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7:00 PM ET, February 11, 2011

Top News:

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

Wall-to-wall coverage as Mubarak resigns — Cable news went wall-to-wall with special reports and broadcasters broke into their daytime programming as crowds in Egypt erupted following the news shortly after 11 a.m. EST Friday that embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has resigned, handing over power to the nation's army.

Kcaldwell / Journalism.org:
Egypt Takes Center Stage on Blogs

Discussion: blogs.journalism.co.uk, The Atlantic Online and Yahoo! News

Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:

Web Words That Lure the Readers — The Huffington Post has hired veteran journalists to beef up its news coverage. But a significant chunk of its readers come instead for articles like one published this week: “Chelsy Davy & Prince Harry: So Happy Together?”

Discussion: Poynter, Editors Weblog and On Media's Blog

Jason Linkins / The Huffington Post:
How The Huffington Post Works (In Case You Were Wondering)

Discussion: The Angle and paidContent

New York Post:

Sports Illustrated suits up for subscription app — Sports Illustrated today is expected to begin selling its first-ever digital subscription apps, which will be made available to smartphones using Google's Android system. — Up until now, only single issues could be purchased.

Discussion: MediaFile and FishbowlNY

Nat Ives / AdAge: Sports Illustrated to Stop Selling Print-Only Subscriptions

Nat Ives / AdAge:
Despite HP Deal With Time Inc., Magazines and Apple Still Stuck …

Discussion: Mixed Media

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

It's Facebook Vs. Twitter In the Race to Make the News Social — Facebook has disrupted or helped to re-engineer many businesses and markets, including the photo-sharing market and the social-gaming market. But one thing it hasn't really focused on so far is the news business.

Discussion: Digits, Thanks:loic

BBC:

Stop the presses: Facebook CTO says news next in social revolution — Facebook CTO Bret Taylor says news and media are set get the social treatment — Each week we ask chief technology officers and other high-profile tech decision-makers three questions.

Discussion: TomiLaw, ReadWriteWeb and The Next Web

Mark Potts / Recovering Journalist:

When the News Gets Old — It's no secret that in a world of news at Twitter speed, print seems to be getting left farther and farther behind. Like others, I've written about this a couple times previously, and of course there was the Daily Show's fabulously snarky take on “aged news” a couple of years ago.

Discussion: TechCrunch

Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:
The Daily vanishes into the memory hole

Discussion: The Daily and magCulture.com/blog

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent: ‘The Daily’ Updates Its Glitchy App—And Shows It Can Keep Up With News

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

gave4andy: Andy Carvin and the ad hoc pledge drive — One of the winners of the January 25 uprisings in Egypt — besides, of course, the people of Egypt — has been Andy Carvin. NPR's social media guru has been doing an exemplary job of curating social media to report on a weeks-long protest …

Discussion: Poynter, Future of Journalism and Joho the Blog

Wall Street Journal:

Borders Nearing Bankruptcy Filing — Borders Group Inc. is in the final stages of preparing a bankruptcy filing after failing to persuade publishers and others to go along with a plan to refinance the troubled bookstore chain's debt. — The Ann Arbor, Mich., bookseller could file …

Discussion: Electronista, DealBook, Deal Journal, Gawker, GalleyCat, Engadget and Jacket Copy, more at Techmeme »

PR Newswire:

Pandora Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering — Pandora Media, Inc. ("Pandora") today announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") relating to a proposed initial public offering of shares of its common stock.

Discussion: eMoney, FT tech hub and The Next Web, more at Techmeme »

Emily Bell / Guardian:

Can Google provide neutral news? — The search engine's foray into the Egypt crisis with SayNow shows how it is becoming an active ingredient in political debate — It is hard to think of many American business executives who have been detained for dissent against repressive regimes.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, @emilybell and @rightexpression, more at Techmeme »

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

As Many U.S. Newspapers Retrench from Online Video, New Opportunities Should Not Be Missed, The AP's Kevin Roach — WASHINGTON - Touted just three or four years ago as a promising editorial and business opportunity for newspapers to compete with local television stations and to grab new visitors …

Discussion: Poynter, NetNewsCheck Latest, Future of Journalism, WebNewser, @themediaisdying, @iwantmedia and Gannett Blog

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Twitter Tells Advertisers to Dig Deeper: “Promoted Trends” Get a Price Hike — Twitter's “promoted trends” ads may be the company's most consistent source of revenue. Now the company wants to wring more money out of them: It has told buyers to expect a significant price bump for the ads in the next few months.

Discussion: Techland and Pulse2, more at Techmeme »

Andrew Wallenstein / paidContent:

Fox Follows ABC Into iPad Sync Space With ‘Bones’ App — Make sure to keep your iPad on when watching TV because there may be a trend developing in primetime programs that have companion content synchronized on that second screen in your lap. Fox announced the launch today of a free app tied …

Discussion: Future of Journalism, Lost Remote and Media Buyer Planner

Nat Worden / FoxBusiness.com:

News Corp CEO Murdoch Makes Largest Stock Purchase In Years — NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- News Corp. (NWS, NWSA) Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch acquired nearly $20.2 million worth of nonvoting stock in his media empire, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times and FishbowlNY

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Gawker's Nick Denton: See, You Ingrates? This Is What We're Trying to Do (Video) — Gawker Media's Nick Denton has spent much of the week responding to whiny readers and armchair Web designers who don't like his sites' new look. — If you didn't know any better, you'd think the publishing impresario …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Runnin' Scared, News Desk, Tuned In and Mixed Media

Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

The state of play for paid content, 2011 — The late but not necessarily lamented 2010 was supposed to be the Year of the Pay Wall for newspapers. — But consumers overwhelmingly repudiated the efforts of the few publishers who dared to demand payment for access to the news …

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Why an expansion of low-power radio stations could mean good things for community news — The future of local radio news may involve more than just the letters N, P, and R. — Last month, President Obama signed the Local Community Radio Act, a new law allowing the expansion …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Adam Tinworth / One Man & His Blog:

Spam, technology and a bloody tough week — It's the end of a long working week, one that has been dominated by behavioural problems masquerading as technical ones. We've had a number of very intense spam attacks on our blog farm here, and it's taken both a number of technical efforts …