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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Glenn Beck Contemplates Starting Own Channel — The possibility that Glenn Beck will exit the Fox News Channel at the end of the year has prompted a big question in media circles: if he leaves, how will he bring his considerable audience with him? — Two of the options Mr. Beck has contemplated …
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Media Matters for America, TVNewser, NY Daily News, Deadline.com, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, Mixed Media, MediaPost, The Wire, The First Post, Company Town, ThinkProgress, Most Recent Home Page Posts …, Poynter, mediabistro.com, Gawker, The New Yorker Blog, Indecision Forever, New York Observer, Runnin' Scared, On Media's Blog, Inside Cable News, Deadspin and DailyFinance
Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:
Huffington's cultural revolution: Destroying the old world to forge a new one, for a while — Here's a short play, set in 1997: — Scene: Journalist, applying for a job, is seated across a table at a moderately priced Italian restaurant from an editor who's just taken over the Arts …
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Poynter, MediaJobsDaily and Runnin' Scared
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
AOL HuffPost To Freelancers: We Want You On Staff, But Real Journalists Only Need Apply — In the reorganization of AOL and the Huffington Post into the Huffington Post Media Group, the company succumbed to layoffs and consolidated AOL news sites into the Huffington Post, folding or shutting down thirty properties.
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blogs.forbes.com, FishbowlNY, Marketing Pilgrim, NYConvergence.com, Mediaite, MetaFilter and BoomTown, more at Techmeme »
Erik Sherman / BNET:
AOL's Brewing Conflict: Brand Versus Journalism
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Wall Street Journal, The Wire and FishbowlNY
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Magazines' New Rules for Counting Digital Sales — IPad Editions No Longer Need to Include Every Print Ad to Count Toward Circulation Guarantees — Magazines can now count iPad and other digital-edition sales toward their paid-circulation guarantees even if those digital versions don't include …
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paidContent, NetNewsCheck Latest, Canadian Magazines, accessabc.com and BtoB Magazine
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
USA Today rewrites strategy to cope with Internet — McLEAN, Va. - USA Today, a newspaper created nearly 30 years ago to appeal to people who grew up watching television, is revising its formula to try to counter the Internet's threat to its survival. — The nation's second-largest newspaper …
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NetNewsCheck Latest, On Media's Blog, Poynter and MediaPost
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Bloomberg: Personalizing the News for 20 Million People — Mining through terabytes and zettabytes of data isn't just for hardware companies and database-service providers — media companies like Bloomberg are also trying to make use of the oceans of information they have about their users …
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Talking Biz News and Betabeat
New York Times:
4 Times Journalists Held Captive in Libya Faced Days of Brutality — As the four of us headed toward the eastern gate of Ajdabiya, the front line of a desperate rebel stand against the advancing forces of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, a car pulled up alongside. — “They're in the city!” the driver shouted at us.
Simon Owens / Nieman Journalism Lab:
How CNN's iReport enhanced the network's coverage of the Japan earthquake and its aftermath — When the ground began to vibrate in Fukushima, Japan on March 11, Ryan McDonald thought it was just a “normal earthquake.” But the fear in his voice as the vibrations escalated was palpable.
Washington Post:
In Ishinomaki, news comes old-fashioned way: Via paper — Gallery: Massive rescue, cleanup efforts underway in Japan: After the earthquake and tsunami, entire towns in Japan are impossible to reach. But search-and-rescue teams are fanning out in what will be a lengthy, complex endeavor.
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bookforum.com, On Media's Blog and magCulture.com/blog
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
New ranking combines print-digital reach of metro papers, reveals surprising winners — Which American newspaper reaches the most readers in its market if print and online audiences are combined? — That seems a fundamental question in an era of hybrid print/digital business models.
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Mashable!, MediaPost, newsplexer, Garcia Media, The News About The News, LA Observed and paidContent
David Bauder / Associated Press:
CNN trying to take advantage of newsgathering — NEW YORK — CNN sent 11 crews to cover Japan's earthquake and tsunami, including headliners Anderson Cooper and Sanjay Gupta. Anchors Wolf Blitzer and Piers Morgan were elsewhere last week: Blitzer hosting his evening newscast from France …
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
On the Media: At Neon Tommy, the reporters are responsible for delivery too — The workings of USC Annenberg student-run news website illustrate the new reality for journalists. — A conversation this week in the offices of Neon Tommy, a USC student-run online news outlet, went something like this …
Joshua Levine / Wall Street Journal:
Brand Anna — The editor of Vogue has always occupied the most powerful seat in the world of American fashion. But Anna Wintour's web of influential friends and allies has helped turn her into a global brand that transcends fashion. Photographs by Mario Testino
Discussion:
FishbowlNY and Styleite
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
Sulzberger: App Sales Prove News Consumers Are Willing To Pay — The rise of tablets and apps has helped pave the way for the New York Times and potentially many other newspapers to charge for content, said Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., the company's chairman and publisher, in an interview …
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Mixed Media, NetNewsCheck Latest, 9 to 5 Mac, The Wire, mediabistro.com and Yahoo! News
Chris O'Shea / mediabistro.com:
The Atlantic Pulls Unflattering Jay-Z Article — Yesterday The Atlantic ran an excerpt from a book on Jay-Z that shows the rapper in some rather unflattering light. Now that article is nowhere to be found (here's a reposting of it). The author, Zack O'Malley Greenburg …
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HYUNINC and On Media's Blog
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Pretty Flipboard Fundraising at an Even Prettier $200 Million Valuation — Flipboard, the high-profile and highly designed social media reading app for the Apple iPad, is out raising another round of funding at an eye-popping $200 million valuation, according to numerous sources close to the situation.
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SAI, more at Techmeme »
Reuters:
How the NYT paywall could turn out to be a success — There's one aspect of the NYT paywall which hasn't got as much attention as it deserves — and that's the idea that the NYT will be able to charge higher CPMs for ads behind the paywall than it currently gets for ads on a free site.
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Epicenter, CNN, SAI and Mixed Media
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Glynnis MacNicol / SAI:
Lincoln Is Offering “Smarter” Readers Free Access To NYT.Com For The Rest Of The Year
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The Wire and @scottkarp
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