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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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Nieman Journalism Lab, New York Observer, On Media's Blog, MinOnline and NYConvergence.com
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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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Scocca, New York Observer and The Wrap
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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Slate, Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, CJR, Mediaweek, Felix Salmon, AdExchanger.com, Guardian, The Daily Beast, New York Magazine, Salon, VentureBeat, Media Decoder, SAI, The Wire, Reason, Adweek, Ben Smith's Blog, The Now/ledge, Digits, Runnin' Scared, Tuned In, Washington Post, C-Scape, CNET News and ReadWriteWeb, more at Techmeme »
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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Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
The Note Arianna Huffington Sent to Her Bloggers About the AOL Acquisition
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GigaOM, The Daily Beast, SAI, Poynter, The Atlantic Wire, Memex 1.1 and tag me with a spoon
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Arianna Huffington on Her New AOL Job: “I Want to Stay Here Forever”
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Deal Journal, SAI, SAI, BBC, Tech Trader Daily, Disruptors, The Startup Foundry, On Media's Blog, BoomTown, BoomTown, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, The Huffington Post and Beet.TV
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.
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
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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
“It just feels inevitable”: Nick Denton on Gawker Media sites' long …
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@jstrevino, @omg_ponies, New York Observer, AOL News, The Wire, NYConvergence.com, Poynter, The Daily Dish and Felix Salmon, more at Techmeme »
Remy Stern / Gawker:
Welcome to the New Gawker — Gawker has a brand new look as of today.
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@owenthomas, Mediaite, tag me with a spoon, Deadspin and @iwantmedia
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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Phillip Smith:
Journalism's Peanut Butter Cup Moment — I'm dreaming big here. It's aspirational, but here it is: … Today marks a big step forward toward making this vision come to life for Mozilla, Mozillians, and the three-hundred million four-hundred million people that make up the global Mozilla community.
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Jose Zamora / KnightBlog:
Knight and Mozilla Foundations launch partnership to advance media innovation
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Journalism.co.uk, Knight Foundation News …, Poynter and The Mozilla Blog
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 …
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paidContent, Ars Technica, Fast Company, Evolver.fm, VentureBeat, Neowin.net, Electronista, MacStories, rbr.com, The Next Web and ReadWriteWeb
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
ComScore: Hulu Is Watched Twice As Much As The 5 Major TV Networks Online Combined — In a new report on digital trends in 2010 — When it comes to premium video on the Web, Hulu still rules. In the fourth quarter, the U.S. online audience watched 19.4 billin minutes of video on Hulu …
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comScore, Inc. and GigaOM, more at Techmeme »
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.
Daniel Frankel / The Wrap:
Paul Haggis Denounces Scientology in New Yorker Opus — Consider Paul Haggis' Operating Thetan status officially revoked. — Now dissonant from the Church of Scientology, to which he loyally adhered to for 37 years, Haggis serves as key source in The New Yorker's 26-page undressing of what the …
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New Yorker, Globe and Mail, Speakeasy and AOL News
Ben Popper / New York Observer:
The Pied Piper of Social Media — At this point in his career, Toby Daniels' biggest challenge is keeping up with his own creation. Two years ago, the fast-talking Brit launched Social Media Week as a small New York conference featuring forty events. He was the founder, CEO and sole employee.
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