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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 …
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Nick / Rough Type:
Experiments in delinkification — A few years back, my friend Steve Gillmor, the long-time technology writer and blogger, went on a crusade against the hyperlink. He stopped putting links into his posts and other online writings. I could never quite understand his motivation, and the whole effort struck me as quixotic and silly.
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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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.
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
Publicis Aims for Digital Growth — After Buying Up Online-Ad Specialists, Publicis CEO Seeks to Make Them Grow — PARIS—Maurice Lévy has poured billions of dollars into making French ad company Publicis Groupe SA a leader in digital advertising.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Stanford Graduates Release Pulse, A Must-Have News App For The iPad — Akshay Kothari and Ankit Gupta, two Stanford grads who signed up for the Launch Pad class at the University's Institute of Design (aka d.school), could have hardly chosen a better path to try their hands at startup life.
Kipp Report:
‘This could be very interesting’ — With 36 million users, Guardian.co.uk is one of the giants of the Internet. Mark Finney, the Guardian's head of client sales, tells us what Murdoch's paywalls could mean for it. — Mark Finney, head of client sales at UK publishing house Guardian News and Media …
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Hollywood Reporter:
Kim Masters joins The Hollywood Reporter — Veteran journalist named editor-at-large — Kim Masters has been named editor-at-large for The Hollywood Reporter. The hire was unveiled today by Janice Min, editorial director of the 80-year-old brand, which is owned by e5 Global Media.
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 …
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Elihai Vidal / Haaretz:
Is being media savvy and having a camera enough to be a journalist? — At the ‘Democracy and its Challenges’ conference sponsored by the French Embassy in cooperation with Haaretz, journalists express opinions on news in the age of the internet. — Having a laptop and cell phone …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Apple Pulls the Plug on Lala, Replaces It With...Nada — Remember a month ago? When Apple announced that it would shutter Lala and everyone assumed that it was going to replace the streaming music service it bought in December with a streaming music service of its own? — Now Lala's gone.
Steve Busfield / Guardian:
Carla Bevan quits Marie Claire for AOL — The magazine's online editor is moving to become editor-in-chief of AOL's UK content sites — Marie Claire's online editor, Carla Bevan, is to join AOL as editor-in-chief of its UK content sites. — Bevan will run AOL's family of lifestyle sites such as Eleven …
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 …
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