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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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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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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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Fitz & Jen
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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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MEDIA BEESWAX
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 …
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.
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 …
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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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 …
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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TechCrunch
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 …
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 …
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 …
Paul Farhi / American Journalism Review:
Going Respectable? — The National Enquirer got high marks for its powerful, solidly reported exposés of the bad behavior of John Edwards and Tiger Woods. But much of the supermarket tabloid's day in and day out coverage falls far short of basic reporting and editing standards.
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Romenesko
Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:
WaPo rezones a neighborhood on its site, builds a new local point of entry — Following its recent launch of PostPolitics, The Washington Post today unveiled another stand-alone landing page at PostLocal.com. The page pulls together existing local content from its Metro section, plus houses new blogs and a few interactive features.
Jay Yarow / The Wire:
Wired's iPad App Now On 3% Of All iPads (AAPL) — Wired's iPad application could see downloads equal to monthly newsstand sales. — Wired editor David Rowan tweets, “By Monday evening, the US WIRED iPad app had been downloaded 62,431 times. For real money - at $4.99 a pop.”
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GigaOM
Joe Flint / Company Town:
News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch's strategy to get people to pay for content: get their credit card numbers — News Corp. Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch, whose holdings include the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, explained in an interview with his Fox Business Network how he plans to get people to pay for content online.
Marc Fest / Knight Foundation:
John Bracken to Direct Knight Foundation's Digital Media Grants — As Director of New Media, Bracken will work to advance informed and engaged communities through media innovation and quality journalism. — He will lead the foundation's Knight News Challenge, an international contest …
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