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Arianna Huffington's Next Move — You've called your father a newspaperman. What did he do? — I grew up with my father starting small newspapers in Greece. None of them survived. Maybe this has something to do with the fact that I've never had any desire to have Huff Post have a print component.
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Poynter, The Wire, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, The Atlantic Wire, On Media's Blog, FishbowlNY, The Raw Story and Weigel
Damon Kiesow / Poynter:
Zite incident shows why publishers need to enable automatic, controlled content distribution — In an era of free, frictionless content distribution, how can creators of that content be paid for their work? — The question was highlighted on Wednesday as 11 major media organizations …
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eMedia Vitals and Local Media Watch
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Note to Media: Don't Fight Zite, Learn From It
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Mediaweek, Mixed Media, Techland, Editors Weblog, Reportr.net, On Media's Blog, Techdirt, ReadWriteWeb, TeleRead, Folio, Poynter, Zite - Blog, eMedia Vitals and App Advice, Thanks:mathewi
Elizabeth Jensen / Media Decoder:
Bill Moyers Eyes a Possible Return to PBS — Bill Moyers' retirement from weekly television last year may not last long. He has received preliminary approval for a major grant to return to PBS with a half-hour show with the working title “Something Different With Bill Moyers.”
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Mediaite, TVNewser, On Media's Blog, The Huffington Post, Poynter and New York Observer
Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
April Fools 2011: The Big List — Yes, folks, that's right. That special, special time of year is upon us. It's April Fools 2011! We take April Fools pretty seriously around here, so we'll be constantly updating this post with the best April Fools jokes and pranks the World Wide Interwebernets has to offer.
Ben Fritz / Company Town:
Hollywood firming up launch plans for premium video-on-demand — Hollywood's plan to start offering $30 video-on-demand rentals of movies about eight weeks after they hit theaters is expected to start around late April through satellite television provider DirecTV.
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Multichannel, TVWeek.com, Los Angeles Times and The Wrap
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Goodbye, NYTClean, hello new name? A Canadian coder gets a letter from the NYT's legal department — Remember David Hayes, the Canadian coder who, when confronted with the new New York Times paywall, figured out a way to evade it with four lines of JavaScript? (Technically, only three lines of code and one line of comment.)
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The Atlantic Wire, mediabistro.com and Euri.ca Blog
Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
Bloomberg TV wraps new nighttime series with Anna Wintour expose — It's been five months since Bloomberg TV launched its evening documentary series, “Game Changers,” profiling rich and powerful moguls and celebrities. And it appears the budding business network has saved the best …
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New York Observer, Inside Cable News and Talking Biz News
Joe Mullin / paidContent:
AP Is First News Organization To Use ‘Do Not Track’ On Large Scale — Both Mozilla and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) are putting Do Not Track “headers” in their new web browsers; of course, those headers are just signals that users send to websites telling them they don't want to be tracked …
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TechEye, Editors Weblog and Epicenter
Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
Guardian.co.uk Picks Current Editors To Reboot Its U.S. Odyssey — Guardian News & Media will dispatch part of its existing Guardian.co.uk team from London to reboot its U.S. editorial foray from New York. — Guardian.co.uk's current editor Janine Gibson will lead the editorial team …
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Yahoo! News, @emilybell and Guardian
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Google Answers Viacom in YouTube Appeal (Exclusive) … Google has filed its brief to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in the closely-watched $1 billion lawsuit brought by Viacom over alleged copyright infringement on YouTube. — In the 94-page document, Google outlines why it believes it qualifies for …
Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
Video Curation Is Growing Up, ShortForm Hits One Million Visitors — With 35 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute, the Google-owned video behemoth would be the second largest search engine were it standalone site. Web video has become a powerful medium.
Matthew Flamm / Latest from Crain's New York Business:
Amazon.com pushes into book publishing — The online retailer recently participated in the auction for best-selling novelist Amanda Hocking, making its most aggressive move yet into traditional publishing territory. — Amazon.com, the online bookselling behemoth that has sometimes rubbed publishers …
Todd Spangler / Multichannel News:
Video Everywhere: ESPN Needs Blackouts On TWC iPad App — Murphy: Sports Programmer Is ‘In Conversations’ With MSO About Enabling Live Feed — New York — The live feed of ESPN's flagship network is not available via Time Warner Cable's iPad app because the cable operator does not currently …
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Multichannel, GigaOM, CrunchGear and Media Buyer Planner
The Atlantic Wire:
Clara Jeffery: What I Read — How do other people deal with the torrent of information that pours down on us all? Do they have some secret? Perhaps. We are asking various people who seem well-informed to describe their media diets. This is from a conversation with Clara Jeffery, co-editor of Mother Jones magazine.
Thanks:jaredbkeller
Ken Auletta / The New Yorker Blog:
James Murdoch's New Job — When I encountered James Murdoch for the first time, sixteen years ago, I expected that he would be an officer-in-training—a young man preparing to become his father. Yet the first thing I noticed when we met for an interview was that his sleeves were rolled up, revealing a tattoo.
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