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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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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 …
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.
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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.
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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Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
Breaking: Campbell Brown Leaving CNN After Network Grants Release From Contract — 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.
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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The Awl
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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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.”
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 …
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Inside Cable News
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.
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Gawker
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Amnesty International:
Amnesty ‘disappointed’ by FT's decision to pull ad targeting Shell — Financial Times' late call thwarts Amnesty's campaign — Amnesty International UK expressed its immense disappointment today at the Financial Times' decision to pull a new hard-hitting advertisement at the last possible moment.
Kunur Patel / AdAge:
Will Growing Crop of TV Apps Engage Viewers, Advertisers? — ABC, MTV Already Are Making Mobile Part of Upfront Package, While Others Use It as Viewing Companion — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The Gleeks have an app. So do “Dancing with the Stars” addicts and “Beavis & Butthead” fans.
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Jon Ward / The Daily Caller:
McMahon campaign says they ‘fed’ Blumenthal story to New York Times — UPDATE - 12:26 p.m. - The McMahon campaign has pulled the Rennie blog post off their site, in an apparent attempt to backtrack from the claim that they gave the story to the Times. A McMahon spokesman has not yet responded …
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.
Mike Reynolds / Multichannel News:
800-Pound Peacocks and Gorillas — Walking up to the Hilton on Avenue of the Americas, NBC had an armada of painted taxi cabs circling the hotel. — In tune with the network's “more colorful” pitch, each proudly displayed one of the shades of the Peacock's tail feathers …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Rahm opened backchannel to Murdoch — Even as the White House waged war on Fox News last fall, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel kept a backchannel open to News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch, telling him the White House “welcomed his ideas,” Jonathan Alter reports in his new book on Obama's first year.
Mohammed Al Shafey / aawsat.com:
A Talk with the New Yorker's David Remnick — London, Asharq Al-Awsat- Amidst the upheaval that journalism is experiencing in light of the rise of new digital and internet technologies and the global financial crisis, David Remnick, Editor of the New Yorker magazine agreed to speak …
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