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4:10 PM ET, June 11, 2010

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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Google News experiments with human control, promotes a new serendipity with Editors' Picks  —  Late this afternoon, Google News rolled out a new experiment: Editors' Picks.  Starting today, a small percentage of Google News users will find a new box of content with that label …
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Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Google Testing New Google News Home Page (With Sharing Options)  —  This never happens to me.  Until now.  While writing my earlier piece, Google News Tests Editors' Picks, I went to Google News on the off-chance that I'd be able to see the “limited test” of editors' picks.  Nope.  As expected.
Dan Frommer / The Wire:
Forbes Asks Employees To Help Steve Forbes Get More Twitter Followers (MEMO)  —  If you've been following any Forbes staffers' tweets lately, you might notice a uniform push to help their famous CEO Steve Forbes get more Twitter followers.  —  That's because the company is actually asking …
Discussion: Talking Biz News and Romenesko
Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
Newsmax Boss Chris Ruddy Says He'd Make Newsweek Profitable In 18 Months, Bring Back Michael Isikoff  —  Of all the official Newsweek suitors that have been confirmed since the first bids for the money-bleeding magazine were filed on June 2, the one that's raised the most eyebrows is Newsmax Media …
Discussion: Strupp
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Joe Strupp / Strupp:
Alumnus Joe Klein Hits Newsweek Reporting Cutbacks, Design  —  Newsweek alumnus Joe Klein, now writing for rival Time, says his former employers have suffered from reporting cutbacks and a poor redesign.  —  Asked to weigh in on the slew of buyers bidding for Newsweek, Klein declined to speculate.
Luisa Beltran / PE Hub Blog:   Newsweek Auction Hits Second Round, PE Stays Home
Brian Steinberg / AdAge:
Broadcast Upfront Finishes Between $8.1B and $8.7B  —  TV Ekes Out Gain Over Last Year As NBC Universal Wraps Talks Including Cable  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Advertisers have committed between $8.1 billion and $8.7 billion to the five broadcast networks' coming program schedules …
Discussion: Media Money …
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Joe Flint / Company Town:
Advertising rebound helps networks forget audience woes
Discussion: AdAge
Goatse SecurityGoatse Security:
On disclosure ethics  —  There's some buzz about that the FBI is getting involved with this iPad email leak.  Sean Sullivan at F-Secure said “the disclosure was completely irresponsible.”  AT&T says we never contacted them.  I want to make some things clear.
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The Atlantic Wire:
GOOD QUESTION!: How Much Does Steve Jobs Hate Gawker Now?
Discussion: NY Daily News
Steven Pinker / New York Times:
Mind Over Mass Media  —  NEW forms of media have always caused moral panics: the printing press, newspapers, paperbacks and television were all once denounced as threats to their consumers' brainpower and moral fiber.  —  So too with electronic technologies.  PowerPoint, we're told, is reducing discourse to bullet points.
Discussion: Boing Boing
Economist:
The strange survival of ink  —  Newspapers have escaped cataclysm by becoming leaner and more focused  —  “PRINT is going to live longer than people think,” asserts Mathias Döpfner, the boss of Axel Springer.  Perhaps it will in central Europe.  The publisher of Bild …
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
E-Reader Maker IRex Files For Bankruptcy  —  Is the e-reader market about to get less crowded?  E-Reader maker IRex Technologies has filed for bankruptcy, citing disappointing sales of its consumer device in the U.S. CEO Hans Brons tells a Dutch financial publication that sales of the company's iRex DR800SG …
Michael Smerconish / Washington Post:
On cable TV and talk radio, a push toward polarization  —  Any conversation about political polarization would be incomplete without a look at the media's role in shaping opinions.  From my view on the front lines, I have seen a rapid escalation of extreme dialogue — sadly, something sure to guarantee high ratings.
Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Disney, News Corp target post-World Cup soccer wins  —  * ESPN to increase coverage of soccer next season  —  * Fox Soccer's premium channel offers more live matches  —  Soccer, the No. 1 sport in most of the world, is finally getting a big roll on U.S. television.
