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Peter Kafka / D8 Conference:
Steve Jobs: I Can Help Save the Media Business, If It'll Wise Up and Cut Its 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 said he wants to help save journalism because …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
@ D8: Jobs: 'We Didn't Start Out To Have A War With Adobe'
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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 …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Exclusive: Google Buys Invite Media — Google has indeed bought ad technology start-up Invite Media, I've confirmed with multiple sources. — As I wrote last month, Invite is a three-year-old “demand-side platform” designed to help buyers navigate high-volume display-advertising exchanges-like the one Google launched last year.
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.
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John Koblin / New York Observer:
David ‘Mr. Paywall’ Remnick Defends His Turf — If you're an editor these days, grab a soapbox and talk about a paywall. — Last month, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger hit New York and went on Charlie Rose to talk about what a tragedy it would be for editors to charge readers for content.
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Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
AP Stylebook Adds 42 New Guidelines for Social Media — The AP Stylebook has released its new social media guidelines, including the official change from “Web site” to “website” (a move first reported back in April) and 41 other definitions, use cases and rules that journalists should follow.
Jon Friedman / MarketWatch:
Brian Williams: a Cronkite for the 21st century — Commentary: He is now the gold-standard for anchors — NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - With the speculation heating up about a CNN and CBS News combination, the individual most threatened would seem to be Brian Williams, the top-rated news anchor at 6:30 p.m.
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
NBC boss eyes $30M+ exit deal from Comcast — General Electric has finalized details of Jeff Zucker's exit deal from NBC Universal, according to sources familiar with the situation. — Zucker will leave “a couple of months” after Comcast Corp. closes its agreement to acquire a 51 percent stake …
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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.
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!
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Liz Shannon Miller / NewTeeVee:
Team YouTube Gets More Support: Creators File Amicus Brief — UPDATED: A group of YouTube creators filed an amicus brief in the ongoing legal battle between Google and Viacom last week, voicing their support for the site's value as it currently operates and arguing that to make YouTube responsible …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Are Flashy iPad Apps What Publishers Really Need? — Adobe may have been stymied at every turn by Apple and its very public hatred of all things Flash, but that hasn't stopped the company from pushing its vision of interactive publishing for mobile devices like the iPad.
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Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
ABC's Potential Online Subscription Service — Who Wins and Who Loses — ABC may be considering rolling out an online subscription service soon, based on a consumer survey that was unearthed by Engadget. The survey, which details the possible terms of the subscription service …
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Chad Catacchio / The Next Web:
Forget newspapers, can the iPad save RSS? — As I wrote yesterday, the iPad is dominating, it's a changing the way people consume online content and as everyone by now has heard, Old Media has been latching onto the iPad with the hope that it will be a lifeboat.
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Big Lead, Blog That Found Sports News and Gossip Sells, Is Bought — The Big Lead, an independent blog that Jason McIntyre began as a hobby, is fixated on sports media, news and gossip. Along the way, it has built a devoted, if not huge, social media following.
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
@ D8: Murdoch: 'What's An iPod Without Music?' — It may not qualify as irony but it is a lovely coincidence: the same week that The Times and The Sunday Times go behind a paywall, News Corp (NYSE: NWS) Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch is at a Southern California resort celebrating a franchise …
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Ben Widdicombe / Gawker:
Rush & Molloy: An Oral History — George Rush and Joanna Molloy published their final gossip column in the New York Daily News yesterday following a 15-year run. Ben Widdicombe, a Rush & Molloy protégé and former Daily News gossip columnist himself, looks back.
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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.
Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
Newsweek: We're Not In As Terrible Shape As David Carr Says — In The New York Times on Sunday, David Carr wrote a not-so-optimistic column about the value (or un-value) of Newsweek as it tries to find a buyer. (The first bids are due tomorrow.) — Newsweek pushed back today on its Tumblr …
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Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
Lady Gaga Will Be On Larry King's ‘Tone Deaf’ Show Tonight — Larry King is two days away from his 25th anniversary at CNN, which itself turned 30 today. — It's been tough times for King lately, career-wise, at least. — There have been gaffes. There have been takedowns.
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 …
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