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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, About.com Journalism, Mediaite, Big News Network.com, Poynter and LA Observed
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Why Didn't a Newspaper Create The Huffington Post? — Amid all the discussion about whether AOL overpaid for The Huffington Post, how much founder Arianna Huffington made from the deal, and whether the kind of search-engine optimization the site does is losing its relevance …
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Mixed Media, @chucktodd, Los Angeles Times, Kempton, The Wire and New York Observer, Thanks:mathewi
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 …
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New York Observer, blogs.journalism.co.uk and Mediaite
Keith Richman / AdAge:
Now That AOL Has Huffpo, Where's the Video?
Now That AOL Has Huffpo, Where's the Video?
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The Wire, NetNewsCheck Latest, GigaOM, LA Observed, Search Engine Land, Drudge Report and New York Observer
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Search engine optimization won't work forever.
Search engine optimization won't work forever.
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The Atlantic Online, Guardian, Webmetricsguru, Editors Weblog and Harper's BAZAAR
David Kaplan / paidContent:
AOL-HuffPo: A Lot Of Scale—But Will Advertisers Care?
AOL-HuffPo: A Lot Of Scale—But Will Advertisers Care?
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Ken Doctor's Instablog, Future of Journalism, The Wire and Burst Media Company Blog
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, TVNewser, Mediaite, mediabistro.com, The Daily Beast and The Huffington Post
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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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Tower Ticker, Poynter, Media & Entertainment, B&C, mediabistro.com, The Huffington Post, Yahoo! News, Company Town, 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 …
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Andrea Morabito / Broadcasting & Cable:
Upfronts 2011: Current TV Positions Itself as ‘Real’ Reality Network
Upfronts 2011: Current TV Positions Itself as ‘Real’ Reality Network
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The Wrap
Post Now:
WJLA to take over TBD.com — WJLA-TV station is taking over the local news Web site TBD.com, according to a source within Allbritton Communications, parent company of the two media organizations. — TBD.com launched Aug. 9. It had cross-promoted its work with TBD TV, the cable news channel formerly known as NewsChannel 8.
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Lost Remote, Poynter, bizjournals, @jimbradysp, @jimbradysp, @dangillmor, @lavrusik and @jayrosen_nyu
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.
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Adam Sherk and SAI
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Demand Media & Being “The Best Click” On Google
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 …
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Media Matters for America
Jay A. Fernandez / Hollywood Reporter:
GeekDad Blog and Books to Be Adapted for Film, TV (Exclusive) … Michael J. Gaeta and Alison Rosenzweig of Gaeta/Rosenzweig Films have picked up rights to the GeekDad brand, which they plan to develop into film and TV projects. — What began as a popular blog on the Wired website devoted …
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GeekDad, Talking Biz News and @iwantmedia
Ronald Grover / Bloomberg:
News Corp.'s Fox Says It May Drop Stations in Dispute Over Fees — News Corp.'s Fox network said it may drop some affiliates if the local TV stations are unwilling to pay a program fee sought by the broadcaster. — Without an agreement on a new fee schedule, Fox “will have to pursue …
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Online Video News
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.
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LA Observed, The Wire and @iwantmedia
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, ReadWriteWeb, thinq_, GigaOM, paidContent:UK and The Next Web
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Time Inc. Gets the Tablet Magazine Subscriptions It Wants-With HP — Time Inc., which has been unable to come to terms with Apple over subscriptions for digitized magazines, has found someone it can work with: Hewlett-Packard. — HP has agreed to let Time Warner's publishing unit provide subscriptions …
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Digital Daily, more at Techmeme »
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.
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isolani: weblog, more at Techmeme »
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Latoya Peterson / Poynter:
How Gawker's redesign subverts the scannable culture of the Internet …
How Gawker's redesign subverts the scannable culture of the Internet …
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The Atlantic Online, eMedia Vitals, Nieman Journalism Lab, The Wire and New York Post