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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Guardian Looking For Money In API, New Readers Club — It may be sceptical that readers would pay to read its news site - but Guardian News & Media is today taking the wraps off two alternative new commercial models... Readers Club — We've known for nine months that an equivalent …
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Guardian announces commercial launch of Open Platform — The Guardian today introduced the second phase of its Open Platform initiative, expanding the content-sharing service to commercial partners. — A comprehensive set of developer tools and resources, the commercial launch …
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Freelance Journalism Site True/Slant In M&A Talks — More M&A may be on the way in the freelance content space, although on a much more modest scale than yesterday's Yahoo-Associated Content deal. True/Slant, a freelance news startup that encourages “entrepreneurial journalism,” …
John Koblin / New York Observer:
Explained: Why Jill Abramson is Getting a New Job — As far as we can tell, there are three significant reasons why Jill Abramson is getting a six month leave from her managing editor duties to become the digital czarina. Here's why: — Integrate that Newsroom! And to Help with the Paywall
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Stephanie Clifford / Media Decoder:
Jill Abramson Temporarily Steps Aside as Managing Editor to Focus on Digital Side
Jill Abramson Temporarily Steps Aside as Managing Editor to Focus on Digital Side
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Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:
Ben Franklin Project's ‘Digital First, Print Last’ Approach Produces First Products — In April, Journal Register CEO John Paton presented the newspapers in the company with a challenge: create a Web and print product in 30 days using only free tools, and seek help from the community to do it.
Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Web vets bet online video is ready for a TV takeover — Jason Calacanis is a betting man. — The poker enthusiast gambled that blogging would break out when he founded Weblogs Inc. in 2003. He was right on the money and cashed out in a sale to AOL for $25 million.
Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
MSNBC.com, BermanBraun in Talks for New Political Site — MSNBC.com and BermanBraun are in serious talks about the launch of a new content site—possibly this August—focused on politics that according to sources will borrow heavily from BermanBraun's current project with MSN, the celebrity photo-filled Wonderwall.
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Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:
Will Mort Zuckerman Move the New York Daily News Downtown? — The employees of Conde Nast, the glossy magazine publisher, may not be relishing the prospect of a corporate move to downtown Manhattan, but at least they should have some company down there. Mort Zuckerman, the owner …
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?
Jon Slattery:
Orwell Prize: Winners are Peter Hitchens of the MoS and social worker blogger Winston Smith — The Mail on Sunday's Peter Hitchens has won this year's Orwell Prize for journalism. — Given the contrast between his right-wing views and those of George Orwell, there was an audible collective intake …
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 …
Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:
Wiki journalism: the experiences of WikiCity Guides — I asked Pat Lazure, co-founder of the wiki journalism project WikiCity Guides, to tell me more about his experiences with the project. This is what he said: — Key Factors Driving Citizen Journalism
Adrian Cockcroft / Adrian Cockcroft's Blog:
Netflix in the cloud and HTML5 — One of the fun things about working at Netflix is that we are always “leaning forward” and looking for new technologies to leverage. As we roll out our website to run on the Amazon cloud, we are also re-architecting the code base, adding internationalization support …
David Kaplan / paidContent:
IDC: Online Ad Revs Poised To Grow Higher Than Expected — Despite worries about Europe's financial problems over the past few weeks, expectations for online ad spending this year are continuing to rise. Just two months after researcher IDC projected U.S. online ad spending to shoot …
Reporters Without Borders:
Thailand - Journalists under attack, reporting brought to a halt — Reporters Without Borders condemns the violence against journalists by Red Shirt demonstrators and the government's continual violation of the right to information. Thailand has rarely experienced the level of violence …
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Upfronts: CBS Move Takes Warner Brothers By Surprise — The fall CBS schedule, announced Wednesday, took many people by surprise — including Peter Roth, the president of Warner Brothers, which is the second biggest supplier of programs to CBS and other networks.
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 …
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 Martinez / Multichannel:
Making Headlines In South Africa — Q&A With Univision President of News Alina Falcón — A television veteran — and 2009 Multichannel News Wonder Woman — Alina Falcon this year was named to the new post of president of news at Univision Communications.