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New York Times:
Betting on News, AOL Is Buying The Huffington Post — The Huffington Post, which began in 2005 with a meager $1 million investment and has grown into one of the most heavily visited news Web sites in the country, is being acquired by AOL in a deal that creates an unlikely pairing of two online media giants.
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Dan Lyons / The Daily Beast:
Huffington Post and AOL: You've Got a Mess — AOL's pseudo journalism, Huffington Post's miniscule ad rates, and editors with big egos and a tough boss will doom the just-created media company. Dan Lyons on the disastrous deal. — It is no surprise that AOL is buying Huffington Post.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
You've Got Arianna: AOL Buys Huffington Post for $315 Million in Cash and Stock, Appoints Huffington Editor in Chief — In a bold and definitive move, AOL is paying $315 million, mostly in cash, to buy the Huffington Post, one of the Web's most prominent news and opinion sites.
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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
When HuffPost Met AOL: ‘A Merger of Visions’ — I've used this space to make all sorts of important HuffPost announcements: new sections, new additions to the HuffPost team, new HuffPost features and new apps. But none of them can hold a candle to what we are announcing today.
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Bill Kirtz / Poynter:
Zucker: NBC tried to buy Huffington Post for 18 months, couldn't agree on price — Just-ousted NBC Universal president and chief executive Jeff Zucker today praised AOL's $ 315 million acquisition of The Huffington Post. He said NBC had tried for 18 months to buy the popular blog but “could never agree on price.”
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Brian Morrissey / Mediaweek:
Brown's Web Woes — The Daily Beast's execs are stars of the magazine world, but do they know what they're doing online? — The site, which merged with Newsweek last November, continues to ignite buzz with high-profile hires, most recently The New Yorker's Peter Boyer and The Village Voice's Wayne Barrett.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
AOL + Huffington Post Won't Go to 11. But It Does Make Sense. — There are lots of Web M&As that don't make much sense. But after you get past the “OMG!!!!!” novelty of AOL's $315 million Huffington Post buy, this one has a straightforward logic to it: Old, big, slow company buys new …
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Ken Auletta / News Desk:
Tim Armstrong's Hail Mary Pass — AOL's purchase of the Huffington Post is the equivalent of a fourth-quarter Hail Mary pass. The game clock was ticking down on C.E.O. Tim Armstrong's pledge to demonstrate by the second half of this year that AOL could mount a comeback from the near dead.
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
AriannaOL — They laughed when Arianna sat down to the keyboard.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Arianna Huffington on Her New AOL Job: “I Want to Stay Here Forever”
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive Video: AOL's Tim Armstrong and HuffPo's Arianna Huffington …
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Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
The Note Arianna Huffington Sent to Her Bloggers About the AOL Acquisition
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Felix Salmon:
HuffPo's future — The $315 million that AOL is paying …
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Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
I, For One, Welcome Our New Huffington Overlord
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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
“It just feels inevitable”: Nick Denton on Gawker Media sites' long-in-the-works new layout — This morning, “the biggest event in Gawker Media history” took place: Gawker's sites have officially launched their redesigns. Go to gawker.com — or jezebel.com or deadspin.com or lifehacker.com …
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Jay Yarow / The Wire:
Nick Denton Makes A Cash Bet Gawker Media Won't Lose Pageviews With New Format — Gawker Media boss Nick Denton just made a small side bet on the success of his redesign for Gawker's sites. — He's wagering ~$1,000 with New York tech scenester Rex Sorgatz that Gawker's pageviews …
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Remy Stern / Gawker:
Welcome to the New Gawker — Gawker has a brand new look as of today.
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Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Sarah Chubb Is Leaving Condé Nast After 20 Years — Condé Nast Digital head Sarah Chubb is leaving, the company just announced internally. — No successor has been named; Condé will name one in the “coming weeks.” — Condé has been shuffling its digital structure …
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Matthew Hawn / Last.fm:
Last.fm Radio becomes a premium feature on mobile and home entertainment devices — On February 15, the radio service built into Last.fm mobile apps and on home entertainment devices will become an ad-free, subscriber-only feature. — Last.fm Radio will remain free on the Last.fm website in the US …
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Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
If Hulu loses CEO, who would want that gig? — Toast. — That's what Jason Kilar's career at Hulu is supposed to be soon if all the media speculation is correct. — Hulu is controlled by broadcast networks, NBC, ABC, and Fox, but that didn't stop Kilar, Hulu's CEO …
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Jose Zamora / KnightBlog:
Knight and Mozilla Foundations launch partnership to advance media innovation — Technology changes fast. Technology companies are built to handle continuous change. News organizations, even new ones, often are not. These facts are a challenge, but also a great opportunity to promote quality journalism and media innovation.
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Robinsloan / Twitter Media:
I Want My AJZ — As Egypt turns upside down, Al Jazeera has found its moment. It's the right network in the right place at the right time; the Qatar-based news organization has unique access and a unique audience. From the Middle East to the White House, all eyes are on Al Jazeera.
Pasha Malla / Nieman Journalism Lab:
YouTube and basketball memories: FreeDarko's Pasha Malla on fandom, curation, and democratized media — Editor's Note: Last week, I read The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History, the second NBA book produced by the people behind the NBA blog FreeDarko.
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
The Daily vs. Flipboard: One of These is The Future of Newspapers... Last week Rupert Murdoch's iPad-only newspaper The Daily was launched. The Daily is a newspaper app available to U.S. users on the iPad for 99c per week (the first 2 weeks are free; non-U.S. people can download it for trial via this method).
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John Gapper / John Gapper's blog:
The Daily lacks news stories, not multimedia
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Aljazeera:
The media battle for Egypt — We follow the coverage of one of the biggest political protests in Arab history. — Listening Post — The battle for Egypt: The coverage, the censorship and the government that refuses to step down. Then, ‘Breaking the Silence’: Israeli soldiers shatter the media narrative.
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Ayman Mohyeldin / @aymanm:
Safe & sound after being detained by the military Thanks 2 all for love/support Hope they Release all! Back 2 work Love Ayman #tahrir #jan25
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Al Jazeera Hopes Reports From Egypt Open Doors in U.S.
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