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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Glenn Beck to End Daily Fox News Program — Glenn Beck will end his daily Fox News Channel program later this year. — His departure was jointly announced in a statement on Wednesday by Fox and Mr. Beck's company, Mercury Radio Arts. The statement did not specify an end date for the show …
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Glenn Beck, Fox Agree to Divorce — The highly rated host became such a lightning rod that many at Fox wanted him out—and for Beck, the feeling was mutual. Howard Kurtz on the demise of cable's most radioactive show. — Despite his monster ratings, Fox News is bidding farewell to Glenn Beck …
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Glynnis MacNicol / The Wire:
Here's The Real Reason Glenn Beck And Fox News Are Parting Ways — Glenn Beck and Fox New have parted ways. — But why now? — After weeks of rumors, and stories, and very public jockeying, the news arrived today arguably somewhat sooner than expected — Beck's contract with Fox doesn't end until the end of the year.
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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Glenn Beck To ‘Transition Off’ Fox News Program
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Jeffrey Benzing / American Journalism Review:
“Too Amazing To Turn Down” — Why high-profile journalists are leaving prestigious news outlets like the New York Times to join The Huffington Post. Posted: Tue, April 5, 2011 — Jeffrey Benzing (jbenzing@ajr.umd.edu) is an AJR editorial assistant. — What do you get when you take a handful …
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Remaking AOL in Huffington's Image — Web Portal's New Editor Sweeps In With Cookies, Big Ideas to Turn Passions Into News—and Money — The Huffington Post made a name for itself through a formula of buzzy political commentary splashed with celebrity gossip and traffic-grabbing tricks.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: AOL Fires Moviefone Editor Who Offered Fired Freelancers the Chance to Work for, Um, Free — Yesterday, AOL's Huffington Post Media Group got into hot water after the top editor at its Moviefone unit sent a memo to freelancers it was in the midst of firing, offering them an opportunity to …
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Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
Recap genre not so lucrative after all: AOL TV freelancers are next to go
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Wall Street Journal:
Google to Revamp YouTube With ‘Channels’ — Google Inc.'s YouTube video website is working on a major site overhaul to organize its content around “channels” as it positions itself for the rise of Internet-connected televisions that allow people to watch online video in their living rooms, according to people familiar with the matter.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Estimate: In Two Years, Streaming TV Will Be An $800 Million Business for Netflix and Hulu — By the end of this year, an estimated 2 million households in the U.S. will have abandoned TV for the Web, cutting the cord with their cable companies. This estimate comes from Convergence Consulting Group …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Sulzberger: $40 Million Estimate For Paywall Cost Is ‘Vastly Wrong’ — Earlier this year, Bloomberg reported that the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) spent $40 million or more to build the digital paywall that went live late last month. Not so, insists Arthur Sulzberger …
David Kaplan / paidContent:
PIB: Magazine Ad Pages Continue To Grow, Albeit Slowly — Magazine ad pages grew 2.5 percent in the first three months of 2011 compared to the same period last year, a time when the ad recovery was gaining momentum, the latest Publishers Information Bureau figures show.
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Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Facebook Reaches Out to Journalists With Page, Workshops — In an attempt to promote the use of Facebook in the newsroom, Facebook has unveiled a new Facebook Page and meetup program for journalists. — The new Page, Journalists on Facebook, is intended to be a resource for journalists …
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Simon Dumenco / AdAge:
Can CNN's Piers Morgan Tweet His Way to Ratings Success? — Dumenco's Trendrr Chart of the Week — Piers Morgan's predecessor at CNN, Larry King, was so famously technophobic that I once included him in a Media Guy Pop Quiz for exactly that reason. The quiz ran in the wake …
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Susannah Breslin / Pink Slipped:
How to Become a Forbes Blogger — I've been a Forbes blogger for a little over a month. — How did I become a Forbes blogger? — What have I learned? — Let's find out. — TIP #1: Know somebody. — Before I was a blogger at Forbes, I was a blogger at True/Slant.
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
More data on The Daily: What's prime time for iPad use? And which stories get tweeted the most? — Yesterday, I wrote about a fascinating set of data I'd obtained with the help of the folks at PostRank: Every tweet generated from within The Daily iPad app from launch through March 31.
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