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12:00 AM ET, June 4, 2010

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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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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Articles of incorporation: Nate Silver and Jim Roberts on the NYT's absorption of FiveThirtyEight  —  Big news today: Nate Silver and his wonderblog, FiveThirtyEight, are moving on up to The New York Times.  Later this summer — probably in early August — FTE's statistictastic posts …
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.
Kristen Purcell / Pew Internet:
The State of Online Video  —  Seven in ten adult internet users (69%) have used the internet to watch or download video.  That represents 52% of all adults in the United States.  —  Driven by the popularity of online video among 18-29 year-olds, there have been dramatic increases since 2007 in the number of American adults watching:
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Funny Videos Overtake News in Online Viewing, Survey Finds
Discussion: NewTeeVee and Poynter Online
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.
Michael J. Miller / Forward Thinking:
AOL's Tim Armstrong: The Power of Local Journalism  —  Tim Armstrong , CEO of AOL, said he believes the next phase of the Internet is about content.  And he told the audience at D8 that AOL is working on the “future of journalism.”  —  Armstrong stressed the importance and power of local journalism …
Claire Kirch / Publishers Weekly:
Paris Literary Icon Launches Prize and Magazine  —  Shakespeare & Company Bookshop, the Paris literary icon originally founded by Sylvia Beach in 1919, and opened by George Whitman in 1951, is launching a literary magazine and literary prize.  Both ventures will be officially announced …
Discussion: Vanity Fair, FishbowlNY and MOBYLIVES
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.
Robert Feder / blogs.vocalo.org:
Poker party ‘desecrates’ Tribune Tower shrine  —  ← Chicago in the national news: 6/2  —  Well, if it HAD to be dececrated, at least it was done by a group of people with taste and refinement, people with values.....WHAT A BUNCH OF ***HOLES!!!!  —  Ebert Thorn #  —  Can I just say “who cares?”
John Koblin / New York Observer:
Architectural Digest's Paige Rense Noland to Retire; Search for New Editor Under Way  —  Paige Rense Noland, the legendary editor of Architectural Digest for the last 35 years, is retiring in August.  The news was announced in a Condé Nast press release.
Jessa Crispin / Need to Know | PBS:
A writer leaves journalism to find truth in fiction  —  Novelist Lorraine Adams had another life as a journalist.  A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The Washington Post, she left the newspaper after 11 years and published her first and widely acclaimed novel, “Harbor,” in 2004.
Discussion: Romenesko
Jeff Israely / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The line between “content” and “journalism,” and deciding which side I want to be on  —  [Jeff Israely, a Time magazine foreign correspondent in Europe, is in the planning stages of a news startup — a “new global news website.”  He details his experience as a new news entrepreneur at his site …
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Newsonomics of commercial crowdsourcing  —  [Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.]  —  There are no new ideas in the digital business …
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 …
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
FCC to Hold Public Forum on Comcast-NBCU  —  Billed as a “workshop,” not a formal hearing, forum likely to be July 13 in Chicago  —  The FCC plans to host a public forum on the proposed Comcast-NBC Universal joint venture next month, according to an FCC source familiar with the plans.
Discussion: Tower Ticker and Multichannel
Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
Help Wanted: Creative Types  —  As the Recession Eases, Ad Agencies Scramble to Fill a Critical Job at the Top  —  The recession may be easing, but the tough economy has left a gaping hole in one of Madison Avenue's most critical operations: the creative department.
Discussion: Gawker and AdPulp
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:
Sarah Rabil / Bloomberg:
Viacom CEO Says TV Ad Sales Are ‘Starting to Break’ as Economy Recovers  —  Viacom Inc. Chief Executive Officer Philippe Dauman said the market is “starting to break” for broadcast and cable-television commercials sold in advance of next season, an improvement compared with last year.
Discussion: Variety and Media Buyer Planner
Journalism.org:
IN SOCIAL MEDIA, TECHNOLOGY DRIVES THE NEWS AGENDA  —  In a week when the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico dominated the mainstream press, the social media were focused on news that revolved around computer technology.  —  For bloggers, the main subject was the ever-popular social networking site, Facebook.
Discussion: WebNewser
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 …
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.
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.
 
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Tom Scocca / Scocca:
New York Times Pleads Guilty to Remixing M.I.A. Quote
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Paul Farhi / American Journalism Review:
Going Respectable?  —  The National Enquirer got high marks …
Discussion: Romenesko
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Peter Kafka / D8 Conference:
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Jeff Jarvis / New York Post:
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Alex Pham / Los Angeles Times:
Vevo's Rio Caraeff is king of online music videos
Marc Fest / Knight Foundation:
John Bracken to Direct Knight Foundation's Digital Media Grants
Discussion: John Bracken and KnightBlog
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Discussion: VentureBeat and Digits
Jay Yarow / The Wire:
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Liz Shannon Miller / NewTeeVee:
Why Glee Is TV's Most Web Video-savvy Series (and Why It Isn't)
Adam Wright / VideoNuze:
Cisco: Video will be 91% of All IP Traffic by 2014
Discussion: Digits and Mashable!
Dan Trombetto / Folio:
Media Mavericks  —  A year in, The Christian Science Monitor's …
Discussion: MEDIA BEESWAX
The Independent:
PR stunt or the new journalism?: …