Mediagazer: Texas Tribune, Bay Citizen to split $975,000 Knight grant (Jim Romenesko/Poynter)

10:55 AM ET, March 11, 2011

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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:

Bill Keller Accuses Me of “Aggregating” an Idea He Had Actually “Aggregated” From Me — Perhaps unsettled by the fact that, when combined, The Huffington Post and AOL News have over 70 percent more unique visitors than the New York Times, and that HuffPost/AOL News' combined page views …

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

NYT Editor Says It's Only Journalism When He Does It — Updated: If you're a traditional journalist, or someone who works for a traditional media outlet, the easiest way to cast aspersions at a digital media entity is to use the A word: that is, “aggregation.”

Discussion: Techdirt and New York Times, more at Techmeme », Thanks:dianapereira

Bill Keller / New York Times:
All the Aggregation That's Fit to Aggregate

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Arianna Huffington To Bill Keller: Who You Calling “Oxpecker”?

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire, Future of Journalism and SAI

Wall Street Journal:

Hulu Plans to Shrink Its Board — Hulu LLC is planning to shrink its board, according to people familiar with the matter, shaking up the Web-video venture's governance as it hashes out its future within the media business. — As part of the shift, Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Bob Iger …

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Ross Kerber / Reuters:

News Corp's Hinton: tablet subscriptions soar — * WSJ publisher Les Hinton: mobile users pay for content — (Reuters) - Paid subscriptions to read News Corp's (NWSA.O) Wall Street Journal on tablet devices such as Apple Inc's iPad and electronic readers have quadrupled to 200,000 in the past year, a top executive said.

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Instapaper Blog:

Instapaper 3.0 is here! — Instapaper 3.0 for iPhone and iPad is now available in the App Store, and I've updated the Instapaper website to include many of its new features as well. This is the biggest update Instapaper has ever had in one version, and I'm proud to finally show it to you.

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Meghan Peters / Mashable!:

Washington Post Explores the Future of Journalism Via Tumblr — Thursday, the Washington Post launched @innovations, a Tumblr blog meant to showcase the news organization's digital features and discuss the changing media landscape. — The blog acknowledges the new ways readers are engaging …

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Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

Adam Moss talks Tina Brown, Times Magazine and New York — Adam Moss was at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism Thursday night to share his experiences and insights as the award-winning editor-in-chief of New York magazine. But a few people in the audience were more interested in hearing …

Discussion: Poynter

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

4 key challenges NPR's next CEO faces as staffers, stations, funding needs escalate and conflict — NPR's next CEO faces an enormous set of challenges. Whoever the NPR Board of Directors eventually chooses for this position will assume leadership of an organization that in recent months has lost its CEO …

Discussion: Pressthink, Slate, Free Press and NPR

Jon Nicosia / Mediaite:

Japan Hit By Massive 8.9 Magnitude ‘Great’ Earthquake - Tsunami Triggered — From CNN: … Developing.... Watch the initial report from CNN: — Video of Tsunami hitting Japan below:

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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Why the Knight-Mozilla Technology Partnership is betting on open source and distributed innovation — How exactly do we Firefox the news? — It's a question to ask now that the Knight Foundation has partnered with Mozilla to create news technology fellowships to help spur innovation in newsrooms.

Knight Blog Administrator / KnightBlog:
Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism opens at CUNY

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European Journalism Centre / EJC:

Will Righthaven copyright lawsuits change excerpting online? — Is it an infringement of copyright to post an excerpt from an online news article—including a link to its source—on a website, a blog, or an online forum? This practice is ubiquitous in online journalism …

Discussion: Techdirt

Josh Sternberg / Mashable!:

Why Curation Is Important to the Future of Journalism — Josh Sternberg is the founder of Sternberg Strategic Communications and authors The Sternberg Effect. You can follow him on Twitter and Tumblr. — Over the past few weeks, many worries about the death of journalism have, well, died.

Discussion: PSFK

Sam Gustin / Epicenter:

Veteran Journos Out as AOL-Huffington Cuts 900 Jobs — Tim Armstrong, Chairman and CEO of AOL, talks at a media summit in New York Thursday. AOL said it will slash 900 jobs worldwide, or nearly 20 percent of its work force, partly to eliminate overlap that stems from its recent purchase of Huffington Post.

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Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The newsonomics of AOL/Patch buying Outside.in

Discussion: Media & Entertainment

Nicholas Carlson / The Wire:
AOL To Slash More Destination Sites And Media Brands Than Expected

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Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

Texas Tribune, Bay Citizen to split $975,000 Knight grant — The nonprofits will use the money to build a free, open source publishing platform that helps other online news sites manage their content, encourage community engagement and raise revenue. “Organizations will no longer be faced …

Discussion: paidContent, Nieman Journalism Lab and KnightBlog

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

The Times is biggest year-on-year faller — Most national dailies continue to slide, as Alexander Lebedev's cut-price i boosts circulation by 31.6% to pass 175,000 — News International's The Times has reported a double-digit year-on-year fall in sales for February, as most national daily …

Tim Carmody / Nieman Journalism Lab:

“Journalists have lost control of the story”: Twitter, tech bubbles, and the nostalgia of the technology press — Editor's Note: I'm very happy to welcome Tim Carmody — who you may know from Snarkmarket, kottke.org, Wired.com, Twitter, or elsewhere — as a contributor to the Lab.

Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:

How The New York Times Is Incorporating Social & Algorithmic Recommendations — The New York Times released Thursday a finished version of the Recommendations platform it quietly introduced in beta in late January. — Available at nytimes.com/recommendations and on the “Recommended For You” …

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