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Gannett and Yahoo! Announce Local Advertising Partnership — Related Quotes — MCLEAN, Va. & SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Gannett (NYSE: GCI - News) and Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO - News) today announced a local advertising partnership that brings together Gannett's strong local media …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Ex-Google News, Bing Engineers Set Out To Build ‘Newspaper Of The Future’ — Delivering news digitally in a personalized manner is a nut many a startup - as well as many established Internet companies and publishers - are desperately trying to crack. — A newly-founded Palo Alto startup called Hawthorne Labs is one of them.
Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
WP taps Sullivan to oversee features sections and Sunday paper — To the Staff: — We are pleased to announce several leadership changes in the newsroom that will put a stronger emphasis on our Sunday editions and strengthen the leadership of our features sections.
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
No, seriously: What the Old Spice ads can teach us about news' future — BrandFlakesforBreakfast might have put it best: “...If you live in a cave, you need to be aware of the fact that Old Spice owned the internet yesterday.” — Indeed. How the brand did that owning is fascinating …
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comScore Launches Video Metrix 2.0 to Measure Evolving Web Video Landscape — Next Generation Online Video Measurement Service Features Video Ad Reporting — New Metrics Enable Cross-Media Comparability and Help Improve Monetization of the Online Video Medium
Chris Beckmann / Google News Blog:
Google News changes reflect your feedback — Two weeks ago we gave the Google News homepage a new look and feel with enhanced customization, discovery and sharing. This redesign was our biggest since Google News launched in beta in 2002. — Some of you told us that you really liked it …
Gene Weingarten / Washington Post:
Gene Weingarten column mentions Lady Gaga. — Not very long ago, the typical American newsroom had three types of jobs: reporter, editor and photographer. But lately, as newspapers have been frantically converting themselves into high-tech, 24-hour online operations, things are more complicated.
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Kris Viesselman / The Society for News Design:
An open letter on the value of Design — Like many of our colleagues, we read with concern this week's announcement of Gannett's plans for regional hubs to build pages for many of their newspapers. This plan is similar to others that have sought to template publications and centralize parts …
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Rick Edmonds / The Biz Blog:
Are Newspapers Sticking to a Premium Strategy Amid Digital Disruption? — Six months into 2010, this is shaping up to be a better year for newspapers. One might be cheered simply by the pace and scope of experimentation in 2010: digital futurism headlining the Newspaper Association …
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Online:
Internal Memo: Intelligence Community Frets About Washington Post Series — Below, a memorandum sent two weeks ago by Art House, director of communications for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, to public affairs officers in the intelligence community about the Washington Post's upcoming series on contractors.
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“Experts” misunderestimate our traffic, and we don't know why — In today's installment of “reddit needs moar money”, we visit the topic of our traffic numbers. Here's a screenshot of our Google Analytics page: (Note to the Photoshop Gimp Police: The screenshots in this blog post …
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Ushahidi in 3G: How media outlets could extend the mapping platform beyond crisis communications — Since its launch in early 2008, the crowdsourced mapping platform Ushahidi has been used to monitor elections in Burundi, to track violence in Pakistan, to coordinate aid in Haiti.
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Trevon Milliard / Idaho Mountain Express & Guide:
For valley, it's Christmas in July — Rising tide of Allen & Co. conference lifts boats of all businesses — The week following the Fourth of July isn't of much significance for most people. But for anyone in the Wood River Valley service industry—restaurant workers, fly-fishing guides …
Molly Fischer / New York Observer:
Karp Cleans House: Amanda Murray Out at Simon & Schuster — Jonathan Karp replaced David Rosenthal last month, and he's now begun to assemble his own editorial team at Simon & Schuster. Senior editor Amanda Murray has been fired, she confirmed today. Karp could not be reached for comment.
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
Gannett CEO Dubow: iPad App Will Remain Free, Ad Supported Through Q3 — With advertiser interest in Gannett's USA Today iPad app still running high, CEO Craig Dubow said that the app will remain free and ad supported at least through Q3. USAT has a set of free news and travel apps available …
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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
New Data Shows Hulu Serves More Video Ads Than Google — More Than 566 Million Video Ads in June, According to New Numbers From ComScore — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Hulu is far from the biggest video site on the web; YouTube holds that distinction by a wide margin.
BusinessJournalism.org Reynolds Center …:
New Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellows include entrepreneurs, journalists — The just announced 2010-2011 class of Donald W. Reynolds Fellows includes “entrepreneurs, digital game and Smartphone developers, and leaders in civic and print journalism,” according to the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri.
Felix Gillette / Business Week:
Twitter, Twitter, Little Stars — As customers make or break brands online, companies rush to hire social media directors...and figure out what they do — Natalie Malaszenko has always loved pets. A 31-year-old resident of San Diego, Calif., she has a dog named Sarge and a cat named Leo.
New York Times:
The Google Algorithm — Google handles nearly two-thirds of Internet search queries worldwide. Analysts reckon that most Web sites rely on the search engine for half of their traffic. When Google engineers tweak its supersecret algorithm — as they do hundreds of times a year …
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Matea Gold / Show Tracker:
PBS dominates News and Documentary Emmy nominations, but CBS also scores big — PBS flexed its usual strength when the News and Documentary Emmy nominations were announced Thursday, racking up 37 nods for its coverage of Taliban youth, the death of Iranian protester Neda Agha-Soltan …
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Kevin Allocca / TVNewser:
Letterman Extortionist Nominated for News & Doc Emmy
Letterman Extortionist Nominated for News & Doc Emmy
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