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TechCrunch:
John Montorio Joins HuffPo: Journalism vs Churnalism Battle Rages On — TechCrunch has learned that John Montorio has been named Culture and Entertainment Editor for Aol's Huffington Post Media Group content division. — Montorio is a 30-year veteran of two of the country's biggest newspapers …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Layoffs Are Last Week's AOL News. This Week: “Giving Back,” Starring Twitter's Biz Stone — Last week's AOL news: Major layoffs in the wake of the Huffington Post acquisition. — This week's AOL news: All sorts of let's-move-ahead-and-get-on-with- it pronouncements from CEO Tim Armstrong and content head Arianna Huffington.
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Reuters:
Online readership and ad revenue overtake newspapers — * Newspaper newsrooms have shrunk 30 pct since 2000 — For the first time, online readership and advertising revenue has surpassed that of print newspapers. — Online advertising revenue in the United States is projected …
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PewResearch.org, Media Buyer Planner and eMedia Vitals
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
State of the News Media 2011: New revenues have not arrived, but new challenges have — A year ago, co-authoring the “State of the News Media” chapter on newspapers, I thought 2010 would be a year of rebound — and a test of whether newspapers would reinvest in “developing new lines of business and rebuilding skimpy news reports.”
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paidContent, TVNewser, Journalism.org and Yahoo! News
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
The News, in Bright Bits — Somewhere along the line, utility became a bad word at news magazines. And that's where The Week saw an opening. — While magazines like Time and Newsweek published heavy essays, distinguished guest columnists and artful photo spreads, The Week embraced magazine journalism …
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Mixed Media, FishbowlNY and Poynter
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Going Rogue on Ailes Could Leave Palin on Thin Ice — Before Sarah Palin posted her infamous “Blood Libel” video on Facebook on January 12, she placed a call to Fox News chairman Roger Ailes. In the wake of the Tucson massacre, Palin was fuming that the media was blaming her heated rhetoric …
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The Politico, The Huffington Post, Mediaite, Outside the Beltway, The Atlantic Wire, The Wire, FishbowlNY, TVNewser, The Raw Story and Gawker
Mark Memmott / NPR:
NPR: O'Keefe ‘Inappropriately Edited’ Video; Exec's Words Still ‘Egregious’ — An update on our post from Sunday about the questions that have been raised regarding conservative political activist James O'Keefe's editing of his secretly recorded video of then-NPR chief fundraiser Ron Schiller slamming conservatives.
Simon Dumenco / AdAge:
A Month With The Daily — Is It Actually Worth Paying for? — Our Media Guy Has Some Unsolicited Advice for News Corp. — While plenty of critics piled on iPad newspaper The Daily within hours of its launch on Feb. 2, I held off because I wanted to give it a fair shot by really living with it for a while.
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Yahoo! News, Bloggasm, Poynter and Crikey
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Virginia is for (news) lovers: How a Charlottesville newspaper and non-profit make their relationship work — A year and a half ago, neither The Daily Progress nor Charlottesville Tomorrow were quite sure their marriage would work. One's a daily newspaper, the other a nonprofit focused on land use and development issues.
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Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Founder of a Provocative Web Site Forms a New Outlet — AUSTIN, Tex. — For most entrepreneurs, running a Web site that is rife with pornography and frequently criticized as a menace to society would not be considered a résumé booster. Many venture capitalists would head in the opposite direction.
Frank Rich / New York Times:
Confessions of a Recovering Op-Ed Columnist — THE first political columnist I ever encountered, after a fashion, was Walter Lippmann. It happened on a snowy afternoon when I was a kid of 11 or 12 growing up in Washington during the J.F.K. years. My wallet had somehow slipped out of my pocket …
Mike Shields / Adweek:
Hulu Video Gets Original — Development comes as Facebook integration nears — Hulu is planning a major push into original content. The video hub—long a destination for TV and movie content on the Web—is looking to expand beyond its present audience, and perhaps protect itself against a possible partner defection down the road.
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MediaMemo
Phil Rosenthal / Tower Ticker:
Tribune Co. ‘NewsFix’ in Houston: With no anchor, TV news reels — Sight unseen, for all the talk of reinventing TV news, the revamp of the nightly news at KIAH-TV in Houston sounds less like a revolution than a revival. — The anchorless newscast set to launch in Texas at the end …
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TVSpy
Sebnem Arsu / New York Times:
In Turkey, Thousands Protest a Crackdown on Press Freedom — ISTANBUL — Thousands of people marched in central Istanbul on Sunday to protest a crackdown on the press in Turkey after the arrest of more than a dozen journalists this month. — In the most prominent case, two investigative journalists …
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Google to Help Broker Video Ads — Google Inc., trying to become a middleman for selling video ads on the Internet, will soon test a service that matches advertisers with website publishers, including Google's own YouTube video site. — The Silicon Valley company is creating …
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