Mediagazer: Dana Loesch once thought CNN was the ‘Biggest Bunch of Idiot Blockheads’. Now she works for them (Molly Stark Dean/mediabistro.com)

4:25 AM ET, February 18, 2011

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Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Newsonomics of Apple/Press+/Google's pay-for-all — Editor's Note: Each week, Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of news for the Lab. — We could call this week a paid content free-for-all, but that's self-contradictory.

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Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:

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Keith J. Kelly / @media_ink: Time Inc. CEO Jack Griffin fired after only five months on the job. Stunning development

Victoria Barret / Upside Potential:

Is Pure Journalism Unaffordable? — Dan Frommer of Silicon Alley Insider is in Barcelona this week covering the Mobile World Conference. In a post about the event, he mentions this aside: … Woah. Let's be clear, here. Samsung is buying influence. If they didn't think they were …

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Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

Tech firms help news sites with Mobile World Congress expenses — Romenesko Misc. — ReadWriteMobile discloses that “the author's travel, hotel and conferences expenses were paid for by Qualcomm. They did not request this coverage, it's just interesting.”

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Lady Gaga / New York Magazine:

YouTube Offering Millions for Celebrity-Created Content — In a move designed to vastly improve the quality of its content, Google's YouTube is undertaking what's understood to be a massive bid to attract Hollywood talent — one that has agents practically leaping out of their John Lobbs …

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Spotify Signs On EMI for U.S. Launch. At Least One More to Go... It's getting closer: Spotify has finalized a U.S. distribution deal with EMI Music, multiple sources tell me. — Both EMI and Spotify declined to comment. — Coupled with last month's Sony deal, Spotify now has the approval …

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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

How public is public data? With Public Engines v. ReportSee, new access standards could emerge — A recently settled federal court case out in Utah may affect the way news organizations and citizens get access to crime data. — Public Engines, a company that publishes crime statistics …

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

CBS News Grows Online Audience with Distributed, Live Streaming Strategy — WASHINGTON — CBSNews.com has been building a growing audience, passing ABC News and Fox News in online traffic late last year. — Part of the success around the network's growth has been by streaming programming …

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Wall Street is Bullish on (Its) Online Video Programming and Thomson Reuters is Delivering a Global Audience

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Marauder / Daily Marauder:

THE FUTURE OF NEWS: FLIPBOARD VS. THE DAILY — Taking a stance on Flipboard vs. The Daily, two iPad applications which supply news content to their audiences, highlights the friction between old media and new and distinguishes the ways two companies are bringing information to users.

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Jarvis: Publicness Needs Its Advocates, Just Like Privacy — At a conference in British Columbia this morning, author and media blogger Jeff Jarvis told a room full of corporate and government privacy advocates something many of them probably didn't want to hear: that society needs more protection …

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Molly Stark Dean / mediabistro.com:

Dana Loesch once thought CNN was the ‘Biggest Bunch of Idiot Blockheads’. Now she works for them — CNN hired Dana Loesch as a political contributor last week; however, MediaMatters dug up some blog posts dating back several years in which Loesch calls CNN “the biggest bunch of idiot blockheads …

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Dylan Stableford / The Wrap:

Vogue Uses Lady Gaga to Hatch its iPad Egg — Vogue launched its first iPad application on Thursday. — The app, called “Vogue Cover Exclusive,” is just that: extra content featuring the cover subject — videos, interviews, audio, etc. — not found in the magazine or online.

Discussion: Vogue.com, Speakeasy and New York Observer

Rem Rieder / American Journalism Review:

Reporting to Conclusions — Journalists shouldn't shrink from making judgments about factual disputes. Posted: Wed, Feb. 16, 2011 — Rem Rieder (rrieder@ajr.umd.edu) is AJR's editor and senior vice president. — When Larry Platt took over as editor of the Philadelphia Daily News on January 31 …

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Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

Wired will add iPad subscriptions ‘as soon as we can’ — It's been three days since Apple debuted its digital-subscriptions iPad app for periodical publishers. And in that time, handful of iPad-equipped magazines have signed up for it, even though Apple's agreement involves several major concessions …

Discussion: MediaPost, @pkafka and Poynter

Bill Mitchell / Poynter:

Thumbs up for Roger Ebert's new revenue model on Twitter — Six weeks into what some have billed “the year of paid content,” the most interesting ideas I've seen so far have less to do with corporate policy than they do with personal enterprise. — My colleague, Mallary Tenore …

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