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Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
Four New York Times Journalists Are Missing in Libya — The New York Times said Wednesday that four of its journalists reporting on the conflict in Libya were missing. — Editors at the paper said they were last in contact with the journalists on Tuesday morning New York time.
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James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
On the Media: Patch.com's Newark plan smells of conflict — Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington (Jason Kempin / Getty Images For IMG / March 16, 2011) — The AOL hyper-local news operation, now under Arianna Huffington, enters a partnership with a New Jersey mayor that doesn't seem journalistically sound.
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Lucia Moses / Mediaweek:
Huffington Explains AOL's Odd Partnership With Newark Mayor
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com:
Netflix To Enter Original Programming With Mega Deal For David Fincher-Kevin Spacey Series ‘House Of Cards’ — EXCLUSIVE: Video streaming juggernaut Netflix is becoming an original series player. In what is probably the biggest gamble in its 14-year history, I hear Netflix …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Netflix Crushing the Digital Movie Competition
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Ars Technica and GigaOM
Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Quake Coverage Draws Viewers to CNN — CNN once again proved its appeal to viewers of breaking news last Friday through Monday night, with coverage of the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. — Friday's audience for the total day, 2.273 million, was CNN's largest since the Inauguration in January 2009.
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Mediaite, Poynter, TVWeek.com and rbr.com
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
Bob Woodward: ‘You get the truth at night, the lies during the day’ — During a visit to Poynter on Tuesday, Bob Woodward talked about why he likes his iPad, what he thinks about the future of long-form journalism and what he considers to be the best time of day to access hard-to-reach sources.
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Yahoo! News, MediaMemo, Media Buyer Planner, Editors Weblog and Poynter
Patricia Chui / The Moviefone Blog:
Moviefone's Response to the TechCrunch Post — By now you may have read the recent post in TechCrunch regarding that site's SXSW coverage of the film ‘Source Code.’ A representative from Moviefone, who set up the interview with Summit Entertainment, received some feedback from the studio …
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Scott Weinberg / @scotteweinberg:
Effective immediately, I no longer work for @moviefone. Here's why: http://tcrn.ch/eLmTwi I will always love @cinematical.
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Runnin' Scared, @scotteweinberg, @alexia and @erikmal
JD Rucker / Soshable:
Techcrunch and @alexia Are Right (and it hurts me to say that)
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Poynter, The Atlantic Wire and The Awl
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Will we see the NY Times paywall soon? — Amid revolutions and huge earthquakes and nuclear meltdowns, we're reminded that we might see a NY Times paywall any day now. — I've always said that the Times likes to talk about a paywall, and they've been doing that for a long time …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
100 Percent Fresh Exclusive!: Flixster/Rotten Tomatoes in Acquisition Talks With Yahoo and Others — Flixster-the popular social movie site whose brands include the Rotten Tomatoes premium reviews site, as well as BuddyTV-is in early acquisition talks with several suitors, including Yahoo, said sources close to the situation.
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VentureBeat and Techland
Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
New York Observer launches tech site, loses editor — It's been more than a month since Kyle Pope left his post as editor-in-chief of The New York Observer, and the salmon-colored weekly is sailing along under its new captain, Elizabeth Spiers. But one Observer editor has abandoned ship.
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Poynter
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minonline.com:
Hearst Magazines is 2010 Group Publishers' Ad-Page Champ — With the explosion of magazine apps, social media and the resurgence of print advertising, magazine brands are showing a prominent face to their loyal and new readers and advertisers. This week's top 5 chart looks …
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Folio and FishbowlNY
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Facebook Takes Another Swing At Web Video: Live Streaming Major League Baseball — Last week, you could rent a movie on Facebook. Today, you can watch a live pro baseball game on the site. — Still think Facebook can't be a big player in Web video? — You can watch the game …
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Inside Facebook, paidContent and San Francisco Chronicle, more at Techmeme »
Abu Dhabi / Reuters:
News Corp aims to build own social gaming business — (Reuters) - Media giant News Corp aims to build its own social-gaming business as valuations of games companies, such as FarmVille maker Zynga skyrocket, its head of digital media said on Wednesday. — Jonathan Miller also said News Corp's …
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BloggingStocks
Tom Scocca / Capital New York:
Tales of a skirt-chaser: On the radically democratic theory, and autocratic practice, of being Bill Cunningham — Richard Press and Zeitgeist Films. — Maybe the most pleasing and arresting sight in the documentary Bill Cunningham New York is the spectacle of Bill Cunnigham not taking photographs.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: After Ad Changes, Yahoo Media Unit Gets a Management Shakeup — Last week, Yahoo's advertising unit got the once-over from its new sales head Wayne Powers. And, this week, its new Audience unit head Mickie Rosen is making a series of executives moves.
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, paidContent, mroth.info and SAI, more at Techmeme »
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Publisher Limits Shelf Life for Library E-Books — Imagine the perfect library book. Its pages don't tear. Its spine is unbreakable. It can be checked out from home. And it can never get lost. — The value of this magically convenient library book — otherwise known as an e-book …
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