKI FINKE IN TALKS FOR HBO PAYDAY — EXCLUSIVE: HBO is trying to make a deal with litigious showbiz blogger Nikki Finke. The network is negotiating an arrangement with Finke to bless “Tilda,” its planned comedy about a Hollywood blogger very much like Finke.
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Journalism students want to work for national newspapers — Why are there so many young people desperate to get into mainstream media? Every year since I've been teaching journalism at City University London, the post-grad courses have been oversubscribed. — The same is true at other universities offering journalism degrees.
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