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David Carr / New York Times:
At Media Companies, a Nation of Serfs — Some of the fizz, if not a great big bubble, seems to have returned to media, depending on how you define “media.” — There have been reports in The New York Times and elsewhere that Facebook is now valued at $50 billion, and The Wall Street Journal reported …
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Daniel D'Addario / New York Observer:
Come Work for Me, Darling!: Arianna Huffington Sings Siren Song to Journo-Kids
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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Arianna's Nearly Silent Partner
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TechCrunch, LA Observed and New York Observer
Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
Condé Nast Newsstand Tries Convergence of Technologies — LONDON — A newsstand set to open here next week will sell more than a dozen international editions of Vogue magazine, in languages including English, Russian and Chinese. More than 100 other titles from around the world …
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John C Abell / Epicenter:
Wired and The New Yorker for Android Coming This Spring — Android versions of Wired and The New Yorker will be available in the spring, Condé Nast announced Monday. The two publications have been available for the iPad for months, but only now are tablets running Google's competing …
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eMedia Vitals
John Reinan / MinnPost:
RIP, USA Today — One of the great media innovations of our lifetime is dying. — USA Today launched in 1982 as the first truly national newspaper. With its colorful design and a heavy emphasis on light news, it was often mocked as a shallow “McPaper,” but I've never been among the mockers.
Alex Moore / Death and Taxes:
Radiohead's New Album Addressing Plight of Newspapers? — Radiohead has announced that their new album “The King of Limbs” will be the first ever “newspaper album.” What, exactly, is a newspaper album? — Radiohead became the first truly post-modern band with “OK Computer” …
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Caspar Llewellyn Smith / Guardian:
Will Radiohead's The King of Limbs save the music industry?
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The Register, The Wrap, paidContent:UK, Guardian and hypebot
New York Observer:
Local Politics Guru Azi Paybarah Returns to The Observer … Azi Paybarah will rejoin the staff of The New York Observer, editor-in-chief Elizabeth Spiers announced today. — “Azi Paybarah is a prolific political reporter and I look forward to the dynamism and energy he'll bring to the Observer newsroom,” she said.
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The Wire and FishbowlNY
Time Out Chicago:
Can the News Licensing Group save journalism? An interview with AP CEO Tom Curley — Earlier this month, those following journalism news heard that this year global news network the Associated Press would launch a new agency to allow publishers to license digital news content.
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Wall Street Journal:
Online, Small Voices Become Sparks of Revolution — For most of the last century, the world operated on the big-man theory of politics: Towering personalities were required to drive big changes. — We now seem to have moved into the small-person era of history, in which seemingly insignificant people …
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Eight trends for journalism in 2011: A Nieman Lab talk in Toronto — A couple weeks ago, I had the pleasure of being asked to speak at the Canadian Journalism Foundation's speaker series at the University of Toronto. (I also had the pleasure of being introduced by Nora Young, host of the CBC's excellent program/podcast/site Spark.)
Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
Reuters staffers unhappy with union letter likening contract dispute to Egypt uprising — Did the Newspaper Guild of New York go too far in likening a Thomson Reuters contract dispute to the recent social uprising that toppled Egypt's authoritarian government?
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Poynter
Guardian:
Who are the investment bankers at the heart of the biggest media deals? — Top five can earn up to £25m in fees each year for their banks — They are the investment bankers at the heart of the biggest British media deals of the past decade, from the sale of the Telegraph newspapers …
Martin Langeveld / News after Newspapers:
Tackable aims to become the social network for user-generated news — Facebook and Twitter may be a great way to organize revolutions, but as we saw during the last few weeks of checking #Egypt and #Jan25 hashtags, following them on Twitter can mean a frustrating hunt through lots of chaff to find a few grains of wheat.
Dylan Byers / Adweek:
War for the Observer: Management Battles With Legacy — Real estate scion, right-hand man leave elite paper shell of former self — When Jared Kushner bought The New York Observer in 2006 from its benefactor and owner, Arthur Carter, New York City's salmon-colored staple had been losing about $2 million dollars a year.
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Poynter, Spiersblr, FishbowlNY and New York Magazine
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Google to Users: Tell Us Which Content Farms You Hate — Google's Matt Cutts. He's no Spam fan. Image via Wikipedia — Google has been promising to take action against producers of low-quality, keyword-gaming content producers that spam up its search results, and now it's making …
MediaShift:
Egyptian ‘Sandmonkey’ Blogger Unmasks Himself in Cairo — CAIRO, EGYPT — I have been following the Egyptian pro-democracy blog, Rantings of a Sandmonkey, for years now. I have long wondered about the identity of its author, who describes himself as “a micro-celebrity, blogger, activist …
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Mediaite
Damon Kiesow / Poynter:
Tablet options proliferate for publishers, but Apple maintains control — In mostly separate announcements over the past two weeks, Google, Motorola, Time Warner, HP and Yahoo have all taken aim at Apple and its growing dominance of the digital tablet and mobile publishing markets.
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paidContent, eMedia Vitals and Editors Weblog
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Twitter Feed Evolves Into a News Wire About Egypt — While people debated whether Web sites like Twitter were important in organizing protests in Tunisia and Egypt, Andy Carvin was organizing information about the protests in an innovative way. — Mr. Carvin's Twitter account was transformed …
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