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4:55 AM ET, April 17, 2011

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 Top News: 
Joe Mullin / paidContent:
Righthaven's Secret Contract Revealed: Will Its Strategy Collapse?  —  Angered at Righthaven's behavior, a Las Vegas federal judge unsealed the company's heretofore confidential agreement with the Las Vegas Review-Journal late on Friday.  The contract reveals that the controversial copyright …
Andy Mannix / Dressing Room:
David Carr, Andrew Rossi talk ‘Page One,’ Gawker, and the future of newspapers  —  Last night, the documentary “Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times” premiered at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival.  The movie stars Minneapolis alt-weekly alumnus David Carr, who is now the Times' brashest media writer.
Discussion: FishbowlNY and Poynter
Eric D. Snider / VentureBeat:
Leaving in a Huff: or how AOL killed a beloved movie blog  —  One thing you may not know about me is that I am a writer.  More specifically, I'm a freelance writer.  This means I can have several clients at once, work from home in my underwear, and set my own hours.
Discussion: MediaVidea
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Blogging for HuffPo Is Like Writing Open-Source Code
Discussion: MediaVidea
MediaShift:
Susan Orlean Explains How Twitter Affects Her Long-Form Writing  —  As I spoke to Susan Orlean about the role the social web plays with her long feature articles and books, I couldn't help but compare her to another famous writer for the New Yorker: E.B. White.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Real Reason Mike McCue Needs $50 Million: Google Is Building A Flipboard Killer  —  When news came out the other day that Flipboard just raised another $50 million at a $200 million valuation for its iPad news reading app, I gave CEO Mike McCue a hard time on Twitter and here on TechCrunch.
Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Call it the new Iron Curtain: Slovak media erect a nationwide paywall  —  It's become a cliché in discussions about the future of news: Most readers won't pay for news online because they can find it elsewhere for free.  —  But what if consumers had no free alternatives?
Discussion: Future of Journalism
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Why Does The Entertainment Industry Seek To Kill Any Innovation That's Helping It Adapt?  —  The LA Times recently had a good article about Hulu's struggles with its corporate parents, the various TV companies.  While Hulu itself has been massively successful, the TV companies …
Sarah Kessler / Mashable!:
Startup Aims To Build Billboards That Target You, Personally  —  Digital billboards that display different ads depending on who is looking at them were once only found in Minority Report.  But a recently launched startup aims to make targeted billboard advertising as ubiquitous as targeted online advertising.
Ujala Sehgal / FishbowlNY:
Michael Wolff on the Upcoming Changes at Adweek  —  Michael Wolff, Editorial Director of Adweek, sent an email to subscribers about the news that Brandweek and Mediaweek have published their final print versions, and are being folded into Adweek.  —  The new Adweek, to be unveiled April 18th …
Sarah Lyall / New York Times:
Four Phone-Hacking Cases to Be Tests for Further Claims, Judge Says  —  LONDON — Confronted with the prospect that dozens more potential phone-hacking victims might emerge and sue the News of the World tabloid, a High Court judge said on Friday that he would proceed with four of the current cases …
Damon Kiesow / Poynter:
LA Times, TechCrunch introduce Facebook comments, but it's not for everyone  —  Facebook added some features to its commenting system this week, but for publishers the tool is still a work in progress.  —  Launched in March, the system lets readers use their Facebook logins to comment on other websites.
 
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Daily News Owner Spars With Trump Over Claims That He ‘Saved’ The Paper
Discussion: The Wire
Howard Gertler / paidContent:
The Future of Distribution: Thoughts From a Platform Agnostic
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Requiem for the Flip cam, newsroom video in a box
Greg Masters / American Journalism Review:
A Bigger Tent  —  ASNE repositions for the future.
Discussion: Poynter
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Primed advertising, contextual media: TV learns a trick from newspapers
Neil Vidyarthi / SocialTimes.com:
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New York Post:
Drama for magazines after soap opera slash
Discussion: Adweek, TVWeek.com and FishbowlNY