Mediagazer: Bulletin: CEO Dubow earned $9.4 million last year; includes $1.8M bonus after more layoffs, wage cuts (Jim/Gannett Blog)

3:35 PM ET, March 25, 2011

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Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

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Bobbie Johnson / GigaOM:

Why HuffPo's British Empire Dreams Could Fall Flat — Updated. First Arianna Huffington conquered America's longstanding web brand, scoring $315 million from AOL, the ear of boss Tim Armstrong and the role of the company's editor-in-chief. Now she has her sights on the rest of the world — and her first stop is the U.K.

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Alex Pareene / Salon:
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Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:

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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Time Warner Cable iPad flap heats up

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Mandy / Zombie Journalism:

Channeling the news brand on Twitter and Facebook — The other day, I mentioned that I've been transitioning TBD's social media channels to a new team and doing some basic training in how to communicate as a news brand. I got into how news brands need to have a planned persona and strategy …

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Jim / Gannett Blog:

Bulletin: CEO Dubow earned $9.4 million last year; includes $1.8M bonus after more layoffs, wage cuts — Gannett just disclosed that it paid Chairman and CEO Craig Dubow $9.4 million last year — double his 2009 pay — as the company laid off hundreds of workers and imposed wage cuts on thousands more.

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Joe Flint / Company Town:

Relationship between CBS and Couric ending with a whimper, not a bang — Katie Couric was chided by David Letterman this week for thinking of leaving her job as anchor of the CBS Evening News. — “It's not like it's a temp gig,” Letterman told Couric, reminding her that other anchors “ride into the sunset.”

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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Price Tag For Journalism Online Could Go As High As $45 Million — RR Donnelley execs aren't talking —neither are Steve Brill and Gordon Crovitz, at least about deal details—but paidContent has learned from multiple sources that the value of the Journalism Online-Press+ deal is in the range …

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Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:

OMG, FYI, and LOL enter Oxford English Dictionary, foreshadow the apocalypse — In an acknowledgement of the internet's overwhelming influence on the triviality we sometimes refer to as “real life,” the Oxford English Dictionary doyens have decided to add a few of the web's favorite pronouncements to their lexicon.

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Aaron Gell / New York Observer:

Voice's Super-Secret Sex Blogs Take Walk of Shame — It turns out launching a blog without publically acknowledging its existence may not be the best way to attract an audience, after all. — On Wednesday, Village Voice Media gave its sex blogger Jamie Peck notice that the racy sex-news site she'd edited …

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Twitter Ads Move Forward by Carving Up The Globe — A small but important step in the evolution of Twitter's ad business: The company is now letting some marketers segment some of their purchases by location. — Which means a Twitter user in, say, the U.K. may now see a different ad than one in the U.S.

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Dan Friedman / Inside AdWords:

Media Ads Joins the New Ad Formats Family — Over a year ago we introduced the AdWords New Ad Formats Initiative to bring more relevant ads to Google.com. Since then, we've launched over a dozen new ad formats, and tested many more. Our new ad formats are designed to make sure that you're able …

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Sonya Hubbard / footnoted.com:

Reading the fine print on pay at WaPo... Last spring, the co-chairs of The Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild wrote an open letter to The Washington Post Company's (WPO) publisher, Katharine Weymouth, expressing their disappointment that Weymouth - a granddaughter of the Post's legendary Katharine Graham …

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Matt Dashkoff / Evolver.fm:

How Youtube Radio Disappeared from the iTunes App Store — Youtube Radio, a popular music listening app for Android and iPhone, disappeared abruptly from the iTunes Store earlier this month. — The app's swift removal caught its Taiwan-based developer, Atomax, by surprise.