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11:40 AM ET, May 24, 2010

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Journalism.org:
NEW MEDIA, OLD MEDIA  —  HOW BLOGS AND SOCIAL MEDIA AGENDAS RELATE AND DIFFER FROM THE TRADITIONAL PRESS  —  News today is increasingly a shared, social experience.  Half of Americans say they rely on the people around them to find out at least some of the news they need to know.
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CyberJournalist.net:
Twitter relies less on traditional media than blogs  —  The stories and issues that gain traction in social media differ substantially from those that lead in the mainstream press, according to a detailed analysis of social media by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Discussion: Search Engine Land
Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:
At 25, AOL switches tracks: Creating content, not just connecting users  —  A few weeks ago, as Steve Case was flying above Sterling, en route to Dulles International Airport, he looked down and saw the sprawling campus that is home to the company he co-founded 25 years ago this month …
Discussion: mediabistro.com and Story Lab
David Carr / New York Times:
The Media Equation: News Sites Look Beyond Grants  —  It's telling that one of the more promising experiments in the next version of regional news is located in an industrial park near the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.  The backdrop seems fitting.  —  Joel Kramer will tell you as much.
Discussion: MinnPost and Romenesko
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
NBC's Chuck Todd: White House correspondent, anchor, blogger, twitterer  —  Chuck Todd began tweeting at 6 a.m. — “the big race is in WV where another DC incumbent could lose a primary” — and now, nearly three hours later, he is crashing minutes before airtime.
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
A Site Collects Complaints About Media  —  Media criticism has been boiled down to a single, painful word: fail.  —  The activist group Free Press has built a Digg-like Web site for such mistakes, called MediaFail, that highlights what its users think are the most egregious examples of the “media behaving badly,” to borrow its slogan.
Discussion: Runnin' Scared and eMedia Vitals
Anne Eisenberg / New York Times:
Novelties: PlaceLocal Automatically Creates Online Ads  —  NO costly copy writers or heirs of “Mad Men” are needed to write a new kind of ad for small businesses that want to advertise on the Web: computers create the ads instead.  —  New software called PlaceLocal builds display ads automatically …
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Media play the waiting game over iPad  —  Apple's international launch of the iPad this week will not be accompanied by a swathe of fresh newspaper and magazine apps, in contrast to its much-hyped launch in the US and in spite of print publishers' high hopes for the platform.
Discussion: The Wire
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Broadcast networks in good time slot for sale  —  The upfront presentations may have wrapped up last week, but the broadcast networks' sales pitches may be just beginning.  —  With General Electric in the process of selling NBC Universal to cable giant Comcast, some Wall Street dealmakers …
Discussion: Free Press
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Google finally reveals AdSense cut: 68% on content  —  At last, Google is revealing its split on AdSense: 68% to publishers for content ads, 51% for search ads.  —  I had two primary complaints about Google in my otherwise admittedly and obviously wet-kiss book, What Would Google Do?:
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
News Outlets Cut Costs on Covering Presidential Trips  —  WASHINGTON — The news media have found a new area of coverage ripe for cost-cutting: the president of the United States.  —  For decades it was a given that whenever the president traveled, a charter plane packed with members of the press would travel with him.
Discussion: Romenesko
Guy Adams / The Independent:
After keeping us waiting for a century, Mark Twain will finally reveal all  —  The great American writer left instructions not to publish his autobiography until 100 years after his death, which is now  —  Exactly a century after rumours of his death turned out to be entirely accurate …
Discussion: TeleRead, Reuters, Gawker and Boing Boing
New York Times:
Up Front: Lloyd Grove  —  In 2003, Lloyd Grove, who reviews Sarah Ellison's “War at The Wall Street Journal” on Page 16, had been at The Washington Post for 23 years when Mort Zuckerman brought him to New York to work at The Daily News — and to challenge Page Six, the gossip column in Rupert Murdoch's New York Post.
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Lloyd Grove / New York Times:
Book Review - War at The Wall Street Journal - By Sarah Ellison
 
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Twitter To Prohibit Any Third Party To Advertise In-Stream
Discussion: Twitter Blog
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Murdoch paywalls break ‘basic rules of marketing’, says Future's Stevie Spring
James Ashton / Times of London:
BBC links iPlayer to Facebook
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk
Joseph Plambeck / New York Times:
Idea Man of LimeWire at a Crossroads
Discussion: Media Decoder
Jxpaton / Digital First:
Independence and the ideaLab  —  Our successful Ben Franklin Project …
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Post Publisher Weymouth Opens ‘Edge of Change’ …
Discussion: Leadership
Steven Overly / Washington Post:
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Michelle Locke / Associated Press:
Rise of food blogs creates pasta paparazzi
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
With AdMob Out of the Way, Is Google Set to Buy Invite Media?
Discussion: AdExchanger.com
Rebecca Leffler / Hollywood Reporter:
‘Uncle Boonmee’ wins Cannes' Palme d'Or
The Huffington Post:
CBS' ‘S**t My Dad Says’ Angers Parents Group