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Matt Heist / paidContent:
What Yahoo Needs To Do With Associated Content — Matt Heist is CEO of High Gear Media, a vertical publishing company that focuses on automotive content from professional writers and enthusiasts. Prior to joining High Gear Media, Heist worked at Sidestep.com, and before that, at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO).
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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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New York Post:
Bartz eyes a mate — After 18 months atop Yahoo!, Chief Executive Carol Bartz appears to be done with cutting costs and ready to address the site's No. 1 problem: trying to reverse the 25 percent drop in time visitors spend at the Web portal that has occurred on her watch.
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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Brad Stone / Bits:
Why Apple's iBooks Numbers Are Meaningless — There was e-book news on Monday at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference: Steven P. Jobs, Apple's chief executive, said that big publishers had told him that sales of e-books for the iPad now accounted for 22 percent of all e-book sales.
Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
iPad corners 22 percent of ebook market, iBooks gets iPhone version and PDF reader
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Matt Welch / Hit & Run:
Helen Thomas, and the Awkward Transfer From “Straight” Reporting to Opinioneering — Since we haven't run the video here yet, here's the ancient White House correspondent-turned-columnist Helen Thomas celebrating Jewish Heritage Month by telling Israelis (via a camera-wielding interlocutor) to go back to Poland and Germany:
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Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
An End for Helen Thomas and the Helen Thomas Rules
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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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Joel Gunter / news:rewired, 25 June 2010 …:
Q&A: Marc Reeves, editor, the Business Desk West Midlands — In our latest speaker Q&A we hear from Marc Reeves, editor of the Business Desk West Midlands. Marc has been a reporter, sub-editor, editor and senior manager in newspapers across the UK for more than 20 years.
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Meghan Keane / the Econsultancy blog:
Will The New York Times admit a few freeloaders are good for business? — With the future of paid content online anyone's guess, the publishing world eagerly anticipates news on The New York Times' paywall. Announced in January, we still have months to go before the paper unveils its official metered model.
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Steve Herrmann / The Editors:
BBC News linking policy (3) — Links to external sites are an important part of the BBC News website and I have blogged previously about how and why we are aiming to develop what we do in this area - here and here. — One theme that came up was what we should do about linking to sites which require subscription.
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 …
Clint Hendler / CJR:
WaPo denies allegation it sat on WikiLeaks video — Whomever had been posting to the WikiLeaks Twitter account over the last 12 hours has had some very unkind words for Wired's reporting on Bradley Manning, the young Army soldier who reportedly has been arrested for his role in leaking …
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rbr.com:
Gannett raises Q2 television revenue guidance — Speaking at the Sixth Annual Noble Equity Conference, top executives of Gannett Company indicated Monday that advertising is not only recovering, but coming back at a somewhat quicker pace than previously thought.
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Abby Brownback / American Journalism Review:
A Web-Centric Approach To Traditional Journalism — Abby Brownback is an AJR editorial assistant. — It's not as legendary as Noah's ark, not as revered as Joan of Arc, not as ornate as the Arc de Triomphe—but the arc of an ongoing story, one that guides from past to present, is the centerpiece of how readers process the news.
MediaShift:
Barnett: Advocacy, Membership Groups to Push Non-Profit News — The erosion of the traditional business model for news has led many to go down the non-profit path. The result is a slew of new non-profit news websites. The Bay Citizen, which launched at the end of May …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Sugar Inc. Goes Local With FreshGuide Acquisition — San Franciso-based women-focused online media site Sugar Inc. made it first significant move into the local market, by announcing its purchase of FreshGuide. — The locally focused FreshGuide makes women-aimed city guides …
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Esquire Hits 100,000 iPhone App Downloads—But Don't Talk About Sales Yet — It took just six months, but Esquire magazine's iPhone app has crossed a big threshold: it's gotten 100,000 downloads of in Apple's iTunes Store. But that's only for the free “shell” that serves as a storefront to buy individual issues or subscriptions.
Gavin O'Malley / MediaPost:
Tremor Bows Interactive Pre-Rolls — Video ad network Tremor Media on Monday is expected to announce a strategic partnership with Innovid to embed interactive elements into pre-roll video ads across Tremor's publisher network. — The joint product offering will be marketed under the name vChoice iRoll …
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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