Mediagazer: Magic set to help Vibe mag get its groove back (Keith J. Kelly/New York Post)

10:30 AM ET, February 10, 2011

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Jay Rosen / Pressthink:

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Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:

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WJLA to take over TBD.com — This story has been updated. — Allbritton Communications will reorganize its fledgling local news site, TBD.com, by naming a new boss for the operation, and restoring the Newschannel 8 name to the cable TV station it rebranded as TBD TV last summer, Paul Farhi reports.

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WJLA-TV re-assumes control of “its” website — According to reports out of Washington, Albritton Communications is transferring control of its experimental news start-up, TBD.com, back to its TV station in the market, WJLA-TV, where GM and News Director Bill Lord will now be in charge.

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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

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How did WordPress win? — When we are passionate about something, it is sometimes hard for us to wrap our heads around why someone else might not be passionate about the same thing. You see this in the WordPress community often - fans and users of WordPress are often flabbergasted that someone might choose something else.

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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 a company it can work with: Hewlett-Packard. — HP has agreed to let Time Warner's publishing unit provide subscriptions …

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MediaShift Idea Lab:

See an Error at the Washington Post? Now You Can Easily Report It — Beginning Monday, every new staff-written article on the Washington Post's website came with a prominent link labeled “YOUR FEEDBACK: Corrections, suggestions?” One click takes the reader to a form for reporting errors or providing other feedback to the newsroom.

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Adam Westbrook:

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Discussion: The News About The News

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Magic set to help Vibe mag get its groove back — Vibe Ventures hopes that the magic is back now that it has a new ownership team led by basketball legend Magic Johnson and supermarket billionaire Ron Burkle — who are pumping an estimated $12 million into the ailing company in exchange for a majority stake.

Charles V. Bagli / New York Times:

Growing Bloomberg L.P. To Rent Half of a Tower — In another sign of Bloomberg L.P.'s growth, the company announced on Wednesday that it had signed a lease for 16 floors in the former Philip Morris building, across from Grand Central Terminal. — Bloomberg, a financial information …

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Instapaper Releases A Full API — With A Brilliant, Unique Twi$t — I love Instapaper. Blah blah blah — you all know that by now. But today developer Marco Arment has released something significant that could alter the way the service is used: a full API. And perhaps even more interesting is how he's released it.

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Andrew Adam Newman / New York Times:

For Rihanna's Perfume, a Video Meant for Rewatching — WHEN new perfumes are introduced, fragrance companies typically mount introductory advertising campaigns that run widely in women's fashion magazines, often including sample strips. — But to introduce a new perfume named for the singer Rihanna …

Steve Peoples / Roll Call:

Tea Party Creates Own Magazine to Reflect Movement's Values — The tea party movement, known for its regular attacks on the media, is formally joining the media business. — Activists have created a magazine, Tea Party Review, to be launched this week at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

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Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / SAI:

Reddit Turnaround Shows How Big Companies Can Get M&A Right — Of all the storied properties owned by Condé Nast, which one is generating the most pageviews? — It's not Vanity Fair, it's not Vogue, and it's not GQ. It's none of the usual suspects.

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