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Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
Advertisers Test 3D Ads
Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Elizabeth Spiers' media-entrepreneur summer school  —  This summer Elizabeth Spiers is teaching summer school, and you can apply for a seat in her class.  —  The media consultant, founding editor Gawker, and builder of DealBreaker, several Mediabistro blogs, and other sites is looking …
New York Times:
Guilds Are Said to Have Concerns on Miramax Talks  —  LOS ANGELES — Representatives of Hollywood's principal guilds have told the Walt Disney Company that they have serious concerns about the possible sale of its Miramax Films unit to an investor group organized by David Bergstein.
Discussion: /Film, Company Town and Movieline
Jaeyeon Woo / Digits:
A Record Deal via YouTube and iPhones  —  Kim Yeo-hee, the 22-year-old South Korean known on YouTube as “applegirl002,” is making the leap from viral video sensation to recording star.  —  Ms. Kim three months ago joined legions of wannabe singers by putting up a homemade video on YouTube.
Discussion: The Daily Dish and VideoNuze
Nielsen Wire:
What Consumers Watch: Nielsen's Q1 2010 Three Screen Report  —  Technologies such as high definition television, digital video recorders and the Internet are creating higher quality and more convenient experiences for consumers, and as a result, the amount of video Americans consume continues to rise …
Discussion: MarketingCharts
Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
Feds Laid Foundation for Apple/Google Mobile Ad Feud  —  Google's AdMob served far more ads to Apple iOS devices than to Google Android devices in April, the last month for which it released numbers (chart courtesy of AdMob).  —  Apple has invited the ad networks of the world to serve ads within apps …
Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:
Media Moves: Felix Gillette Leaves the New York Observer for Bloomberg BusinessWeek  —  ​Via his Twitter, one-third of New York Observer's Media Mob, the very talented Felix Gillette, will be leaving the Observer for the incredibly shiny Bloomberg BusinessWeek, where he will get to work in a “literally awesome” office.
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Marketing Venture From Bateman and Arnett Takes Off With Orbit  —  The comedians Will Arnett and Jason Bateman are introducing their first videos created in concert with brands, five months after announcing DumbDumb, something they call a “sponsor-driven advertising and production company.”
Chris Woodyard / USA Today:
Chevrolet exec who wrote memo smiling about ‘Chevy’ debate  —  Few things thrill marketing executives more than having their brand be the day's hot topic of conversation that day, and not in a bad way.  —  There also are few things that would make one less thrilled than having a memo …
 
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Michele McLellan / rjionline.org:
Part 2 - Community drives mission
Transpera:
Transpera Announces Greg Ballard as Chief Executive Officer …
Discussion: iMedia Connection and MediaPost
David Goetzl / MediaPost:
Miller Sponsors Turner TV, Pushes Branded Story Lines
Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable
Ben Fritz / Company Town:
Mark Cuban passes Lions Gate stock to Carl Icahn
David McKay Wilson / Michigan Today:
The dean of network news
Discussion: Romenesko
Josh Dickey / The Wrap:
Longtime Mediaweek Editor Michael Burgi Leaving
Discussion: PRNewser and TVWeek.com
Kevinweil / Twitter Blog:
More Than Dabbling  —  Every day millions of people use Twitter …
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:
What Nonprofit News Sites Can Learn from Grist's ‘Save Our Journalists!’
Discussion: Writing / Editing
 Earlier Picks: 
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Newsonomics of tablet ad readiness
Discussion: Newsonomics and eMedia Vitals
Jeremy Porter / Journalistics:
Help A Reporter Out (HARO) Joins Vocus Family
Discussion: Mashable! and Gawker
Liz Shannon Miller / NewTeeVee:
Revision3 Celebrates Five Years, But Can It Survive Without Kevin Rose?
Judith Townend / Journalism.co.uk:
BBC Global News director: 'Empowerment by social media, that for …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
The Evolution of Time Magazine's iPad App: Here's What's Next
Jonathan Stray / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Linking by the numbers: How news organizations are using links (or not)
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk
eMarketer:
Online Video Viewing Shifts to Long-Form Content
Discussion: Media Buyer Planner and hypebot
Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:
The New York Post's Exile Insanity (Updated)