Mediagazer: Egyptian VP criticizes ‘unfriendly TV stations’ (Michael Calderone/Yahoo! News)

11:35 PM ET, February 3, 2011

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The Daily: Indexed — Anybody else think it's weird that The Daily, News Corp's new iPad-only magazine, posts almost every article to their official website... but with no index of the articles to be found? They spent $30M on it, but apparently forgot a homepage! — So I went ahead and made one for them!

Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:

The Daily, a tablet newspaper for ‘everybody,’ is as much Apple as News Corp. — Yesterday, at the press launch of Rupert Murdoch's new Ipad newspaper, The Daily, held in a below-grade auditorium at the Guggenheim Museum, a reporter asked Murdoch what demographic The Daily was after. “Upmarket?

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Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
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New York Times:

Gangs Hunt Journalists and Rights Workers — CAIRO — Security forces and gangs chanting in favor of the Egyptian government hunted down journalists at their offices and in the hotels where many had taken refuge on Thursday in a widespread and overt campaign of intimidation aimed at suppressing reports from the capital.

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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

Egyptian VP criticizes ‘unfriendly TV stations’ — New Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman didn't mention Al Jazeera by name, but he suggested that the Mubarak government isn't a fan of the Qatar-based network. — “I blame some sister countries that have unfriendly TV stations …

Discussion: Crikey, Swampland and The Daily Dish

Committee to Protect Journalists:
Journalists under physical assault in Egypt

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Jon Stewart's Hulu Price Tag: At Least $40 Million — Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert were two of Hulu's biggest draws until they left the video site last March. And it will cost Hulu at least $40 million to get them back. — That's according to people familiar with the new deal …

Henry Blodget / The Wire:

Hulu CEO Jason Kilar Infuriates TV Bosses/Partners With Unapproved Comments About Traditional TV — Three years ago, when Hulu was created, we expected the company would eventually fall prey to the massive conflicts of interest between its TV owners and its online product and customers.

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Is Jason Kilar Trying to Get Fired?

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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

Income Falls 26% at The Times Company as Print Advertising Drops — The New York Times Company reported a drop in fourth-quarter net income on Thursday in a challenging advertising market for newspaper publishers. — The company said that net income in the fourth quarter fell 26.2 percent …

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Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
New York Times will release paywall details in ‘near future’

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Andrew Gauthier / mediabistro.com:

KPRC Anchor Owen Conflenti Flips the Bird On-Air — With the advent of HD broadcasting and the increasing popularity of widescreen TVs, the TV news industry has had to make adjustments. Stations have erected new, HD-optimized studios, photographers have had to learn new equipment, and anchors have had to change their makeup.

Discussion: Mediaite, WebNewser, Gawker, The Wire, Chickaboomer, TVSpy and Boing Boing

Kunur Patel / AdAge:

Apple, Campbell's Say iAds Twice as Effective as TV — A Nielsen Study Shows iPhone Users Are Paying Attention, While TV Viewers Not so Much — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — It's been seven months since the first iAds — Apple's bid to reinvent mobile advertising — started popping up on iPhones and iPods …

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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:

The AP's Digital News Licensing Agency Will Launch This Summer — The Associated Press is moving ahead with a plan to establish an independent digital news licensing agency to help news organizations make additional money off their digital content. The AP initially announced its intention …

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Meghan O'Rourke / Slate:

A new tally shows how few female writers appear in magazines. — Women may be shattering glass ceilings, but not in the literary world. So a new report from the women's literary organization VIDA suggests. VIDA has just posted a breakdown by gender of contributors to magazines …

Discussion: The Awl and The Rumpus.net

Peg Brickley / Bankruptcy Beat:

News That's Not Fit to Print in Tribune's Chapter 11 Case — Whatever you do, don't call Tribune Co.'s Don Liebentritt “Sam's guy.” — That's apparently a touchy subject for Tribune co-president Liebentritt, according to the flurry of activity on the docket of the media giant's bankruptcy case.

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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:

Amid IPO Reports, Pandora Adds Two Big Media Names To Board — Pandora, which is widely expected to go public this year, has added two big-name media executives to its board: Former News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). COO Peter Chernin (who most recently has been launching a new media company targeting Asia) …

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Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:

3 new resources for data journalists — There have been a raft of new sites for data launched in the past couple of months which I haven't had time to blog about, so here's a quick round-up: — Tim Davies' Open Data Cookbook aims to collect “step by step recipes for practical ways to use open data” …

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Viacom Ad Gains Canceled Out By Lower Home Video Sales — Viacom's cable properties benefitted from the advertising recovery of the past year, but lower DVD sales erased any of its gains in the last quarter. The poor earnings performance comes a day after its MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) …