Mediagazer: Cuban Puts Landmark Theatres, Magnolia Pictures Up for Sale (Bloomberg)

10:25 AM ET, April 20, 2011

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

News.me, the iPad News Aggregator Blessed By Big Publishers, Gets Ready To Launch — News.me, Bit.ly's social news iPad app, was supposed to launch by the end of 2010. But developers didn't submit it for Apple's approval until about a month ago. — Now it looks as if News.me is just about ready for public consumption.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Future of Journalism, eMedia Vitals, mocoNews, Garcia Media, Poynter and Soup

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

The Washington Post Launches Trove, A Personalized Social News Site — The Washington Post Company this morning debuted its free, personalized, social news site and aggregator Trove in public beta. — First reported to be in the works and nearing launch by The Wall Street Journal in February 2011 …

Discussion: MediaMemo and Noted

Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:

Byliner Launches With A Splash, Aims To Disrupt Long-Form Journalism — The media is buzzing with allegations that Nobel Peace Prize nominee Greg Mortenson fabricated his bestselling books and misused millions of dollars in donations. — Amazingly, within days of 60 Minutes breaking the story …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, The O. J., NetNewsCheck Latest, Sun Herald and Poynter

Rem Rieder / American Journalism Review:

Spreading the Wealth — Denting the big-paper domination of the Pulitzers. — Rem Rieder (rrieder@ajr.umd.edu) is AJR's editor and senior vice president. — In recent years, the Pulitzer Prize sweepstakes has often been dominated by a handful of large newspapers winning huge clusters of prizes.

Discussion: Google News Blog, BusinessJournalism.org … and Nieman Storyboard

Donald R. Winslow / Lens:
The Pulitzer Eddie Adams Didn't Want

Discussion: Poynter and Future of Journalism

Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Why Didn't WikiLeaks Reporting Earn A Pulitzer? The NY Times Didn't Submit It

Discussion: Crikey, The News About The News, The Huffington Post, The Nation, Poynter and Online NewsHour, Thanks:forbestech

Kat Stoeffel / New York Observer:

‘Glenn Beck Threw Me Under the Bus’: Breakfast with Andrew Breitbart … Over crème brûlée oatmeal on Monday, conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart talked sting videos. Mr. Breitbart explained to the Transom that Breitbart blog protocol requires undercover video kingpin James O'Keefe …

Discussion: On Media's Blog and Media Matters for America

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

eBay Acquires Location-Based Media And Advertising Company WHERE — eBay has acquired location-based media company Where.com, the ecommerce giant tells us. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed and the acquisition is expected to close during the second quarter of 2011.

Discussion: CNET News

Bloomberg:

Cuban Puts Landmark Theatres, Magnolia Pictures Up for Sale — Billionaire Mark Cuban has put his Landmark Theatres and Magnolia Pictures up for sale, saying entertainment companies are attracting “huge valuations.” — Cuban, 52, is “just testing the waters,” he said today in an e-mail in response to a question from Bloomberg News.

Discussion: Company Town, The Wrap and Deadline.com

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Are Apps Like Flipboard the Future of Media? — If you spend any time at all with an iPad, it soon becomes second nature to swipe through webpages, books and magazines with just a finger stroke, to the point where this has become the preferred way of consuming content for many digital natives …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals and digiday:DAILY

Dan Rowinski / ReadWriteWeb: How Flipboard Can Bring App Makers and Publishers Together

New York Post:

Condé Nast is making customers very app-y — Consumers may start seeing more free downloads of tablet editions from Condé Nast magazines — at least as temporary traffic builders. — Industry watchers were wondering what was up last week following the appearance of a free …

Mohan Ramkumar / The Next Web:

CNN App launches for Android phones — Following on from the launch of its Android tablet app, CNN has unveiled an official app for Android smartphones. — For those wondering what the big deal is about launching the same app again, unlike iOS, Android tablets and smartphones run …

Discussion: SocialTimes.com, CNN and Gizmodo

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Lebedev to launch Saturday i — Paper expected to hit newsstands within the next few weeks priced at 30p — Alexander Lebedev is poised to bring his brand of cut-price national news to the weekend market with the launch of a 30p Saturday edition of the i.

Discussion: Media Week

Vlad Savov / Engadget:

HBO Go app set to stream its way to iPhones, iPads and Android devices — Are you familiar with the HBO Go online streaming service that lets subscribers catch up on HBO's award-winning and ass-kicking TV content? Well, 'appy news for you, dear reader, for it's about to hit smartphones and tablets early next month.

Discussion: VentureBeat, TUAW, CNET News, 9 to 5 Mac and ZDNet

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Why Subscription May Not Be The Panacea In Entertainment — Subscription digital access is increasingly the hot business model for multi-platform entertainment distributors. — But, to Lovefilm, which pioneered UK DVD-by-post subscription, the same model could be increasingly second-best in its coming online era.

Reuters:

Thomson Reuters overhauls news management team — (Reuters) - Thomson Reuters Corp named Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and former Dow Jones Newswires President Paul Ingrassia to the new position of deputy editor-in-chief, one of four new hires brought in to overhaul its news operations.

Discussion: Adweek, Media News International, FishbowlNY, @jwpetersnyt, Media Decoder, paidContent, mediabistro.com, Talking Biz News, On Media's Blog, New York Magazine and Soup

Glynnis MacNicol / The Wire: EXODUS: Managing Editor Of Rupert Murdoch's ‘The Daily’ Jumps Ship For Reuters

Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:

How URL spoofing can put libelous words into news orgs' mouths — You really have to question everything you see on the web, even the supposedly sacrosanct URL. (That ubiquitous initialism stands for “uniform resource locator,” as in, one locator for every resource on the Internet.)

Discussion: Metamedia, NetNewsCheck Latest, The Independent, blogs.independent.co.uk, TechCrunch, Malcolm Coles, Runnin' Scared, The Wire and Press Gazette

Marika Lynch / KnightBlog:

Coming Monday: First Knight-Mozilla innovation challenge launches — On Monday, the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership will launch its first innovation challenge. The contest (one of three running through May) aims to accelerate media innovation by solving technological challenges …

Kylie Davis / INMA:

Dopamine, Charlie Sheen and an addiction that is killing media — Media people have long joked that the industry is addictive, but new research shows that actually it is medically true. — The constant barrage of information, new facts, tight deadlines, demands from multiple inputs …

Discussion: Bits, FM Blog and The Daily Beast

James Gleick / Smithsonian Magazine:

What Defines a Meme? — Our world is a place where information can behave like human genes and ideas can replicate, mutate and evolve — With the rise of information theory, ideas were seen as behaving like organisms, replicating by leaping from brain to brain, interacting to form new ideas …

Discussion: Boing Boing

Mark Kleinman / Kleinman:

Exclusive: News Corp Mulls F1 Bid (Updated) — News Corporation, the global media group, is in the early stages of talks about forming a consortium that would seek to acquire control of Formula One (F1) motor racing, I have learned. — News Corp has been in preliminary talks in recent weeks …

Discussion: The Wire

Chris / cdixon.org:

Experiment: blog in Kindle book form — There is an amazing amount of useful, free information available on tech blogs for fledgling tech entrepreneurs (this list is a great place to start). I think sometimes we techies forget that this wealth of content is unknown to the non-startup world.

Discussion: The Next Web and eBookNewser