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Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
In Big Condé Nast Shift, Sauerberg Becomes President; Townsend Remains Chief — Condé Nast announced on Friday that it is splitting the job of its chief executive officer and president in two, the latest in a series of high-level management reshuffling that has shaken the magazine publishing world's crown jewel.
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Getting the message on Journolist's controversial postings — To conservatives, it is a pulling back of the curtain to expose the media's mendacity. — To liberals, it is a selective sliming based on e-mails that were supposed to remain private. — But there is no getting around the fact …
Zeke Turner / New York Observer:
Pitch and Pass! Michael Hastings Took his General McChrystal Piece to ‘GQ’ First — Rolling Stone owned the media world for one week in June, when the magazine published Michael Hastings' profile of General Stanley McChrystal. The piece instantly became national news when it hit the web on Tuesday …
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Steve Friess / The Daily Beast:
Does Fox News Fuel the Tea Party? — Fox News correspondent Carl Cameron, in conversation at the Netroots Nation convention, said his network blew up the Shirley Sherrod story, that Senate candidate Sharron Angle is “always seems confused,” and agreed that his network boosts the Tea Party.
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Don't fragment books (or other content) — I agree with Devin Coldewey at CrunchGear that Andrew Wylie's deal to publish big authors' backlists exclusively on the Amazon Kindle is bad for readers (and for authors and for the industry). — Fragmenting content such that one has to buy …
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Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:
Amazon strikes sweet exclusive deal - good for them, bad for consumers
Amazon strikes sweet exclusive deal - good for them, bad for consumers
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Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
Why Editing Could Make a Comeback — There was a time, say around 1985, when Americans discovered “desktop publishing.” Suddenly, *anyone* could make a newsletter or a flyer. And boy, did they, in MacPublisher and Pagemaker and a host of less illustrious products.
BBC News:
BBC News iPhone and iPad app launches in the UK — Versions of the apps are already available worldwide — A BBC News app for the iPhone and iPad has been launched in the UK today, the BBC has announced. — The free-to-download apps for Apple products were originally due to be made available in April 2010.
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Chrystia Freeland / CJR:
The Rise of Private News — A niche model can make a lot of money. What are the costs? — Anyone who has spent time in a newsroom lately is familiar with the conversation—generally conducted in the “hushed tone you use for someone who's just been through rehab or divorce,” …
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Patrick Gavin / The Politico:
TAPPER'S SUNDAY SIGN OFF — This Sunday marks ABC News' White House correspondent Jake Tapper's last appearance as host of “This Week.” In the wake of George Stephanopoulos' move from the Sunday show to “Good Morning America,” Tapper was named interim host; former CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour …
Economist:
Digitisation and its discontents — Why some media outfits still refuse to go online — WHAT do the Beatles, Harry Potter, Bella magazine and the grizzled crew of the Northwestern, an Alaskan crab-fishing boat, have in common? They are scarcely available digitally.
Lauren Dugan / SocialTimes.com:
Survey: Half of Journalists Think Their Offline Publications Will Eventually Fold — Journalists appear to be reaching an equilibrium of sorts between print and digital media - an “equilibrium of sorts” because it appears the scales are tipped heavily in favor of going digital.
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Jennifer Saba / MediaFile:
Yahoo and newspapers 18 months after APT — When Media General reported its quarterly results this week, the company made sure to highlight that its increased digital revenue — up 8 percent — was due in part to its relationship with Yahoo. — “It's one of the few game-changing partnerships we have had …
Joel Johnson / Gizmodo:
Is Flipboard Legal? — Social news app Flipboard was yesterday's hot new app, despite—or perhaps because of—technical problems that prevented some features from working. But there might be a bigger snag: Is Flipboard scraping content it doesn't have the rights to?
Joshua Cohen / Tubefilter News:
Hulu Tops Video Ad Views, Grosses $19 Million in June — Everyone knows YouTube and its affiliated Google sites are top of the pops in terms of video views. comScore indicates in June 2010 Google captured 144.5 million unique viewers. Hulu's view counts tick in at roughly 16% of those numbers for a total of 24 million.
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Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:
Kids and digital storytelling: Who will teach them? — By Robert Niles: As a former statistics major, I know that no one should read too much into a single example. But watching my 10-year-old son embrace video production is challenging some of my beliefs about the timing and content of journalism education.
Scott Roxborough / Hollywood Reporter:
Apple tablet Europe's mobile TV launch pad? — Broadcasters rush to launch apps for live streaming of content — COLOGNE, Germany — For once, European television is keeping up with the times. — Apple's iPad has been on sale in Europe less than two months now and only in selected territories …
Jon Friedman / MarketWatch:
Fareed Zakaria is Newsweek's MVP — Commentary: A favorite of Jon Stewart and a CNN star, to boot — NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Fareed Zakaria is a star. — He has flourished as the editor of Newsweek International and as one of the most admired global pundits.
Joe Windish / The Moderate Voice:
Technology, Objectivity, the Death of Newspapers and Fox News — On The Media, new to Georgia Public Broadcasting and already a favorite find of a good many friends, spent an hour last week on the future of newspapers. In support of TMV Assistant Editor David Shraub's excellent Sherrod-inspired post …
Olivia / YouTube Blog:
You Report: What's happening now in the Bay Area? — Though YouTube is a global site, it's often local videos that are most relevant to your life. When people use camcorders and mobile phones to capture newsworthy events in their neighborhoods and upload them to YouTube, they're broadening the window into our own communities.
Rosie Gray / Runnin' Scared:
Dov Charney Talks About Gawker, American Apparel, and Why Larry King Can't Wear a Septum Ring — Last week, I wrote a post defending American Apparel against its many haters in the media, especially Gawker (sorry, Hamilton Nolan! Please ignore!). I pointed out that AA has fair …
Michele Flannery / YouTube Blog:
Ready...set...discover more music on YouTube — If you want easier ways to discover music on YouTube, just start here. Our revamped music page - part of a redesign that started with our shows and movies pages - showcases the most viewed music videos, special promotions, curated playlists …
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Zeke Turner / New York Observer:
After Second Quarter, New York Times Co. is ‘Well Positioned’ But Also Staring at Increasing Costs — The New York Times Company is “well-positioned to thrive,” according to CEO Janet Robinson, who announced the company's second-quarter earnings this morning. The best news is that there were no major catastrophes this quarter.
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