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Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Chief Blasts NPR ‘Nazis’ — Roger Ailes slams Jon Stewart as a conservative-basher, explains why he rode to Juan Williams' rescue—and sees NPR as taxpayer-funded propaganda. Part II of Howard Kurtz's interview. — When Jon Stewart was appearing on the O'Reilly Factor a few weeks back …
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Romenesko, Gawker, The Awl, Media Matters for America, New York Magazine, TVNewser, Mediaite, BlogPost and The Huffington Post
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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MediaFile, Journalism.co.uk, Romenesko, Poynter Online, SlashGear, SAI, Talking Biz News, Engadget and WebNewser
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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Alex Williams / ReadWriteWeb:
No Tweeting Allowed for President Bill Clinton's Keynote at Salesforce.com Event
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, SAI and WebNewser
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Crunching Denton's Ratio: What's the return on paying sources? — There was a lot of buzz on Twitter yesterday about Paul Farhi's piece in The Washington Post on checkbook journalism — in particular the way a mishmash of websites, tabloids, and TV news operations put money in the hands of the people they want to interview.
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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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Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
Newsweek.com nervously awaits news of its fate — Of all the players anticipating fallout from the forthcoming union of Newsweek and The Daily Beast, staffers for Newsweek's website may have the most to lose—namely, their jobs. — As the two money-losing news organizations meld into one …
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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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Gautham Nagesh / The Hill:
Rockefeller: News media has surrendered to “forces of entertainment”
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Hillicon Valley, Thanks:gnagesh
Michael Miner / Chicago Reader:
Life in the Patch — Is AOL's hyperlocal news network an evil slave empire or a boon to hungry journalists? — Chris Gray, Sara Fay, and Sofia Resnick — CEOs must love it when small folk call them evil—nice guys don't wind up masters of the universe.
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Romenesko
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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Los Angeles Times, Speakeasy, GalleyCat and The Daily Beast
Nikki Osman / Guardian:
Diary of a budding journalist: The highs and lows writing about yourself — Attending a panel discussion with top Guardian columnists Charlie Brooker, Zoe Williams and Tanya Gold has given Nikki an insight into the rewards and pitfalls of lifestyle journalism
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
A Web Ad That Tells You It's Stalking You — There's a big debate about privacy and online advertising, and the personal data marketers use to hunt down the customers they're trying to capture. — So here's a Web ad campaign that cuts to the chase, and simply tells you up front that it's stalking you.
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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MediaFile, GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, The Wall Blog, PC World, Guardian, VentureBeat and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
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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PC Magazine and Media Decoder, more at Techmeme »
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
No More Media Silos: Digital Content Needs to Universally Accessed, paidContent's Staci Kramer — MONACO — For publishers to succeed in the fast changing media environment, digital content must be universally accessed, irrespective of the device, says Staci D. Kramer, editor of paidContent, the influential media news site.
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 …
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Related-Links Blog Plugin Zemanta Raises $3 Million — Zemanta, a web add-on that injects blog posts and CMS articles with links to related material, has raised its biggest venture round so far in order to bump its sales efforts and product development. — The $3 million comes …
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Z-Blog, SAI and TechCrunch
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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paidContent, FM Blog, WebNewser and BoomTown, Thanks:edmundlee
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