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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
The Price of Crossing Steve Jobs — Gordon McLeod has been packing up his office; today is his last at the Wall Street Journal. His ejection is complicated. But some coworkers think they know what did him in: insulting Steve Jobs in Rupert Murdoch's presence.
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Poynter Online and New York Magazine
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Newsweek sale sealed, Harman seeks editor — Tweet — Sterio equipment mogul Sidney Harman officially wrapped up the deal to take over ownership of Newsweek from the Washington Post Company yesterday but the pact to bring Tina Brown on board as the new editor-in-chief could still be weeks away.
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New York Observer
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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.
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Kirk LaPointe's … and Knight Digital Media Center …
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Marika Lynch / KnightBlog:
J-Lab Report: What Works For Hyperlocal News Sites
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Lost Remote and Knight Digital Media Center …
Stand UP!:
CNN's Rick Sanchez Calls Jon Stewart ‘Bigot’ — Cuban-American anchor Rick Sanchez came on Stand Up! with Pete Dominick today for a loose exchange on current events, media, and journalism. Throughout much of the interview, the discussion touched on race. To our surprise, at various points …
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Mediaite, Hot Air, The Huffington Post and Ben Smith's Blog
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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Romenesko, Media Nation, Newsonomics, NetNewsCheck Latest and State of the Fourth Estate
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Robert Gavin / Boston Globe:
Globe to offer two websites: one free, one pay
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Phlog, digiday:DAILY, Media Decoder, paidContent, MediaPost, Media News International, Media News, Mashable!, MediaPost, The Wrap, Gawker, Media Nation and Romenesko
Peter Lauria / The Daily Beast:
The 25 Most Valuable Cable Channels — Burn Notice—has become the cash cow the networks once were. Peter Lauria ranks cable's most valuable. “ /> Burn Notice—has become the cash cow the networks once were. Peter Lauria ranks cable's most valuable.” - trending topics - INNOVATORS SUMMIT …
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The Daily Beast
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
ABC Sells Local Stations Some of Its Ad Slots — Walt Disney Co.'s ABC network is trying out a new approach to ad sales: selling national ad slots to local ABC stations. — The sales, which will begin with six 30-second prime-time slots in the last two weeks of October in “Grey's Anatomy …
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5 Blogs Before Lunch
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Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Schneider exit clouds Newspaper Consortium — The departure of Hilary Schneider at Yahoo could be a major blow to the Newspaper Consortium she founded, as well as many of the 800 newspapers that count on the partnership to boost their online revenues. — The four-year old Newspaper Consortium …
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Silicon Alley Insider, Romenesko, BoomTown, AIMGroup.com and MediaFile, more at Techmeme »
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Major Changes Coming To E5 Global's Adweek Group? — We're hearing a great deal of rumbling about dramatic changes coming Friday to E5 Global Media's Adweek Group, including the strong possibility that professional media provocateur Michael Wolff could be announced as the group's editorial director.
Steve Myers / Making Sense of Media:
How ‘PriceOfWeed’ Uses the Crowd to Fill an Illicit Information Gap — The other day I walked into a local “tobacco shop,” looking for someone to interview about a new website that documents the price of marijuana around the U.S. and the world. — I would call this place a “head shop,” …
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TBD All News and Editors Weblog
Howard Owens:
How to beat AOL's Patch — First, this is not a bash Patch post. I have friends who work for Patch. I think they're doing some good things. If time proves me wrong about the advantage of local news site ownership, a Patch victory would be better than the alternative …
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The Buttry Diary, The Solomon Scandals and The Business Insider
Jon Friedman / MarketWatch:
Magazines: the good, bad and irrelevant — Commentary: Media Web gives its opinions on eve of conference — NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The American Magazine Conference will commence on Sunday in Chicago, with Newsweek — naturally — dominating the proceedings.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
ScribbleLive plans to reinvent the news article — As readers seem to expect more and more live news coverage, a Toronto startup called ScribbleLive has been developing a fast, collaborative way for news organizations to keep up. Co-founder and chief executive Michael De Monte …
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The Next Web
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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Mashable!, TechCrunch, Editors Weblog, Romenesko and Lost Remote
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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Variety, Company Town and The Wrap
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Newsonomics of journalistic star power — [Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.] — Maybe it's a trend, or maybe it's a bubble …
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