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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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Mediaweek, Felix Salmon, Guardian, IAB SmartBrief, New York Magazine, Fortune, Hot Air, SAI, Adweek and Ben Smith's Blog, more at Techmeme »
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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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New York Observer, MinOnline, On Media's Blog and NYConvergence.com
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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New York Observer and The Wrap
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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CJR, GigaOM, paidContent, Salon, The Wire, @stevecase, TechCrunch, BoomTown, @espiers, The Now/ledge, BlogPost, USA Today and @latimesrainey
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
AriannaOL — They laughed when Arianna sat down to the keyboard. They were wrong. I was wrong, too. I hadn't imagined that Huffington Post would become the force in media and politics that it became. — Tim Armstrong and Aol are smart to acquire Huffington Post as a media property and Arianna Huffington as the head of content.
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Newsonomics, SAI, Runnin' Scared, Seeking Alpha and The Wire
Ken Auletta / News Desk:
Tim Armstrong's Hail Mary Pass
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CNET News, Brooks in Beta, Online NewsHour and New York Observer
New York Times:
Betting on News, AOL Is Buying The Huffington Post
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Arianna Huffington on Her New AOL Job: “I Want to Stay Here Forever”
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SAI
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
When HuffPost Met AOL: ‘A Merger of Visions’
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
You've Got Arianna: AOL Buys Huffington Post for $315 Million …
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Guardian, Deal Journal, Salon, Mixed Media, Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, The Awl, MediaMemo, Wall Street Journal, MinnPost, DNAinfo, The Daily Beast, @rafat, SAI, The Wire, AdExchanger.com, Los Angeles Times, @ischafer, Neowin.net, @ariannahuff, Softpedia News, Bloomberg, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Digits, New York Observer, Mediaite, VentureBeat, News Desk, FishbowlNY, Computerworld, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, Reuters, Media Nation, @rafat, CNET News, @dannysullivan, @megan, @ariannahuff, San Francisco Peninsula … and AOL Corp
Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
The Note Arianna Huffington Sent to Her Bloggers About the AOL Acquisition
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Poynter, mediabistro.com, PC World, The Huffington Post, Future of Journalism and tag me with a spoon
Felix Salmon:
HuffPo's future — The $315 million that AOL is paying …
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Yahoo! News, Seeking Alpha, Most Recent Home Page Posts … and DealBook
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive Video: AOL's Tim Armstrong and HuffPo's Arianna Huffington …
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Venture Capital Dispatch, Guardian and SAI
Media Decoder:
Olbermann Said to Be Going to Current TV — Keith Olbermann, the former top-rated host of “Countdown” on the news channel MSNBC, will announce his next television home on Tuesday, and people familiar with his plans pointed Monday to a possible deal with the public affairs channel Current TV.
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TVNewser, Mediaite, Moneywood, Broadcasting & Cable, paidContent, VentureBeat, The Huffington Post, Poynter, On Media's Blog, Gawker, ReadWriteWeb, Hot Air, PopEater, LA Observed, The Wrap and Politics Daily
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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New York Observer, @jstrevino, Black Web 2.0, @omg_ponies, AOL News, The Wire, Poynter and NYConvergence.com, more at Techmeme »
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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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Fimoculous and Digits
Remy Stern / Gawker:
Welcome to the New Gawker — Gawker has a brand new look as of today.
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Mediaite, @owenthomas, @iwantmedia, Deadspin and tag me with a spoon
Dan Frommer / The Wire:
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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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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NetNewsCheck Latest
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 …
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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Journalism.co.uk, Phillip Smith, Knight Foundation News …, NathanielJames.org, NetNewsCheck Latest and Poynter
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.
Brad Wellen / FishbowlNY:
Fashion Director Michael Carl Bounces From Allure To Vanity Fair — As fall/winter fashion week approaches, one major player in the print world is changing teams prior to the New York shows. Michael Carl, fashion director of Allure, is making the switch to Vanity Fair where he will serve as fashion market director.
Discussion:
The Fix and New York Observer
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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Poynter and Podcasting News
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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