Mediagazer: Five Questions for Groupon's Brandon Copple (Dig Communications)

2:49 AM ET, December 10, 2010

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Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

Why The New York Times eliminated its social media editor position — Earlier this week, New York Times Social Media Editor Jennifer Preston tweeted that she would be returning to reporting full-time. The news made me wonder: What would this mean for social media at the Times?

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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Aron Pilhofer and Jennifer Preston on the new shape of social …

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Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:

How Fox News Spun Health-Care Debate — As the debate over the public option heated up last year, Fox News brass told staffers to change the way they talked about it. Howard Kurtz on the memo that echoed a key GOP talking point. — As the health-care debate was heating up in the summer of 2009 …

Dig Communications:

Five Questions for Groupon's Brandon Copple — Veteran financial journalist Brandon Copple made headlines of his own this summer when he departed Crain's Chicago Business, where he was managing editor, for Groupon, where he holds the same title. — Copple, 39, brought a journalistic pedigree …

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C.W. Anderson / Nieman Journalism Lab:

From Indymedia to Wikileaks: What a decade of hacking journalistic culture says about the future of news — The first time I ever heard the words “mirror website,” I was sitting at a debris-strewn desk, hunched over a desktop computer, on the second floor of a nondescript office building on East 29th in Manhattan.

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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Who Coined ‘Social Media’? Web Pioneers Compete for Credit — Image by Getty Images North America via @daylife — Coining a buzzy new term doesn't earn you any money, only bragging rights. But when the term is as buzzy and widely-circulated as “social media,” the bragging rights involved …

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

Univision Shakes Up News Leadership — Spanish-language broadcaster Univision is changing up the leadership in its news division, with Alina Falcón stepping aside. — Falcón has been with Univision for 26 years, and was most recently in charge of the network's news and sports divisions.

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David Kaplan / paidContent:

Survey: iPad Newspaper Apps Could Slash Print Subscriptions — Wasn't the iPad supposed to save print journalism? A Reynolds Journalism Institute survey of 1,600 iPad users this fall says that more than half—58.1 percent —of print newspaper subscribers who devote about an hour …

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MediaShift:

J-Schools Shift from Learning Labs to Major Media Players — Education content on MediaShift is sponsored by Carnegie-Knight News21, an alliance of 12 journalism schools in which top students tell complex stories in inventive ways. See tips for spurring innovation and digital learning at Learn.News21.com.

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Joe Mullin / paidContent:

YouTube, Feeling Good About Content ID, Drops 15-Minute Limit On Uploads — YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) announced today that it's getting rid of a 15-minute limit on the duration of videos uploaded by users. Ditching the limit suggests that YouTube is pretty happy with how well Content ID …

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Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

‘Operation Ivy League’ was great news for Columbia's student press corps — Eliza Shapiro, a 20-year-old junior at Columbia University, woke up around 10 a.m. Tuesday morning to find a tip waiting in her email inbox. — Shapiro is the editor-in-chief of Bwog, the preciously named blog …

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John Eggerton / Multichannel News:

NAB's Smith: Government Retrans Moves Could Send Super Bowl To Pay Platform — Warning Comes In Response To FCC's Proposed Retrans Rulemaking — If the government injects itself into the “private business negotiations of retrans,” says National Association of Broadcasters president Gordon Smith …

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Julie Bosman / New York Times:

Lusty Tales and Hot Sales: Romance E-Books Thrive — Sarah Wendell, blogger and co-author of “Beyond Heaving Bosoms,” is passionate about romance novels. — Except for the covers, with their images of sinewy limbs, flowing, Fabio-esque locks or, as she put it, “the mullets and the man chests.”

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Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Hulu's in a Netflix headlock — Tweet — Netflix's muscle-flexing deal yesterday with Disney not only reinforces the fact that it is a programming distributor to be reckoned with, it is also forcing rival Hulu to reconfigure its business plan, sources tell The Post.

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Rem Rieder / American Journalism Review:

A Profoundly Bad Idea — Sen. Joe Lieberman and his call for a federal investigation of the Times over WikiLeaks. Posted: Wed, Dec. 8 2010 — Rem Rieder (rrieder@ajr.umd.edu) is AJR's editor and senior vice president. — Sen. Joe Lieberman has come up with a terrible idea.

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