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The New York Times Company:
The New York Times Company Updates its Outlook Ahead of Morgan Stanley Conference Presentation — The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) today will discuss its business and strategy at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference. — “The improvement in print advertising trends …
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
NY Times chairman determined to charge for online access — Arthur Sulzberger undeterred by long delays to metered scheme and also plans to charge for iPad app — Arthur Sulzberger, the chairman and publisher of the New York Times, is bullish about plans to charge for access to the paper's website …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Dirty Percent — It's not hard to make the case that Apple's new in-app subscription system offers numerous benefits to users, developers, and publishers. But whatever those benefits, they stem from the mere existence of these new subscription APIs. What's controversial is the size of Apple's cut: 30 percent.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Charlie Sheen, Now On Twitter At @CharlieSheen — Because if I don't write this somebody else will: After blazing a colorful trail through some obscure radio show, The Today Show, Good Morning America, TMZ, CNN and so on, media obsession of the moment Charlie Sheen has brought his antics to Twitter.
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TVNewser, The Wire, Speakeasy, Media Decoder, The Atlantic Online, Vanity Fair, Walter Kirn's Permanent …, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Tuned In, The Wall Blog, Lost Remote, FishbowlDC, Moraes on TV, @seanrad, Show Tracker, Slate, Sean Percival's Blog and The Huffington Post, more at Techmeme »
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why the Medium Is Not the Message — Earlier this week, I got a chance to go on Leo Laporte's Twit.tv. We debated the much-discussed New York Times story, which essentially said blogging is dead. It has been more than 10 years since I started to blog, and still, the act of blogging is consistently misunderstood.
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State of the Fourth Estate, Technology Liberation Front and Consumer Reports …
Jeremy Adam Smith / Knight Garage:
How We're Financing Meaningful Journalism — Very few of us become journalists so that we can write product reviews, celebrity gossip, or forty-seven tips for driving your man crazy in bed—even if that's how we pay the bills. — Yet as media have converged online, opportunities …
Christian Lorentzen / New York Observer:
Open City, Closed: Acclaimed Literary Journal Says Goodbye — After 20 years and 30 issues, Open City is ceasing publication, co-editor Joanna Yas told The Observer. — “These things are not institutions,” said founder and co-editor Thomas Beller. “They're always razor's edge things.”
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WWD Media Headlines:
Speaking Frankly: New York Gets Rich — Photo By Matt Carasella/PatrickMcMullan.com — NEW YORK — Five weeks ago, Frank Rich sent an e-mail to New York magazine editor in chief Adam Moss asking if his friend of 24 years could give him a call. — “Frank said he was feeling that he had done …
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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Sneak peek: What's new in the New York Times Magazine
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John Cook / New York Observer:
Was a Vanity Fair Editor Secretly Working for the Church of Scientology? — Gawker.com, where the author is employed a staff writer, declined to publish this story. — Did the Church of Scientology use a Vanity Fair contributing editor to infiltrate and gather intelligence on the cult's enemies in the media?
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Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Twitter Big on Smaller Advertisers — Twitter Inc. is a hot property among investors, who are pumping up the company's valuation. But whether the start-up can live up to its multibillion-dollar appraisal depends on the likes of David Szetela, who holds the purse strings of numerous small and medium-sized advertisers.
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Venture Capital Dispatch, Digits and Search Engine Land, more at Techmeme »
Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:
New York Times Launching Groupon-Like Daily Deals Service — The online division of The New York Times is in the process of launching TimesLimited, a Groupon-like daily deals service offered through e-mail. — Subscribers will receive offers on high-end goods and services from The Times's advertising partners.
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New York Observer, MediaMemo, paidContent, FishbowlNY, The Tech Trade and SAI, Thanks:laureni
David Cohen / WebNewser:
WaPo's Steven King: Integrated Sponsorships Essential for Original Web Video — The Washington Post editor of video Steven King pinned the success of original news on the Web to securing integrated sponsorships during a panel at the Beet.TV Video Journalism Summit, moderated by WebNewser editor Alex Weprin.
Matthew Creamer / AdAge:
A Mad Man and a Venture Capitalist Walked Into a Bar ... Advertisers Expected to Underwrite Latest Tech Bubble, but Are There Enough Marketing Dollars to Go Around? — In November 1999, Advertising Age sounded an alarm about the current ad scene. — The forthcoming Super Bowl was the subject …
Dennis R. Mortensen / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Dennis Mortensen: Are news orgs worrying too much about search and not enough about the front page? — Editor's Note: This is a guest post from Dennis R. Mortensen, former director of data insights at Yahoo and founder of Visual Revenue, a New York firm that sells its predictive-analytics services to news organizations.
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Lois Beckett / Nieman Journalism Lab:
A hive of long-form journalists: Gerry Marzorati and Mark Danner on a new model for long form — Yesterday at the Berkeley School of Journalism, former New York Times Magazine editor Gerald Marzorati and author and former New Yorker writer Mark Danner sat down to talk about the “the fate of long-form journalism in a new media age.”
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Poynter, Snarkmarket and Future of Journalism
Gautham Nagesh / The Hill:
Dodd to be Hollywood's top man in Washington — Former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) will be Hollywood's leading man in Washington, taking the most prestigious job on K Street. — The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) named Dodd chairman and CEO on Tuesday. He will start his new job on St. Patrick's Day, March 17.
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Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, Speakeasy and Gawker
AdAge:
Why Video Advertising Needs to Dump Impressions and Move to ‘Cost Per View’ — When a “view” is counted on a site like YouTube, audiences and brands alike know what it means: someone chose to watch a video. Increasingly, there are a proliferation of video ads that capture the same characteristic …
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