Mediagazer: Katie Couric may return to ‘Today’ (New York Post)

1:20 AM ET, October 1, 2010

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Robert Gavin / Boston Globe:

Globe to offer two websites: one free, one pay — The Boston Globe next year will split its digital news brands into two distinct websites, keeping Boston.com free while establishing a subscription-only pay site, BostonGlobe.com, which will feature all the content produced by the newspaper's journalists …

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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Double, double: More on the Boston Globe's new two-site strategy — Big news today: The Boston Globe is planning to launch a subscriber-only website that will coexist with its current, free site. The new BostonGlobe.com, which is currently scheduled to launch in the second half of 2011 …

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J-Lab:

New Voices: What Works — J-Lab has funded community news startups since 2005, when the movement to launch independent hyperlocal news websites began in earnest. To date, we've seeded the launch of 55 “New Voices” experiments - with encouraging support from the Knight Foundation.

Marika Lynch / KnightBlog:

J-Lab Report: What Works For Hyperlocal News Sites — This entry, written by J-Lab's Jan Schaffer, was originally posted at www.j-lab.org. — J-Lab has funded community news startups since 2005, when the movement to launch independent hyperlocal news websites began in earnest.

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Meg James / Company Town:

ABC attempts to change the network TV model — one 30-second commercial at a time — The economic relationship between the major TV networks and their affiliates was established more than half a century ago when the networks decreed that they would control the bulk of the commercial time during …

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Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
ABC Sells Local Stations Some of Its Ad Slots

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rbr.com:
ABC does Ad inventory exchange system with its affiliates

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James Hibberd / The Hollywood Reporter:

Anderson Cooper launching daytime talk show — UPDATED: Exclu: CNN anchor Anderson Cooper is launching a syndicated daytime talk show. — The “Anderson Cooper 360” host has made a deal with Telepictures Productions and Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution for a program …

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
CNN's Anderson Cooper in Daytime Talk Show Deal

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NPR:

Results Of The NPR Twitter User Survey — Earlier this summer, we released the results of our survey of NPR fans on Facebook, and we promised we'd follow it up with a survey of our Twitter followers. The results are now in. — We conducted the Twitter survey from August 25 to September 9, 2010.

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Kate Kaye / ClickZ:

Twitter Shuts Out Political Advertisers, For Now — Many political candidates and their campaigns have embraced Twitter, but when they've come calling about advertising there, Twitter has not reciprocated. Twitter has only recently begun rolling out its paid products for advertisers …

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John Koblin / New York Observer:

Hugo Lindgren Named New York Times Magazine Editor — In a stunning move, The New York Times is expected to announce that Hugo Lindgren will be the next editor of The New York Times Magazine, according to three people familiar with the deal (UPDATE: It's now official. The announcement is at the bottom of this post).

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Bill Carter / Media Decoder:

A Close Week for Leno and Letterman — Was restoring Jay Leno to the “Tonight” show worth it for NBC? — The results of the first week of the new television season offer a decidedly mixed answer to that question, which is being avidly followed in some quarters of the television business.

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New York Post:

Katie Couric may return to ‘Today’ — Tweet — Katie Couric might end up back on the “Today” show when her “CBS Evening News” contract expires at the end of May. A spot will be open because Meredith Vieira is expected to leave “Today” to spend more time with her family.

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David Kaplan / paidContent:

It's Official: WaPo Hands Newsweek Over To Harman — The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) just sent out a two-sentence press release announcing the closing of the deal to sell Newsweek magazine to audio equipment impresario Sidney Harman. No mention of the terms.

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Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:

Vimeo iPhone App On the Way — Online video site Vimeo is working on an iPhone app, which is expected to be released in the fourth quarter. The app is a bit of a departure from Vimeo's existing strategy of making videos available on HTML5 through the iPhone's Safari browser.

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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com:

MTV CHANGE-UP: Tony DiSanto & Liz Gateley Exit For ProdCo Backed By Ben Silverman; David Janollari To Get Upped — EXCLUSIVE: I hear that MTV's president of programming Tony DiSanto and his top lieutenant, SVP series development Liz Gateley, will be leaving the network to form a production company …

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Christopher K. Hepp / Philly.com:

Newspapers near end to bankruptcy — The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News took a big step toward exiting bankruptcy Thursday, when a federal judge approved the reorganization plan of the newspapers' parent company. — Chief Bankruptcy Judge Stephen Raslavich approved the plan that calls …

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