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7:35 PM ET, December 16, 2010

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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
The Huffington Post hires NYT's Sunday Business editor  —  The Huffington Post, which recently hired New York Times economic correspondent Peter Goodman, has returned to the Gray Lady to poach another veteran journalist: Sunday Business editor Timothy L. O'Brien.
Peter Applebome / New York Times:
Walk In, Grab a Muffin and Watch a Newspaper Reinvent Itself  —  At the new offices of The Register Citizen in this faded old mill town, there's a sign out front welcoming residents to come in for coffee and muffins at the Newsroom Café — sort of Starbucks meets “Lou Grant.”
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
NY Times Editor: WikiLeaks Is ‘Not My Kind of News Organization’  —  Bill Keller.  Image via Wikipedia  —  Is WikiLeaks a media organization, or is it something else?  It's a question with important implications, given the special protections afforded the press, but it's …
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Jesse Walker / Reason:
Our Leaky World
Discussion: Hit & Run, Politics Daily and Time
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Facebook to Big Media: We Like You.  We Really, Really Like You.  —  Facebook has more than 550 million users, but right now the company has its eyes on a very particular set of friends: Big media companies.  —  Mark Zuckerberg's company is working hard to win over heavyweight content distributors …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
For NPR stations, a sigh of relief  —  A funny thing happened to NPR stations after the worst publicity fiasco in NPR's history: almost nothing at all.  —  Public radio outlets across the country braced for the worst from their listeners after NPR fired commentator Juan Williams for remarks …
Discussion: On Media's Blog and Free Press
David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Flipboard's Mike McCue: Web format has ‘contaminated’ online journalism  —  Flipboard, the social magazine app for the iPad, seems to be having a flipping good run.  —  Last week, the famously design-conscious Apple Inc. named Flipboard its App of the Year.
Discussion: BoomTown
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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Bloomberg Voice: Opinions, Yes, But Only Factual Ones  —  Mike Bloomberg.  You could disagree with him, but then you'd be wrong.  Image via Wikipedia  —  Ever since its founding almost 30 years ago, Bloomberg LP has proceeded under the notion that there's a right way and a wrong way of doing …
Meg / meish dot org:
Initial reflections on Newsfoo  —  On arrival at Newsfoo a couple of weeks ago in Phoenix, Arizona, each participant was given a notebook.  The notebook may have just been a rather fine example of conference schwag, but looking back at it after the weekend, I realise that mine speaks volumes …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Confirmed: Yahoo Closing Buzz, Traffic APIs - Maybe Delicious & AltaVista  —  News is traveling fast about a leaked slide from a Yahoo “all hands” meeting earlier this week that listed several products — including Delicous and AltaVista — to be “sunsetted.”  Yahoo confirms that Yahoo Buzz will be closed, as will the Traffic APIs.
Nick Summers / New York Observer:
Despite Murdoch, Wall Street Journal Still Wins Deal Scoops  —  Last week, I wrote about the DealBook franchise at The New York Times, which in nine years has expanded from a simple morning email newsletter to an entire arm of the newspaper's business section.
Discussion: Talking Biz News
Nick Davies / Guardian:
Hacking ‘approved by NoW chief’  —  High court papers lodged by Sienna Miller's lawyers contradict paper's insistence that a single ‘rogue’ journalist was involved  —  Lawyers have secured explosive new evidence linking one of the News of the World's most senior editorial executives …
Discussion: Press Gazette
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Groupon, iPad and Twitter: 2 much 2 hope 4?  —  With iPad apps, Groupon-like buying programs and Twitter campaigns topping the to-do lists at most newspapers, it's time to place these putative publishing panaceas in proper perspective.  —  Recent research into consumer acceptance …
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Sarah Palin goes ‘lamestream’  —  After making attacks on what she memorably labeled “the lamestream media” one of her signature issues, Sarah Palin has started to experiment with a new strategy toward the press — engaging it.  —  The former Alaska governor has started cautiously cooperating …
Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Time editor defends Zuckerberg choice over Assange  —  Time managing editor Richard Stengel believes that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg—who was named “Person of the Year” on Wednesday—is not only the best choice best choice for 2010, but for years to come.
Matt Kinsman / Folio:
Forbes Teams With MediaVest, comScore to Track Ad Effectiveness  —  Study will track how print ads drive traffic online.  —  Forbes announced the launch of a new research project that will measure print advertising effectiveness, using digital tracking methodology.
Josh Duboff / The Awl:
The Night Blogger Blogs Alone  —  One thing that happens is that you stop speaking altogether.  One Thursday afternoon, shifting between various gchats—all with friends bored in their cubicles at offices across the city—I realized that I hadn't said a word out loud in close to 18 hours.
James Poniewozik / Tuned In:
Vapornews: The Huge-Then-Disappearing Stories of 2010  —  Remember when the Park51 Islamic center, or “Ground Zero mosque,” was the absolutely most urgent political-religious-cultural issue facing the United States?  When there were protests and fury and old 9/11 wounds reopened …
Ellie Behling / eMedia Vitals:
Appinions turns comments into content  —  A new platform from Appinions offers the potential for publishers to aggregate and monetize conversations about a specific topic around the Web or on their own sites.  —  Publishers can use the applications to drive engagement and therefore revenue …
Damon Kiesow / Poynter:
CNN.com GM explains new iPad strategy, why ‘the money will come’ & what's next for mobile  —  CNN's new iPad app, which launched on Tuesday, looks nothing like the network's website, and that is by design, according to Kenneth “KC” Estenson.  —  Estenson, the company's senior vice president …
 
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Chris Rovzar / New York Magazine:
Michelle Cottle Leaves New Republic to Work for Tina Brown
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Lois Beckett / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Gawker copycats, luxurious print, more robots, and a new blogging …
Mark Pasetsky / The Huffington Post:
Three Ways the iPad Will Revolutize Celebrity Magazine Covers
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Newsonomics of all-access — and Apple
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
CBS News Bests ABC and Fox in Latest comScore Online Traffic Numbers
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
He Sold a Vision at Fox, and Marketers Bought It
Terry Heaton / Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog:
The studios will lose the “war” with Netflix
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Juanita León / Nieman Journalism Lab:
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Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
Le Monde Ousts Top Manager
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Controversial Times sports editor bumped upstairs
Discussion: Urlesque and FishbowlNY
Dave Levy / State of the Fourth Estate:
Cassingles, Mix Tapes and Fast Content
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Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
TV Couch wants to bring Home Theater to your browser
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Dylan Stableford / The Wrap:
HBO Hopes There's an Audience for Hockey
Discussion: TVWeek.com and Multichannel
Nate Freeman / New York Observer:
Exclusive: Two More Top Editors Out at GQ
Discussion: FishbowlNY and New York Magazine
 

 
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple and Google are in active talks to use Gemini to power some new iPhone features in 2024; Apple also held talks with OpenAI to use its models

Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central:
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more

 
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