Mediagazer: Senators Wants Negotiations Made Public In Retrans Fights (Brian Stelter/Media Decoder)

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

Bill Clinton's speech can be tweeted after all — Did former President Bill Clinton really ban tweeting, live-blogging and posting on Facebook during a keynote address for a business and technology conference? — No. But it definitely appeared that way over the past 24 hours.

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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Senators Wants Negotiations Made Public In Retrans Fights — At a Senate hearing on Wednesday, Democratic senators suggested there should be more transparency in the tumultuous negotiations between television stations and distributors. — At times the hearing, titled “Television Viewers …

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Joe Flint / Company Town:
Sen. Rockefeller rips media industry at hearing on recent distribution fights

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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Video: Reuters Readies Big Expansion in the United States — MONACO — Declaring that news providers in the U.S. are not “satisfying the needs” of publishers and broadcasters, Reuters will be expanding its offerings in the United States, with major announcements to come over the next couple of months …

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Robert Andrews / paidContent:

FT Gives Its Staff A $480 Bonus To Buy An iPad; CEO's Memo — The Financial Times says it will give a £300 or $480 rebate to its 1,800 staff against the purchase of an iPad or other tablet. — Newspaper publishers are clearly getting bullish about the prospects of a post-web future …

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Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:

Twitter's Official Analytics Product Has Arrived — Twitter has started inviting a select group of users to test a new analytics product, Mashable has learned. Such a product has been rumored for some time, and a Twitter executive said earlier this year that Analytics would debut by the end of 2010.

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Netflix Web-Only Service Coming, Probably Not Cheap — Hate discs? Love Web video? Netflix should have something for you shortly: At the Web 2.0 conference yesterday, CEO Reed Hastings said a streaming-only option for U.S. subscribers should be available “shortly.”

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Ellie Behling / eMedia Vitals:

What media companies can learn from Briefing.com's copyright mishap — Briefing.com's settlement with Dow Jones is a valuable lesson for media companies about how repurposing content, even with attribution, can backfire. The news site, which covers market information for investment professionals …

Julie Bosman / Media Decoder:

Patti Smith Wins National Book Award — Patti Smith, the musician and artist, won the National Book Award on Wednesday night for her evocative memoir of bohemian New York, “Just Kids.” — In the nonfiction category, she beat the finalists Barbara Demick for “Nothing to Envy,” …

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WWD:

Memo Pad: Conde Nast Fights Back... Gap's Give-and-Take — FIGHTING BACK: “The gloves are off here at Condé [Nast],” said Wired publisher Howard Mittman, whose magazine will end the year in the number-one spot for ad page growth at the company, up 24 percent.

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Russ Smith / splicetoday.com:

Love the Royals, Hate the Republicans — Media celebrity Tina Brown is extraordinarily agile: one day she'll bash wealthy Americans, and the next wax flowery about Prince William and his future bride. — There's only one certainty in the event of a nuclear war: Tina Brown will survive.

Shira Ovide / Deal Journal:

Bloomberg News was the NetApp Earnings ‘Leaker’ — NetApp shares were halted today for about an hour, after the company's quarterly earnings results slipped out earlier than expected. And how did this happen? It apparently was the result of a common bit of reporting craft from Bloomberg News.

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Andrew Wallenstein / paidContent:

Peter Chernin To Old Media: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. — That ventures like Google (NSDQ: GOOG) TV and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) TV make traditional media companies justifiably anxious was actually the good news from Peter Chernin, former president of News Corp (NSDQ: NWS).

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Edmund Lee / AdAge:

Federated Media Acquires FoodBuzz — John Battelle's Publishing Aggregator Goes Foodie — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Advertising and publishing company Federated Media has acquired food-blog network FoodBuzz, according to people familiar with the matter. — At a time when advertisers …

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Paul Bradshaw / Poynter Online:

Data and Journalism Form a Powerful Combination — OnlineJournalismBlog.com and Birmingham City Uni — For the past two centuries, journalists have dealt in the currency of information: We transmuted base metals into narrative gold. But information is changing.

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

‘The Daily’ is Murdoch's ‘No. 1 most exciting project’ — On Tuesday, The Cutline's Michael Calderone and I wrote about News Corp.'s rapidly evolving plans for a national “newspaper” that will be available exclusively on the iPad and other tablet devices. — Details remain scarce …

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Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:

Fast Company Editor: ‘We want to have women represented on our covers’ — Earlier this week, Fast Company magazine asked its readers to help select the most influential women in technology as part of an annual feature aimed at giving women the recognition they deserve.

David Kaplan / paidContent:

SNL Kagan: Cord Cutting's A Fact; Other Factors Drive Down Pay TV Subs Too — Despite the insistence that there is no meaningful cable TV cord-cutting by media executives like Time (NYSE: TWX) Warner's Jeff Bewkes and Viacom's Philippe Dauman—not to mention research backed up by Nielsen …

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Jay Rosen / Pressthink:

Building a Better Explainer: Help Us Out — My graduate students and I are embarking a big project that revolves around a particular genre in journalism: the explainer. And we need your help. — An explainer is a special feature that does not provide the latest news or update you on a story.