Mediagazer: Why Did VideoEgg Buy Six Apart? To Create A New Modern Media Empire, Says CEO (MG Siegler/TechCrunch)

8:55 AM ET, September 27, 2010

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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

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New York Times:

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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:

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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

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Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:

Literary Icon in New Era — New Yorker Launches on iPad Tablet, Adds to Pressure on Apple for Subscriptions — The New Yorker is launching an iPad version of the magazine Monday, in a significant test of an iconic, old-media brand's efforts to refashion itself for the tablet-computer age.

Benny Evangelista / San Francisco Chronicle:

Techmeme keeps up with lighting-fast tech news — In the five years since Gabe Rivera founded Techmeme, the speed and volume of technology news has increased dramatically. — And that's helped the San Francisco firm's website become the go-to place for the technorati.

Michael Idov / New York Magazine:

The Demon Blogger of Fleet Street — Nick Denton cast himself as a media outsider. That's how he made it inside. — Nick Denton has built a panopticon. From his living-room window, he can all but see his favorite table at Balthazar, and his favorite table at Balthazar is picked …

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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

Twitter Boosts Marketer Reach With Plan to Blast Promoted Ads — Positive Signs So Far, With Higher-Than-Average Interaction Rate — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Even after six months, campaigns with nearly 40 different marketers and repeat customers such as Ford, Virgin America and Verizon, Twitter still views its ads as experimental.

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Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:

New CUNY Program to Equip Students to Start Journalism-Based Businesses — Last week, the City University of New York unveiled the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism — the first of its kind in the nation. — As part of this program, the school will offer a master's degree …

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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Why Did VideoEgg Buy Six Apart? To Create A New Modern Media Empire, Says CEO — “The rules of media have completely been broken,” according to Say Media CEO Matt Sanchez. Because we're no longer living in a world where print media is sold on a newstand and video media …

Jo Tuckman / Guardian:

Twitter feeds and blogs tell hidden story of Mexico's drug wars — • Death threats and murders silence traditional reports — • Catalogue of horror posted by bloggers and on Twitter — A small army of bloggers and tweeters is filling the gaps left by traditional media in Mexico …

AdAge:

AP Circular App Coming to Help Print Compete With Online Coupons — After the Web Cost Them Classifieds, Newspapers Don't Want to Lose Important Revenue Source — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The Associated Press is developing an app it hopes will help newspapers keep their hands on a key source …

Mark Hendrickson / Ursus Rex:

How to Pitch A Tech Blogger — I've been asked privately quite a few times over the last couple of years how one should pitch their startup to a tech blog like TechCrunch, GigaOm, VentureBeat or ReadWriteWeb. So I've decided (quite selfishly) to write a post about the subject instead of repeating myself or re-forwarding emails.