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4:00 PM ET, September 9, 2010

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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Scarborough and Kinsley Will Write for Politico  —  Politico has built a successful enterprise on the idea that there is no such thing as too much information when it comes to political news.  Now it is going to apply that concept to political opinion.  —  Starting on Oct. 1 …
Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Newsweek's Weymouth heads to Washington Post  —  Lally Weymouth, a special diplomatic correspondent at Newsweek, becomes the latest high-ranking staffer to leave the magazine since audio magnate Sidney Harman agreed to buy it from the Washington Post Co.  —  Weymouth will join …
Discussion: Romenesko and The Wire
Wall Street Journal:
As Ratings Slump, CNN Shifts Focus to New Faces  —  CNN, rebooting in a bid to revive its slumping ratings, officially tapped a former British tabloid editor to take over its flagship prime-time show.  —  Piers Morgan, who in recent years has reinvented himself as a TV interviewer and judge …
Discussion: Speakeasy
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com:
How Piers Morgan's Deal To Take Over For Larry King Came About
Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Plan to burn Qurans ignites media frenzy  —  Pastor Terry Jones of Gainesville, Fla., got a bit of local press last Sept. 11 when members of his small congregation stood on the side of the road wearing “Islam is of the devil” T-shirts.  This year, he has upped the ante with an anti-Islam stunt …
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
What Apple's new App Store rules mean for news orgs: Some new clarity, but still plenty of fuzziness  —  After loads of criticism for unexplained decisions, inscrutable rules, and what appeared to be a desire to protect the public's morals and the feelings of the powerful …
John Koblin / New York Observer:
Wall Street Journal To Launch A Book Review Section  —  The Observer has learned that The Wall Street Journal will launch a weekly book review within the next few weeks.  The Journal has never had a standalone book review before, and creating one now flies in the face of ever-dwindling book coverage in papers across the country.
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Like It or Not, Twitter Has Become a News Platform  —  There's been plenty of debate lately about whether Twitter has become “mainstream” or not, but examples continue to pile up of how the social network/microblogging platform has worked its way into our lives, to the point where it has become a form of media unto itself.
Discussion: Andrew Lark
Kimberley Isbell / Nieman Journalism Lab:
What's the law around aggregating news online?  A Harvard Law report on the risks and the best practices  —  [So much of the web is built around aggregation — gathering together interesting and useful things from around the Internet and presenting them in new ways to an audience.
Discussion: PlagiarismToday
Evelyn Rusli / TechCrunch:
Video Publishing Platform Ooyala Raises $22 Million, Prepares For Major Asian Expansion  —  Advertisers are not the only ones plowing money into the online video space with gusto, you can add large, international investors to that growing list.  —  This morning, Ooyala announced …
Dan Reimold / MediaShift:
How College Students Became Mini-Media Moguls in School  —  Education content on MediaShift is sponsored by Carnegie-Knight News21, an alliance of 12 journalism schools in which top students tell complex stories in inventive ways.  See tips for spurring innovation and digital learning at Learn.News21.com.
Discussion: HackCollege
Brent Lang / The Wrap:
Paley Center Sets Date for Its First Anti-Emmys Awards Show: May 2012  —  The Emmys' new competitor has marked its date in the sand.  —  The Paley Center for Media — formed in March to explore opportunities to create an awards alternative to the Emmys, reportedly encompassing all dayparts and genres …
Ethan Smith / Speakeasy:
MTV Overtakes Vevo as Top Online Music Destination … Thanks largely to an ad-sales partnership with Warner Music Group, MTV Networks last month became the Web's most-visited music destination, surpassing rival Vevo, according to new statistics from ComScore Media Metrix.
Jonah Lehrer / Wired Science:
The Future Of Reading  —  I think it's pretty clear that the future of books is digital.  I'm sure we'll always have deckle-edge hardcovers and mass market paperbacks, but I imagine the physical version of books will soon assume a cultural place analogous to that of FM radio.
Discussion: Gadget Lab
Dave McNary / Variety:
Public TV writers ratify new pact  —  Deal covers made-for-Internet programming  —  Public television writers repped by the Writers Guild of America have unanimously ratified a new four-year pact.  —  The WGA said the deal, announced Wednesday, covers made-for-Internet programming …
Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable and The Wrap
Damon Kiesow / Mobile Media:
Five Mobile Media Issues that Will Define the Future  —  This Mobile Media blog launched in January, just a week before the unveiling of the iPad.  During those pre-iPad, pre-Facebook Places, pre-Android-everywhere days, newsrooms were still focused on rolling out iPhone apps …
Discussion: eMedia Vitals and Editors Weblog
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Glam Acquires Men's Online Media Company Fantastic Zero  —  Blog network Glam Media is getting less and less female focused these days and the company's latest acquisition of German men's online media company Fantastic Zero will only help to broaden its demographic and geographic reach.
Discussion: TechCrunch
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
YouTube Launches Branded Travel Channel  —  YouTube has launched a new travel channel in conjunction with Norwegian Cruise Line for videos highlighting travel ideas and advice.  The new YouTube Vacationer travel channel includes videos from experts at Lonely Planet, National Geographic, Travel Channel and Howcast, among others.
Discussion: Mashable and YouTube Blog
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:
‘Intersect’ Provides New Way to Share Life Stories Based on Time & Place  —  Often, the stories we tell — as journalists and as citizens — are part of an ongoing narrative.  It's easy, though, for parts of that narrative to get lost along the way.  Our memories get hazy.
Discussion: Lost Remote
Meghan Keane / the Econsultancy blog:
Google Instant will change — not kill — SEO  —  Today Google unveiled a new product called Google Instant, which predicts users' search queries and delivers results as they're typing.  The news immediately got people talking.  While it will make search faster, not everyone is excited about this new feature.
Dan Frommer / The Wire:
Flipboard CEO: Only A Tiny Handful Of Publishers Have Complained About Our App Taking Too Much Content  —  One of the early concerns about Flipboard — the beautiful reading app for Apple's iPad — was that it pulled lengthy excerpts of content from web publishers, without paying them or pulling in their ads.
Discussion: TeleRead
Emma Heald / Editors Weblog:
Arthur Sulzberger on charging online: to succeed, we need to take risks  —  Chairman and publisher of the New York Times, Arthur Sulzberger Jr, stressed the need to take risks and not be afraid of failure in the quest to find a business model that can adequately support high quality journalism.
Michael Wolff / Newser:
News Corp. Is Freaking Out  —  Follow him on Twitter @MichaelWolffNYC  —  “You don't get it,” a member of News Corporation's inner circle in London told me last night, about the phone hacking scandal.  “If there was a conspiracy in the company, the conspiracy was to keep Rupert from knowing.”
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Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Netflix Grabs More Streaming Content Ahead of Cable
Discussion: Online Video News
Brennen Wysong / The Deal Economy:
Chrystia Freeland and the ‘image problem’
Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:
Lessons in crowdsourcing: Claire Wardle on using Ushahidi for the Tube strike
James Chessell / TheAustralian:
Fairfax Media loses copyright battle
Discussion: Techdirt, paidContent and Guardian
Nick Axelrod / WWD:
Anna Wintour Weaves Her Web
Discussion: Mashable and Media Decoder
Telegraph:
BBC World Service ‘faces having to pull out of countries’
Discussion: Guardian and Journalism.co.uk
Steven Aftergood / Secrecy News:
Pentagon Seeks “Coordination” of Media Activities
Discussion: Romenesko
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Silence or Death in Mexico's Press
Discussion: KnightBlog and International Media
 Earlier Picks: 
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Ebyline Launches As A Market For Freelance Journalists And News Syndication
Discussion: LA Observed and eMedia Vitals
Scott Klein / ProPublica:
Welcome to the Nerd Blog
Discussion: CJR and Romenesko
Holly Yeager / CJR:
Boy, Look Who National Journal's Been Hiring
Discussion: The Wire
The Wrap:
New Media Upstarts Relying on Journalism for a Change
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
NPR's Argo Launches With Dozen Sites In Search Of Sustainability
Discussion: MediaPost, PJNet and WebNewser
 

 
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat:
Stability AI debuts Stable Video 3D, a generative AI tool built on its Stable Video Diffusion model, letting users create 3D video from a text or image prompt

Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central:
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more

 
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