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David Carr / New York Times:
A News Corp. Newspaper, but Not in Print — People who own an iPad will tell you it makes everything look sexier. Maybe even a newspaper. — Rupert Murdoch, an old-timey newspaper romantic, has nonetheless deputized himself as the digital savior of paid content.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
What Should An iPad Newspaper Look Like? — News Corp is taking the iPad very seriously as a new way to distribute the news. The media giant is taking it so seriously that it is developing a new publication called the Daily which will only be available on the iPad (no print edition, no Website).
Discussion:
Romenesko, Mixed Media and Media News
Ellen McGirt / Fast Company:
I Want My Twitter TV! — Blue Magic: From left, Robin Sloan, Chloe Sladden, and Ross Hoffman mash up anthropology and fun to make Twitter TV. Photograph by Jill Greenberg — Why everyone — CNN, MTV, Conan, and even Google — is tweeting about the future of interactive entertainment.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
For NBC Sale, Tensions Rise in Washington — Comcast is still in negotiations with the government over its proposed takeover of NBC Universal, but that did not stop the cable company from announcing a new management slate for the entertainment giant last week.
Discussion:
Hillicon Valley, Online Video News and Gizmodo
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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Old Media Decides Digital Still Needs a ‘Chief’ — Time Inc., Gannett, Clear Channel and Wenner All Seek a New ‘CDO’ — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — It's a good time to be a “chief digital officer,” or at least play one inside a media organization. After a brief heyday mid-decade …
Discussion:
Free Press and Romenesko
James Robinson / Guardian:
UK papers ‘too dependent on ads’ — Book edited by Oxford University academics also claims there is no correlation between internet use and newspaper profitability — British newspapers are too dependent on advertising according to a new book edited by academics at Oxford University.
Discussion:
Editor's Blog and Media Law Prof Blog
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James Robinson / paidContent:UK:
Oxford Academics: Web Not To Blame For Newspapers' Slide
Irina Slutsky / AdAge:
YouTube Readies New Ad Units That Users Can Skip — New Units Will Give Consumer's Choice — Even if That Choice Is to Opt Out — SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) — Whether it's walking out of the room, fast-forwarding on a DVR or paying for premium cable, consumers are used to having choice with ads on TV.
Discussion:
GigaOM and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
Netflix's secret sauce for acquiring content — If you're a Netflix subscriber, you should be happy with the sounds coming out of Hollywood. — One entertainment executive told me last week that other Web video companies looking for content should use Netflix as a model for how to work with the major studios.
Discussion:
New York Post and newsfeed.time.com
Wall Street Journal:
Online TV Streams Come Under Fire — In the latest cat-and-mouse game between media companies and technology start-ups threatening to undermine their businesses, the big networks are intensifying their fight to stop Internet services that stream TV stations online.
Discussion:
Company Town
Ben Crair / The Daily Beast:
Twitter Killed Media Criticism — Twitter's 140-character blasts aren't bringing down the newspapers. They're just turning journalists into sniggering cheap-shot artists. — Ever since reporters started using Twitter, an old guard of newspaper hands has complained that the micro-blogging site …
Jason Boog / mediabistro.com:
Sloane Crosley Will Write Weekly Column at The Independent — After deciding to leave her post as a publicist at Vintage and Anchor, author Sloane Crosley has been hired to write a weekly column for The Independent Magazine, a Saturday supplement at the British newspaper, The Independent.
Discussion:
PWxyz
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
Fighting Unlicensed Content With Algorithms — It's high time to fight the theft of news-related contents, really. A couple of weeks ago, Attributor, a US company, released the conclusions of a five-month study covering the use of unauthorized contents on the internet.
Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
Resentment News (and More Blondes Per Square Foot): Explaining What Fox News Channel Is — Not sure whether I will continue to do these things, but I recorded my second Late Night with PressThink video. It tries to explain “what Fox News actually is, which really means explaining it to myself...”
Discussion:
Rebooting The News, Balloon Juice and Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog
Boris Kachka / New York Magazine:
Reinventing the Book — Jonathan Safran Foer's object of anti-technology. — According to one of Jonathan Safran Foer's favorite essays, John Ashbery's 1968 classic “The Invisible Avant-Garde,” what makes innovative work exciting is that you're never sure it's any good.