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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.
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, On Media's Blog, Nieman Journalism Lab, 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
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, The Wire, the Econsultancy blog, MediaMemo, Media Gleaner, Mixed Media, The Wrap, LA Observed, SAI, The Daily Beast, The Atlantic Wire, Venture Capital Dispatch, Yahoo! News, TBD All News, CJR, Mediactive, Runnin' Scared, The Huffington Post, Future of Journalism, FT Alphaville, TechCrunch, MinnPost, DNAinfo, DealBook and Rebooting The News
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, Guardian, The Daily Beast, AdExchanger.com, New York Magazine, Salon, VentureBeat, Media Decoder, SAI, Reason, Adweek, Ben Smith's Blog, The Now/ledge, Digits, Runnin' Scared, Tuned In, C-Scape, Washington Post, CNET News and PC World, more at Techmeme »
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, Memex 1.1, Fortune 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, BoomTown, TechCrunch, On Media's Blog and Beet.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, NYConvergence.com, The Wire, Poynter, tag me with a spoon and The Daily Dish, 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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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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Media News International
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
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 »
Damon Kiesow / Poynter:
Looking for fresh content from The Daily during the day? You'll have to hunt for it — I have been reading The Daily regularly since it launched on Wednesday, and almost every time I open the app, I've been confused to see a message telling me that “a new issue” is being delivered.
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Fortune and Podcasting News
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 NY Daily News
Christopher Mims / Technology Review:
Can This Journalist Be Replaced by Software and Mechanical Turk? — If you think your current boss is a drag, imagine being directed by a piece of software. — An experiment being conducted by an alliance of journalists and computer scientists aims to combine the distributed human brainpower …
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broadstuff, TechEye and Future of Journalism
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.
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