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1:55 PM ET, October 28, 2010

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Subtraction.com:
My iPad Magazine Stand  —  Because I recently left a job at one of the most prominent publications in the world, people often ask me about my opinions on the cavalcade of publications rushing to the iPad — those apps designed and developed by newspapers and magazines principally to deliver …
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Magazine Apps for the iPad: “Bloated and Unfriendly”  —  The former design director for the New York Times has written a blog post giving his thoughts on magazine apps for the iPad (something he clearly gets asked about a lot).  The bottom line?  He hates them.  With a passion.  Why?
Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
Exclusive: Mike Lang, Post-News Corp., to Be Named Miramax CEO  —  Mike Lang, a leading business-development executive who recently left News Corp. and had a previous life at Disney, is set to be named CEO of the newly purchased Miramax, TheWrap has learned.
Bill Carter / Vanity Fair:
The Unsocial Network  —  Plunging ratings.  Tense negotiations.  A bewildered, increasingly outraged Conan O'Brien and an anxiously pragmatic Jay Leno.  In this excerpt from his new book, the author unfurls the behind-the-scenes story of late night's explosive 2010 showdown.  —  DESK JOBS
Discussion: Mediaite, AdAge and The Corsair
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Ben Elowitz / paidContent:
SEO Is Dead, And The New King Is ‘SMO’  —  Ben Elowitz (@elowitz) is co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, a web publisher, and author of the Digital Quarters blog.  Prior to Wetpaint, Elowitz co-founded Blue Nile, the online retailer of luxury goods.  He is also an angel investor in various media and e-commerce companies.
David Carr / Media Decoder:
Statutory Realignment at Tribune Company  —  Not long after Sam Zell, the real estate mogul, took over the Tribune Company, he installed a sculpture in the headquarters lobby titled “Bureaucratic Shuffle,” a six-legged man going in circles and nowhere fast.
Sue Zeidler / Reuters:
Cable, technology, media firms form digital registry  —  (Reuters) - Major studios, cable and technology companies on Wednesday announced the launch of an Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR) to track movies, TV shows and other assets much the way books are coded.
Discussion: Noted
Dan Frommer / The Wire:
AOL News Has A New Boss: Ex-ABC News Exec Jon Dube  —  AOL has hired Jon Dube as its new GM of news, according to a tweet from Saul Hansell, the former New York Times reporter who now works as programming director of AOL's Seed.com efforts.  —  Dube was previously vice president of ABCNews.com.
Boris Kachka / New York Magazine:
Sterling's Gold: How Mad Men's Fake Memoir Became the Real Deal  —  Roger Sterling's divine folly-autobiography Sterling's Gold is now a real book coming out from Grove/Atlantic just in time for the holidays.  So, as high-roller Sterling might have advised, we took our questions …
John Plunkett / Guardian:
Conrad Black hints he may return to media ownership  —  Former Telegraph owner says some newspaper titles are at ‘bargain’ prices and young people are still keen on print  —  Former Daily Telegraph owner Conrad Black has hinted at a return to media ownership, saying there were “bargains” …
David Carr / Media Decoder:
Condé Nast Futuregram: No Magazines, but Lots of ‘Consumer Centricity’  —  On Tuesday, Charles H. Townsend, the chief executive of Condé Nast Publications, issued a well-covered planning memo announcing that the company will give individual publishers control of their brands on all platforms …
Amanda Natividad / paidContent:
Chart: How Newspaper E-Editions Are Faring  —  One circulation metric that wasn't down year-over-year for U.S. newspapers during the first half of 2010: the total number of subscribers to their e-editions, a broad category that includes digital replicas, online-only subscriptions, Kindle subscriptions, and products like Times Reader.
Discussion: The Wire
Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk:
The bureau, the whistleblower and the data journalist: how WikiLeaks' Iraq War Logs made the news  —  Tweet  —  When whistleblowing website WikiLeaks released 400,000 classified US military documents relating to the Iraq war on its website late Friday night, it was a collaborative effort …
James Temple / San Francisco Chronicle:
Google shifts TV effort to YouTube  —  (10-27) 21:34 PDT San Francisco — Google Inc. has shifted its Google TV initiative to its YouTube division, The Chronicle has learned.  —  Some industry observers speculated that the move was a response to recent negative reaction …
Ari Melber / The Nation:
In a White House First, Gibbs To Call on Twitter in Press Briefing  —  In another technological first for the Obama White House, press secretary Robert Gibbs said on Thursday that he would call on Twitter for the first question in the White House briefing.  —  “Something new,” …
Discussion: CJR
Jason Deans / Guardian:
Bronwen Maddox to become chief executive and editor of Prospect  —  The Times chief foreign commentator to leave newspaper for role at monthly current affairs magazine  —  Bronwen Maddox is leaving the Times after 14 years to become chief executive and editor of current affairs magazine Prospect.
Discussion: Press Gazette
 
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