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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Times Co. Posts Operating Profit Gain — The New York Times Company reported on Thursday that its second-quarter profit declined 18 percent compared with results in the period a year earlier, when it recorded a tax benefit. On an operating basis, profit more than doubled.
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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Martin Bashir Leaving ABC for MSNBC; GMA Weekend Anchor Bill Weir Moves to ‘Nightline’ — First on TVNewser: Big changes afoot in the TV news world. ABC News “Nightline” co-anchor Martin Bashir is leaving the network and joining NBC News. At the same time, ABC has announced Bill Weir …
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MediaShift:
How Content Farms Train Their Writers to Write for the Web — Education content on MediaShift is sponsored by Carnegie-Knight News21, an alliance of 12 journalism schools in which top students tell complex stories in inventive ways. See tips for spurring innovation and digital learning at Learn.News21.com.
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Literary Agent Plans E-Book Editions — The literary agent Andrew Wylie said on Wednesday that he would begin his own publishing venture, called Odyssey Editions, which will produce e-book editions of titles by some of his clients, including Saul Bellow, John Updike and Philip Roth.
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New York Times:
Faster Than a Speeding Blog — The Obama administration has been shamed by its rush to judgment after it forced the resignation of a black midlevel official in the Agriculture Department who was wrongly accused of racism by the right-wing blogosphere. Shirley Sherrod was sandbagged …
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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Gibbs criticism of Sherrod media coverage puts cap on frantic 48 hours
Peter Robins / Guardian:
The Times paywall won't be built in a day — Rupert Murdoch's new fan club should not lose heart yet. Charging for content at the Times and the Sunday Times is a long-term project - at least, it ought to be — An awful lot of British journalists were hoping that the Times and Sunday Times's paywalls would be an overnight success.
David Kaplan / paidContent:
AOL Campaigns For Political Dollars With New Ad Hub — Since the Supreme Court struck down limits on corporate spending on political candidates ads, media companies have been salivating over the expected deluge related to this fall's midterm elections. Online advertising should be an even bigger factor …
David Kaplan / paidContent:
ABC News Puts A Different Spin On Its iPad App — While a lot of iPad apps are mostly larger versions of an existing iPhone app, ABC News has tried to do something a little different with its new free app, making the most of the screen with a spinning, expandable “news globe” that features the news items.
Gary Moskowitz / Time:
Are Hyperlocals Replacing Traditional Newspapers? — All politics may be local, but apparently not enough journalism is. As newspapers keep cutting back on staff and printing skimpier editions, journalists, entrepreneurs and ordinary citizens have responded by creating websites to cover …
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Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:
On Dennis Kneale, Bulimia and Michael's: Why We Should All Hope to Be Banned from Manhattan's Media Commissary — So, have you heard about that time Viacom CEO Sumner Redstone left a voicemail for Daily Beast reporter Peter Lauria, attempting to bribe Lauria into giving up sources?
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Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:
The New Online Journalists #6: Conrad Quilty-Harper — As part of an ongoing series on recent graduates who have gone into online journalism, The Telegraph's new Data Mapping Reporter Conrad Quilty-Harper talks about what got him the job, what it involves, and what skills he feels online journalists need today.
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
AOL Mobile Goes HTML5, Picks Android Over iPhone for New App — Longtime Internet pioneer, AOL today matured its mobile platform with a two new applications for Android handsets and an HTML5 version of the AOL Mobile website for smartphones. The new site — still found at http://m.aol.com …
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
BBC Launches U.S. News Site with Video Lifestyle Shows Rolling Out Shortly — In an effort to maximize advertising dollars around the big U.S. market for online news, the BBC has launched a U.S. destination. — The site will be more U.S.-centric, surfacing up more U.S. based coverage.
Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
New Graduate J-School Program Will Teach Students How To Actually Run A Business — Earlier this month, Stephen B. Shepard, dean of CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism, announced on the school's website that it would be introducing a new master's degree track.
Stijn Debrouwere / Online Journalism Blog:
The WWTDD Effect — Should we give readers what they want? — I'm reminded of my time at the student newspaper, a couple of years ago. In an attempt to get any sort of clue on what our readers wanted to read, and why students in some fields of study didn't care about the paper at all, we organized a survey.
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Arianna Huffington Is Moving to New York — Web empress Arianna Huffington is moving from Los Angeles to New York, multiple sources tell us, which means the globetrotting boss will finally be living in the same city as the editorial headquarters of her Huffington Post. Brace yourselves, underlings.
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