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Stephanie Clifford / Media Decoder:
Jill Abramson Temporarily Steps Aside as Managing Editor to Focus on Digital Side — In an unusual and temporary management shuffle, Jill Abramson, the managing editor for news at The New York Times, will step aside for six months to focus on digital operations and strategy.
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John Koblin / New York Observer:
Explained: Why Jill Abramson is Getting a New Job
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Rupert Murdoch Still Needs Allies for His Digital News Crusade — Within the next two weeks or so, we're supposed to hear about Rupert Murdoch's digital news subscription service-the one he has been trying to put together for many months. — One problem: That service is supposed …
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David Carr / Media Decoder:
48 HR Magazine Experiment Big Hit, Except for That Part About the Lawyers — It's the kind of story that would warm the cockles of any old MSM hack: Young, talented journalists in San Francisco decide to use all manner of digital technology and the networked wisdom of the crowd powered by social media to produce ... a magazine.
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Make Work Meaningful, Techdirt, Mediaite, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, TVNewser, 48 Hour Magazine, The Snitch and Boing Boing
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Bloomberg EIC Winkler clamps down on Twitter posts — TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE — Bloomberg News editor in chief Matt Winkler is not happy with how some of the organization's journalists are phrasing their breaking news posts on Twitter. — In his weekly notes to the staff, Winkler recently slammed some specific Twitter posts.
Christosap / The WebM project blog:
Introducing WebM, an open web media project — A key factor in the web's success is that its core technologies such as HTML, HTTP, TCP/IP, etc. are open and freely implementable. Though video is also now core to the web experience, there is unfortunately no open and free video format …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Video: Sports Illustrated Shows Off a Google-Ready Digital Magazine — Sports Illustrated hasn't come to Apple's iPad yet, but the magazine is already showing off a new version of its future: A digital version designed with Google in mind. — This one, which Editor Terry McDonell showed off …
Gawker:
A $20 Million Bid to Buy Perez Hilton — Gawker has learned that Avid Life Media, the owner of sites including HotorNot.com and Ashley Madison, has partnered with two prominent gossip bloggers to put in a $20 million bid to acquire PerezHilton.com. — Avid Life's spokesperson, Steph Davis …
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Blinkx's Growing Income Tethered By Ongoing Expenses — Video search-and-ads firm Blinkx nearly doubled its income last year - but ongoing product costs left it with another significant loss. — Suranga Chandratillake's Blinkx is well-positioned in the fast-growing space …
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Upfronts: Conan O'Brien Mixes Jokes and Sentiment at TBS Event — Conan O'Brien was on stage in New York promoting his much-anticipated new late-night talk show. He did the exact same thing Wednesday morning, but this time for TBS, not NBC. — On stage at an upfront presentation for TBS …
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Oliver Luft / Press Gazette:
Witherow: Paywall needed for Times 100m ed costs — John Witherow, editor of the Sunday Times, last night admitted the move to restrict access to his newspaper's online content was “a big gamble” but necessary to help meet Times Newspapers' £100m editorial costs.
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Paige Albiniak / Broadcasting & Cable:
Fox to Test Kilborn in Seven Markets This Summer — Show to premiere June 28 and run for six weeks — Fox-owned television stations in seven markets will test Craig Kilborn's new half-hour syndicated show, Twentieth's The Kilborn File, for six weeks this summer, both Fox and Twentieth said Wednesday (May 19).
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google I/O: The Web Is Killing Radio, Newspapers, Magazines, And TV — Today at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco, Google's Vic Gundotra put up an interesting slide early on in his keynote. As you can see in the image above, over the past 5 years, the web is kicking ass.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Who woulda thunk it: Fact-checking is popular! — Has anyone else noticed that the Associated Press has been doing some strong fact-checking work lately, aggressively debunking all kinds of nonsense, in an authoritative way, without any of the usual he-said-she-said crap that often mars political reporting?
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Attorney General Tom Corbett Subpoenaes Twitter To Identify Anonymous Critics — Tom Corbett, current Attorney General of the state of Pennsylvania and Gubernatorial Candidate, has subpoenaed Twitter to appear as a Grand Jury witness to “testify and give evidence regarding alleged violations of the laws of Pennsylvania”.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation, Threat Level, Techdirt, The Volokh Conspiracy, CasablancaPA and Daily Kos
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
CNBC Launching Movie Night — , Wall Street, The Player and The Last Days of Lehman Brothers. — The programming decision is similar to that made by The Weather Channel late last year, when it added a movie night on Friday evenings. At the time the addition of films to the schedule drew criticism …
Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Huffington talks convergence, and “monetizeable free” — We wrote Monday about The Washington Post taking a page from The Huffington Post in building blog networks on the content-for-exposure-not-cash model. But the borrowing isn't all going in one direction.
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
On the Media: KNBC-TV's Steve Lange departs abruptly — The station announces the exit of its ‘vice president, content’ while admitting it had not lived up to its ‘journalistic standards.’ — You'd never know it from the serene and smiling faces plastered on the on-air talent …
Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
Tribune deal has TV reporters donning L.L. Bean jackets — Bankrupt Tribune has agreed to give L.L. Bean weekly credit on WGN-TV's newscast in exchange for jackets for the news crew. News director Greg Caputo says reporters are free to cover the retailer's logo, or just not wear the jacket.
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Michael Malone / Broadcasting & Cable:
Rebecca Campbell Named President of ABC Owned Stations — WABC president succeeds Walter Liss, who will retire after the transition — WABC New York President/General Manager Rebecca Campbell has been named president of the ABC Owned Television Stations Group, succeeding Walter Liss …
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Andrew Keen on why “the Internet is ideology” — Is the Internet technology or ideology? Is our media culture today really more meritocratic than it's been in the past? And when we talk about the web fostering democracy, what kind of democracy, actually, are we talking about? — Worthy questions, I'd say.
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