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Matthew Lynch / WWD:
Newsweek Editorial Director Steps Down — Newsweek editorial director Mark Miller has resigned, several sources have told WWD. — Save for a yearlong stint with ABC News in the 1990s, Miller had been with the magazine in almost every conceivable editorial capacity since joining as a summer intern in 1985.
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John Mayer / one forty plus:
Huffington Post FULL OF S**T? (Yes!) — Ahh, Huffington Post, the internet Death Star. The world's first spectator banking website. Come watch a site's intelligence move in and out like bellows of accordion depending on whether or not there's ad dollars to be sucked out of any willing orifice.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
ITunes Music Update: Think Social, Not Streaming — When will Apple launch a cloud-based version of the iTunes music service that lets you stream your songs to wherever you are, whenever you want? — Probably not at Apple's newest product launch next week.
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Kyle VanHemert / Gizmodo:
What's Apple Announcing at Their Music-Related September 1 Event?
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Runnin' Scared, Neowin.net, The Next Web and Engadget
Eric Kohn / Speakeasy:
Heeb Magazine Suspends Print Edition, Goes On-Line Only … This morning, “Heeb” publisher and editor-in-chief Josh Neuman announced on the magazine's website that the snarky Jewish publication has ceased production of its print edition. This should come as no surprise to anyone following …
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Heeb Magazine, The Wrap, Romenesko, FishbowlNY, New York Press, New York Observer, Gawker and New York Magazine
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Updated: Cisco Buys Online Video Distributor ExtendMedia For $80 Million — Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) is in the process of acquiring ExtendMedia, a company that specializes in managing online video content. The space has seen some consolidation lately and with the growth of mobile video …
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Market Wire, The Business Of Online Video, Multichannel, Online Video News, FierceIPTV and Broadcasting & Cable
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Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
Cisco's ExtendMedia Purchase: TV Everywhere And Beyond
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Between the Lines Blog and TechCrunch
New York Post:
MSNBC's Ed Schultz goes bonkers — MSNBC talk show screamer Ed Schultz had a meltdown in the network's 30 Rock newsroom, shouting at staff, “I'm going to torch this [bleep]ing place.” — The hot-tempered anchor of “The Ed Show” lost it during a phone call in the packed studio and slammed down the phone before exploding.
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Inside Cable News, The Wire, TVNewser, Gawker, The Wrap, On Media's Blog, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, NTS MediaOnline, Wonkette and Chickaboomer
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Google Goes Hunting for a Music Boss — Anybody want to run the music division of the world's biggest media company? Because Google is hiring: The search giant is casting about for an executive to run its music service, which doesn't actually exist yet. — Industry sources tell me Google …
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Media Maverick and Electronista
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Yahoo readies San Francisco news site — Moving quickly to leverage its $90 million-ish acquisition of Associated Content, Yahoo has begun recruiting writers to begin building a local news site for the San Francisco area. — Though hundreds of news shops of every shape …
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paidContent, MediaMemo, HyperlocalBlogger and Lost Remote
Jason Fell / Folio:
Meredith Title Next Up to Insert Video Ad in Print Magazine — Successful Farming's August issue features a video ad from pesticide advertiser. — It was only a matter of time before more print magazines followed Entertainment Weekly's footsteps and start incorporating video elements into their print magazines.
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Rob ORegan / eMedia Vitals:
Economist seeks to replicate ‘immersive’ qualities of print on iPhone and iPad — The Economist's paid content strategy hinges on the quality of its journalism (more so than its clever advertising). It is one of the few magazine publishers to claim success with a partial online paywall.
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Nieman Journalism Lab and Poynter Online
David Pogue / New York Times:
New Kindle Leaves Rivals Farther Back — Too bad there's not a reality TV show called “America's Most Freaked-Out Tech-Company Meetings,” where you watch classic panicked board meetings. For example, when the Apple employee left an iPhone 4 prototype in a bar. Or when Intel learned that its Pentium chip contained a math error.
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mediabistro.com, Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch and Technologizer
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
DISNEY, WARNER BROS. SUE TO STOP ADVERTISING ON PIRATE WEBSITES — EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. and the Walt Disney Co. have teamed up in a new legal effort to choke off the air supply of various websites that post and index links to pirated movies. — The two studios are suing Triton Media …
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NewTeeVee and The Next Web, more at Techmeme »
Peter Lauria / The Daily Beast:
Why Eisner Fits at Tribune — Many in Hollywood seemed puzzled yesterday by reports that the former Disney chief might run a newspaper company. Peter Lauria has four reasons why Michael Eisner seems open to it. — Hollywood was buzzing yesterday about reports that Michael Eisner …
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National Media, Newser, Romenesko, Gawker, rbr.com, The Wrap, Company Town and paidContent
Jerry Barmash / FishbowlNY:
Exclusive: Veteran Anchor Mike Schneider Discusses His Time at Bloomberg — Between February 3 and 4 of 2009, more than 100 Bloomberg Radio and TV staffers were laid off at their world headquarters in New York. — It was an unprecedented move for Mayor Michael Bloomberg's financial news outlet …
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Talking Biz News
Sarah Hartley:
10 Characteristics of hyperlocal — What, if anything, the term ‘hyperlocal’ now means is something that keeps coming up in conversations I have and it strikes me that it's no longer necessarily defined by a tight geographical area, but instead seems to have evolved to describe more of an attitude than a place.
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Journalism.co.uk
Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:
Harry Shearer on Media's Post-Katrina Coverage: ‘It Was Grandstanding’ — The Big Uneasy, the new documentary from actor/humorist/radio personality Harry Shearer (pictured), is about the failure of the levees in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. But it's also about the failure …
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