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Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
The Politics of the New Huffington Post at AOL — Is ideological innovation possible in online journalism? I think it is. My suggestion: Drop the View from Nowhere and go with transparency throughout the reborn AOL. — These are the top five questions journalists have been asking …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
AOL-HuffPo: Arianna And The Free Blog Economy — Some of Huffington Post's 9,000+ bloggers have already announced that they won't be following Arianna to AOL (NYSE: AOL) - either unhappy about the switch from ideological startup or, as Douglas Rushkoff wrote, disinterested in writing for the big corporation for free.
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Mixed Media, Media Nation, New York Magazine, Techland and The Huffington Post
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Huffpo Isn't Huffpo Without the People. Does AOL Know That?
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The Evolving Newsroom and Future of Journalism
Matt Welch / Hit & Run:
Arianna Huffington, Slavemaster?
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Opinion L.A., AlterNet.org, The Daily Caller, blogs.journalism.co.uk and Hot Air
Wall Street Journal:
Twitter as Tech Bubble Barometer — As Internet valuations climb and bankers and would-be buyers circle Silicon Valley in an increasingly frothy tech market, many eyes are on one particularly desirable, if still enigmatic, target: Twitter. — Executives at both Facebook Inc. and Google Inc. …
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Felix Salmon, Deal Journal, paidContent, Guardian, CJR, SAI, GigaOM, Company Town, Venture Capital Dispatch, TechCrunch, Epicenter, C-Scape, BoomTown, Post Tech, DealBook, Telegraph, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Search Engine Land, Digits, Neowin.net, ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web, The Atlantic Online, New York Magazine, Future of Journalism, The Consumerist, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Gawker and New Media Age, more at Techmeme », Thanks:jspepper
Fortune:
Conan 2.0 — How a late-night Luddite accidentally fought his way back into bedrooms (and computers, smartphones, and tablets) across America. — By Douglas Alden Warshaw, contributor — Conan O'Brien is in his bedroom. It's a little bit past 11 p.m., and he's shyly, hesitantly, nervously attempting to do his first webcast.
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The Wire, The Huffington Post, Mediaite, @iwantmedia, FishbowlNY, @romenesko and Moraes on TV
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Yahoo Unveils ‘Livestand’ Tablet Newsstand And ‘Personalized News’ Focus — Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) revealed details of its mobile “personalization” initiative that were hinted at earlier this week. In a conference call led by Blake Irving, the company's chief product officer, Yahoo's The platform …
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VentureBeat, SAI, TechCrunch, CNET News and @caro, more at Techmeme »
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Gawker's Scoop Draws Eyes to a New Format — Representative Christopher Lee's sudden resignation on Wednesday was triggered by an article on Gawker, the Manhattan-based gossip Web site. — The story of the married “Craigslist Congressman” who evidently sought out a woman via …
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Gawker, New York Post, City Room, Mediaite, TheLoop21.com, CJR, New York Times, Poynter, News Desk, The Stir By CafeMom, AOL News, Gawker, NYConvergence.com, The Empire, Piers Morgan, @jyarow and Swampland
Byrne / majordojo:
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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One Man & His Blog, Gadgetopia and @mathowie
Terry Heaton / Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog:
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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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Allbritton restores old branding to TBD.com, Newschannel 8
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Washington Examiner, bizjournals, Recovering Journalist and The Wrap
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Wait, everyone! TBD's not dead, but changes coming with TV takeover
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eMedia Vitals and GigaOM
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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Future of Journalism
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Despite Pushback From Pubs, Apple Will Make iTunes Subscription Billing Mandatory — When Rupert Murdoch's The Daily launched last week, Apple's VP Eddy Cue got on stage to announce one-click subscriptions for iPad publications through iTunes. The Daily already has the one-click billing option …
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Voices on All Things Digital, Techland, Mixed Media and Tech Trader Daily
Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
Can cable block the Google TV revolution? — Behind the scenes at the Federal Communications Commission, a quiet war is being waged over the future of television. It isn't getting as many headlines as net neutrality or the Comcast/NBCU merger, but the debate is nearly as important.
The Daily:
The Nikki Enigma — Is this Nikki Finke, the most powerful - and elusive - woman in Hollywood?
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The Wrap, Mediaite, New York Observer, Gawker, The Wire, Runnin' Scared and Gawker
Adam Westbrook:
10 free and totally legal programs every multimedia journalist should have — Image credit: BinaryApe on Flickr — The multimedia journalist's toolbox is ever growing - and getting ever cheaper. — While some of the top flight bits of kit: Adobe After Effects, Final Cut Studio …
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eMedia Vitals and 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.
Michael Bush / AdAge:
Virgin America on Why Twitter, Facebook Are More Important to Airline Than TV — Carrier's Top Marketer Porter Gale: ‘Other Airlines Should Recognize That Social Media Is Not Going Away’ — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — While discussing the rewards that Twitter and Facebook have delivered …
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 …
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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Folio, FishbowlNY, Mediaweek, Digital Daily and NetNewsCheck Latest
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Time Inc's Rothenberg: No ‘One-Size-Fits-All Model’ For Subscriptions; HP Up First
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