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Chris Anderson / Wired:
Wired Magazine's iPad Edition Goes Live — The irony that Wired, a magazine founded to chronicle the digital revolution, has traditionally come to you each month on the smooshed atoms of dead trees is not lost on us. Let's just say the medium is not always the message. — Except that now it is.
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Nat Ives / AdAge:
Wired Introduces Adobe-Built IPad Edition — Improves on Magazine Apps in Some Ways, Lags in Others — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Wired magazine has introduced its much-anticipated iPad edition, a slick $4.99 app that was built by Adobe in a 10-month development process despite Apple's midstream ban …
Mark Fitzgerald / Editor & Publisher:
Media Audit: ‘Wall St. Journal’ Readership Up Big Since Murdoch Takeover, While ‘N.Y. Times’ Stays Flat and ‘USA Today’ Falls — CHICAGO — Readership of The Wall Street Journal has jumped 20% since News Corp. acquired the paper in 2007, according to a new study by The Media Audit.
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Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
Wall Street Journal Readership Is Up 20% Since Rupert Murdoch Took Over (NWS)
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Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
Richard Beckman' First Big Move At e5 Global Media: Putting Janice Min In Charge Of The Hollywood Reporter — Ever since Nielsen sold a bunch of publications—including Adweek, Mediaweek, Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter—to e5 Global Media back in December, media watchers have been wondering about the company's plans.
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Janice Min Named Hollywood Reporter Editorial Director — Former Us Weekly editor-in-chief Janice Min is joining trade publication The Hollywood Reporter as Editorial Director. — Min left Us Weekly when her contract expired last year. — “The Hollywood Reporter is one of the most iconic brands in the entertainment industry.
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Apple Is Said to Face Inquiry About Online Music — SAN FRANCISCO — The Justice Department is examining Apple's tactics in the market for digital music, and its staff members have talked to major music labels and Internet music companies, according to several people briefed on the conversations.
Daniel Indiviglio / The Atlantic Online:
Did We Just Learn Disney's Selling ABC Through Ex-Employee's Arrest? — Who knew federal prosecutors were so good at breaking news? A former Disney administrative assistant and her friend have been arrested for attempting to sell non-public information to investors — but that may not be the big news.
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Jonathan Weber / The Bay Citizen:
Welcome to The Bay Citizen — We'll let our website and our stories do most of the talking today, but we wanted to welcome you formally to The Bay Citizen. We hope you'll find it interesting, educational, entertaining, engaging and ultimately indispensable.
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Adriano Farano / Owni:
Burt Herman:|| “We should apply technology lessons to journalism” — Hacks/Hackers' founder speaks to OWNI about his brainchild, a group that tries to connect journalists and technologists. He talks about the genesis of the initiative during a Knight journalism Fellowship year.
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Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:
Atlantic Media Halts Work on Business Website — Atlantic Media's plan to start a business-news website has encountered another setback. The launch has been postponed indefinitely, and the editor heading up the project is leaving the company. — “Yes, it's on hold for now but we are still committed …
Michael Roberts / The Latest Word:
Yahoo! to open major Denver office as part of Associated Content acquisition — Lately, major businesses like Frontier Airlines and Qwest have made news for decreasing their presence in Denver, not expanding it. — But Yahoo!'s acquisition of Associated Content last week brings more positive tidings.
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
Armed With Consumer Research, HuffPo Revenue Plan Moves To Phase II — Huffington Post President and Chief Revenue Officer Greg Coleman says that he's on target to reach his goal of doubling the news aggregator's ad sales this year thanks to two things that hadn't existed at the company before he arrived.
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John Koblin / New York Observer:
Ryan McGinley Shoots for Times Magazine — Lynn Hirschberg penned her final piece for The New York Times Magazine this weekend on M.I.A., and what a way to go out! Ryan McGinley shot the—pretty amazing—photos for the piece. — Suddenly Gerry Marzorati seems to be expanding that photo portfolio!
Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:
Lower Bid? Reluctant TWC Board? Implosion Of Miramax Deal Takes On Rashomon Complexity — UPDATE WRITE-THRU: Why did Disney's sale of Miramax Films to Ron Burkle and Bob and Harvey Weinstein implode at the last moment? It's become a real Rashomon. One version is that as lawyers put …
Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
New media company preaches tech's role in solving world's problems — Silicon Valley often views itself through the prism of the world-changing technology it creates. — Last month, for example, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone told an audience of software developers at the website's Chirp conference …
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Reuters:
Redstone says CBS, Viacom not for sale — CBS Corp (CBS.N) Executive Chairman Sumner Redstone spelled out again that he has no interest in selling the network or its sister company, Viacom Inc (VIAb.N). — “I will never, N-E-V-E-R, sell Viacom or CBS,” Redstone said in response …
Yahoo! News:
WH pulling out all the stops to defend oil spill handling to media — The White House, continuing its effort to push back against negative media coverage of the government's handling of the oil spill, set up an on the record meeting today between incident commander Thad Allen …
Jarvis Coffin / The Huffington Post:
Is the Algorithm the New Media Decision Maker? — Greg Hills wrote a very thoughtful piece over at AdExchanger titled, “The Algorithm Is the New Decision Maker: Communicating with the New Demand Side.” — Of course, the title makes my skin crawl, as does Greg's statement that the …
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Forbes power shift — Forbres shook up its editorial ranks by bringing Lewis Dvorkin back into the fold after a 10-year absence. This time he is the top dog. — He has the title of chief product officer but the release announcing his arrival said he will be overseeing “all editorial areas” and will start on June 1.
Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:
5 Ways to Monetize the Future of News Media — This series is supported by The Poynter Institute's Mobile Media blog - your guide to the intersection of mobile and media. Sign up to receive the blog in newsletter format and be entered into a drawing to win an iPad at Poynter.org/ipadgiveaway.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
RealNetworks Founder Glaser Becomes a VC at Accel-The Venture Firm That Backed Him 15 Years Ago — Rob Glaser, the founder of RealNetworks, is joining Accel Partners as a part-time venture partner. — Ironically, it was Accel that first funded the digital media pioneer …
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