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11:00 PM ET, June 1, 2010

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Danny Sullivan / Daggle:
How The Mainstream Media Stole Our News Story Without Credit  —  On Friday, I broke a tasty story about a woman suing Google, claiming bad directions caused her to get hit by a vehicle.  Today, I discover our story is everywhere, often with no attribution.  Come along and watch …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Hulu's Growth Curve Flattens Out  —  ComScore's newest video data are out.  The takeaway: In April, Google's (GOOG) YouTube dwarfed every other site.  And Hulu came in second, with about 960 million views.  —  Does that sound familiar?  It should: YouTube has always been at the top of comScore's (SCOR) tallies.
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
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comScore, Inc.:
comScore Releases April 2010 U.S. Online Video Rankings  —  Vevo Scales Rankings in Online Video Market, Attracting 1 out of 4 Viewers in April  —  comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released April 2010 data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing …
Discussion: Bits, TechCrunch, Mashable! and VideoNuze
Matea Gold / Los Angeles Times:
This isn't CNN's prime time  —  Campbell Brown's voluntary exit from the 8 p.m. slot illustrates the news network's struggles as it turns 30.  —  Campbell Brown says that she and her “colleagues here at CNN are still trying to do journalism.”  (CNN / April 22, 2008)  —  Reporting from New York —
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CNN:
Jim Walton: CNN at 30  —  Editor's Note: Jim Walton is president of CNN Worldwide, which includes CNN/U.S., HLN, CNN International, CNN en Español, CNN.com, CNN Airport Channel, CNN Radio and CNN Newsource.  He joined CNN one year after its 1980 inception, as a video journalist, CNN's entry-level position.
Lisa Horowitz / The Wrap:
Ted Turner's Little 24-Hour Cable News Network Turns 30 (video)
newsweek.tumblr.com:
Every Day is, Like, Sunday  —  June already!  Where does the time go?  Nothing like an uncertain future to telescope the hours.  Remember, buyers: Bids are due Wednesday!  —  While we wait, we're thinking about David Carr's piece in the Sunday Times about the sale.
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Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
Newsweek: We're Not In As Terrible Shape As David Carr Says
Discussion: DailyFinance, AdPulp and FishbowlNY
Peter Kafka / D8 Conference:
Steve Jobs: I Can Help Save the Media Business, If They'll Wise Up and Cut Their Prices  —  Here's the pitch Steve Jobs is making to media companies: Cut your prices, and I'll help you move a lot of product..  —  Speaking at the D8 conference, the Apple CEO says that he wants to help save journalism because …
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Hyperlocal Network Mainstreet Connect Raises $3.97 Million First Round  —  Mainstreet Connect, the latest entrant into the hyperlocal news space, has raised a $3.97 million first round, according to an SEC filing.  Last month, the Connecticut-based company launched four sites in the northeast within the past three months.
Alex Weprin / WebNewser:
CNN.com Inadvertently Reveals Al Gore's Email Address  —  When it comes to emails, mistakes happen all the time.  But very rarely do they involve former Vice Presidents of the United States.  —  So it was quite surprising to see CNN.com inadvertently reveal the email address of Al and Tipper Gore Tuesday afternoon.
