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2:10 AM ET, July 23, 2010

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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.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, EditorandPublisher.com, Guardian, Business Wire, Romenesko, The Awl, Mediaite, The Wrap and New York Times Co. Blog

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.

Discussion: WWD Media Headlines, DailyFinance, AdAge, MEDIA BEESWAX, MediaMemo, The Biz Blog, CJR and NetNewsCheck Latest

David Kaplan / paidContent:
NYTCo's Robinson: Paywall Enters Development Phase, Pricing Coming Soon

Discussion: Romenesko and Reuters

Danny Shea / The Huffington Post:

ABC News iPad App Debuts, Meant To Redefine News As Leisure Activity — ABC News became the first broadcast news division to release an application for the iPad Wednesday. — The network's app is more than just a website converted for the iPad: it centers around a simulated 3-D “news globe …

Discussion: MEDIA BEESWAX, Shaping the Future …, ReadWriteWeb and ABC News' Press Room

David Kaplan / paidContent:
ABC News Puts A Different Spin On Its iPad App

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable and Editors Weblog

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.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, ResourceShelf, Publishers Weekly, The Second Pass, theBookseller.com, New York Observer and Bookninja

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.

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, Romenesko, Gannett Blog, The Atlantic Wire, The Independent Journalist and WebNewser

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 …

Discussion: Moraes on TV, Media Decoder, Tower Ticker, Broadcasting & Cable, Mediaite, New York Observer, The Wire, Multichannel, Gawker, The Wrap, MediaPost, On Media's Blog, Variety and New York Magazine

Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:

Hollywood: Google TV would put us on board big pirate ship — The comments are streaming in from video and content providers on the Federal Communications Commission's AllVid proposal. Quite a few are critical of the scheme, especially those of the trade association representing Hollywood's biggest studios.

Discussion: Yahoo! News, more at Techmeme »

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 …

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web, Fortune, NewTeeVee, MediaMemo, Silicon Alley Insider and The Wrap, more at Techmeme »

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.

Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:

Breitbart: ‘I am public enemy No. 1...’ — An unrepentant Andrew Breitbart told POLITICO on Thursday that the Obama administration and its allies have manufactured a controversy over the video he posted of Shirley Sherrod's speech to the NAACP as part of an orchestrated effort to take him down.

Discussion: Romenesko, Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, ABCNEWS, The Informer, Politics Daily, Poynter Online, Hot Air and Big Government

New York Times:
Faster Than a Speeding Blog

Discussion: Mediaite, CJR, Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Media Research Center, Regret the Error, News Prints, Show Tracker, Media Matters for America, TVNewser, New York Times and New York Times

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Gibbs criticism of Sherrod media coverage puts cap on frantic 48 hours

Discussion: The Politico, ABCNEWS and Media Matters for America

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 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 …

Discussion: TechCrunch, MediaPost, Fortune, paidContent and MediaPost, more at Techmeme »

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 …

Discussion: Romenesko

Bill Mitchell / Newspay:

Three Early Questions Emerge After Lancaster's Metered Obit Launch — Memo to news organizations cooking up paid content schemes: Before you go to market, go to school on LancasterOnline and other outfits willing to take some heat for early experiments and mistakes.

Discussion: TVNewsCheck

Om Malik / GigaOM:

How Pandora Grew to Get 60 Million Listeners — One of my long-standing beliefs is that when you add connectivity to any device, you open up a new world of opportunities. Whether it's the dashboard in your car, your television screen or simply your gaming machine, Internet changes everything.

Rob Pegoraro / Faster Forward:

Flipboard's iPad Web-zine flops under weight of its own hype — A nifty new iPad application called Flipboard has gone from fascination to mockery at startup speed. — This free program, which lets you read Web stories and content shared on Twitter and Facebook in a magazine-style layout …

Discussion: GigaOM, Fast Company and Flipboard for iPad, more at Techmeme »

Erik Sass / MediaPost:

‘New York’ Partners With Foursquare — New York is joining the check-in parade with this week's announcement that it has joined forces with Foursquare, the popular location-based social-media site. The move will enable the magazine to create co-branded social-media loyalty programs for readers visiting participating businesses.

Discussion: WebNewser