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2:35 PM ET, November 19, 2010

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Alan Rusbridger / Guardian:
The splintering of the fourth estate  —  Media organisations are trying various routes to the future - the Guardian's is firmly an open and collaborative one  —  Back in June, I was invited to speak in Amsterdam at a “Royal Symposium”.  It turned out I was sharing the platform with a writer …
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
MSNBC suspends Scarborough for campaign donations  —  MSNBC said Friday that it is suspending “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough for two days after he acknowledged giving eight previously unknown $500 contributions to friends and family members running for state and local offices during …
John Koblin / WWD.COM:
Rupert Murdoch Does Another Daily  —  NEW YORK — Some of us count sheep, but Rupert Murdoch spends his sleepless nights dreaming up media properties.  It was late May, around 2 a.m., and Murdoch was in his New York penthouse on Fifth Avenue having a tough time falling asleep when a vision came to him …
Discussion: City Room
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Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Journalists of the future need data skills, says Berners-Lee  —  Inventor of the world wide web says that the stories of the future won't come from chatting in bars but from poring over rows of data.  Do you agree - and is that what students are learning?  —  Are you ready to be a journalist of the future?
Discussion: Editors Weblog
New York Times:
A Trailblazer With Her Eye on the Bottom Line  —  She grew up sheltered and privileged, in a middle-class Irish enclave of Chicago at midcentury, attending Catholic schools and riding horses at a country club where blacks and Jews were not allowed.  Yet from age 28, she blazed a trail for working women …
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:
Comcast-Controlled NBC Names Starting Management Lineup  —  Just like Fox did the day before, the new Comcast-controlled NBC Universal decided to stay inside when it came to promoting its advertising executives in the newly formed company.  —  Longtime senior ad sales executive Marianne Gambelli …
Discussion: AdAge
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Information Architects:
News on iPad, the Obvious Way  —  November 18, 2010 by Oliver Reichenstein.  Average Reading Time: about 6 minutes.  —  Today our first news project for iPad went online and we are proud like kids.  Technically, it's “just” an HTML5 optimization, but it has been a demanding design process …
Discussion: Editors Weblog and Poynter Online
Lewis DVorkin / The Copy Box:
A new breed of journalist fits right in at Forbes  —  I've called myself a journalist for decades.  I've worked for the best and learned from the best.  I've spent exhilarating nights in the newsroom — at newspapers, magazines, TV and a web portal.  I've even been lucky enough to watch and edit Pulitzer prize winners at work.
Dan Primack / Fortune:
Tumblr dives into a boatload of money  —  Tumblr, the lightweight blogging company, has raised between $25 million and $30 million in new VC funding, Fortune has learned.  The valuation is in the ballpark of $135 million.  —  BusinessInsider first reported on the existence of a new round last week …
Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Washington Independent is folding, the CEO goes over the books and outlines the lessons he's learned  —  On Wednesday, the nonprofit news and politics site The Washington Independent announced that, after just under three years of publishing, it's closing shop.
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Twitter and the Power of Giving People a Voice  —  It didn't get as much attention as his comments about generating revenue and fighting with Facebook, but to me one of the most interesting things that former Twitter CEO and co-founder Evan Williams said during his interview at the Web 2. Summit …
Discussion: The Wall Blog
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Another Publisher Out at Entertainment Weekly  —  Ray Chelstowski Exit Reminds Us That Weeklies' Drama Isn't All About Newsweek  —  New York (AdAge.com) — We're paying a lot of attention to news weeklies on the order of Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report these days, but even pop culture weeklies have their troubles.
Bo Peabody / Money Game:
DOWN ON THE (CONTENT) FARM: Here's Why I Would Never Invest In Demand Media  —  Demand Media filed its S-1 registration statement with the SEC four months ago and is now attempting to sell its stock offering.  —  Demand is the first media company in the post-bust era of the Internet …
Discussion: The Awl and SAI
Dan Barry / New York Times:
Bowlmor Lanes in Former Newsroom  —  IN the dozen years I spent working in the newsroom of the historic New York Times building, just off Times Square, I must have contemplated my future a hundred times, a thousand times.  Would I become a national correspondent?  A foreign correspondent?  An editor?
This Is London:
Fair game or respect: paparazzi are at odds over pursuing Kate Middleton  —  The photographer who took the first picture of Kate Middleton since her engagement said today it was a “milestone” moment between the royals and the paparazzi in which we “paid respect and she paid respect to us”.
Discussion: Guardian
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Newsonomics of news anywhere  —  [Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.]  —  Facebook isn't trying to replace Gmail or Yahoo Mail …
Discussion: Computerworld
McGuire on Media:
Notes and thoughts on “Incorporating New Media into the Traditional News industry”  —  Tuesday night I moderated a discussion for the Arizona Interactive Marketing Association.  The organizers called the event “Incorporating New Media into the Traditional News Industry.”
Discussion: Romenesko
 
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