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Keach Hagey / The Politico:
Jonathan Alter out at Newsweek — The final member of the “Newsweek Six” has left the building. — Jonathan Alter, the only remaining member of the gang of television-loving newsweekly scribes so dubbed by Slate's Jack Shafer, is no longer with the publication.
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Runnin' Scared, @romenesko, @rafat, The Atlantic Wire, New York Magazine and FishbowlNY
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Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook for Journalists: More Work Than Twitter, but With a Bigger Payout — Last week, Facebook launched a Page called Journalists on Facebook in an effort to encourage the news community to use the site's Page feature as a distribution and research tool.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Front-Runner for CBS Anchor Is ‘60 Minutes’ Reporter — Growing up, Scott Pelley's journalistic dream was very specific: he wanted to work at “60 Minutes,” which was and is the nation's pre-eminent television newsmagazine. — He checked all the television correspondent boxes — wars …
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Stuart Elliott / Media Decoder:
Consolidation of Trade Publications Nears — The long-planned consolidation of three familiar trade publications into one is beginning at Prometheus Global Media. — Monday brought the final issues of two publications, Brandweek and Mediaweek, which have been published along with their sibling, Adweek, for almost 10 years.
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The Wire, FishbowlNY and Poynter
Heather Dougherty:
Impact of paywall on NYTimes.com — After months of speculation, the paywall for The New York Times went live at 2pm on Monday, March 28th, which limits online readers (non-print subscribers) to 20 articles each month. For smartphone and tablet applications, only the top news section …
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VentureBeat, paidContent and ReadWriteWeb, more at Techmeme »
Alex Mindlin / New York Times:
More Media Time, on Various Screens — Americans are spending about 20 percent more time consuming radio, television and the Internet than they were a decade ago, according to a survey by two media measurement firms. — That jump reflects in part a rise by 26 percentage points in the number of Americans with access to the Internet.
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TVWeek.com and Noted
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Film shoots to farmers markets: Users respond to Everyblock's community-focused redesign — Late last month, Everyblock launched an overhaul of its site — its “first major redesign,” and one “driven by the feedback we've been getting over the past year.” The revamp marked a significant shift …
Discussion:
Future of Journalism
Josh Tapper / Nieman Journalism Lab:
How Russia's top journalism school is revamping its curriculum to create a new culture of press freedom — The limitations on press freedom in Russia have been well-documented. With the Kremlin holding a stake in each of the country's six national television stations …
Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:
Tessa Jowell phone-hacking admission changes everything — Am I alone in being troubled by the fact that News of the World journalists targeted the former culture secretary, the minister responsible for media policy? — Two days ago it seemed that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp had finally seized …
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Journalism.co.uk and The Wire
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Ted Nesi / WPRI.com Blogs:
NYT's Nocera on paywalls, Providence and CEO pay — “Local boy makes good.” In the news business, few Rhode Island natives fit that hoary headline better than Joe Nocera. — Nocera grew up in Providence, graduating from Classical High in 1970 before attending Boston University.
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The Big Lead and Talking Biz News
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Judge to copyright troll: your “business model” isn't my problem — Ars Technica freelancer Eriq Gardner was recently sued over a photo that appeared in a piece he wrote for us last year. The flimsy lawsuit was quickly dismissed, but the company behind it lives on—and has sued 50+ people in Colorado for their use of the same photo.
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Righthaven Victims
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Kiip Is An Entirely New Mobile Ad Model: Real Life Rewards For In-Game Achievements — Kiip, the seven month-old mobile ads startup, is finally coming out of stealth today and revealing an entirely new model for in-game advertising, one that offers users value instead of fighting an uphill battle for their attention.
