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1:55 PM ET, February 24, 2011

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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Pre-HuffPo Merger Changes At AOL; Eun Leaving, Brod To Be Arianna's COO  —  Regulatory approval of AOL's $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post is still pending but CEO Tim Armstrong already has a new structure for the evolving company.  The changes were set off by the plan …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AOL Exec David Eun Out - Here's His Email To Staff  —  Update: Here's AOL CEO Tim Armstrong's email to staff about the exec team reshuffling.  —  David Eun, my boss's (Heather) boss since the acquisition, will shortly be leaving AOL.  As President of AOL Media and Studios he oversaw …
Discussion: MediaFile, Digital Trends, SAI and @rafat
Edmund Lee / AdAge:
AOL's First Big Change for Huffington Post: Bigger Ads  —  News Aggregation Site Will Get ‘Project Devil’ Ads, but Will Anyone Else?  —  After months of negotiations with advertisers and agencies, AOL is starting to roll out “Project Devil,” a larger ad format it hopes will deliver …
Discussion: Poynter, Adotas and SAI
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Post-Huffpo, an AOL Reorg; Here's the Internal Memo  —  No surprise here: After paying $315 million for Huffington Post, AOL is shuffling its executive ranks.  David Eun, the former Google executive who came to AOL a year ago to run its media business, is out, and several other executives have new responsibilities.
Nikki Finke / Deadline.com:
Deadline.com's Parent Company MMC Sends ‘Cease & Desist’ Letter To TheWrap  —  Deadline.com and its parent company MMC is embarking on an intensified legal campaign to protect its original content.  I began Deadline Hollywood Daily exactly 5 years ago in March and have seen it grow …
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Joe Mullin / paidContent:
‘Hot News’ Has MMC Steaming At TheWrap In Cease-And-Desist Letter  —  A year ago, Sharon Waxman, editor-in-chief of TheWrap.com, sent a letter to the CEO of Newser accusing him of not playing fair in the digital news environment, by copying the meat of TheWrap's stories without giving appropriate credit.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Russ Buettner / New York Times:
Affidavits Say Fox News Chief Told Employee to Lie  —  It was an incendiary allegation — and a mystery of great intrigue in the media world: After the publishing powerhouse Judith Regan was fired by HarperCollins in 2006, she claimed that a senior executive at its parent company, News Corporation …
Discussion: FishbowlNY, LA Observed and The Wire
Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
Larry King To Piers Morgan: If You Say “I'm Dangerous,” You Better Be Dangerous  —  Larry King returned to his old CNN stomping grounds to speak with his successor of sorts, Piers Morgan.  Morgan took the opportunity to address King's earlier comment that CNN had been “overselling” …
Discussion: The Wrap, The Wire, TVNewser and BBC
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Old Media Is Being Unbundled, Just Like Telecom Was  —  One of the biggest stories of my career — as someone who covered telecom industry — happened fifteen years ago: The 1996 Telecom Act was the start of the liberalization of an industry that had been vertical with very little competition.
Discussion: Stop Big Media News
Neal Mohan / AdWords Agency Blog:
The three laws of display advertising physics  —  Labels: DoubleClick, Google Display Network  —  As we've written on our blogs before, new technologies are profoundly improving display advertising.  In the last few years, there's been a technological Big Bang, creating new ways …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:   Google's Decision to Get Into “Real Time” Ads Was Really Smart, Says Google
Waxy.org:
How I Indexed The Daily  —  For the last three weeks, I've indexed The Daily.  Now that my free trial's up, I've had an intimate look at what they have to offer and, sad to say, I don't plan on subscribing.  As a result, I'm ending The Daily: Indexed, my unofficial table of contents for every article they published publicly.
Discussion: New York Observer
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Clayman: The Daily's Free Trial Run Will Continue
Lewis DVorkin / The Copy Box:
Turning Forbes magazine content into Web content — and vice versa  —  Turning intimate magazine words into digital information (Photographed for Forbes by Evan Kafka)  —  What's the role of a magazine article in a world gone digital?  Can it effectively be retooled for news consumers on the Web?
Discussion: MediaPost, Talking Biz News and Noted
Steve Smith / MinOnline:
Mags Need Women: The Byline Gap  —  For years now the gender imbalance on many magazine industry writing staffs has been a subject of casual observations and occasional promises of change.  “The Sisterhood” columnist Elissa Strauss at the Jewish Daily Forward decided the other day to put …
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Six business lessons from TBD's early demise  —  TBD, one of the most ambitious local online launches of 2010, turns out to be a victim of crib death, reduced to an arts and entertainment mini-site barely six months after its launch last August.  —  Sure, hindsight is 20-20, but looking back …
Richard Huff / NY Daily News:
Fox biz reporter ready for unfriendly takeover  —  Fox Business Network reporter Charlie Gasparino has one goal - to pummel the competition.  —  That's why he's at FBN, he says, and this week he marks his first year at the Fox-owned business news cable network.  —  “I'd rather be part of a startup,” Gasparino says.
Alex Weprin / mediabistro.com:
Breaking: Jim Murphy Leaving ‘Good Morning America’  —  First on TVNewser: ABC's “Good Morning America” senior executive producer Jim Murphy is leaving ABC News and will soon be named executive producer of Anderson Cooper's upcoming syndicated show “Anderson”, TVNewser has learned.
David Teicher / AdAge:
Foursquare Exploring Content, Automatic Check-ins  —  CEO Dennis Crowley Talks to Ad Age About Creating Location-Specific Content and Checking-in by Touch  —  On the heels of the Mobile World Congress, Ad Age sat down with Foursquare CEO and co-founder Dennis Crowley to pick his brain about badges …
Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
Welcome to the New AdAge.com  —  A Few Notes on Why We Changed Our Look  —  Welcome to the new look of AdAge.com.  We've undergone a redesign to create a cleaner, easier-to-navigate site that will help us serve you, our community, better.  Our end goal: to make it easier for you to find content on the site.
Discussion: Editors Weblog
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The distraction trope  —  In the Guardian, Jonathan Freedland is the latest curmudgeon to recycle Nick Carr's distraction trope, microwave it, and serve it with gravy.  The argument is that Twitter—though possibly a wonderful thing for Egyptian revolutionaries (we can argue that trope another day) …
Discussion: FleetStreetBlues
Andrew Wallenstein / paidContent:
Facebook TV Invasion Looms Via ‘American Idol’ Voting  —  Television is often included on that list of industries Facebook executives enjoy casually mentioning will have to rebuild themselves around social engagement.  Don't look now, but Facebook may have just laid the foundation …
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Telegraph:   X Factor fans to vote via Facebook
 
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