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Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
Breaking: Helen Thomas Retires, Effective Immediately (Video) — While it may not be totally unexpected, the story appears to have developed extremely quickly. — Hearst Corporation has announced Helen Thomas will be retiring, effective immediately. — Here's the full announcement from Hearst:
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Media Matters for America, The Caucus, On Media's Blog, Bloomberg, The Hill, Strupp, rbr.com, USA Today, Right Now, Chickaboomer, The Wrap, Gawker, LA Observed, msnbc.com, Big Journalism and TPM LiveWire
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Helen Thomas Dropped By Speaking Agency, Under Fire For Remarks On Middle East
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Mediaite, Fox News, Hit & Run, Romenesko, Media Decoder, The Daily Dish, Yahoo! News, Washington Post, Right Now, Poynter Online, Guardian, Haaretz, Salon and The Politico
Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
An End for Helen Thomas and the Helen Thomas Rules
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Mediaite, Media Matters for America, On Media's Blog, DailyFinance, The Wrap and Vanity Fair
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Apple's impact: What Steve Jobs' WWDC announcements mean for the news industry's mobile strategy — Apple CEO Steve Jobs just stepped off the stage in San Francisco at this year's Worldwide Developer Conference. His announcements focused squarely on the new iPhone 4, about which you'll find …
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Media Decoder, The Money Game, Silicon Alley Insider, Lifehacker, Preston Gralla's blog, The Next Web and Kempton
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Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
iPad corners 22 percent of ebook market, iBooks gets iPhone version and PDF reader
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Bits, Ars Technica, gdgt live, Mashable!, The Wrap, TUAW, Gadget Lab, Kindle Review, The Next Web and Fast Company
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
CNN Close to Dropping AP — CNN is close to dropping its subscription to the Associated Press, people familiar with the decision tell TVNewser. — A CNN spokesperson said that no decision has been made. — The move, if it happens, will mean that CNN no longer subscribes to either of the major wire services.
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U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe — Federal officials have arrested an Army intelligence analyst who boasted of giving classified U.S. combat video and hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records to whistleblower site Wikileaks, Wired.com has learned.
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The Atlantic Online, CJR, NY Daily News, Hillicon Valley, Washington Post, Mediaite, The First Post, The New Yorker Blog, The Daily Dish, The Lede, msnbc.com and Gawker
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Matthew Flamm / Crain's New York Business:
Wired's iPad liftoff — Tech title sells 73,000 copies in nine days on Apple tablet; wave of future? — Two months after the iPad's much anticipated April 3 debut, one thing is clear about the impact of Apple's tablet computer on the magazine industry: It has been very good for Wired.
AdAge:
Does Who Creates Content Matter to Marketers in a ‘Pro-Am’ Media World? — Examiner Has 7.4 Million Readers, Local Ads and News — but Few Traditional Journalists — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — If you're trolling the web and hit upon an Examiner.com story, you might think you're reading the San Francisco Examiner.
David Carr / New York Times:
The Media Equation: How to Save Newsweek — Sometime this summer, someone other than The Washington Post will probably own the renowned brand of Newsweek. When I wrote about the pending sale in this column last week, I waxed philosophical about the meaning of a newsweekly magazine in 2010 …
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
NBC News Hires Newsweek's Michael Isikoff — NBC News has hired Michael Isikoff away from Newsweek at a time when the newsweekly magazine is up for sale. — Mr. Isikoff will become the national investigative correspondent for NBC, a position similar to the one he has held at Newsweek since 1994, the network said.
Jack Marshall / ClickZ:
Facebook Grows Video Presence — As traffic to Facebook continues to grow, the social network is beginning to emerge as an important stakeholder in the online video space. According to online measurement firm comScore, the number of users viewing video on the site has been growing consistently …
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TechCrunch
Joseph Plambeck / New York Times:
SB Nation Expands for Fans, by Fans Sports Sites — Last Thursday, Kobe Bryant tallied 30 points in Game 1 of the N.B.A. Finals. That night, Silver Screen and Roll, a blog dedicated to the Los Angeles Lakers, racked up more than 3,500 comments. — The popular site is just one of more …
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
The Content Graph and the Future of Brands — Yesterday, two stories from Aol's DailyFinance appeared in the Sunday print edition of the Daily Telegram, a newspaper in southern Michigan. These stories appeared on a business page that would otherwise have been produced almost entirely with stories from the Associated Press.
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eMedia Vitals
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Nat Ives / AdAge:
Wall Street Journal Expands Again With New Weekly Section — Former Domino Magazine Editor Consulting on New Leisure and Lifestyle Section — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The Wall Street Journal is expanding again, this time with an additional weekly section of leisure and lifestyle content …
Jason Fry / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Maximizing the values of the link: Credibility, readability, connectivity — The humble, ubiquitous link found itself at the center of a firestorm last week, with the spark provided by Nicholas Carr, who wrote about hyperlinks as one element (among many) he thinks contribute to distracted, hurried thinking online.
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Journalists running start-ups face tall odds — Fed up with furloughs and down-sizing - or forced involuntarily out of their jobs - journalists across the land are taking matters into their own hands by starting their own news sites. — While I applaud these brave and commendable efforts …
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Romenesko
lonelysandwich:
iPad TV — I won't lie to you—it took two weeks with my iPad before I knew whether I loved it (or, to be more accurate, why I would inevitably love it). There was this uncomfortableness after the purchase. I'd known for weeks that it was to be a miraculous addition to my life.
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