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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
AOL to Hire ‘Hundreds’ of Journalists, Reorganize Content Division — Sites to Be Grouped Into ‘Super Networks’ and Sold to Advertisers — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — AOL is planning to hire hundreds of journalists, editors and videographers in the coming year as it builds out its content-first business model.
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
David Eun Puts AOL On A URL Diet With ‘Super Net’ Strategy — Google vet David Eun has kept a low profile since he joined AOL (NYSE: AOL) in March as president of AOL Media and Studios. But this week he's breaking out of the self-imposed shell, first to accept a digital power award …
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Arianna Huffington Takes a “Shine” to Yahoo! and is Setting-up Shop in New York — The Huffington Post is entering a “deep partnership” with Yahoo! to produce original content, including both text and video for Shine, the women's interest pages of of Yahoo!, co-founder and editor …
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John Koblin / New York Observer:
The End of Libel? — When Robin Bierstedt joined the Time Inc. legal department in 1983, there were 20 active libel cases pending against the company. In her 27-year career, she has taken on dozens of spurned public figures, officials and organizations (hello, Church of Scientology!) …
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
On the Media: Las Vegas Review-Journal bares its claws — The newspaper has filed lawsuits against more than 30 websites and blogs it says used its works without permission. So what is fair use? — The newspaper people had me pretty much in their corner until they went after the cat people.
Peter Robins / Guardian:
Apple's new ad-blocker could save the media (maybe) — Safari 5 looks like bad news for ad-supported sites. But if we're very, very lucky, it might not turn out that way — The latest threat to ad-supported online media is a feature in the new version of Apple's Safari web browser called “Reader”.
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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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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Fred Drasner joins Newsweek sweepstakes — FR ED Drasner, one-time busi ness partner of Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman and now an auto entrepreneur, is said to be in the hunt to buy Newsweek. — “Fred Drasner has had discussions with the Washington Post Company about buying Newsweek,” said one source close to Drasner.
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Chris Rovzar / New York Magazine:
Stefano Tonchi Cleans House at W, Brings In Newsweek's Ted Moncreiff
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Felix Gillette / New York Observer:
Feats of Clay — On Sunday, June 6, CNN aired an interview with James Fallows in which the writer talked on camera about his recent story in The Atlantic, which looked at Google's impact on the news business. Typically, such stories are full of gloom, but this one was hopeful.
Tara Conlan / Guardian:
Daily Mail shuffles features executives — Leaf Kalfayan made executive editor of features, with senior posts also shifting at news and on Femail section — The Daily Mail has unveiled a series of changes to its senior editorial management, with Leaf Kalfayan becoming executive editor of features.
Alex Weprin / WebNewser:
Fox News Launches Social Media-Centric Website — Fox News has soft-launched a website, Fox News Insider, with a social media focus. The site, which as at www.Foxnewsinsider.com, is being constantly updated with reports from Fox News Channel, as well as info on FNC programming like “The O'Reilly Factor”.
Digital Deliverance LLC:
The Greatest Change in the History of Media — Crosbie's Manifesto - Part One — We live amid the greatest change in the history of media. The nature and magnitude of this epochal change are so enormous that most media executives and media scholars fail or refuse to recognize …
Tony Hirst / Online Journalism Blog:
Liberating Data from the Guardian... Has it Really Come to This? — When the data is the story, should a news organisation make it available? When the Telegraph started trawling through MPs' expenses data it had bought from a source, industry commentators started asking questions around whether …
Clint Hendler / CJR:
Unfriendly Fire — When, late Sunday night, Wired reported that Bradley Manning, a young Army intelligence staffer, had been arrested and charged with giving a variety of classified or closely held information to WikiLeaks, the online secret-sharing site didn't stay quiet.
The Wire:
Dennis Kneale Is Off Power Lunch — We've just learned from a source close to the situation that Dennis Kneale is no longer on “Power Lunch.” This goes hand-in-hand with what Kneale told us two weeks ago in an exclusive interview. — Kneale was under the impression his days were numbered at CNBC …
Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
Demand Media Launches Talent & Expert Network — Demand Media has made a lot of noise over the past year with its revolutionary publishing model; the company employs thousands of freelance journalists who in turn produce thousands of search friendly articles on a daily basis.
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