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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 …
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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 …
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 — ‘, Assanka. $(this).parents(’.falconpostactions'), “, ‘Share’, 530)”>Share — 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 …
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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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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.
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.
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 …
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.”
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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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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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.
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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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.
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.
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 …
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