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1:30 PM ET, April 15, 2011

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Joe Mullin / paidContent:
Tasini On HuffPo Lawsuit: We Have ‘All Sorts Of Inside Information’  —  There's been plenty of discussion of Jonathan Tasini's recent lawsuit against The Huffington Post and AOL (NYSE: AOL), much of it critical.  When Arianna Huffington replied late yesterday, saying that the suit was nonsense …
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Blogging for HuffPo Is Like Writing Open-Source Code  —  There's been a lot of sturm und drang recently about the lawsuit that some bloggers have launched against The Huffington Post, arguing they deserve to be compensated for their writing, despite having agreed to provide their work knowing full well they wouldn't be paid.
Discussion: MediaPost and MediaVidea
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
An Hour In A Room With Arianna Huffington (Guest Starring Biz Stone!)
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Wired's Newest iPad Issue Boasts Its Best Feature Yet: Free  —  Remember when iPad magazine apps-and Wired's app in particular-were big news?  That was a year ago.  —  Now Wired would like to remind you that it's still publishing on the iPad, and the Conde Nast title is offering a pretty …
New York Post:
Drama for magazines after soap opera slash  —  The upheaval in soap opera land yesterday — ABC shut down two long-running soaps, “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” — also produced some major upheavals in the publishing world.  —  Source Interlink, which publishes soap titles Soap Opera Digest …
Discussion: Adweek and FishbowlNY
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:   Source Interlink, American Media set licensing deal for Soap Opera Weekly, other titles
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 …
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller Hires Ex-Issa Spokesman  —  The Daily Caller has hired Kurt Bardella, the former spokesman for Republican Rep. Darrell Issa who was fired last month following a leaked email controversy, as the site's new communications director.
Kelly Reeves / The Outbrain Blog:
Outbrain Study Gives Insight Into Content Discovery Trends Across the Web's Leading Publishers  —  We're excited to announce our inaugural study on how people discover and engage with content on the web!  —  In the first quarter of 2011, for the first time ever, we decided to analyze …
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: Mediaite, Poynter and MediaVidea
Anne Crassweller / INMA:
Primed advertising, contextual media: TV learns a trick from newspapers  —  Television, radio, magazines and newspapers are so different, but the same in many ways.  It' s valuable to watch and learn from what the other media are thinking about and look at their priorities for change in this new media landscape.
Neil Vidyarthi / SocialTimes.com:
Interview: Pete Cashmore Hopes Mashable Follow Will Help Give Readers Their Own Voice  —  Ten minutes after walking out of The Social Network, my girlfriend's 14 year old brother declared he'd start his own social network, make millions and live with his friends in California.
Chris Rovzar / New York Magazine:
Newsweek's Future: Sidney's Gone, What About Barry?  —  This morning's papers were full of hand-wringing about what will happen to Newsweek now that its savior, stereo magnate Sidney Harman, has passed away.  After all, Harman bought the magazine for $1 and assumed a reported $47 million in debt …
Discussion: Poynter, New York Times and FishbowlNY
Andrew Hammond / Reuters:
Gulf media find their red line in uprisings: Bahrain  —  DUBAI (Reuters) - Pan-Arab broadcasters who played a key role reporting Arab uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt are helping dynastic rulers police the gates of the Gulf to stop the revolts from spreading on their patch, analysts say.
Discussion: The Atlantic Wire
Stephanie Rosenbloom / New York Times:
Would You Sign My Kindle?  —  SITTING at a table in a Barnes & Noble in St. Petersburg, Fla., T. J. Waters was signing copies of his book “Hyperformance” when a fan standing in line with the eBook version walked up and said, “It's too bad you can't sign my Kindle.”
Discussion: TeleRead and Techland
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
No Bob Woodward, Google Did Not Kill Newspapers  —  The tombstone of Google's former CEO Eric Schmidt will read “I killed newspapers,” Bob Woodward said yesterday.  With all due respect to the celebrated reporter and author, this is a misguided way of looking at Google, or newspapers, for at least three reasons.
Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
Should a journalism school be hosting ‘off the record’ public events?  Graydon Carter thinks so!  —  On Thursday evenings in the winter and spring, Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism hosts a lecture series.  The idea is for established magazine editors to share informal observations …
Discussion: Poynter and WWD Media Headlines
 
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
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Harry McCracken / Time:
Personalized Magazine Apps: Cutting the Web Down to Size
Discussion: Techland
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
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Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
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Tim Currie / Nieman Journalism Lab:
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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Former ABC News boss David Westin to head up News Licensing Group
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Former Newsweek Editor Meacham Switches Teams
Discussion: Poynter, MediaPost and FishbowlNY
 

 
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Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
NYC is partnering with Evolv, a weapons detection company that has faced scrutiny over its machines' accuracy, to test AI-based gun detectors on the subway

Meredith Whittaker / LPE Project:
The TikTok divestment bill will not offer any meaningful privacy protection from China, but it will further entrench the dominance of US-based social networks

Sam Kim / Bloomberg:
South Korean national statistics data: chip output grew 65.3% YoY in February 2024, the most since late 2009, with demand for AI-related memory driving growth

 
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