Mediagazer: Why do editorials remain anonymous? (Tom Clark/Guardian)

2:50 AM ET, January 11, 2011

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Financial Times:

Financial Times Launches FT Tilt — NEW YORK/LONDON: The Financial Times today announces the launch of FT Tilt, a premium online financial news and analysis service focused exclusively on the emerging world. It serves finance professionals who have a direct interest in these markets …

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Felix Salmon:
FT Tilt: A blog behind a paywall

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Lewis DVorkin / The Copy Box:

Inside Forbes: Our Content Strategy, Brand Power and the Path Forward — Over its 93 years as a major force in the media business, Forbes has offered news consumers authoritative journalism with a clear and strong voice. We are unabashed champions of free enterprise. We celebrate the spirit of entrepreneurialism.

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Alexandra Topping / Guardian:

OFT clampdown on Twitter promos — Watchdog says online companies who did not disclose paid-for promotions by celebrities and bloggers were deceptive — How does a celebrity declare their affiliations to certain brands in fewer than 140 characters? Many may have to learn …

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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

How Peter Maass' groundbreaking story on Saddam's statue found a lifeboat in nonprofit funding — Magazine awards season approaches, and one of the stories likely to be gracing best-of lists is a piece that ran in last week's New Yorker: an epic analysis — equal parts war report …

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Nat Ives / AdAge:

Time Inc. Merges Print and Digital Corporate Sales — Digital President Kirk McDonald Exits at the Same Time — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — In one more step for the integration of print and digital media, Time Inc. has combined the operations that had handled its largest advertisers in each medium.

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Rupal Parekh / AdAge:

Groupon Makes Big Bid on Traditional TV, Buys Super Bowl Pregame — Social E-commerce Sensation Looks Beyond Word-of-Mouth, Lines Up Shops for Major Push — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Groupon may not need Google to grow. But it does need some good, old-fashioned advertising.

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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

NewsBeast adds key staff, sets April launch — Tina Brown plans to turn to two former Time magazine veterans to run Newsweek on an interim basis while she puts the finishing touches on a sweeping redesign that is not expected to be unveiled until April. — Steve Koepp, a former No. 2 editor …

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John Plunkett / Guardian:

Syndication is killing the radio star — As more and more local radio stations go national, would-be DJs have to find other ways of making themselves heard — Video didn't kill the radio star, despite the Buggles' pessimistic prediction in 1979. More than 30 years later, DJs face a more fearsome threat - syndication.

Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:

Will an ad network work for your news website? Or are you just going to have to sell your own ads? — By Robert Niles: One of the toughest challenges that new journalism entrepreneurs face is: Do I have to sell my own ads? — The journalism industry's traditional ethical “wall” …

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

Dallas Morning News boss: We'll be vilified for charging for web content — “Brace yourself,” Dallas Morning News publisher Jim Moroney writes in his memo to staff announcing the paper's paywall plans. “We will be vilified by the digital futurists, ridiculed by colleagues in our industry …

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Dan Gillmor / Salon:

Darwin's media: Surviving the info-glut — Book excerpt: In an age of democratized media, consumers need to take some responsibility, too … The e-mail arrived in early January 2010 via a colleague, who got it from his father, who got it from a mail list. It began, “Do you remember 1987 ...”

Martin Belam / currybetdotnet:

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Tom Clark / Guardian:

Why do editorials remain anonymous? — There are good reasons why the tradition of unsigned leading articles is worth upholding — The leading article is not what it used to be. Surveying the glorious history in 2008, the Times' chief leader writer, Daniel Finkelstein …

Wall Street Journal:

Disney, Yahoo Look at Internet TV — Walt Disney Co. is discussing making video from some of its television networks available on sets embedded with Yahoo Inc.'s Internet-TV software, people familiar with the matter said. — Such new offerings would propel Yahoo into a broader battle …

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Jack Shafer / Slate:

In Defense of Inflamed Rhetoric — The attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and the killing of six innocents outside a Tucson Safeway has bolstered the ongoing argument that when speaking of things political, we should all avoid using inflammatory rhetoric and violent imagery.

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David Kaplan / paidContent:

Foursquare To Add Examiner News Alongside Check-Ins — Geo-location service Foursquare has netted content deals with several major news publishers last year, such as the NYT and Financial Times but those were mostly for promotional purchases. The company has struck a new partnership …

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Mark Joyella / Mediaite:

First Look: Piers Morgan's New Set On CNN (And First Week's Guests) — For decades, Larry King's iconic set-perhaps best described as a “Lite Brite map of the world” was as recognizable as the host himself. As CNN prepares to launch a new host into King's 9 p.m. timeslot …

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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Exclusive: Mickie Rosen to Join Yahoo as Audience Head — It's not all departures! — Yahoo is hiring former News Corp. and Disney online exec Mickie Rosen (pictured here) to run its Audience unit, which includes the Silicon Valley Internet giant's powerful content sites, sources said.

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Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Guardian's Subscription iPhone App Due This Week — The Guardian could have a decent shot at sustainable mobile income, if current trends are anything to go by. — An updated app, which flips from its previous one-off £2.39 ($3.7) charge to a recurring subscription model …

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