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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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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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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!) …
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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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.
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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Joe Strupp / Media Matters for America:
Newsweek Blog, Kurtz Tangle Over Column — It appears Newsweek will not leave The Washington Post Company quietly. At least its Tumblr blog won't. — Editors of the online column took Howard Kurtz's Monday piece on Newsweek and its dire future, in his view, and edited with claims of inaccuracies and poor arguments.
Omar / The Life and Times of AdMob:
Mobile advertising and the iPhone — Apple proposed new developer terms on Monday that, if enforced as written, would prohibit app developers from using AdMob and Google's advertising solutions on the iPhone. These advertising related terms both target companies with competitive mobile technologies …
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Interview: Part 1: Dow Jones' Not-So-Odd Couple Les Hinton & Robert Thomson — Les Hinton and Robert Thomson don't exactly finish each other's sentences—they're a tad too polite for that—but they could. When I joked about pairs for comparison, the two quickly shot back with Bill and Ben, the Flower Pot Men.
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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.
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Rick Edmonds / The Biz Blog:
How ‘The Week’ Has Grown Circulation, Advertising as Newsweek, Other Magazines Decline — The surprise success of The Week, a British transplant launched in 2002 and derided then as a wacky throwback, is a twice-told tale. But president Steven Kotok doesn't mind telling it again …
Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:
SB Nation CEO on how we're fans of teams, not sports, T.V. shows, not T.V., and what that means for news — SB Nation — short for Sports Blog Nation — just announced it's launching 20 new regional sports sites, with Houston and Dallas launching tomorrow aimed at competing …
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Web Series Tap Prime Time — Better Production Quality, Easier TV-Internet Hookups Grab Nighttime Viewers — Original Web series are finding a niche at night. — In a change from traditional online-video watching, which was built during daytime, providers of free original Web content …
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.
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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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Why Did The NYT Get The Pulse News Reader Yanked From iTunes?
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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 …
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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”.
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