Mediagazer: The New Mr. Big: Wired's Publisher Is on a Roll (Nick Summers/New York Observer)

2:55 PM ET, November 23, 2010

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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

News Corp Shells Out $360 Million For EdTech Company Wireless Generation — Rupert Murdoch is getting serious about the education business. First, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) hires New York City Education Chancellor Joel Klein. Now, it's acquiring 90 percent of Wireless Generation for roughly $360 million in cash.

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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
News Corp's Upcoming iPad App ‘The Daily’ …

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Rupert Murdoch — Still at War With the Internet

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Electronista: Apple, News Corp seen launchng Daily, iTunes subs on Dec. 9

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Legal Challenge to Murdoch's iPad Tabloid Brewing

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Lauren Kirchner / CJR:
The Daily for iPad is On Its Way — Rupert Murdoch skips the web …

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Joe Flint / Company Town:

In win for networks, federal judge issues temporary restraining order against FilmOn.com — A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order against FilmOn.com Plc., a company that had been streaming the signals of television stations over the Internet without permission of the stations …

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Goodbye, Free TV on Your iPad. For Now....

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Rick Edmonds / The Biz Blog:

6 Months In, Honolulu Civil Beat Still Testing the Market For Paid Conversation — Honolulu Civil Beat's six-month anniversary earlier this month roughly coincided with the elections, and the closely-watched online-only pilot chose to celebrate with three days of free access for all.

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Viewers May Be Willing to Watch More Ads Online. Lots More. — VIEWERS of television shows on the Web have grown accustomed to 15- and 30-second commercial breaks — a fraction of the time given for commercials on traditional TV. Would they accept TV-style ad loads?

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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

Entrepreneurial Journalism curriculum at CUNY — Here are the courses that make up the new Entrepreneurial Journalism curriculum at CUNY. We plan to offer these courses this spring-to our own students and to midcareer journalists. Once approved by the state, we'll award a certificate and then an MA in entrepreneurial journalism.

Cory Doctorow / Guardian:

Copyright: what do we want it to do? — Without posing this question, asking whether intellectual property laws are working is like asking how long is a piece of string — A recurring question in discussions of digital copyright is how creators and their investors (that is, labels …

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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

Washington Post hires conservative blogger — The Washington Post boasts some of the top liberal bloggers, such as Ezra Klein and Greg Sargent. Now the paper's bringing a conservative into the blog stable. — The Post has hired Jennifer Rubin, previously with Commentary magazine …

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The Daily Northwestern:

Medill faculty approve school's name change — Medill faculty members voted earlier this month in favor of changing the name of the Medill School of Journalism to “The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing,” professors confirmed last week.

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Emma Heald / Editors Weblog:

ProPublica starts using Journalism Online's Press+ to encourage donations — ProPublica is to start using Journalism Online's Press+ e-commerce platform to collect donations from readers, a press release announced yesterday. Readers of the top investigative journalism outlet's stories …

Ross Kenneth Urken / The Huffington Post:

Pete Hamill: One Day, Web Journalists Will Get Real Money — Last week stalwart New York journalist Pete Hamill won the prestigious Louis Auchincloss Prize, presented by the Museum of the City of New York. Today he answered our questions pertaining to the writing life and this fair city.

Dylan Stableford / The Wrap:

Google in Talks to Buy Rights to Miramax Archives — It appears Google's possible $4 billion bid for Groupon.com isn't the only big-ticket item the search giant is mulling this holiday season. — Google is in talks with Filmyard Holdings about acquiring the rights to Miramax's archives …

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Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

Another setback for non-profit news — A year ago, I wrote that David S. Bennahum might do for non-profit journalism what Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald's, did for hamburgers. But it has not worked out that way. — Bennahum's disciplined approach to franchising a network …

Nick Summers / New York Observer:

The New Mr. Big: Wired's Publisher Is on a Roll — Howard Mittman is a big boy. Emphasis on big, emphasis on boy: 6-foot-3 and 240-ish, poured well into a black Zegna suit, but disarmingly mild, with a cherubic expression and none of the murderous drive you might expect to find in the publisher and vice president of Wired.

Steve Buttry / The Buttry Diary:

Entrepreneurial journalists need to master social media — Our entrepreneurial journalism class at Georgetown will be discussing social media the next two weeks. Of course, you could do a whole course on social media, which offer some of the most important tools an entrepreneurial journalist will use …