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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
CNNMoney.com's brand of business journalism — TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE — Chris Peacock is vice president and executive editor at CNNMoney.com, where he oversees the site's content strategy. — Since Peacock joined CNNMoney.com in 2004, traffic has more than doubled …
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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Washington Post editor defends publishing intelligence complex exposé — The Washington Post's major investigation of government contractors and the intelligence community, complete with interactive database, has been called a “roadmap to our enemies” by one administration official.
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Washington Post, Romenesko, FishbowlNY, The Atlantic Wire, Gawker, FishbowlDC and ResourceShelf
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
NBC's Guthrie: A Case Study In New News Norms — The story of NBC's Savannah Guthrie illustrates the new complexities that surround the modern network TV-news journalist. After a relatively short stint as a correspondent, Guthrie has emerged as a rising star.
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Inside Cable News
Crain's New York Business:
Vogue's September issue sees big ad-page gains — Luxury magazines, like the economy, are making a slow comeback. On Monday, Vogue magazine will announce ad-pages results for its all-important September issue, and industry insiders say that the fashion monthly will show a spike of 100 advertising pages …
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Media Decoder, Media Buyer Planner, Folio, AdAge, FishbowlNY, Silicon Alley Insider, The Wire, New York Observer, Styleite and New York Times
Bill Murray / GQ:
Bill Murray Is Ready To See You Now — He is one of the greatest comic actors alive. A man who's navigated his career with a peerless instinct for quality and self-respect. The man behind movies—from Caddyshack to Stripes, from Rushmore to Lost in Translation—that seem to have defined …
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Amazon Says E-Books Now Top Hardcover Sales — The heft and musty smell of a hardcover book are one step closer to becoming relics in a museum. — Amazon.com, one of the nation's largest bookstores, said Monday that for the last three months, sales of electronic books for the Kindle …
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Epicenter, Jacket Copy, GalleyCat, MediaMemo, Kindle Review, Mediaite, The Next Web, Engadget, Pulse2, Gawker and ResourceShelf, more at Techmeme »
Globe and Mail:
Conrad Black granted bail — Conrad Black could be out of jail this week after scoring a major legal victory in his ongoing battle to overturn convictions for fraud and obstruction of justice. — A federal appeal court granted Lord Black bail on Monday while it re-considers his convictions …
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Times loses nearly 90% of online readers — Less than three weeks after the Times paywall went up, data shows a massive decline in web traffic — The Times has lost almost 90% of its online readership compared to February since making registration mandatory in June, calculations by the Guardian show.
MediaShift:
Your Guide to Next Generation ‘Content Farms’ — From time to time, we provide an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of tips. The idea is to help you understand the topic, learn the jargon, and take action. We've previously covered Twitter …
Joseph Plambeck / New York Times:
Advertising: ESPN to Integrate Magazine More Closely With TV Operations — SINCE its first issue in 1998, ESPN The Magazine has played dual roles — part brand extension and part independent publication. — With the success of the ESPN television networks, the magazine could largely stay …
J-Lab:
Sunlight Live's Real-Time Participation Wins $10,000 Knight-Batten Innovation Award — Washington, D.C. - Sunlight Live, the Sunlight Foundation's innovative blending of data, streaming video, liveblogging and social networking - first used at February's bipartisan health-care summit …
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Journalistopia, KnightBlog, Romenesko, WebNewser, Sunlight Foundation, Publish2 Blog and ProPublica
Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
NPR now vying for front-row White House seat — Fox News and Bloomberg aren't the only news organizations vying for the front-row-center seat that's been up for grabs since Helen Thomas's resignation last month. — The Upshot has learned that NPR is also making a run for it.
Michael White / Bloomberg:
Redbox Plots Web Strategy in Challenge to Netflix — Redbox, which became the fastest- growing U.S. video retailer with DVD kiosks and a $1-a-day rental price stores couldn't match, is developing an online strategy to stay competitive with larger rival Netflix Inc.
Glen Dickson / Broadcasting & Cable:
Starz, Penguin Collaborate on “Amplified” E-Book for iPad — ‘Pillars of the Earth’ title will feature video, music from TV miniseries — Premium cable network Starz is bringing video to Apple's iPad in an unexpected way, by teaming with book publisher Penguin Group to create …
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Multichannel
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Banned ‘Family Guy’ Episode Gets New Life on DVD — In many ways, the “Family Guy” episode “Partial Terms of Endearment” is typical of that audacious Fox animated comedy, teeming with rapid-fire jokes and willfully offensive non sequiturs about disabled animals, God, Nazis …
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ArtsBeat
Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Why Should Hefner Have All the Fun? — “If I sold it, my life would be over.” — That's what Hugh Hefner, the 84-year-old velvet-robe-wearing founder of Playboy, told a reporter for The New York Times last year about the magazine empire he started in 1953.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Tumblr Is On Fire. Now Over 6 Million Users, 1.5 Billion Pageviews A Month — One year ago, in July 2009, Tumblr was going strong. They had 255 million pageviews that month. By November of last year, that was up to 420 million pageviews. But some new stats which Tumblr is releasing today show an explosion in growth since then.
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
4Chan's Sad War To Silence Gawker — The denizens of internet troll hive 4chan.org launched an attack on Gawker Media's servers at noon Eastern today, apparently unhappy we wrote about how they coordinated the harassment of an 11-year-old girl. We survived the onslaught, but 4chan isn't done.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Digital Musical Chairs: Google Exec to Scribd, Apple Exec to AOL, Yahoo Exec to Google! — Oh, the game of musical chairs in the digital sector never seems to stop. — Here's today's Silicon Valley roundelay: — Rob Macdonald (pictured here), head of traditional media and publisher partnerships …
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:
Why Journalists Make Mistakes & What We Can Do About Them — The Chicago Tribune's infamous “Dewey Defeats Truman” headline, the 2000 election night calls for Al Gore and then George Bush, a 2004 Providence Journal headline that said, “Rumsfeld's Pubic Role is Shrinking.”
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Leadership
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Rupert's Paywall is Meant to Keep People In, Not Out — The paywall at the Times of London's web site has led to a drop of at least 65 percent in the newspaper's online readership, according to early estimates. Although the paywall is still very new and these numbers are not official …
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