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Lauren Goode / Digits:
Internet Is Set to Overtake Newspapers in Ad Revenue — The Internet is poised to overtake newspapers as the second-largest U.S. advertising medium by revenue behind television, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers' Global Entertainment and Media Outlook for 2010 to 2014.
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Memo to Media Cos.: Disruption? You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet — The media and entertainment industries have been through an unprecedented amount of upheaval over the past several years, as content has become increasingly digital, consumers have correspondingly moved their attention online and advertisers have begun to follow.
Nat Ives / AdAge:
New York Times Plans Public Beta Site for Its Experiments — A Place to Test Products Without Disrupting the Main Site — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The New York Times is building a public beta testing site where it will experiment with new ideas and applications before deciding whether they deserve to go live on NYTimes.com.
Will Richmond / VideoNuze:
Exclusive: ABC Has Doubled the Number of Ads in Its iPad App; ABC.com Will Be Next — Yesterday ABC began implementing a new ad policy for its popular iPad app, which up to doubles the number of ads included per episode. ABC intends to apply the new ad policy to programs viewed on ABC.com soon as well.
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Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
48 HR Magazine: “CBS Is Being Unreasonable” — On Friday, June 11, Mat Honan, one of the creators of 48 HR—the new San Francisco-based experimental magazine that gets put together in literally two days—Tweeted the following: — “CBS is going to try to f*ck us pretty hard.
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Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Make no mistake: Newspapers are still in trouble — With newspaper share prices up some 380% in the last 12 months, even the ordinarily incisive Economist Magazine last week offered an upbeat appraisal for an industry that many had written off for dead a year ago.
Joseph De Avila / Wall Street Journal:
City Launches New Effort to Aid Media Sector — The Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Columbia University and the city plan to open a new lab that will aim to stimulate the local media industry, city officials said Monday. — The NYC Media Lab is the latest of several steps …
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New York Post:
Shrinking CNN taps Spitzer, Morgan — Ted Turner must be flinging his remote at the wall in despair. CNN, the cable network he founded, is poised to turn its prime-time schedule over to two disgraced public figures, ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer and former British tabloid editor Piers Morgan, in its desperate bid to restore lost ratings.
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
White House Will Answer Your Oil Spill Questions from YouTube Tonight — At 8pm ET tonight, President Obama plans to address the nation about the BP oil spill from the Oval Office. In addition, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs will also answer questions from YouTube users right after the president's address.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
How to Get Your Porn App Into iTunes: Wrap a Newspaper Around It — Steve Jobs wants to keep porn out of his iTunes App Store. But not all porn. At least if you define porn as “half-naked shots of unknown British models.” — Because that's what you get with the new iPad app from The Sun.
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Yahoo! News:
NYT reporter defends Afghani minerals piece, lashes out at critics — New York Times reporter James Risen is fighting back against critics who have cast a skeptical eye on his Page One story yesterday about Afghanistan's mineral deposits. In an interview with Yahoo! News …
Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:
Gowalla Teams Up with USA Today for Travel Tips — USA Today has partnered with location-based social network Gowalla to bring its travel content to the network's users. — Gowalla users who follow USA Today and check in at major U.S. airports will receive airport and airline news …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
“Hulu for Magazines” Gets a CEO: Good Luck, Morgan Guenther! — Remember Next Issue Media, the “Hulu for magazines” joint venture that was supposed to help the big publishers negotiate with the likes of Apple and Amazon in the e-reader market? It has been awfully quiet for a long time …
Jim Lynch:
The Safari Reader Arms Race — Last week I caught a lot of heat for my column about Apple's Weapon of Mass Destruction. The column seemed to go a bit viral and I got quite a lot of visitors, many of whom were angry. They felt that they were entitled to a quiet reading experience, totally free from web clutter and ads.
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Steve Rosenbaum / The Wire:
Content Is No Longer King: Curation Is King — “Content is King” — no longer. Today, the world has changed. “Curation Is King.” — Ok, I hear all the content-makers sharpening their knives to take me on. — I'm ready. — First, why content is dead:
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Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:
Blogger said Patch tried to poach him away — The publisher of a Los Angeles neighborhood blog, AltadenaBlog.com, says he was approached by Patch with an offer to lure him away to create a new Patch site in the same neighborhood. Calling the AOL local news startup “Poach” instead of Patch …
Michael Cieply / New York Times:
Before Subsidizing Movies, States Scrutinize the Message — LOS ANGELES — When Andrew van den Houten got a letter two weeks ago rejecting his request for Michigan public money to help finance his latest horror movie, “The Woman,” it came with an admonition about the state's good name.
Judith Townend / Journalism.co.uk:
New report aims to put journalism unions ‘in touch’ with industry's future — A new report by the International Federation of Journalists calls for more activism from union members and “fresh solidarity” within the industry. — The report [PDF link] addresses the effect of technological development …
Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
Lawrence O'Donnell Will Host New 10pmET Show On MSNBC — MSNBC announced today it would begin working “immediately” on a new 10pmET show hosted by Lawrence O'Donnell. — O'Donnell had been Keith Olbermann's primary fill-in on Countdown, a point made by Olbermann in his tweet about the news.
The Times:
Welcome to thetimes.co.uk — Last month we launched thetimes.co.uk and thesundaytimes.co.uk. If you haven't already, you can still register for a free trial of the websites before we soon start charging for access. It's your chance to sample Times coverage of breaking news from all over the world …
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Thomson IR:
Gannett Broadcasting and DataSphere to launch community web sites in 10 U.S. cities — Gannett Broadcasting, part of Gannett Co., Inc., and DataSphere Technologies, the leading provider of hyperlocal web technology and sales solutions for media companies, will launch community-focused web sites …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Kevin Rose Announces fforward, A Weekly Tech/Geek Culture Show — Digg founder Kevin Rose, after confirming that he's leaving Diggnation at the end of this year, is now announcing his new show. It's fforward - pronounced “forward” - and you can sign up to be notified of the launch now.
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