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Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Announcing the 2010 Knight News Challenge winners: Visuals are hot, and businesses are big winners — They started out last year as a crowded field of hopefuls from around the world, each dreaming of a chance to perform under the big lights. Over months, their numbers dwindled as the level …
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Nat Ives / AdAge:
Oprah Hands Out IPads and Cash to Magazine Staffers — O Magazine Employees Get New Toy — and $10,000 Check — Call it the 2010 version of “You get a car, you get a car, you get a car, everybody gets a car!” Oprah Winfrey dropped by Hearst headquarters on Tuesday to mark the 10th anniversary of O …
Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
A New Publisher at Bloomberg BusinessWeek — Bloomberg continues to poach top-tier talent from rival news organizations, announcing on Wednesday that it has hired a top executive from Fortune as the publisher of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. — Hugh Wiley, who has led the business side at Fortune since 2007 …
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Steve / The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:
That big bold media disruption: an update — Recently I got some heat when I said that I don't want to see us descend into a nation of bloggers. I was called clueless because hey, blogs are the future, right? These bloggers are the bright shiny new media barons who are going to take over the world …
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Nicholas Carlson / The Wire:
The Inside Story: How Yahoo Bought Associated Content (YHOO, AOL) — Last month, Yahoo bought Associated Content, a Web publishing startup with thousands of semi-pro freelance writers, for around $100 million. — $100 million isn't much for a company like Yahoo (YHOO) …
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Kenneth Li / Financial Times:
Google eyes Demand Media's way with words — Last week, Richard Rosenblatt, chief executive of Demand Media, basked in the spotlight as digital media cognoscenti and bankers gathered round him at New York's Empire Hotel to toast his four-year-old company's progress.
Alex Weprin / WebNewser:
This is Why Hulu Blocked Boxee — As part of its investigation into the Comcast-NBC Universal merger, the FCC asked NBC why Hulu blocked access to its site via Boxee, the start-up aiming to bring high quality web content to television sets. — On June 11 NBC filed its responses to the FCC questions …
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
YouTube Adds Video Editing in the Cloud — Up until now, if YouTube users wanted to combine multiple clips into a single video, they had to use offline editing tools. But YouTube today rolled out cloud-based video editing tools, giving users a whole new way to remix their existing video assets online.
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James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
Financial Times charges into future — (Oli Scarff, Getty Images / May 10, 2010) — Its strategy, including charging for online access, seems to be working. — At Bar Marmont late Monday and into Tuesday's wee hours, the Chivas flowed, tuxedo ties came loose and conversation burbled.
Julian Sanchez / The Atlantic Online:
The Newsroom's Unknown Knowns — Media critic Jay Rosen has a longish new post up synthesizing his thoughts on “the Actual Ideology of the American Press”—a topic his Twitter followers will recognize as a longstanding obsession. It merits reading in full, but the upshot is that …
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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Fox and Bloomberg spar over Thomas' WH seat — It didn't take long after Helen Thomas retired for White House reporters to start guessing who would get the veteran reporter's coveted front row, center seat in the briefing room. Quickly, two news organizations emerged as favorites: Bloomberg News and Fox News.
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AdAge:
MySpace Searches for Agency to Lead Rebranding Effort — Can a Consumer Campaign Save News Corp.'s Struggling Social Network? — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Struggling social network MySpace is gearing up for a relaunch of the site later this year, and as part of that it has begun canvassing adland …
Jessica Hundley / Brand X:
Writing restored: Slaking their thirst for longform journalism — It's hard to ignore the death knell: “Print is dead.” As editorial dollars dwindle and people now express themselves in 140 characters or less, literature gasps for air, pale, waning. — Laurie Ochoa and Joe Donnelly …
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Advertising: Showing Commercials on Shelves and in Aisles — FOR many marketers, advertising in stores is an increasingly important way to influence shoppers at the so-called moment of truth, as they finally make up their minds about which brands of soup, soap or cereal to buy — or not buy.
Bill Mitchell / Newspay:
McClatchy, Others Use PlaceLocal to Help Advertisers Reach Small Audiences — The biggest hurdle facing local online advertising, as Mark Potts and others have framed the problem, is the challenge of keeping rates low enough to attract advertisers pursuing small audiences — but high enough to generate sufficient return.
Olivia Collette / Sparksheet:
Speaking through the Web: Q&A with Roger Ebert - Part II — You were just honoured with the Webby Award as “Person of the Year,” partly for your innovative Ebert Club venture. Basically, for a small yearly fee ($5 USD), members gain exclusive access to your e-newsletter, a private forum …
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Inside Gatorade's Social Media Command Center — In the realm of marketing, Gatorade is probably best known for splashy commercials featuring some of the world's most famous athletes. However, a new effort behind the scenes of the PepsiCo-owned sports drink maker is putting social media quite literally …
Nielsen Wire:
How Teens Watch: The Future (of Media) is in Their Hands — In the U.S., young people's media usage is markedly different from that of older generations but is likely to converge with their elders as they themselves grow older, according to Nielsen SVP of Consumer Insights Dounia Turrill at today's Consumer 360 conference in Las Vegas.
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Gooooooooaaaal, in any language: Boston Globe uses Google Translate to expand its soccer blog's reach — How do you make the most of World Cup fever? If you're the Boston Globe, you think...well, globally. Boston.com's soccer blog, Corner Kicks, has integrated Google Translate into its user interface …
John Consoli / TheWrap.com:
Cable Upfront Could Be Up 25%-30% in 2010 — The cable upfront ad marketplace has proven to be as strong as broadcast's. By the time it's done, cable could pull in 25 percent to 30 percent more dollars than last year, and reach a cumulative total of $8.3 billion to $8.7 billion …
Whitney Snyder / The Huffington Post:
Lance Armstrong: ‘Outside’ Magazine Cover Is ‘Lame Bulls**t’ (PHOTO) — Lance Armstrong is unhappy with his latest magazine cover appearance. The seven-time Tour de France champion graces the front of the latest issue of Outside magazine in a blue shirt that says “38.
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
PCUK/Harris Poll: Quarter Of Times Readers Likely To Pay Online — There are plenty of outside guesstimates at how successful The Times and Sunday Times new websites may be when they start charging this month. So we decided to ask the people who will really hold the answer - Times Online readers themselves...
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Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Yahoo Expands Widget Availability With Sony, But Google TV Looms — There's good news and bad news for Yahoo's TV Widgets. The good news is that Sony is expanding the number of markets where those widgets are available nearly seven-fold. The bad news is that Yahoo partner Sony …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Yes, Comments Can Get Noisy, But We Like Them Anyway — Updated: Blogger Joe Wilcox stirred up a bit of a hornet's nest recently when he accused John Gruber of avoiding debate by not having comments on his Daring Fireball blog. Gruber responded by saying he doesn't have comments because they make a blog …
Megan Tady / Save the News:
A Subtle Victory for Policy Interventions in Media at the FTC Workshop — The Federal Trade Commission's final workshop on changes in the media business, “How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?,” ended with the sense that only limited policy recommendations would come out of the session …
WWD Media Headlines:
HuffPo Wants it All... Next Issue Media's New Ringmaster... HUFFPO WANTS IT ALL: The Huffington Post thinks the world wants to know more about the arts in all their forms. The site is launching yet another section today, this one called HuffPost Arts, which will cover everything from fine art and sculpture to opera and filmmaking.
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