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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.
Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Reblog this at your own legal risk — Bloggers rip, reuse and rehash text and media from the entrails of the Internet all the time, but the legality of doing so remain contentious. — Legal questions aside, the major blogging platforms have come to facilitate the reproduction of content from other websites.
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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.
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 …
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 …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Meet the Two Grad Students Who Freaked Out the NYT-The Pulse iPad App Creators Speak! — The first thing to strike you about the pair of Stanford University graduate students (pictured here) who made the banned and then unbanned news-reading iPad app, Pulse News Reader …
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Shaping the Future …, PC World, Venture Capital Dispatch, TeleRead, Fast Company, Fitz & Jen, TechCrunch, Epicenter, Digital Daily, Computerworld, Gizmodo, Poynter Online and Bits
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.”
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Gothamist, iMediaConnection Blog, The Awl, Runnin' Scared, newsfeed.time.com, Inc.com and Gawker
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 …
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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Romenesko, MediaFile, TechCrunch, DailyFinance, The Huffington Post, New York Post and The Wire
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.
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.
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 …
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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Romenesko, LA Observed, Talking Biz News, Guardian, Gawker, MediaPost and New York Times
Crain's New York Business:
Newsstand battle: Woman's World may trump People — In the battle for the title of top selling newstand weekly for the first half of 2010, underdog Woman's World may score a knockout against longtime champ People magazine. — The feisty downmarket title from Bauer Publishing …
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Joe Strupp / Strupp:
Departing New York Times Public Editor: Job Was Like ‘A Shock Absorber.’ — New York Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt will end his three-year run in the post with a final column Sunday. He says the experience has been positive, although sometimes making him feel like “a shock absorber.”
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.
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 …
Sarah Rabil / Bloomberg:
Viacom to Start Paying Dividend, Buy Back Stock Amid Ad Rebound — Viacom Inc., the owner of MTV Networks and the Paramount Pictures film studio, will start paying a dividend for the first time and buy back as much as $4 billion in stock as the advertising market recovers.
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