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Tim Rutten / Los Angeles Times:
AOL ♥ HuffPo. The loser? Journalism — To grasp the Huffington Post's business model, picture a galley rowed by slaves and commanded by pirates. — Whatever the ultimate impact of AOL's $315-million acquisition of the Huffington Post on the new-media landscape …
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Washington Post, Poynter and LA Observed
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Mahalo's Calacanis: Time To End The Content Farm Arms Race — No stranger to controversy, Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis threw down a gauntlet at his “content farm” competitors, arguing they're polluting the web and angering Google, to the detriment of searchers and their own companies.
Discussion:
Adam Sherk and SAI, more at Techmeme »
New York Post:
AOL stock sheds $315M — HuffPo price tag — You pay for what you get. — Arianna Huffington and Ken Lerer, co-founders of the Huffington Post, are said to be walking away with a combined $80 million to $100 million from an original $2 million per person investment — but so far AOL stockholders aren't seeing that kind of return.
Discussion:
FishbowlNY
Keith Richman / AdAge:
Now That AOL Has Huffpo, Where's the Video?
Discussion:
The Wire, GigaOM, LA Observed, Search Engine Land and Drudge Report
David Kaplan / paidContent:
AOL-HuffPo: A Lot Of Scale—But Will Advertisers Care?
Discussion:
Future of Journalism, The Wire and Burst Media Company Blog
Felix Salmon:
Why the NYT will lose to HuffPo
Discussion:
MarketWatch, Mixed Media, Epicenter, Soup, Runnin' Scared, Future of Journalism and The Huffington Post
Laura Kusisto / New York Observer:
HuffPo Bloggers to Invade Dial-Up Daddy's ‘Funhouse’
Discussion:
Kempton, Los Angeles Times and paidContent
Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:
CBS Wants Contract Extension for Katie Couric — The network, which is shaking up its management, has asked anchor Katie Couric to stay on through the 2012 elections—for significantly less money than her original $15 million deal, a source tells Howard Kurtz.
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Yahoo! News, Mediaite, mediabistro.com, The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post and Company Town
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Andrea Morabito / Broadcasting & Cable:
New CBS News Chair: 'I Don't Know Whether' Couric Wants To Stay — Jeff Fager says splitting news and sports jobs represents a recommitment to news by the network — On the day his new position as Chairman of CBS News was announced, Jeff Fager says he doesn't know yet whether Katie Couric wants …
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Poynter, Media & Entertainment, On Media's Blog, B&C, Company Town, mediabistro.com, The Huffington Post, Yahoo! News, Chickaboomer, MediaPost, Multichannel, Moraes on TV, The Wrap and rbr.com
Media Decoder:
For Current TV, Adding Olbermann Is Way to Gain an Identity — The small cable channel Current TV hopes that Keith Olbermann can do for it what he did for MSNBC: give it a clear identity. — The channel, co-founded by Al Gore five years ago, said Tuesday that Mr. Olbermann would start producing …
Associated Press:
Newspaper stocks jump on content hopes — Newspaper stocks jump after AOL deal shows content still matters — Related Quotes … NEW YORK (AP) — Newspaper stocks jumped Monday after AOL agreed to buy online news site Huffington Post for $315 million, the latest in a string of deals …
Discussion:
New York Observer, blogs.journalism.co.uk and Mediaite
Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp closes in on daughter's Shine Television — Key meetings due in coming days to consider takeover of Elisabeth Murdoch's London-based company — Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is closing in on the takeover of his daughter's Shine Television …
Discussion:
Media Matters for America
Daniel Danker / BBC:
BBC iPlayer apps, coming soon to Android and iPad — There's been a lot of speculation over the last 24 hours about BBC iPlayer apps for mobile, so I wanted to clarify our plans. — BBC iPlayer app on an iPad — As Erik Huggers announced at Mobile World Congress last year …
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Guardian, thinq_, ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM, paidContent:UK and The Next Web
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Search engine optimization won't work forever. — Are you wondering, “will AOL's acquisition of the Huffington Post be successful?” I bet you are, as that's been a common search engine query since the announcement earlier this week that AOL will buy the Huffington Post.
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Editors Weblog, Webmetricsguru, The Informer and AdScam/The Horror!
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Elisa Lipsky-Karasz / Harper's BAZAAR:
ARIANNA VS. TINA?
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Guardian, Future of Journalism, The Huffington Post, Poynter, New York Observer and FishbowlNY
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Why has Gawker disappeared from Google News? [Updated] — Updates at the foot of the post. — Sites belonging to Nick Denton's Gawker Media network have gradually received major facelifts over the past couple of days, introducing a new style that ensures popular articles are never buried by the constant addition of fresh content.
Discussion:
isolani: weblog, more at Techmeme »
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Latoya Peterson / Poynter:
How Gawker's redesign subverts the scannable culture of the Internet …
Discussion:
eMedia Vitals, The Atlantic Online, Nieman Journalism Lab, The Wire and New York Post
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Charlotte Observer shows how news orgs should mix journalism and business — Editors at the Charlotte Observer have taken some heat for using the North Carolina public records law to seek the e-mail addresses of about 23,000 people who signed up for alerts related to city services.
The Wrap:
The Nikki Finke Photo: The Daily vs. Deadline — Since last Thursday, the little-seen blogger Nikki Finke has been hunkered down in a war of attrition with News Corporation over the thing that she apparently fears more than anything on earth: a current photograph.
Discussion:
The Wire and @iwantmedia
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Porn studio could teach Apple, Google about cloud — Home-video innovations always seem to go back to porn. — The fingerprints of the adult-film industry can be found on the development of VHS and Blu-ray discs. Soon, the sector may teach us about the cloud.
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Cleeng launches a simple, social alternative to paywalls — Cleeng, a WordPress plugin that lets anyone from casual bloggers to professional publishers charge for whole articles, parts of articles or indeed any element of a page, is now out of private beta and taking sign-ups from the public.
Discussion:
New York Observer
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Future Says Online Growth Now Off-Setting Print Shrinkage — October-to-January digital ad revenue at magazine publisher Future was 25 percent up from the same period a year earlier. — Future says that “more than compensated for a 10 percent decline in print advertising revenue …
Discussion:
online.hemscottir.com and Future of Journalism
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