Mediagazer: Exclusive: Flipboard Confirms $50 Million Funding at $200 Million Valuation (Kara Swisher/BoomTown)

8:00 PM ET, April 14, 2011

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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Exclusive: Flipboard Confirms $50 Million Funding at $200 Million Valuation — Late last month, BoomTown posted about a huge venture funding effort by the high-profile and even more highly designed social media reading app for the Apple iPad, Flipboard. — Today, its co-founder …

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Harry McCracken / Time:

Personalized Magazine Apps: Cutting the Web Down to Size — Jonathan Fickies / Bloomberg / Getty Images — The Web may be the most amazing newsstand the world has ever known, but it's far from perfect. For one thing, there's way too much of it: jillions of pieces of content on gazillions …

Discussion: Techland and ReadWriteWeb

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Flipboard Gets Oprah

Discussion: Media Decoder, Speakeasy, Broadcasting & Cable, PC Magazine and paidContent

Mark Milian / CNN:

Facebook trying to ‘friend’ journalists — New York (CNN) — Facebook is taking major steps to ensure that its News Feeds contain more actual news. — The social media giant is hiring someone to build relationships with reporters and news organizations. The new hire also will help …

Discussion: @lavrusik

Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:

About That Lawsuit... The lawsuit filed Tuesday by Jonathan Tasini is so utterly without merit, and has been so thoroughly eviscerated in the media — including being ridiculed as the “dumbest lawsuit ever” — I am hesitant to take any time away from aggregating adorable kitten videos to respond.

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

An Hour In A Room With Arianna Huffington (Guest Starring Biz Stone!) — As part of the AdTech conference yesterday, a gaggle of press got together to talk to Huffington Post Media Group's Arianna Huffington, a. k. a my bosses' boss and Tim Richards, VP of Ad Sales at AOL West Coast.

Chris Saad:
NYT Paywall, Huffpo Lawsuit - Symptoms of the same misconception

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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Why the Times Pays Writers Even When It Doesn't Have To — This guy doesn't need your stinkin' 50 bucks, okay? Image via Wikipedia — In the great debate over whether the Huffington Post should/must/will pay its bloggers, there's one refrain you keep hearing from the site's defenders …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, MediaPost and Poynter

Dan Frommer / The Wire:

Meet The Guy Who Has Totally Reinvented Bloomberg Businessweek's Design — Bloomberg's Businessweek relaunch has been impressive. The stories are interesting, new editor Josh Tyrangiel has made some big editorial hires, and Bloomberg is even executing on the tech side with a great new iPad app.

Discussion: SAI, FishbowlNY and Future of Journalism

Amelia Hill / Guardian:

Third News of the World journalist arrested — James Weatherup in custody as further searches of News of the World offices are expected — Profile: who is James Weatherup? — The police investigation into phone hacking at the News of the World has taken a dramatic turn with the surprise arrest …

Discussion: Adweek, Press Gazette, The Wire and Yahoo! News

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Former Newsweek Editor Meacham Switches Teams — Writes cover story for Time magazine — Newsweek's loss is Time's gain, again. Ex-Newsweek editor Jon Meacham wrote the cover story for Time's forthcoming issue, which hits newsstands this week. For the piece, his first for the magazine …

Discussion: Poynter, MediaPost and FishbowlNY

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of the digital cafeteria — Editor's Note: Each week, Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of news for the Lab. — Here's how newspapers sell what they do to would-be readers.

Sharon Shahid / Newseum:

Handwritten Newspapers From Ravaged Japan at Newseum — When the worst earthquake in Japan's history and the subsequent tsunami knocked out all power in the city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, editors at the Ishinomaki Hibi Shimbun, the city's daily newspaper, printed news of the disaster the only way they could: by pen and paper.

Discussion: Poynter

Tim Currie / Nieman Journalism Lab:

What works for news orgs on Foursquare? Opinion, reviews, evergreens, but maybe not the news — Editor's Note: At the International Symposium on Online Journalism earlier this month, one of the most interesting papers presented was from Tim Currie, an assistant journalism professor …

The Huffington Post:

Daily News Owner: Trump Never ‘Saved’ Paper — NEW YORK — Donald Trump didn't care much for the Daily News' cover on Monday that mocked his presidential aspirations as a circus act, complete with clown make-up. The “Sideshow Don” headline referred to Senior White House Adviser David Plouffe's dismissive …

Discussion: New York Observer, coverawards.com, Runnin' Scared, Mediaite, FishbowlNY, Poynter, Weigel and The Daily Caller

John Cook / Gawker:

The New York Observer's Trump Problem — Pouty fathead Donald Trump is a tailor-made character for the New York Observer, which purports to monitor Manhattan's smug oligarchy with a gimlet-eyed detachment. And his semi-coherent presidential grumblings, which count as news just about everywhere else …

Discussion: Runnin' Scared, USA Today, The Wire, FishbowlNY and New York Observer

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Former ABC News boss David Westin to head up News Licensing Group — Former ABC News president David Westin has been named president and CEO of the News Licensing Group, a digital rights organization established by the board of the Associated Press. — News Licensing will launch this summer …

Discussion: paidContent, Broadcasting & Cable and On Media's Blog

Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Love me, love my NPR: Public radio listeners can show off their loyalty — NPR executives have been known to brag that theirs is just about the only news organization to show up in people's personal ads. For example: “I am in need of some intelligent male company...I am an avid reader …

Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:

Call The Lawyers: Bamboom Wants to Be Netflix for Broadcasters — Cord cutters or those who want to watch American Idol or local sports teams in real-time on their connected devices will soon have a new option thanks to Bamboom, a startup that said it raised $4.5 million today in seed capital.

Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog