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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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Philly.com, Inside Cable News and The Caucus
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
NPR Ends Analyst's Contract After Comments on Muslims
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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, TVNewser, Salon, Poynter Online, Mediaite, Media Matters for America, The Awl, Romenesko, New York Magazine, The Daily Caller, CNN, TV / Radio, PostPartisan, Outside the Beltway, Chickaboomer, TPM LiveWire, New York Observer, Broadcasting & Cable, National Media, NPR, main page collection and Media Decoder
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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NewTeeVee, Lost Remote, Search Engine Land and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
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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 »
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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Company Town, The Next Web, Media Maverick and SAI, more at Techmeme »
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 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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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 and Poynter Online, more at Techmeme »
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 …
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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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
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
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 …
Dylan Stableford / The Wrap:
Tweet This: The Top 25 Magazines on Twitter — On Tuesday, the blog Journalistics published a list ranking the top 25 newspapers on Twitter, based their follower counts. The New York Times, with more than 2.6 million followers, is by far the most-followed newspaper brand on Twitter …
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SocialTimes.com, Romenesko and Thompson on Hollywood
Joe Pompeo / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Meet The Old-Media Vets Staffing A Former Newsweek President's Three New Digital Magazines — Newsweek is searching for a new editor-in-chief as some of its veteran journalists flee for jobs in new media. A former president of Newsweek, meanwhile, is luring veteran print journalists to his new digital magazine venture.
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
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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