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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Reading ‘The Daily’ — The most interesting thing about Rupert Murdoch's iPad newspaper is what won't be in its opinion section. — Newspapers are the business Rupert Murdoch loves most—and now he's betting their future on an app. Early next year, he will launch The Daily, the first newspaper produced exclusively for the iPad.
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Yahoo! News, Gawker, Romenesko, Mixed Media and The Corsair
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Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:
The Daily Kill Dossier: A Hit List of News Corp's Freshest Poaches — As it's been noted, News Corp's daily newspaper built just for the iPad — The Daily — is on the way. It is Rupert Murdoch's newest child, the Draco Malfoy to his Voldemort. As such, they're hiring or trying …
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Yahoo! News and New York Magazine
Emily Bell / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch's iPad experiment is unlikely to succeed | Emily Bell — The News Corp boss will probably lose the $30m he's rumoured to be investing in a post-print collaboration with Apple — In an age of throwing spaghetti at the wall to determine the ‘what sticks’ of publishing success …
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
Key Success Factors for a tablet-only “paper”
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VentureBeat and The Evolving Newsroom
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Wants To Spill Your Corporate Secrets — In a rare interview, Assange tells Forbes that the release of Pentagon and State Department documents are just the beginning. His next target: big business. — Early next year, Julian Assange says, a major American bank will suddenly find itself turned inside out.
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New York Observer and New York Times, Thanks:taylorbuley
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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
The Guardian gave State Dept. cables to the NY Times — New York Times editors said Sunday that although the paper's reporters had been digging through WikiLeaks trove of 250,000 State Department cables for “several weeks,” the online whistleblower wasn't the source of the documents.
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New York Times, Guardian, CJR, Wall Street Journal, Journalism.co.uk, Washington Monthly, VatorNews, MediaPost, The Next Web, The Atlantic Online, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, beyondbrics, Online NewsHour, NewsBusters.org blogs, Vanity Fair, The Wrap, ThinkProgress, National Review, ScribeMedia.org, The New Yorker Blog, Romenesko, The Nation and On Media's Blog
Simon Jenkins / Guardian:
US embassy cables: The job of the media is not to protect …
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Danger Room, The Independent, Democracy in America, Editors Weblog, Hot Air, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Politics Daily, broadstuff, zunguzungu, NewsBusters.org blogs, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Weekly Standard, Yahoo! News, TechnoLlama, The Rumpus.net, WL Central, Spiegel Online, New York Times, Crikey, The Right Scoop, Boing Boing, Jon Slattery, Associated Press, TechCrunch, BBC, CBC News, The Lede and Gawker
Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Microsoft eyes leap back into TV: sources — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is about to jump back into the TV game. Only this time, it may aim at cable, satellite and phone companies. — The software powerhouse has held talks with TV networks to create a new subscription-based TV service …
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TechCrunch, MTV Multiplayer, paidContent, Media Buyer Planner, Brandweek, SAI, GigaOM, MediaMemo, SlashGear, Fast Company, VideoNuze, Mashable!, The Next Web, Multichannel, Ars Technica and MediaPost, more at Techmeme »
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Netflix Partner Says Comcast ‘Toll’ Threatens Online Video Delivery — Level 3 Communications, an Internet networking company that recently signed a deal to deliver movies to Netflix customers, said Monday that Comcast has effectively set up a tollbooth around its broadband Internet network.
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Business Wire, more at Techmeme »
David Carr / New York Times:
A Media False Alarm Over the T.S.A. — If a squadron of mad scientists surrounded by supercomputers gathered in a laboratory to try to conjure a single news topic that would blow up large, they could not touch the T.S.A. pat-down story. — It began with a Drudge Report link to a video …
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Democracy in America, CIR: All New Content, The Wire, Wonkette, Techdirt and Free Press
Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:
Salon Opens Parlor to Possible Partner — Salon.com is exploring opportunities to merge with or be acquired by another media company, an acknowledgment of the perilous economics of running a free-standing online news organization. — The site was a pioneer in online news …
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Tim Hirsch / BBC:
Rio favela tweets create overnight celebrity — A 17-year-old Twitter user gave Brazilians a rare insider's view of events in his favela — For the past few days, Brazilians watched transfixed as scenes more reminiscent of Iraq or Afghanistan than of their own “marvellous city”, Rio de Janeiro, unfolded live on TV screens.
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GigaOM
Sam Thielman / Variety:
Networks grapple with Hulu ad sales — Aud measurement also a question for online viewing — Hulu is facing competition from the likes of Google TV and a new streaming-only subscription service from Netflix, but one of its bigger challenges may be growing pains felt within its group of owners.
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TVbytheNumbers
The Bygone Bureau:
Best New Blogs of 2010 — This year's contributors — Robin Sloan — Mediagazer doesn't have the look of a classic blog; it's laid out like an aggregator, and at first glance, it looks pretty mechanical. Sure enough, there are feed-reading machines behind the scenes — some of the same guts that make TechMeme go.
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Argo, the Blog and Snarkmarket
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Newsonomics of eight-percent reach — [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.] — We'll all familiar with the chaos of the moment.
Dorian Benkoil / Poynter Online:
Geo-Location Services Provide New Opportunities for News — Knowing where someone is as they consume media can be a powerful tool in the hands of a journalist, publisher or advertiser. — And as use of GPS-equipped mobile devices has grown, so has interest in and competition …
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GigaOMtech and VIRALBLOG.COM
John Koblin / WWD:
Memo Pad: Needleman's Newbie — NEEDLEMAN'S NEWBIE: Beginning this Saturday, the New York media world will finally begin to size up a new magazine war in town: Deborah Needleman's WSJ. Magazine vs. Sally Singer's T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Both editors worked at Condé Nast.
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