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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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Douglas Quenqua / ClickZ:
Google Quietly Brings Twitter Feeds to Display Ads — Google has quietly invited a handful of advertisers to test a new display-ad integration with Twitter. — The layout of the ads is simple: The familiar Twitter bird is in the left-hand corner, and the advertiser's latest tweet is featured in a box centered in the unit.
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.
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Josh Stearns / Save the News Blog:
Public Policy and Journalism Innovation — Over the weekend the journalism tweetosphere and blogs were abuzz with rumors of a government plot to freeze journalism in time by propping up a range of failing business models at the expense of new innovation in news.
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?”
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Associated Newspapers plans fashion and beauty title — Associated Newspapers is preparing to launch a standalone annual fashion and beauty magazine, currently being touted to media buyers as “Project Inspire”. — Marcus Rich: MD of The Mail On Sunday — The free glossy will be bagged …
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 …
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Michael Messner / The Huffington Post:
Dropping the Ball on Covering Women's Sports — If you missed the Lakers-Celtics game in the NBA Finals, you could easily have watched the highlights later on local TV news. But if you wanted to know which teams were winning in the Women's College World Series, the NCAA's premiere softball tournament …
James Robinson / Guardian:
Channel 4 barred from buying Five — Legislation would have to be amended to enable Five to join ITV and BSkyB as potential bidder for RTL-owned broadcaster — Channel 4 is legally barred from buying Channel Five, which has been put up for sale by its owner RTL, MediaGuardian.co.uk can reveal.
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 …
David Cohen / WebNewser:
CNN.com: That's Entertainment (Revamped) — CNN.com rolled out a retooled Entertainment section, with new features including: spotlighted breaking-news stories and videos, complete with CNN.com and Facebook comments; the Click section, which features a gallery of paparazzi photos; a Quote Board …
Javier C. Hernandez / New York Times:
Breakfast With Dean Kagan: A Student Journalist's Eye-Opener — When I was 19 and a rookie student reporter, I asked out Elena Kagan. Harvard deans don't usually respond to e-mails from overzealous freshmen looking for scoops, but she did, and within seven minutes we had a date: breakfast, the Charles Hotel, 8:30 a.m.
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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 …
mywebtimes.com:
Appellate Court: Times must turn over commenter's info — Dan Churney, danc@mywebtimes.com, 815-431-4050 — By a 2-1 margin this week in a precedent-setting case that drew attention from news and watchdog organizations across the country, the Third District Appellate Court in Ottawa ruled …
Alex Weprin / WebNewser:
ABC News Digital Reorganizes Leadership — ABC News Digital is reorganizing its senior leadership, according to an email from senior VP of digital Paul Slavin. — Slavin announced that Jon Dube, VP of ABCNews.com, decided to take one of the buyouts that ABC News offered employees earlier in the year, and will be leaving ABC in July.
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Phil Bronstein / SFGate:
@BPGlobalPR “Twitter-Gate” Shows That Even Digital Tools Have Rules — You probably missed it, but journalism died early last week. Again. — The latest obit was written by SF MuniFail blogger and design director Mike Monteiro. He was complaining about a CNET story from reporter Caroline McCarthy …
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.
Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
Flo TV Fails to Attract, Qualcomm CEO Says — RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif.—A service from Qualcomm Inc. for delivering television shows to mobile phones and other portable devices hasn't found the audience the company had hoped for, according to Qualcomm Chief Executive Paul Jacobs.
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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.
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.
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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.
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