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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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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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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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GigaOM, The News About The News, newsplexer and Facebook
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 …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
DISH Wins Bankruptcy Auction, Buys Blockbuster Assets For $228M In Cash — DISH Network this morning announced that it was selected as the winning bidder in the bankruptcy court auction for substantially all of the assets of Blockbuster, which went belly up in September 2010.
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New York Times:
CBS Executive Denies Being F.B.I. Informant — A CBS News executive angrily denied reports that he was a government informant during the Oklahoma City bombing investigation, saying Tuesday that reports that he had cooperated with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and named a confidential source were “outrageous and untrue.”
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Stephen Battaglio / TVGuide.com:
The Biz: Meredith Vieira Expected to Leave NBC's Today — Meredith Vieira is expected to leave NBC's Today when her current contract expires later this year, according to a source familiar with her plans. — Vieira has been in discussions with NBC News executives for several months about extending her deal, which is up in September.
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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Media Money …, I4U News and Fortune
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Examiner.com To Offer Incentive Pay For Meeting Quality Content Guidelines — Hyperlocal network Examiner.com has often been frustrated by being lumped in with the so-called “content farms.” So, over the past year, it has been trying to find ways of highlighting the differences between …
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Editors Weblog, Examiner, NetNewsCheck Latest, Future of Journalism, Nieman Journalism Lab and Mixed Media
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.
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Mark Oppenheimer / Slate:
Save NPR! But please, put PBS out of its misery. — It has been a bad time for the network of a million tote bags. In October, NPR commentator Juan Williams was fired for saying that people in Muslim garb on airplanes frightened him. Earlier this month, NPR fundraiser Ron Schiller …
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Julia Boorstin / Media Money with Julia Boorstin:
Tom Freston's Bet on Vice and the Future of Media — Tom Freston made MTV a giant, and now he's making a bet on a small media venture which has a lot of similarities. Vice is edgy, it targets young men, and former Viacom CEO [VIA Loading... () ] Freston says it has huge international growth potential.
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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Talking Biz News, Media Decoder and MPA
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Former AOL Media Exec Marty Moe to Join Engadget Gang of Eight at SB Nation — Just what is SB Nation's Jim Bankoff up to? — Earlier this week, he hired away eight staffers from AOL's Engadget in order to create a competing tech news and gadget reviews site.
Jay Yarow / The Wire:
Gawker's Traffic Has Really Fallen Off Since The Redesign — How much longer will Nick Denton hang on to his redesign of Gawker properties? He shows no signs of backing down, even though a quick look at Quantcast shows a pretty appreciable decline in unique visitors to his stable of properties.
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