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Alessandra Stanley / New York Times:
Mubarak's Fall Prompts Double Takes by Anchors — It took 18 days to shake the world, but this time the revolution was shown live. People around the globe watched Egyptians rise up in an unarmed insurrection. They looked on, gobsmacked, as the Mubarak dictatorship crumbled on camera.
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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.
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.
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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Time Inc. Strikes Blows for Publishers in Standoff with Apple — Coming soon to a tablet near you. Maybe even the iPad? Image via Wikipedia — For Time Inc., the world's biggest magazine company, the quickest way to get it titles onto iPad screens may be getting them onto other tablets first.
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Nat Ives / AdAge:
Sports Illustrated to Stop Selling Print-Only Subscriptions — $48 Package Bundling in Android Apps Means End of $39 Print-Only Offer — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — When Sports Illustrated unveiled its new $48 “All Access” subscription package bundling print, web and app editions for Android tablets …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The Economics of Blogging and The Huffington Post — When The Huffington Post announced earlier this week that it was being acquired by AOL for $315 million in cash and stock, one group felt slighted: a set of unpaid bloggers for the site, identifying by the Twitter hashtag #huffpuff …
Media Week:
Thomson Reuters to make jobs cuts in 2011 — Thomson Reuters, the global news and information provider, is preparing to make hundreds of job cuts across its global Markets division, following a 7% drop in underlying profit in 2010. — Thomson Reuters: plans to slash jobs in 2011
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Joe Coscarelli / Runnin' Scared:
Yesha Callahan Outed Chris Lee, the Craigslist Congressman: No Gawker Source Is Safe — When Gawker took down New York GOP representative Christopher Lee of the 26th district, they did so based on the emails of an anonymous woman who made a Craigslist posting.
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Stuart Elliott / Media Decoder:
Effort to Provide TV Ratings by Brand Moves Ahead — For decades, advertisers and agencies involved in advertising on television — meaning, practically all of Madison Avenue — have been seeking something their counterparts overseas have long had: brand-specific ratings …
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Hollywood Reporter:
Television Business Scribe Lacey Rose Joins The Hollywood Reporter … The Hollywood Reporter is pleased to announce that Lacey Rose is joining the staff as a senior writer for the expanding television department. — Rose was a staff writer at Forbes magazine, where she most recently covered the business of television.
Marc Settle / BBC College of Journalism Blog:
Why small devices are big news for journalists — The great and the good in the world of mobile devices are heading to Barcelona for their annual shindig, the Mobile World Congress. Many are likely to be in good cheer following the news this week that sales of mobiles in 2010 had increased by some 32% on the figure for 2009.
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.
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