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7:05 PM ET, August 5, 2010

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Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
Hard times working the Patch  —  Boston Globe reporter Johnny Diaz today writes about Patch.com, the AOL-owned network of hyperlocal news sites that is (excuse me) sprouting up around the country.  —  As I noted earlier, Diaz writes that Patch is up against considerable competition in Greater Boston …
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Johnny Diaz / Boston Globe:
With Patch, AOL offers challenge to local news  —  A risky Web strategy in a crowded field  —  Like any online user, Annie LaCourt can easily scour for news from around the world, but sometimes she prefers to make the Internet more intimate and local, all about her hometown of Arlington.
Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:
Condé Nast Titles Morph Into Restaurants  —  Condé Nast is taking some of its best-known magazine names and parlaying them into the restaurant business in Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.  —  The effort reflects a growing openness among magazine publishers to try …
Google Book Search Blog:
Books of the world, stand up and be counted!  All 129,864,880 of you.  —  When you are part of a company that is trying to digitize all the books in the world, the first question you often get is: “Just how many books are out there?”  —  Well, it all depends on what exactly you mean by a “book.”
Michael Wolff / Vanity Fair:
The Gray Lady of Cable News  —  Many think Jon Klein, president of CNN/U.S., has lost the cable-news war to Fox.  But CNN has racked up record profits by being bland.  —  MOST BUSTED NAMES IN NEWS?  —  Jon Klein is an extremely affable broadcast-news executive, a chinos …
Jonathan Stray / Nieman Journalism Lab:
How The Guardian is pioneering data journalism with free tools  —  The Guardian takes data journalism seriously.  They obtain, format, and publish journalistically interesting data sets on their Data Blog, they track transparency initiatives in their searchable index of world government data …
Discussion: eMedia Vitals
Guardian:
Time Warner buys Shed Media  —  Controlling stake in Supernanny super-indie, valued at £100m by the deal, gives US giant ‘immediate scale in UK production’  —  Time Warner is to buy a controlling interest in the British super-indie Shed Media, the company behind shows such as Supernanny …
Discussion: The Wrap and Variety
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Whither magazines?  —  Three people I respect a great deal now lead the big magazine companies: David Carey (ex Condé) at Hearst, Bob Sauerberg at Condé, and now Jack Griffin at Time Inc. — and I'll add Justin Smith at Atlantic.  —  It's a big challenge to head a magazine company these days …
Patrick Smith / psmith, journalist:
Link to the past: why do some news sites STILL not link out in 2010?  —  Journalists now invariably have to take part in web journalism and an increasing number of them only write for the web.  —  But despite that, not all of them use hyperlinks - one of the main things that elevate digital journalism above …
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Why the San Fran Chronicle Is Running Demand Media Content  —  Q&A With SFGate.com Digital Media VP Michele Slack  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Two Hearst newspapers' websites have gone live with new sections from Demand Media, one of the content-generation companies that tap thousands of freelancers to generate countless articles.
David Carr / Media Decoder:
Jack Griffin To Succeed Ann Moore At Time Inc.  —  The shake-up of the magazine industry's corner offices will continue next week as Time Warner is expected to announce that Jack Griffin, the former Meredith Corporation executive, will become chief executive at Time Inc., succeeding Ann S. Moore.
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Viacom Profits Surge, But Home Entertainment Revenues Stumble  —  Viacom (NYSE: VIA) showed the true benefits of having the dual revenue streams of advertising and cable, as its networks division, which includes its MTV Networks, saw dollars rise 6.4 percent and profit gain 14 percent.
Discussion: Company Town, Variety and The Wrap
Nathan Yau / FlowingData:
New York Times on how they design their graphics  —  Leading up to their book, Turning Pages: Editorial Design for Print Media, publisher Gestalten has a chat with Steve Duenes and Archie Tse — of famed New York Times graphics department — about what goes on behind the scenes.
Beachwood Reporter:
The [Wednesday] Papers  —  A news organization's business side is (theoretically) separate from its editorial side, but when the business side doesn't conform to the editorial side's values - which in large part establish a media company's brand - the organization loses its moral authority.
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Newsonomics of the fading 80/20 rule  —  [Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.]  —  Jim Moroney thinks he may be on to a new formula.
Discussion: Gannett Blog and Romenesko
Lewis DVorkin / The Copy Box:
At Forbes, “Opening Up”... and a glimpse of things to come  —  Forbes is on the move.  —  Actually, it has been ever since 1917.  That's when B.C. Forbes, then a nationally syndicated columnist, launched a magazine to publish his prodigious writings and thoughts on American business.
Discussion: Romenesko
Jason Fell / FOLIO:
Potential Arab Bidder ‘Ignored’ in Newsweek Auction  —  Syria-based publisher CEO talks about growing Middle Eastern media.  —  When The Washington Post Co. announced in May that it was putting Newsweek on the block the story obviously stirred up a lot of attention all around the world.
Discussion: The Wire
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Rachel Maddow Talks Fox News, CNN on Letterman  —  Last night MSNBC host Rachel Maddow was a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman.  —  Among other topics, Maddow talked about the Shirley Sherrod scandal, as well as Fox News:  —  They also discussed CNN, which didn't make it into the above clip:
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Michael R. Blood / Associated Press:
Breitbart: Enemy of the left with a laptop  —  LOS ANGELES — Andrew Breitbart strips off his blazer, windmills it over his head and lets it fly to the stage with a matador's flourish.  He booms into a microphone, sneering, taunting.  Breath sprints to keep up with words.
yelvington.com:
Algorithmic layout: Another thing the visual journalists are going to hate  —  Ever since we began using computers to handle news — which is probably a lot longer than you think — there has been a notion of automating the processes of laying out pages.  Long before InDesign, long before Quark …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Eric Schmidt: Every 2 Days We Create As Much Information As We Did Up To 2003  —  Today at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, CA, the first panel featured Google CEO Eric Schmidt.  As moderator David Kirkpatrick was introducing him, he rattled off a massive stat.
 
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