Reporters Without Borders:
Israel - Communication severed with flotilla media  —  Reporters Without Borders urges the Israeli authorities to release a list of the journalists who were arrested during yesterday's raid on the humanitarian flotilla and to say where they are being held.  —  There were at least 15 foreign …
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Yahoo signals major challenge to newspapers  —  Yahoo appears to be getting ready to produce local websites filled with original content that could compete with newspapers, posing a particular challenge to the hundreds of publishers who now sell advertising for the powerful portal.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
The Case Against Links  —  Links - are they a net negative for readers online?  That's the idea being deliberately explored by a number of publishers, says writer Nicholas Carr today.  —  The iconoclastic author says that he has grown sympathetic to the thinking of Steve Gillmor …
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Parsing Panera: Could a name-your-own-price model work for news?  —  The former CEO of Panera Bread recently announced an intriguing experiment: The chain's store in Clayton, Missouri is doing away with prices.  The Clayton franchise, now run as a nonprofit restaurant and renamed the …
Greg Marx / CJR:
Embrace the Wonk  —  A new opportunity for reporters and political scientists  —  On January 8, Marc Ambinder, the widely-read political reporter and blogger for The Atlantic, found a copy of Game Change, the gossipy insider's account of the 2008 presidential election by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin …
Discussion: Ezra Klein
Jeanne Carstensen / The Bay Citizen:
Ken Goldberg and the Clinton State Department launch Opinion Space — a game-changing online community tool  —  Screenshot from state.gov/opinionspace/  —  The map shows clusters of opinions on foreign policy issues.  Careful — left doesn't equal liberal!
C.W. Anderson / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Aggregators, curators, and indexers: There's a difference, and it matters  —  Aggregation.  Curation.  Indexing.  They're all the same, aren't they?  Ask any serious online journalist or new media entrepreneur, and the answer will be quick and obvious: of course not!
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
Jen Doll / Runnin' Scared:
The Village Voice iPhone App Is Here!  —  ​Imagine how convenient and wonderful it would be to have all of the Village Voice's event and restaurant listings, plus reviews and more, handily categorized and available on your iPhone for your convenient perusal.
David Gonzalez / New York Times:
From Internets Celebrities, Chiding Videos  —  Buried somewhere in every bodega, amid the Crunchy Mini Donuts, 40-ounce malt-liquor torpedoes and greasy pork rinds is a certain urban truth.  Leave it to the Internets Celebrities, a trio of guerrilla filmmakers, to uncover it.
Times of India:
Anil Ambani forms equal joint venture with CBS for small-screen debut  —  Text:  —  NEW DELHI: Billionaire Anil Ambani's Reliance Media World will form an equal joint venture with iconic American media company CBS Corporation to launch a potentially disruptive network of television channels under …
Conor Humphries / Reuters:
EU chief raps Russia on human rights, media freedom  —  ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (Reuters) - European Union President Herman Van Rompuy on Tuesday said Europe was seriously concerned about the difficulties faced by human rights activists and journalists in Russia.
Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:
MinnPost's Joel Kramer on the pull between big audience and big impact  —  The New York Times' David Carr took a look recently at the nonprofit news site MinnPost, which he called “one of the more promising experiments in the next version of regional news.”  Here's an excerpt:
Andy P / WordPress.com News:
We All Like to Reblog  —  Have you ever come across a blog post that you enjoyed so much you wanted to easily share it with the readers of your own blog?  Sure, you can copy and paste the link and perhaps even a snippet of text with your own comments, but overall it's not a particularly enjoyable experience.
Broadcasting & Cable:
Jon Lafayette New B&C Business Editor  —  Will oversee coverage of intersection of content delivery business with Madison Ave. and Wall Street  —  B&C has named Jon Lafayette to the position of Business Editor, reporting directly to B&C Editor-in-Chief Ben Grossman.
Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk:
UK government's open data plans will benefit local and national journalists  —  The government has announced plans to open up its data for the first time, offering a wealth of new information and news leads for national and local journalists.  —  In a letter from David Cameron to all government departments …
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Cable wars loom  —  It's shaping up to be a long, hot summer for local cable operators.  —  Both Time Warner Cable and Cablevision are facing the expiration of agreements to carry some of TV's most popular channels, setting the stage for another round of public battles in which viewers run …
Discussion: Company Town
 
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Steve Busfield / Guardian:
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
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Wall Street Journal:
Publicis Aims for Digital Growth
Discussion: paidContent
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
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Discussion: MediaPost and paidContent
Natalie Harrison / Apple:
Apple Sells Two Million iPads in Less Than 60 Days
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Stanford Graduates Release Pulse, A Must-Have News App For The iPad
Discussion: Bits
Kipp Report:
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