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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Hulu Unveils Subscription Service For $9.99 a Month — Updated: 2:50 p.m.: Confirming what the entertainment world has been expecting for months, the online television Web site Hulu unveiled a subscription service on Tuesday, promising access to more episodes of TV shows to customers who pay $9.99 a month.
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Interview: Hulu's Kilar: Hulu Plus Preview Progamming Is ‘Just Step One’ — The launch of Hulu Plus takes the online video joint venture started by News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) and NBCU more than three years ago into a new realm of complexity and potential. CEO Jason Kilar spoke with paidContent …
CNN:
Statement from Larry King — Before I start the show tonight, I want to share some personal news with you. 25 years ago, I sat across this table from New York Governor Mario Cuomo for the first broadcast of Larry King Live. Now, decades later, I talked to the guys here at CNN and I told …
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Larry King To End Talk Show This Fall — The CNN host Larry King said Tuesday evening that he would end his iconic talk show, “Larry King Live,” sometime this fall. — Mr. King wrote in a blog post on CNN.com, “I talked to the guys here at CNN and I told them I would like to end Larry King Live …
Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
NewsLabs folds just months after launch, regrets big promises to journalists — E-mails regarding the demise of NewsLabs — From: [Chief technology officer] Nathan Chong — As I'm sure you've noticed not much has been happening with the site recently. I'm very sorry to report that this is because NewsLabs is ending.
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Andrew Breitbart / Big Journalism:
Reward: $100,000 for Full ‘JournoList’ Archive; Source Fully Protected — I've had $100,000 burning in my pocket for the last three months and I'd really like to spend it on a worthy cause. So how about this: in the interests of journalistic transparency, and to offer the American public …
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Digital Magazines Don't Encourage Socializing — You've got to hand it to the magazine publishers. They continue to throw spaghetti against the iPad and other e-readers trying to see what will stick and what falls to the floor. — Most publishers are aggressively experimenting …
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Michael Miner / Chicago Reader:
Alison Draper on Alison True — Alison Draper, publisher of the Reader, has talked a little with me about the decision she and Creative Loafing CEO Marty Petty came to to fire this paper's editor, Alison True. “It was made with tremendous thought, and regardless of my personal feelings …
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JP Mangalindan / Fortune:
Jeff Bezos's mission: Compelling small publishers to think big — In the face of Kindle price cuts and wild iPad sales, Jeff Bezos is taking Amazon into new markets and onto every device he can. Will it be enough? — Jeff Bezos has been dismissed before.
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Greg Marx / CJR:
Look at Us! — Lessons from the response to the David Weigel flap — It's been three days since David Weigel, the reporter and blogger best known for his coverage of the conservative movement, resigned from The Washington Post after intemperate remarks he'd made on a private e-mail list about some of his subjects were made public.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Former Forbes.com Publisher Jim Spanfeller Has VC Money; New Sites on the Way — Former Forbes.com publisher Jim Spanfeller has a new gig: A venture-backed Web publishing start-up. — Spanfeller Media Group, which plans to launch a series of new sites, is close to finishing a funding round that I'm told will total around $2 million.
Zach Gottlieb / Epicenter:
In Online Media, Consumer Is King — Call it the billion dollar question of today's digital revolution: When it comes to online media, who's in charge? — Looking back on the first phase of the digital revolution, when big media companies chose to give away their content for free online, their system of power started breaking down.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Sharron Angle, Camera-Shy Candidate, Shifts Coverage — RENO — There is a game in Nevada called “Where's Sharron Angle?” that the press is tired of playing. — Ms. Angle, a Nevada Senate candidate and Tea Party darling, has steadfastly refused to talk to reporters here …
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Julia Angwin / Digits:
YouTube to Introduce “Skippable” Ads — Google Inc.'s YouTube plans to introduce “skippable” ads later this year, senior product manager Baljeet Singh said Tuesday at a Google press conference. — Mr. Singh said that the new format will let users skip the pre-roll ads that are embedded in videos …
Katy Bachman / Adweek:
Branded Entertainment Set to Surge — Increased spending in the sector is expected to continue unabated — Branded entertainment marketing dipped for the first time in 2009, but it's forecast to roar back this year, according to PQ Media's new report on the industry released today.
Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
Asbury Park Press blog launches coffeehouse newsroom — Freehold InJersey & Asbury Park Press Launch Coffeeshop Newsroom — FREEHOLD, NJ — Freehold InJersey, a community news blog run by the Asbury Park Press and Gannett, has launched a coffeeshop newsroom in conjunction with Zebu Forno Cafe in Freehold, New Jersey.
Bob Warner / Philly.com:
Daily News, Inquirer sale plan OK'd by bankruptcy judge — A federal bankruptcy judge yesterday approved a plan to bring the Daily News and Inquirer out of Chapter 11 with a sale to a coalition of investment firms, willing to put up $105 million in cash for the newspapers and their Web site, Philly.com.
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