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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
The Times to Host Political Polling Site FiveThirtyEight — The New York Times said Thursday that it would begin hosting the popular blog FiveThirtyEight and make its founder, Nate Silver, a regular contributor to the newspaper and the Sunday magazine. — Mr. Silver, a statistical wizard …
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John Koblin / New York Observer:
Times Sends Journal Cease and Desist Letter Over Brand Campaign — A lawyer from The New York Times Company has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the marketing director at Dow Jones after a recent Journal advertisement used the same language as a recent Times ad. — “Not Just Wall Street.
The Atlantic Wire:
MEDIA DIET: Clay Shirky: What I Read — How do other people deal with the torrent of information that pours down on us all? Do they have some secret? Perhaps. We are asking various friends and colleagues who seem well-informed to describe their media diets.
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New York Times:
Bids Submitted for Newsweek Sale — Two magnates, a conservative publisher and the company that bought TV Guide for $1 have all raised their hands as potential buyers of Newsweek. — By the time the deadline to submit preliminary bids for the magazine expired Wednesday at 5 p.m. …
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Holly Sanders Ware / New York Post:
Talking money — Call him Conan O'Mighty. — Cable powerhouse TBS, which landed comedian Conan O'Brien after his falling-out with NBC, has begun asking advertisers to pay top-shelf broadcast TV-level rates — and higher — for the comedian's one-hour show.
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Sam Schechner / Speakeasy:
Basic Cable Dance-Off: Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert Stop By Conan …
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Leroy Stick / Street Giant:
the man behind @BPGlobalPR — My name is Leroy Stick and I am the man behind @BPGlobalPR. First, let me begin by explaining my name. — When I was growing up, there was a dog that lived on my block named Leroy. Leroy was a big dog with a disdain for leashes and a thirst for blood.
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Rafat Ali / paidContent:
Nielsen Files For A Possible $1.75 Billion IPO — Nielsen, one of the biggest B2B media and measurement companies, has filed for an IPO, and hopes to raise as much as $1.75 billion. J.P. Morgan Securities and Morgan Stanley are the lead underwriters for it, but no word on share price range …
Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:
Hearst to Buy iCrossing — Hearst Corp. finalized Wednesday the purchase of digital-marketing firm iCrossing Inc. for about $325 million, according to people familiar with the matter, the latest traditional media company to bulk up on its digital-marketing expertise.
Dan Trombetto / Folio:
Media Mavericks — A year in, The Christian Science Monitor's strategic shift is showing promise. — Today, most publishers are re-examining their business model, driven by the collapse in print advertising and a shift in their audience to new outlets. Many have gone online only …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Microsoft U.S. Ad Sales VP Domeniconi to Depart, While Exec From MTV Arrives to Run Global Online Sales — According to sources, Robin Domeniconi (pictured here), Microsoft's VP for U.S. Advertising Sales, Publishing and Marketing, will be leaving the company.
Wall Street Journal:
‘Vanity’ Press Shakes Up Book Industry — Writer Karen McQuestion spent nearly a decade trying without success to persuade a New York publisher to print one of her books. In July, the 49-year-old mother of three decided to publish it herself, online. — Eleven months later …
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Julie Bosman / New York Times:
The New Yorker Picks Young Writers Worth Watching — There are 10 women and 10 men, satirists and modernists, from Miami and Ethiopia and Peru and Chicago. And none of them were born before 1970. — The New Yorker has chosen its “20 Under 40” list of fiction writers worth watching …
Jeff Jarvis / New York Post:
How not to save news — The Federal Trade Commis sion says it wants to save journalism. I'm not sure who asked it to. — In a just-released “staff discussion draft” of “potential policy recommendations to support the reinvention of journalism,” the agency only circles its wagons around old newspapers …
The Independent:
PR stunt or the new journalism?: The titans of public relations are going direct to viewers and readers — It's easy to be cynical but it could be the future, says Ian Burrell — Public relations, to some the business of puff and fluff, is flexing its media muscles like never …
Tom Scocca / Scocca:
New York Times Pleads Guilty to Remixing M.I.A. Quote — In an Editors' Note today, the New York Times says that writer Lynn Hirschberg misrepresented a quote in her troublesome Times Magazine profile of pop star M.I.A.: … Previously, Hirschberg had told John Koblin of the New York Observer …
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Is 70 percent of what we read online really by our friends? — Last month, we tweeted a remarkable stat: … Our source was this article citing a recent panel discussion at an SEO conference in New York. Here's how the stat was presented, in a piece in the newsletter Publishing Trends, as a product of Forrester Research:
Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
Citysearch LLC Relaunches As CityGrid Media — IAC will relaunch an online media company Thursday that connects Web and mobile publishers with local advertising organizations. The strategy renames Citysearch LLC as CityGrid Media, which becomes the umbrella for local advertising network CityGrid …
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Alex Pham / Los Angeles Times:
Vevo's Rio Caraeff is king of online music videos — Recently launched Vevo became the No. 1 site for online music videos in April. Caraeff talks about his plans for turning a profit and about working with, rather than against, Google and YouTube. — If Rio Caraeff had his way, the phrase …
Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
Beware, Wall Street: Roddy Boyd's New Blog, The Financial Investigator, Is Watching You — There's a brand new investigative journalism project focusing on Wall Street. — But it's not the product of a major news organization or non-profit. — It's just one journalist's blog …
Peter Kafka / D8 Conference:
Demand Media's Richard Rosenblatt and ProPublica's Paul Steiger Live at D8 — What's the future of the media business? Demand Media, the Google-savvy “content farm” that generates thousands of computer-assigned, low-cost Web items a day? Or ProPublica, a nonprofit that produces deep-dive …
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Fwix Moves Beyond News, Indexing ‘Everything’ Local — Hyperlocal newswire wants to do more than just aggregate news. Starting today, it will begin adding real estate listings, restaurant specials and other local info gathered from sites like Twitter and Foursquare in a single index.
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Andy Medici / Poynter Online:
Strange Bedfellows: What Journalism Can Learn From Adult Entertainment — Let's role-play for a second. — Imagine you are working in an industry that has been battered by the recent recession and rapid advances in technology. Instead of paying for teams of professionals …
MediaShift:
Why Journalists Should Learn Computer Programming — Yes, journalists should learn how to program. No, not every journalist should learn it right now — just those who want to stay in the industry for another ten years. More seriously, programming skills and knowledge enable us traditional journalists …
Liz Shannon Miller / NewTeeVee:
Why Glee Is TV's Most Web Video-savvy Series (and Why It Isn't) — I spent last night slaving away on a very important task — catching up on the last several episodes of Fox's Glee. And while we've written extensively over the last year about the show's online marketing last fall …
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