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Allbritton On TBD.com: 'You've Got To Have Some Staying Power' — When Robert Allbritton put the money and power of Allbritton Communications behind a new DC political news site in 2007, no one knew what to expect. Sure, he had talent in Washington Post vets John Harris and Jim VandeHei …
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Erik Wemple / tbd.com:
Letter from the editor: TBD is a little less TBD — Welcome to TBD. We're pleased you're here. — This is a brand-new site that covers news and culture in the Washington, D.C. metro region. It has been under construction for nearly a year, a gestation period that has seen a fair amount …
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First Look: TBD Wants More From Users But Does It Deliver? — Robert Allbritton may only want zip codes, as he told paidContent in an interview, but the staff at newly launched TBD.com wants a lot more... In order to get personalization, users are required to provide full names, zip code, year of birth and even gender.
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The Economist Markets to the Sophisticated — Its fire-engine-red logo peeks out of fashionable handbags and from the back pockets of designer jeans. Bankers read it in first-class seats. Hipsters read it on the subway on their way to work. — It's The Economist.
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New York Observer and Romenesko
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Ryan Chittum / CJR:
The Economist's Success Is Not a Marketing Story
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Renewed Interest in Financing Original Web Shows — LOS ANGELES — When Illeana Douglas, long active in independent film, wanted to make a show about a Hollywood actress who becomes a cog in a blue-collar wheel, she turned to the Web and to an unusual ally, Ikea.
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PR Newswire, The Huffington Post, Company Town, VatorNews, Online Video News and Mashable!, more at Techmeme »
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Is Demand Media's “Factory” Approach the Future of Online Video - or Not? — Friday's $125 million IPO filing by Demand Media, the foremost content “factory” or “farm,” raises the question of whether its low-cost, high-volume content creation model is the future for independent online video …
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NewTeeVee and Free Press, more at Techmeme »
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Forbes Bloggers' Compensation Will Be Tied To Web Traffic — Last week, we posed the question of what it means for Forbes' writers that new chief product officer (still not sure what that title is all about!) Lewis D'Vorkin is starting to make some big adjustments to the editorial model.
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Matthew Flamm / Crain's New York Business:
Inside the radical reinventionof Forbes — New pooh-bah morphs print and website, editorial and marketing — Fecession and the digital transformation have already cost Forbes Media its Fifth Avenue headquarters—sold at a bargain to New York University—and the use of its famed Highlander yacht …
David Carr / New York Times:
A Gamble on a Weekly That Paid Off — Let me get this straight: A very rich guy buys a financially and editorially beleaguered weekly magazine, saying he wants to preserve an important journalistic asset. That will never work, right? — I have three words for the haters: New York magazine.
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MarketWatch, Romenesko, New York Observer, FishbowlNY and On Media's Blog
Joseph Plambeck / Media Decoder:
A Magazine Tests Neuromarketing — Magazines have long used focus groups to tailor their package. New Scientist took another route for its latest issue, testing whether neuromarketing, which examines the brain's response to products and brands, could help make the magazine more appealing.
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New Scientist, MediaMemo, Canadian Magazines and Gawker
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Addy Dugdale / Fast Company:
New Scientist Brainsources Its Latest Cover, While Guy Kawasaki Crowdsources His
New Scientist Brainsources Its Latest Cover, While Guy Kawasaki Crowdsources His
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Journalism.co.uk
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Fox News' Digital Divide — Dominant cable news net's site lags rival CNN.com. Why? — In the cable TV news world, Fox News Channel is a force to be reckoned with. So why does the network continually get its digital clock cleaned—by CNN, of all rivals?
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Silicon Alley Insider, WebNewser, Media Matters for America and Inside Cable News
Peter Kirwan / Guardian:
Google and Apple prepare for mobile advertising battle — Google and Apple are gearing up to launch ads on their apps, a strategy which is set to change the advertising landscape for ever — British mobile users will soon find themselves embroiled in the epic confrontation taking shape between Apple …
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Poynter Online
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Digital Imitation Is A Form Of Flattery For Old-Guard Publishers — It was pop-culture philosopher Marshall McLuhan who wrote: “All media come in pairs, with one acting as the ‘content’ of the other.” — That assertion is true once again, now that a range of developers is pushing …
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Life Hasn't Always Been a Piece of Cake for OK! Magazine — Brit Celeb Title Has Had Plenty of Ups and Downs in U.S. on the Way to Celebrating Its Fifth Birthday — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — When the British media baron Richard Desmond and his company, Northern & Shell …
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Canadian Magazines
Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
Ex-HBR publisher Cranston named CJR publisher — COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW NAMES CATHRYN CRANSTON AS PUBLISHER — New York, NY (August 9, 2010) The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) announced today that Cathryn Cronin Cranston, former publisher of the Harvard Business Review, has been named its publisher.
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CJR and FishbowlNY
Doug Young / Reuters:
News Corp sells controlling stake in China TV channels — (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp said on Monday that it will sell control of its three Chinese TV channels to a fund backed by China's No.2 media company, in a pullback from the market after years of difficulty.
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Guardian and DailyFinance
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Time Warner Fesses Up: Jack Griffin to Head Time Inc. “At the End of September” — Time Warner has finally sent out a press release announcing last week's news: Meredith (MDP) magazine head Jack Griffin will take over Ann Moore's role as the head of Time Inc. The only news here is the timing …
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Crain's New York Business, paidContent, Folio, FishbowlNY, eMedia Vitals, MediaPost, The Wrap and MinOnline