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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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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.
Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
WSJ editor: How many apps will merely be mediocre or meaningless? — “DOG BITES MAN, MAN BITES DOG, BYTES DOG MAN” — I normally don't get invited to awards ceremonies these days because since I became editor, the Journal doesn't seem to win many awards - so the only way to get here was to be the keynote speaker.
Jonathan Stray / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Making connections: How major news organizations talk about links — Links can add a lot of value to stories, but the journalism profession as a whole has been surprisingly slow to take them seriously. That's my conclusion from several months of talking to organizations and reporters …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Interview: Part 1: Dow Jones' Not-So-Odd Couple Les Hinton & Robert Thomson
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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.
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Peter Robins / Guardian:
How 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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Bill Mickey / Folio:
Behind The Atlantic's Brand Reinvention — During FOLIO: Show keynote, Justin Smith outlines path back to profitability. — The Atlantic, a 153-year-old magazine, suffered from a protracted decline in revenues and rising costs starting in the 1960s. A dramatic multi-platform overhaul …
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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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 …
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Arianna Huffington Takes “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!) …
J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Advertising: Drinking Game Poses Query, Who's ‘Icing’ Whom? — NO sooner had Alex Rospos arrived from Los Angeles for a Memorial Day weekend on the Jersey Shore than he witnessed, and fell victim to, his first prolonged session playing what has become the nation's biggest viral drinking game, otherwise known as “icing.”
Joe Pompeo / Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo! Hires Mark Lisanti As Deputy Editor Of Its New Entertainment Blogs — Yahoo is forging ahead with its big original content push. — The company announced today that it has tapped Movieline.com columnist and former Defamer editor Mark Lisanti to helm its new entertainment blogs.
Joe Strupp / Strupp:
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.
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 …
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 …
Brenna Ehrlich / Mashable!:
College Humor CEO Shares His 10 Web Content Urban Legends — Today at the Mashable Media Summit, College Humor's CEO Ricky Van Veen announced a partnership with SoBe to launch SoBe Studios — a project that creates branded video content — and with it a three-part web series called Mr. Vicarious, set to premiere on June 9.
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 …
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