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4:25 PM ET, March 7, 2011

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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
AOL-HuffPo Deal Officially Closes Today-More Big Media Hires Signal New Content Direction Under Arianna  —  AOL will officially close its $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post today, according to several sources close to the situation.  —  The culmination of the deal-which has already …
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Sam Gustin / Epicenter:
Does Arianna Huffington Have Enough Magic Touch Left to Save AOL?
Discussion: Mixed Media and WebProNews
Henry Blodget / SAI:
BUSINESS INSIDER SECRETS REVEALED: An Inside Look At Our Readership And Financial Performance  —  Most private companies zealously protect details about financial and operating performance, refusing to release so much as a revenue number.  —  The logic for this secrecy varies.
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Felix Salmon:   The economics of Business Insider
Jim Rendon / Mother Jones:
Dan Rather: Inside Mark Cuban's Gilded Cage  —  At 79, the former CBS anchorman is still kicking ass and winning Emmys.  But with his exposés sandwiched between pro wrestling and Girls Gone Wild, is anybody watching?  —  Post Comment  —  DAN RATHER IS EBULLIENT, more so than usual …
Discussion: Poynter and The Wire
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David Carr / New York Times:
The Fading Power of Beck's Alarms  —  Almost every time I flipped on television last week, there was a deeply angry guy on a running tirade about the conspiracies afoot, the enemies around all corners, and how he alone seemed to understand what was under way.
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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:   Will Fox News and Glenn Beck split up?
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Robert Hernandez / Online Journalism Review:
Q & A with Al Jazeera Online Producer Bilal Randeree
Verne G. Kopytoff / New York Times:
Sites Like Twitter Absent From Free Speech Pact  —  SAN FRANCISCO — When Google, Yahoo and Microsoft signed a code of conduct intended to protect online free speech and privacy in restrictive countries, the debate over censorship by China was raging, and Internet companies operating …
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
TV's Next Wave: Tuning In to You  —  The television is channeling you.  —  Data-gathering firms and technology companies are aggressively matching people's TV-viewing behavior with other personal data—in some cases, prescription-drug records obtained from insurers—and using …
Atlantic Wire:
Eric Schmidt: What I Read  —  How do other people deal with the torrent of information that pours down on us all?  Do they have some secret?  Perhaps.  We are asking various people who seem well-informed to describe their media diets.  This is from a conversation with Google CEO Eric Schmidt …
New York Times:
China Tracks Foreign Journalists  —  BEIJING — Western journalists have lately been tolerated in China, if grudgingly, but the spread of revolution in the Middle East has prompted the authorities here to adopt a more familiar tack: suddenly, foreign reporters are being tracked and detained …
Jonathan S. Paul / tenones.tumblr.com:
To the Reader, Thank you for reading 111-111-1111  —  To the Reader, Thank you for reading 111-111-1111 — Ten Ones — my real-time edit of NYTimes.com visual matter.  At the urging of The New York Times legal department, I have suspended postings and removed the archive.
Discussion: Felix Salmon and Techdirt
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
YouTube Grabs Another Hollywood Guy: Paramount's Alex Carloss  —  YouTube is still trying to figure out how to link up with Hollywood.  Maybe Alex Carloss will help.  —  Until last week, Carloss was head of digital distribution at Viacom's Paramount.  Now he's a Google employee, working on YouTube's content acquisition team.
Jeremy Peters / Media Decoder:
Glamour's iPad Series to Let Viewers Buy Clothes From Gap  —  The ability to buy products strategically placed on television programs — a handbag clutched by the actress Blake Lively on “Gossip Girl” or a suit worn by the actor Jon Hamm on “Mad Men” — with the click of a button has always …
Discussion: MediaPost and FishbowlNY
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
‘Today’ Show Moves to Today.com and Stresses Video Clips  —  The “Today” show on Tuesday morning will produce a second show just for the Web — something that seems inherently competitive with its main telecast.  —  But the webcast, called “The Today.com Show,” is largely a promotional affair …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook Comments Have Silenced The Trolls — But Is It Too Quiet?  —  As you've noticed by now, we're about a week into our latest experiment in troll-slaying with Facebook Comments.  So far, the reactions have been very mixed and very interesting.  Publicly, many of the reactions were initially negative.
Matt Thompson / Poynter:
A 5-minute framework for fostering better conversations in comments sections  —  Last week, my news organization announced we were evolving our online commenting practices a bit to improve the quality of discourse on NPR.org.  —  Our comment threads drew some attention recently when a comment thread …
Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:
MSNBC's Newest Pit Bull  —  Lawrence O'Donnell seems indifferent about his new career as a cable anchor.  Howard Kurtz talks to him about his unlikely rise, why people hate him—and why O'Reilly can't get under his skin.  —  Lawrence O'Donnell doesn't sound like he wants to be talking about himself or his prime-time cable show.
Discussion: Mediaite and The Huffington Post
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Squall Hits ‘The Atlantic’  —  Andrew Sullivan's exit puts mag's turnaround in peril  —  Less than three months ago, The Atlantic had a lot to celebrate.  Thanks to an infusion of digital ad revenue, 2010 had been a good year for the magazine, one in which it turned a profit for the first time in at least a decade.
Danielle Deabler / NPR:
NPR President And CEO Delivers Keynote Speech At National Press Club Today  —  NPR President and CEO Vivian Schiller delivered an impactful speech today to a crowded ballroom at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.  —  She addressed what public radio stands for, what …
Discussion: Yahoo! News
Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
Financial Times Digs Gold Out of Data  —  PARIS — For newspapers, connecting with readers is the ultimate challenge.  At newsstands, many customers choose a paper only after they see the headline on the cover.  The lady in hair curlers and a bathrobe might choose “Toe job to no job,” …
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Martin Langeveld / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Who owns newspaper companies?  The banks, funds, and investors and their (big) slices of the industry
Mike Shields / Adweek:
Mixed Picture at IAB
Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:
Culture Clash: Journalism's ideology vs blog culture
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Derek / The Scoop:
What APIs Mean for Data Journalists
John Koblin / WWD Media Headlines:
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Reporters Without Borders:
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
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Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
Mobile First, and a Mag  —  Two French journalists come …
Discussion: MediaPost and Editors Weblog
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Mike Swift / Mercury News:
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