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7:00 PM ET, June 8, 2010

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Brad Stone / Bits:
Times Company Objects to News-Reader App  —  Last week I wrote about the Pulse News Reader, a popular iPad application developed by two students at the Stanford Institute of Design that collects and presents articles from Web sites of news organizations like The New York Times.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Pulse iPad App Gets Steve Jobs's Praise in Morning...Then Booted From App Store Hours Later After NYT Complains  —  Yesterday morning, the pair of Stanford University graduate students who made the hot news-reading iPad app, Pulse News Reader, were ecstatic to be mentioned first-for being among …
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Why Did The NYT Get The Pulse News Reader Yanked From iTunes?  —  Is the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) trying to shut down news reader apps that rely on RSS or is it just trying to smack down one in particular?  An infringement letter (included in full below) from the New York Times to Apple …
Discussion: BRANDING UNBOUND
Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
Arianna Huffington Says HuffPo Is Not For Sale; AOL Exec Says Company Will Hire ‘Hundreds’ More Journalists Next Year  —  We're down at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute for an Internet Week panel called “The Future of Media” hosted by the daily aggregation website I Want Media.
Discussion: New York Observer, Romenesko and Digits
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New York Post:
Bartz eyes a mate
Discussion: Guardian and eMedia Vitals
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:
WHCA to Discuss Who Gets Thomas' Seat at Special Meeting Thursday  —  After legendary White House correspondent Helen Thomas announced Monday that she was retiring, it didn't take long for journalists to start asking: Who's going to get “the seat”?  —  The guessing games have already begun.
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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:
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Apple Makes Good on Steve Jobs's Promise, Invites Other Advertisers.  But What About Google's AdMob?  —  Last week, Steve Jobs promised that his iPhone and iPads would be open to outside ad networks.  Yesterday, Apple made good on his promise, by changing the terms of its developer agreement.
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
Corrected: @ CM Summit: AdMob's Hamoui: Nothing New About iAd's Rich Media
Discussion: TechCrunch
Joseph Plambeck / Media Decoder:
Sally Singer Named Editor of T Magazine  —  Sally Singer, the fashion news and features director at Vogue, has been named the editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine.  —  Ms. Singer, 45, will take over on July 5, according to a note Bill Keller, executive editor of The Times, sent to staff on Tuesday.
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / CNN:
China's rise challenges western media  —  (FT) — China will overtake Japan as the world's second-largest advertising market by 2015, according to a report which predicts that advertising spending in North America will only just recover to the peak it reached in 2007 by that time.
Discussion: The Wire and Kirk LaPointe's …
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.
Chris Rovzar / New York Magazine:
Stefano Tonchi Cleans House at W, Brings In Newsweek's Ted Moncreiff  —  It's a tumultuous day in the world of fashion editorial.  First Sally Singer leaves Vogue for T, and now word comes that W's new editorial director, Stefano Tonchi (late of T himself), has cleaned house even further.
Discussion: Daily Front Row
Matt Creamer / Breaking Media:
Finally, A Smart Alternative to the AP  —  The maturation of the digital news business hasn't been kind to the Associated Press.  In addition to fighting a pointless battle with Google over the distribution of AP articles in its news channel and taking potshots at aggregators …
Discussion: Publish2 Blog
DigiDave:
Spot.Us on the Edges of Revenue and Expansion  —  The beauty of starting something from scratch is the iterative and agile process I've talked about since before Spot.Us began.  In this post I'm going to discuss two new developments at Spot.Us.  One is an exciting feature and revenue stream.
Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab and Spot.us
David Cohen / WebNewser:
CNN.com Geeks Up Technology Section  —  CNN.com is sprucing up the joint, following last week's launch of a retooled Entertainment section with an announcement Tuesday that its Technology section underwent a face-lift, as well.  —  CNN Tech is edited by CNN.com tech producer Brandon Griggs …
Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk:
Independent switches blogs to WordPress in effort to raise standards  —  The Independent has relaunched its blogs, switching from Livejournal to WordPress as its publishing platform.  —  The new-look blogs on Independent.co.uk are now much closer in design to the rest of the website and more closely integrated.
Discussion: The Independent
Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
Anderson Cooper From The Gulf: “We All Have Jobs To Do, And We're Doing Ours”  —  Anderson Cooper has been anchoring and reporting from the Gulf Coast for CNN for weeks - just as he was nearly five years ago.  He conducted an exclusive interview with a group of oil rig survivors this week - part two airs tonight.
Discussion: Mediaite.com
Steve Busfield / Guardian:
Paul Cheesbrough leaves Telegraph  —  The group's chief information officer is leaving to take the same role at the rival company News International  —  Another key digital executive is to leave the Telegraph Media Group in the wake of Will Lewis's abrupt departure last month.
Discussion: paidContent:UK
Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:
Shots Returned!  Jeff Jarvis Responds to Wise-Yet-Cranky Kaplan Diss  —  ​Yesterday, we took note of an AdAge article by Edmund Lee, and a fun kicker that was seemingly buried at the bottom: revered former New York Observer editor Peter Kaplan taking revered tech pundit Jeff Jarvis to task.
Discussion: AdAge
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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Marc Reeves:
Speaking truth to power: my speech to the CBI
Discussion: paidContent:UK
 
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Zeke Turner / New York Times:
Robert Thomson at Cocktail Hour: Disses ‘The Times,’ Sarah Ellison
Discussion: Romenesko, New York Observer and Gawker
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
@ CM Summit: Twitter Rolling Out Content ‘Attachments’ For Third Parties
Daniel Frankel / The Wrap:
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rbr.com:
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The Huffington Post:
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
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Changingnewsroom / The Changing Newsroom:
Preaching the Value of Verification
Steve Herrmann / The Editors:
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Discussion: BBC and paidContent:UK
Matt Heist / paidContent:
What Yahoo Needs To Do With Associated Content
Discussion: Editors Weblog
Peter Delevett / Mercury News:
Noted travel writer discusses changing world of travel
Discussion: Romenesko
Meghan Keane / the Econsultancy blog:
Will The New York Times admit a few freeloaders are good for business?
Discussion: paidContent