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6:45 PM ET, June 11, 2010

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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
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.
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
Luisa Beltran / PE Hub Blog:   Newsweek Auction Hits Second Round, PE Stays Home
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 …
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
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
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 …
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
iPad app watch: Hits, runs and terrors  —  Now that we have bought all those expensive iPads - and we know who all of you early adopters are, too - what are we going to do with them?  Here's the first in an occasional look at what's hot - and not - in App-Land.  —  Top Picks  —  All-Around Best: Safari
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.
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?
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
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
World Cup Fever: Internet Has Busiest News Day as Tabulated by Akamai  —  Akamai, the world's largest operator of a network of computers, today is showing on its Web site that it is the busiest day for bandwidth demand for news sites.  There are some 11 million visitor requests per minute to its network …
David Kaplan / mocoNews:
Scribd: Publishers Are Wasting Time, Money, Effort In Creating iPad Apps  —  Although magazines like Wired are reporting strong results for their early iPad efforts, for most publishers, this is still an experiment to see if they can recreate—or at least approximate—the revenue model that used …
Mark Fitzgerald / EditorandPublisher.com:
Boocoo.com, New Rival of Craigslist and Ebay, Launching With 300 Newspaper, Broadcast Partners  —  CHICAGO  —  Boocoo.com — a newspaper industry response to Craigslist and Ebay — launches next week with nearly 300 newspaper and broadcast partners, its developer, Ranger Data Technologies said.
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
FCC to Exempt Blog Comments from Title II Proceedings  —  Comments on broadband reclassification plan submitted between June 10 - 17 fall into seven-day sunshine period  —  The FCC has warned anybody who weighs in on an FCC blog about its plan to reclassify broadband under Title II regulation between June 10 …
Discussion: rbr.com and Multichannel
LARadio:
Will Moonves Lure Seacrest to CBS with Daytime TV Talk Show?  —  Another month has passed for Ryan Seacrest and he's another month closer to his November contract ending deadline at Clear Channel's KIIS/fm.  Earlier this year Ryan offered to the LA Times that he was going to drop one of his jobs this year …
Discussion: Gawker and The Wire
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Media General Extends Yahoo Display Sales From Newspapers To TV Sites  —  Media General (NYSE: MEG) has often credited its membership in the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Newspaper Consortium for helping to boost its online ad revenues.  Now, the Richmond, VA., owner of The Tampa Tribune …
New York Post:
Desperate CNN wooing Piers Morgan  —  CNN is talking to snarky British journalist Piers Morgan about a potential slot in its troubled prime-time lineup, sources said.  —  Morgan, a judge on NBC's “America's Got Talent” and across the pond on “Britain's Got Talent,” is a friend of Simon Cowell's …
Discussion: TVWeek.com and Inside Cable News
 
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Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
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