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MediaPost, Mashable!, Marketing Pilgrim, Techland, GigaOM and Epicenter, more at Techmeme »
Jim O'Neill / Online Video News:
Ooyala launches Ooyala Everywhere, Ooyala Personal Playback — White label online video platform Ooyala is rolling out a suite of services designed to help content creators and distributors deliver rich, personalized viewing experiences directly to consumers, helping to bring more premium …
The Wrap:
Viacom's Philippe Dauman Is America's Top-Paid CEO, Report Says — Recession? What recession? A New York Times ranking of the top-paid CEOs says media-conglomerate chief made $84.5 million in just 9 months last year
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MediaPost
Wall Street Journal:
Time Warner Eyes Headquarters Move — Time Warner Inc. is considering moving its headquarters to Manhattan's far West Side as Related Cos. tries to kick-start its $15 billion Hudson Yards development planned there, people familiar with the matter said. — The talks are in preliminary stages and could fizzle.
Discussion:
FishbowlNY and New York Observer
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Bloomberg BusinessWeek Launches iPad App With Monthly Subscription Plan — Bloomberg BusinessWeek could not have picked a better time to launch its iPad app. A year after a major overhaul following the sale from McGraw Hill, the latest Publishers Information Bureau figures had BBW's ad pages up 49 percent …
Damon Kiesow / Poynter:
Bing's new iPad app is a newspaper in disguise — Microsoft's new Bing iPad app, released Thursday, does more than search — it begins to remake the newspaper experience in digital form. — The app is not being marketed as a news platform, but journalists should consider it one because it offers …
Thanks:dkiesow
Adam Hochberg / Poynter:
Twitpic, Flickr use by eyewitnesses raises questions for news orgs about image rights, compensation — When a Southwest Airlines 737 developed a six-foot hole in the fuselage in mid-air recently, some passengers screamed, others prayed. — Shawna Malvini Redden tweeted.
Discussion:
Future of Journalism
Simon / Bloggasm:
The New Yorker allows Facebook fans access to its paywall content — Though some of the articles published in The New Yorker each week are free, it still shelves many of them behind a paywall. But on my Facebook news feed I just caught a glimpse of a new roll-out from the magazine: web content only available on its Facebook page:
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Mashable!, Poynter, Inside Facebook and Journalism.co.uk, more at Techmeme »
Lewis DVorkin / The Copy Box:
Forbes Update: Re-Imagining a Magazine as Digital Media Marches On — How do you re-architect a magazine like Forbes in a digital era? What's the right content creation model to produce 22 issues a year? How should a print product relate to a Web site, or tablet apps, or other digital products?
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Talking Biz News, Thanks:taylorbuley
The Wrap:
Mark Burnett, Hearst Announce Joint Venture — Hearst and Mark Burnett announced a media, production and events-based joint venture Monday that will focus on media content, producing events around it, and spinning off television shows and other programming based on Hearst brands.
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Media Decoder, Hollywood Reporter, Adweek, Company Town, The Snitch, Media News International, rbr.com, MediaPost, FishbowlNY and Poynter
Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:
When to hyperlink within an online news story? — By Robert Niles: When to hyperlink within an online news story? — That's a question that challenges even the most experienced online writers. Hyperlinks imbue a news story with the power of the World Wide Web, allowing writers to source information …
Andrew Hampp / AdAge:
How One Man Is Trying to Make YouTube Talent Rich — Fullscreen Founder George Strompolos Looks to Bridge Gap Among Viral-Video Stars, Advertisers and Distributors — Want to make money on YouTube right now? Talk to George Strompolos. — Mr. Strompolos, a former business-development …
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Dan Abrams Hires Peter Lauria For Mogulite — Peter Lauria, who's covered his share of media moguls for the New York Post and the Daily Beast, is joining the soon-to-be-launched Mogulite as consulting editor. — Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein once jokingly dubbed Lauria the “No. 1 bastard” he knows.
Discussion:
mediabistro.com and FishbowlNY
Simon Dumenco / AdAge:
How Twitter Can Stop Its Descent Into a Cable-News-Style Disinformation Network — It's Time to Make Sense of Those Disinformational Memes — Here's the ongoing problem with Twitter: It wants your love and respect, even as it wastes your time and insults your intelligence.
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