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Matea Gold / Los Angeles Times:
In wake of NPR controversy, Fox News gives Juan Williams an expanded role — The cable news network signs the analyst to a new three-year contract for nearly $2 million. Meanwhile, conservative figures blast the public radio network for its response to Williams' comments about Muslims.
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Williams Episode Shows 2 Versions of Journalism — NPR's decision Wednesday to fire Juan Williams and Fox News Channel's decision to give him a new contract on Thursday put into sharp relief the two versions of journalism that compete every day for Americans' attention.
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Inside Cable News and The Caucus
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
NPR Ends Analyst's Contract After Comments on Muslims — NPR has terminated its contract with Juan Williams, one of its senior news analysts, after he made comments about Muslims on the Fox News Channel. — NPR said in a statement that it gave Mr. Williams notice of his termination on Wednesday night.
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Juan Williams Fired by NPR For No Particular Reason
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The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, Salon, TVNewser, Poynter Online, Media Matters for America, Mediaite, The Awl, Romenesko, New York Magazine, TV / Radio, The Daily Caller, CNN, PostPartisan, Outside the Beltway, Chickaboomer, TPM LiveWire, New York Observer, National Media, NPR, Broadcasting & Cable, main page collection and Media Decoder
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Magazines, Advertising, and the Malleability of Ethics — Since the recession hit and print started dying in earnest, magazines have been...let's say, loosening their standards on the editorial-advertising divide. Now, in a bid to maintain relevance, the American Society of Magazine Editors has updated its ethical guidelines.
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MPA, Romenesko and Canadian Magazines
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Lucia Moses / Mediaweek:
ASME Releases Updated Ad Guidelines
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mediabistro.com and FishbowlNY
Josh Kosman / New York Post:
Zell on the hot seat — Tweet — Tribune creditors plan to ask a judge tomorrow to rule on whether they have the right to sue Sam Zell and others who had a role in the $11.7 billion buyout of the newspaper publishing company that ended in bankruptcy, The Post has learned.
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Creative Loafing Atlanta, Media Maverick and ClickZ
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Hulu Plus, Take Two: How's $4.95 a Month? — Hulu is considering cutting the price of Hulu Plus, the subscription service it began testing in June, sources tell me. I'm told the video site is talking about slashing its $9.95 per-month fee in half, to $4.95.
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Media Maverick, SAI and The Next Web, more at Techmeme »
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Life With Google TV: My First Day Review & Impressions — Google TV has finally arrived, not just for pre-order but as an actual device you can get in a retail store. And so I did, hitting Best Buy yesterday and walking out with a Sony Blu-ray player that is Google TV-capable.
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TechCrunch, Google Webmaster Central Blog and Lost Remote, more at Techmeme »
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
MuckRock makes FOIA requests easy, but will reporters use it? — Making freedom of information requests can be a daunting task. If it's not an agency dragging its heels on releasing documents or asking for a fee large enough to buy a compact car, then it's the actual process of the, well, process.
Nielsen Wire:
Connected Devices: Does the iPad Change Everything? — The growing popularity of connected devices - especially Apple's iconic tablet computer, the iPad - are starting to change the how people consume media. And with sales of these devices expected to be a bright spot in an otherwise …
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Fortune, MediaPost, MarketingCharts, TUAW, NetNewsCheck Latest and Poynter Online, more at Techmeme »
Wall Street Journal:
Networks in Rift With Google TV — ABC, CBS and NBC are blocking TV programming on their websites from being viewable on Google Inc.'s new Web-TV service, exposing the rift that remains between the technology giant and some of the media companies it wants to supply content for its new products.
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Engadget, more at Techmeme »
Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
The 100 Percent Solution: For Innovation in News — “It starts with a vision: what if we could cover all of it? And when you try to act on that vision, you invariably run into problems. It's sweating those problems that leads to innovation, or at least to new knowledge.”
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Nieman Journalism Lab, Online Journalism Blog and Free Press
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Who, Us? Netflix Says Its Customers Aren't Cord Cutters — Here is the standard cord-cutting formula: Tell your cable company to pound sand and replace it with an antenna, an Internet connection and a Netflix subscription. — Except, says Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, that's not what his 19.6 million customers are doing.
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Epicenter, Fast Company, The Atlantic Online and The Wrap
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Netflix: Instant-Streaming Only Option May Debut In U.S. Later This Quarter
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NewTeeVee, MediaPost, Company Town, Silicon Alley Insider, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, Online Video News and Media Money …
Ira Teinowitz / The Wrap:
Cablevision/Fox Spat Could Affect Comcast/NBCU Deal — It's looking increasingly like Fox's spat with Cablevision could wind up having repercussions for Comcast's deal for NBC Universal. — An industry analyst and consumer groups are suggesting that an unprecedented tactic Fox employed early …
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Globe and Mail, Company Town, Gothamist, Free Press and Broadcasting & Cable
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Rick Edmonds / The Biz Blog:
USA Today's “Radical Restructuring” Means End of Newsroom Integration, Universal Desk — Eight weeks ago, USA Today announced some impending layoffs and promised what Publisher Dave Hunke called a “pretty radical” restructuring. Now some of the changes are rolling out, and they are indeed big ones.
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Gannett Blog and Poynter Online
Damon Kiesow / Poynter Online:
Comments return to the Portland Press Herald — Less than 48 hours after comments were removed from the Portland (Maine) Press Herald's website, they are back, using newly installed moderation tools. — Comments were pulled Tuesday after what Publisher Richard Connor described as “vile …
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Nieman Journalism Lab and Shaping the Future …
Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat:
Zoolander Is Bringing His Fashion Sense to the Web — Nearly a decade after Derek Zoolander set out to find if there was “more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking,” that obliviously self-centered male model is coming back - this time, as a cartoon character on the Internet.
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NewTeeVee, MTV Movies Blog, SocialTimes.com, Splitsider and New York Magazine
Linton Weeks / NPR:
Web Ads Tied To News Photos Pop Up More And More — Just because you can do something doesn't mean, of course, that you should. — With today's technology, for instance, it's possible to give people who read the National Enquirer online a chance to actually buy a zippered-up crewneck sweater that has …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Books and Video Win on the iPad, and Users Are Buying — Although the iPad is still relatively new, early indications are that a majority of users are willing to pay for content on the tablet — whether it's apps or games — and that books and video are the two most popular forms of media …
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The Next Web and MediaPost
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