Mediagazer: Turmoil in the Middle East and the Ascension of YouTube News, Olivia Ma has the Backstory (Andy Plesser/Beet.TV)

The New York Times' R&D Lab has built a tool that explores the life stories take in the social space — Some of the most exciting work taking place in The New York Times building is being done on the 28th floor, in the paper's Research and Development Lab. The group serves essentially …

Discussion: FishbowlNY and eMedia Vitals

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Conde Nast Taps Brakes on Efforts to Build iPad Editions for All its Magazines — Company Still Committed, but Why Rush for More iPad Editions Before Pubs Can Find Big Audiences? — Conde Nast is tapping the brakes on its drive to deliver iPad editions of all its magazines …

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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

Governors Come and Go, but This Reporter Keeps Slugging Away — Andrew M. Cuomo sailed right past Carl P. Paladino and the Tea Party. His first budget passed with ease. But he still has to face the rite of passage that every New York governor since Hugh L. Carey has had to navigate …

Discussion: Poynter, New York Observer and mediabistro.com

Steve Myers / Poynter:

Associated Press reaches tentative agreement with union — The new, 33-month contract would give Guild members three 1.5 percent raises and make changes to retirement benefits. Management wouldn't agree to a no-layoff pledge, according to the Guild, but new language prevents staff …

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Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

Jim Romenesko gets back to reporting — For the past 12 years, Jim Romenesko has been the guy who rapidly rounds up and links to every little morsel of gossipy, wonky, inside-baseball journalism news for diehard media news junkies. — Over the past few months, however …

Alex Ben Block / Hollywood Reporter:

Emmys in Limbo as Negotiations for TV Rights Drag On … Less than five months before the Primetime Emmys are scheduled to be handed out, telecast rights to the ceremony are still in limbo. That's causing a mounting problem for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences …

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Jojo Malig / Poynter:

Journalists learn what works (& doesn't work) on Tumblr — Tumblr's “media evangelist” Mark Coatney recently announced the arrival of big names in the industry that have launched their own tumblelogs, including The Los Angeles Times, Al-Jazeera English and The Guardian.

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

The Real Value of the Huffington Post's Blogs — The bloggers who are suing the Huffington Post for $105 million are vastly overestimating how much revenue their content generates in terms of ad sales. In one sense, however, they may be more right than they know.

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New York Post:

‘Housewife’ Bensimon getting ink on her hands — Kelly Killoren Bensimon, now in her fourth season on “Real Housewives of New York City,” is going to return to her roots in the publishing world with a weekly column in amNew York, the freebie newspaper. — “It will be a little bit of everything …

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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Turmoil in the Middle East and the Ascension of YouTube News, Olivia Ma has the Backstory — SAN BRUNO, Calif — With dramatic footage published today from violent demonstrations in Syria, YouTube is again displaying its role in giving the world a view of breaking news which is largely unseen …

Discussion: The Lede, Future of Journalism and SocialTimes.com

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

AP expands its content-distribution experiment with nonprofit news — Earlier today, the Associated Press announced that it will be expanding its project to distribute content from nonprofit news outfits to newspapers. The project originated last year with partnerships the cooperative …

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Karen Dunlap / Poynter:

When breaking news confuses: Citizens may be as undecided as the Pulitzer board — Some years ago, deadline reporting was declared a dying craft. Reporters would gain muscle in long-form journalism and engrossing narratives, but lose the ability to quickly report a story, some feared.

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Amy Chozick / Wall Street Journal:

The Happy-Time Network — At USA, all shows must be colorful, sunny and upbeat. As the No. 1 cable channel readies a host of new programs, a danger lurks—is the formula too formulaic? — Actors Jeffrey Donovan and Gabrielle Anwar film a scene for the upcoming season of USA's ‘Burn Notice’ in Hollywood, Fla., Tuesday.

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Aljazeera:

No safe haven for reporters in Libya — As civilians fire rockets and government troops shell civilian positions, there is almost no safe place for journalists. — Benghazi, LIBYA — In Libya, you think about the difference between sand and pavement in a mortal way.

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