Mediagazer: It's a message as clear as Bell (Los Angeles Times)

4:15 AM ET, August 12, 2010

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Julia Boorstin / Media Money with Julia Boorstin:

GoogleTV's Next Frontier: Google's DirecTV Partnership — Today's news that Google is partnering with DirecTV to sell ads for cable networks could have far-reaching implications for Google and the ad business. This could be a win-win-win for Google, DirecTV [DTV Loading...

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Mike Steib / Inside AdWords:
DIRECTV partners with Google TV Ads

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Mike Taylor / FishbowlNY:

Playboy Hits the iPad, Sans Nudity — Playboy, the magazine famous for its photos of naked women, has launched an app for the iPad, with the same Apple-imposed iTunes restrictions (no nudity!) that govern its iPhone app. — minOnline reports: … “Gatefolds of skin”? Sounds worse than it is.

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Jeff Rivera / mediabistro.com:
So What Do You Do, Hugh Hefner, Founder of Playboy Enterprises?

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Sheelah Kolhatkar / The Atlantic Online:

The News Merchant — Interested in booking Joran van der Sloot's ex-girlfriend for the morning news? Want an exclusive? Got a little cash to spend? Larry Garrison's the person to call, though most news networks won't admit they call him. The inside story of how tabloid TV news is made …

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Matea Gold / Los Angeles Times:

Here's Johnny, digitized: A searchable database created for Carson's ‘Tonight Show’ — The search tool for existing footage will be available for professional use, but many clips will also be posted for public viewing. — Johnny Carson is getting an upgrade for the YouTube era.

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Julie Bosman / New York Times:

Pete Hamill, Patriarch of Print, Goes Direct to Digital — It makes perfect sense that Pete Hamill, 75 years old, chronicler of vintage New York City and newspaper tabloids and boozy Greenwich Village literary haunts, prefers print books to electronic. — Far more surprising is this …

Tim Carmody / The Atlantic Online:

A Bookfuturist Manifesto — Go — TIM CARMODY - Timothy Carmody writes about media, technology, art, and culture at Snarkmarket, HiLobrow, The Idler, The Chronicle of Higher Education, the Journal of Modern Literature, and other outlets. Together with the community at Snarkmarket …

Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:

Exclusive: Upcoming Apple TV loses 1080p playback, gains apps... and will be renamed iTV — You might remember that we broke news of an updated Apple TV headed to market just a few months ago. If your brain isn't working right, let us jog it: a trusted Engadget source asserted that the gang …

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Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:

Broadcom Brings Hulu to Any Connected TV — Consumers will soon be able to stream Hulu, YouTube or Netflix videos to any connected TV, regardless of whether that device supports Flash or not, thanks to some new technology by Broadcom, dubbed Inconcert Maestro, that combines existing …

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Two Days After Steve Slater's Slide Ride, JetBlue Comes Back to the Web — Be honest — if you ran JetBlue, you'd want to stay quiet, too. Right? — But the airline, which gets lots of credit for engaging its customers on the Web, on Facebook and on Twitter, had to speak up eventually …

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Hunter Walker / The Wrap:

Piers Morgan (Still) Taking Over for Larry King — Depite reports to the contrary, Piers Morgan is taking over as Larry King's replacement — and an official announcement is expected early next week at the latest, TheWrap has learned. — TheWrap broke the story on July 30 that the …

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Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:

Dirty Apps? How Magazines Are Handling Apple's Erratic Censorship — Steve Jobs's dictate that apps for Apple's iPad and iPhone contain no pornography or nudity affects plenty of major magazines, including Playboy, Cosmopolitan and W. How are they dealing with it? — Continue reading Dirty Apps?

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Joe Pompeo / The Wire:

Peter Lattman Is Leaving The Wall Street Journal For The New York Times — The Wall Street Journal is about to lose another one of its star reporters. — Peter Lattman, who covered law before switching to the private equity beat, is headed to the New York Times, Business Insider has learned.

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Linda Borg / Providence Journal:

Police investigating ‘threatening’ e-comment — BARRINGTON — At the request of the town manager, the Barrington police chief is investigating a “potentially threatening” comment about the manager that was recently posted on a local newspaper's Web site. — Police Chief John LaCross confirmed …

Chris Ariens / WebNewser:

CBS News Boss Touts Web Growth — Calling it “an essential component of CBS News' future,” CBS News & Sports president Sean McManus sent an email to his entire staff today to show just how important the web is to the Tiffany network's news division. — In the email, obtained by WebNewser …

FishbowlNY:

Newsday to Hire 34 Journalists in Hyperlocal Push — Newsday, the Long Island daily, plans on staffing up to the tune of 34 new journalists and three others, according to a memo obtained by Ryan Derousseau at our sister site, MediaJobsDaily. — Derousseau reports:

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