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Emily Gould / Slate:
How feminist blogs like Jezebel gin up their page views by exploiting women's worst tendencies. — One of my friends posted a link to last week's Jezebel post titled “The Daily Show's Woman Problem” as her Gmail chat status, alongside the words “Every woman must read this.”
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Time Magazine putting up a paywall to protect print? — Check out the current issue of Time Magazine at Time.com. Click around. Notice anything? On almost every story that comes from the magazine, there's this phrase: “The following is an abridged version of an article that appears in the July 12 …
Sarah Boesveld / Globe and Mail:
YouTube, Ridley Scott embark on global film experiment — A man in Oslo brushing his teeth. A preteen in Vancouver playing an acoustic guitar. A woman in Zimbabwe sowing seeds in a garden near her hut. — These kinds of everyday moments are just the thing YouTube hopes to compile …
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Tim Partridge / YouTube Blog:
Life in a Day — Every day, 6.7 billion people view the world through their own unique lens. Imagine if there was a way to collect all of these perspectives, to aggregate and mold them into the cohesive story of a single day on earth. — Today, we're excited to announce the launch of …
Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
Digital journalism: More work, more pressure but more opportunity — Longer hours, more pressure, decreasing quality and less enjoyable work. Old media is a dark, dark place for journalism - at least that's the mood of many of the journalists that were interviewed for the annual Oriella digital journalism study.
Dylan Stableford / The Wrap:
Content ‘Farms’: Killing Journalism — While Making a Killing — If you ask most working journalists what they think about Associated Content, Demand Media or AOL's Seed, you may hear a scoffing sound. — After all, these sites, while providing some people with work, produce high-volume …
Rachel Sklar / Mediaite:
Howard Kurtz Blasts An Ant With A Nuclear Weapon — Last week in a private email exchange, Howard Kurtz wrote... just kidding. I have no reason to publish anything Kurtz has ever emailed me that wasn't intended for the record. But if I write something critical of Reliable Sources …
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Bloomberg:
Moguls' Sun Valley Summer Camp to Focus on Web, Not Mega-Deals — Media moguls at Allen & Co.'s annual conference, usually on the prowl for the next big deal, are paying more attention to small screens as they confront rapidly shifting consumer tastes. — With more customers catching …
Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
CBS, MediaMind Partner on Video Extender Ad Tool — One of the problems with Web video is that there is only so much video ad inventory online, many publishers shove video spots into traditional display ads. — That leads to another problem: Display ads are often too small …
Andrew Golis / Yahoo! News:
Introducing The Upshot — Welcome! Thanks for stopping by. — So what the heck is The Upshot? Eight people, six reporters and two editors, working each day to tell you what's happening in the world with short bursts of reporting and analysis. — Our goal is to be blunt narrators …
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The Wire, Search Engine Watch, Fast Company, MarketingVOX, TechCrunch, Journalism.co.uk, PC Magazine, Kirk LaPointe's …, ResourceShelf and New York Times
John Koblin / New York Observer:
Nick Denton's Secret Weapon: Gaby Darbyshire Is Gawker's Chief Enforcer — “One day there will be a book called ‘The Collected Legal Works of Gawker Media,’” said Gaby Darbyshire, the company's 39-year-old COO and head lawyer. — It was a recent Thursday afternoon, and Ms. Darbyshire …
Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:
Apple Studies User Downloads to Hone Mobile Ads, Take on Google — Apple Inc., with a storehouse of billions of music, movie and software downloads, is studying the buying habits of many of its 150 million iTunes users to show more appealing mobile ads and fuel competition with Google Inc.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Livefyre Aims To Put Out The Comment Troll Problem; Gets Funding To Do So — Commenting on the web is broken. Visit just about any site large enough on the Internet and you'll notice it. Sure, there are useful comments every once in a while, but there are more comments that are either jokes, stupid, or just downright cruel.
Lynne Marek / Chicago Business:
Tribune Co. gets into consulting business with digital unit — (Crain's) — Tribune Co. is starting a new consulting business in its digital department, allowing the newspaper company to sell its social media and Internet advertising know-how to small and mid-sized businesses.
Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
NPR CEO: We Want to Partner with Journalism Startups — NPR CEO Vivian Schiller wants her organization and its local affiliates to partner with the journalism startup companies that have been growing up through the wreckage of the newspaper business. — The pitch she made here at the Aspen Ideas Festival is simple.
Michael Koretzky / The Huffington Post:
Working at the National Enquirer Is Just Like Working at Any Other Newspaper — But Weirder — As usual, when the National Enquirer breaks a big story, the tabloid becomes a big story itself. — Last month, the Enquirer interviewed a masseuse who says Al Gore sexually assaulted her in 2006.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Here's How BuzzFeed Plans To Turn Viral Content Into Cash — BuzzFeed, which aggregates all the viral/goofy/bizarre/hilarious content on the web, just raised $8 million and hired a new president. Now the NYC-based company is making a play to turn the web's viral content into cash …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
AP Not Amused By The Woot Story, Tries To Play The Oil Spill Card — Oh those jokesters over at the AP — the fun never ends! Last night, we wrote a post noting that Woot was (humorously) calling out the AP for not following their own ridiculous rules when quoting from content.
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Sara Ganim / Centre Daily Times:
Centre County judges tell CDT to erase stories — Collegian also told to delete archived information about five defendants — BELLEFONTE — Two Centre County judges have signed orders directing the Centre Daily Times to delete archived stories about five defendants of the county court system.
Nat Ives / AdAge:
More Newspapers Are Taking Credit Cards at Vending Machines — Wall Street Journal Added Card Readers to 190 Machines Before Greater New York Launch — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Newspapers are edging away from demanding a fistful of coins at their vending machines and toward accepting plastic.
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Talks heat up between Hearst, Lagardere — Talks between Lagardere, the Paris-based company that owns Elle and Woman's Day, and Hearst Corp., the newspaper and magazine giant, are said to be heating up again, according to the latest industry buzz. — Media Ink wrote back on July 29, 2009 …
Amber Naslund / Brass Tack Thinking:
How Fast Company Confused Ego with Influence — I'm a Fast Company fan. I've been reading for years, and they have some super smart writers and contributors on their team. But I really think they missed the mark with The Influence Project, in a big way, and confused the idea of “influence” with ego.
Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
Former Wired Blogger Alexis Madrigal Is Heading Up The Atlantic's New Tech Channel — Last month, Alexis Madrigal, who had been helming Wired.com's science blog, announced in a post that he was leaving to work for The Atlantic. — Today, the magazine announced that Madrigal has joined …
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Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Boston NPR affiliate WBUR celebrates its first year of running a news site, experiment with API — Boston's NPR news station WBUR relaunched its website last July — drastically changing the site from what amounted to a brochure for the station's radio shows to an active news publication in its own right.
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