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WikiLeaks fights to stay online after US company withdraws domain name — Everydns.net says attack against leaks site endangered other customers' service - effectively pushing site off the web — The US was today accused of opening up a dramatic new front against WikiLeaks, effectively …
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Why WikiLeaks' latest document dump makes everyone in journalism — and the public — a winner — For some, WikiLeaks' recent dump of diplomatic cables seems to make an excellent case for why traditional journalism still matters. Others, however, suggest that the widespread condemnation …
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Guardian and Explainer.Net
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Diller on leaving the top spot at IAC: “The company wasn't being managed correctly” — FORTUNE — Barry Diller it seems has been pondering the future lately. Today he took action. — Every summer Diller takes some time off to do a deep think. “I call it my summer project,” he says in an interview with Fortune.
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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Three Questions to Ask About Barry Diller's Move
Three Questions to Ask About Barry Diller's Move
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Gawker, BtoB Magazine, IAC - Media Room, New York Observer and TechCrunch
Media Decoder:
Ben Sherwood Named President of ABC News — 10:50 a.m. | Updated ABC announced on Friday that it had appointed Ben Sherwood, the former executive producer of its “Good Morning America” program, as president of its news division. — He will succeed David Westin, the long-time president …
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Oprah Winfrey Channel Gears Up for Its Debut — IN a one-minute ad that starts Friday in movie theaters across the country, the voice of the Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am calls out to dreamers, believers and “tomorrow leaders.” — Add to Portfolio — Then, looking positively radiant …
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MediaPost, New York Observer, Company Town and Gawker
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Tim Arango Is the Next NYT Baghdad Bureau Chief — In your jobby Friday media column: Rebecca Dana to Newsweek, Foster Kamer to Esquire, Tim Arango to Baghdad, and Barry Diller to the easy life. And, Emily Brill. — We hear that veteran-but-still-young former media reporter Tim Arango …
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Rupert Murdoch's Tablet Tabloid: How He Can Pull It Off — With all the frantic hiring of young talent and established editors for The Daily, News Corp.'s new tablet-only newspaper, it's clear that Rupert Murdoch is trying to create the “tabloid for smart people” that he's never quite been able to pull off in print.
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A Very Special Announcement: Changes at The Village Voice — Hello Runnin' Scared readers! We have a special programming announcement for you all! Are you ready? You look ready. Here we go: — Effective, like, the first week in January, Joe Coscarelli - our indomitable …
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Ben Widdicombe / Financial Times:
The business of blogging — If anyone, anywhere had an opinion about Perez Hilton in 2004, it was that he would not be around for long. The young Cuban-American (real name Mario Armando Lavandeira), then 26, was doing yeoman work at his day job for Star magazine, a weekly gossip tabloid …
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Viacom Set to Appeal in YouTube Case — Viacom Inc. says a new wave of digital piracy could threaten the U.S. media business unless federal courts overturn its defeat in a copyright-infringement lawsuit against Google Inc.'s YouTube video-sharing site. — The New York-based owner of MTV …
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VideoNuze, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and Search Engine Land
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Robust ad recovery bypassed newspapers — Newspaper advertising revenues continued sinking in the third quarter of this year despite a robust recovery that has fueled healthy gains in all - not some, but all - of the other competing media. — While television, radio …
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Associated Press:
Foursquare TV Series In The Works — SAN FRANCISCO — Foursquare, a popular startup that lets people share their location with friends through a mobile app, is working with production company Endemol USA to create a television series. — The companies said Thursday that they signed …
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DealBook's Sorkin: Paywall details still being ‘ironed out’ — As The New York Times gears up to implement its metered online pay model in January, one of various remaining unanswered questions about the finer points of how it will work is whether or not The Times newly-revamped and expanded financial blog …
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Outfoxed by Fox News? No way. — It takes only an instant for a visitor to Media Matters for America's headquarters in downtown Washington to sense its mission, if not its methods. A few steps into its modern offices, which resemble a newspaper newsroom, a pair of prominently displayed signs spell …
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Local Media May Have Blown Another Online Ads Opportunity — For the first time in the internet's history, the hottest thing online today is local. Through daily coupon deals, place reviews and location sharing, local services is where it's at. — That should finally mean boom …
Sarah Hartley / Guardian:
Hyperlocal and working with legacy brands: former TBD boss Jim Brady — When Jim Brady suddenly quit as general manager at the Washington local news empire just three months after launch, it surprised many in the media who were watching TBD.com's progress with interest.
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Sarah Hartley
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Gossip Columnists George Rush & Joanna Molloy Suing MTV Over ‘Downtown Girls’ — George Rush and Joanna Molloy, who wrote their eponymous gossip column for the New York Daily News for 15 years, have filed a $30,000+ breach-of-contract lawsuit against MTV, VH1, their parent Viacom …
Emily Brill / CJR:
Disclose This — The press should treat big tech companies like Big Pharma — On August 9, Google and Verizon announced an alliance in which Google, the champion of the free, open Internet, would partially bow to Verizon's long-held position that purveyors of certain types of content …
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Nelson tapped as editorial director of Time Inc. — Tweet — Martha Nelson, a group editor in charge of two of three divisions at Time Inc., is being named the new editorial director of all Time Inc. magazines. — The move makes her the second-highest editorial executive …
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Steve Case Talks Media, AOL, LivingSocial, And Everything Else — Is Google crazy to pay $6 billion for Groupon? Is Amazon nuts to dump $175 million into LivingSocial? — No way, says Steve Case, a not disinterested party in the debate. He's an investor in LivingSocial …
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Time Warner's Bewkes skeptical of Netflix plan — (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc Chief Executive Jeffrey Bewkes questioned whether Netflix Inc's current business model of paying top dollar for rights to stream movies and TV shows over the Internet is sustainable in the long-term.
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