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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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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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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 …
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.
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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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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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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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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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.”
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 …
Timothy A. Clary / Newsweek:
Drumbeats: The Tech Press Turns on Microsoft's Ballmer — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks in New York to kick off Windows 7 on October 22, 2009 — Microsoft has a problem—a big one. The problem is not just that its CEO, Steve Ballmer, has had a disastrous 10-year run.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Glam Swings For The Fences With Glam Adapt, An Ad-Serving Platform Built For Brands — As big brands move more of their ad budgets online, what they want most is not just to capture clicks, but to capture the attention and mindshare of consumers. The buzzword in the online advertising industry …
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 …
Regina D'Alesio / MinOnline:
min Q&A: Prevention's Murcko and the Secret to Double-Digit Growth — In this economy, magazine brands are always looking for new ways to generate revenue. According to Mary Murcko, SVP/publisher of Prevention, solutions may be more easily found than they expect.
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