Mediagazer: Digital Media Startup Bootstrapped, but Otherwise ‘Stoked’ (Devon Glenn/FishbowlNY)

6:55 AM ET, August 14, 2010

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Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:

News Corp. plans national newspaper for tablet computers and cellphones — It's the latest bid by a major media company to build readership using new devices such as the iPad. The new publication would offer short, snappy stories and operate under the auspices of the New York Post.

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Felix Salmon:

The huge obstacles facing Murdoch's new tablet newspaper — Rupert Murdoch is launching a new national newspaper, which will be “distributed exclusively as paid content for tablet computers such as Apple's iPad and mobile phones”. — The interesting thing here is the “paid content” part …

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Joe Pompeo / Silicon Alley Insider: Meet The Print Guy Who Will Lead Rupert Murdoch's Digital Newspaper

Rachel Sklar / Mediaite:

Fair Use: Okay, Let's Talk About It — It is a pet peeve of mine when people throw around arguments citing “Fair Use” and yet fail to actually explain what a fair use argument actually is. So it was mostly for that reason that I was annoyed by Jeff Bercovici's misleading, poorly-reasoned post yesterday on AOL's Daily Finance.

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Tom Scott / Tom Scott's updates:

CONTENTS NOT VERIFIED — It seems a bit strange to me that the media carefully warn about and label any content that involves sex, violence or strong language — but there's no similar labelling system for, say, sloppy journalism and other questionable content. — I figured it was time to fix that, so I made some stickers.

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Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Knight Foundation's new biz consultant thinks news startups can learn from outside of journalism — When Nick Denton sent out an email to his Gawker empire in April 2008 announcing the sale of the popular political site Wonkette, it came as a shock to those of us who so closely identified Wonkette with the Gawker brand.

Joe Strupp / Strupp:

Edmonds is Second Dow Jones Spokesperson to Leave This Year — Emily Edmonds, one of Dow Jones' top corporate communications people, is leaving for Time Inc., she revealed in an e-mail today. — Edmonds follows former Dow Jones vice president of communications Robert Christie …

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Joe Pompeo / The Wire:

More Jobs Up In The Air At A&E Television Networks 9 Months After Mass Layoffs — We got a tip yesterday that layoffs had come down at A&E Television Networks (AETN), which is jointly owned by Hearst, Disney and NBC Universal. — Some quick background: A year ago, A&E merged with Lifetime …

Erik Huggers / BBC:

HTML5, open standards, and the BBC — Recent commentary on this blog has suggested that our use of Flash on BBC iPlayer and across BBC Online in general, betrays our commitment to open standards. Is this a reasonable assumption? I do not think so. — Open standards have always been part of the BBC's DNA.

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Edmund Lee / AdAge:

MTV, Universal Call Truce in Digital Rights Battle for VMAs — Talks With Vevo Still at an Impasse, but Label Gives MTV.com Temporary Break so Viewers Can Vote on Videos — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — MTV and Universal Music Group have kissed and made up — temporarily.

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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:

Facebook Launching Official Live Streaming Channel: Facebook Live — Today at 3 PM PST (6 EST), Facebook will unveil its new official live video streaming channel, Facebook Live. To kick off the launch, actress America Ferrera will stop by Facebook's headquarters in Palo Alto …

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Devon Glenn / FishbowlNY:

Digital Media Startup Bootstrapped, but Otherwise ‘Stoked’ — The art of online publishing isn't so much about novelty as it is about having a clear focus and the right packaging for your content. In our inbox yesterday was a link to a newly-launched online magazine and e-newsletter called …

Katherine Heisler / eMedia Vitals:

For owners, iPad is now go-to reading device — According to a survey of UK iPad owners put forth by Cooper Murphy Webb, people who own iPads are now using them as their preferred device for reading newspapers, magazines and books. Of the 1,034 iPad owners polled via telephone between July 28th …

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