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7:05 AM ET, April 22, 2011

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Reuters:
The Awl vs HuffPo  —  The Awl's David Cho has an interesting post on web publishing today: … If I were inclined to give Bill Keller the benefit of the doubt here — which I'm not — this is what I'd think that he was driving at with his talk of “adorable kitten videos”.
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MONEY, CASH, HO'S:
The Awl is now two years old.
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
A New York Times TimesSelect flashback: Early numbers are nice, but growth over time is nicer  —  The New York Times Co., as part of its earnings announcement today, gave the first concrete numbers for its new digital subscription offerings, noting that “paid digital subscribers have surpassed 100,000” …
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Nat Ives / AdAge:
New York Times Pay Wall Gets More Than 100,000 Takers in Early Weeks
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Times Company Profit Falls on Weak Ad Revenue
The Atlantic Online:
Detained Reporter Clare Gillis Says She is Alive and Well  —  Sixteen days after she was detained by the Libyan government, journalist Clare Morgana Gillis made her first direct contact with outsiders in two weeks today, telling her parents in a 15-minute phone call that she is in good health …
Discussion: FishbowlNY and The Huffington Post
MediaShift Idea Lab:
Notifying Next of Kin in the Age of Facebook  —  When she picked up the phone, I could tell from the sound of her voice that she didn't know yet.  —  “I'm sorry to tell you this — but I wanted you to hear from a friend, not Facebook.  Tim Hetherington was killed in Libya.  Chris Hondros too.
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Portions of New York Times, ProPublica sites disabled by Amazon server outage  —  EC2Disabled.com / Amazon Web Services / Mashable  —  Portions of some major websites — including a few news sites — that rely on Amazon's Elastic Cloud Computing, or EC2, have been down most of Thursday due …
David Hirschman / Street Fight:
Journal-Register's Brady: Local Advertisers Have a Tech Gap  —  Jim Brady made a name for himself turning WashingtonPost.com into a serious player on the Web before he went to TBD.com last year, going all in on hyperlocal.  But when TBD shifted its strategy last fall, slashing staff …
Discussion: Strange Attractor
Lucian Cionca / Google News Blog:
Automatic Personalization and Recommended Sections in Google News  —  Last summer we redesigned Google News with new personalization features that let you tell us which subjects and sources you'd like to see more or less often.  Starting today — if you're logged in — you may also find stories based …
Joe Mullin / paidContent:
Nevada Lawyer Launches Patent Assault Over Media Companies' Websites  —  A Nevada attorney and former tournament blackjack player says he invented—and patented—most forms of targeted online advertising.  Now, Sheldon Goldberg has filed a lawsuit demanding royalties from 12 major media companies …
Caroline McCarthy:
Onward, to the Plex.  —  So I have some big news.  —  After five incredible years at CNET, I'm moving on.  May 6 is my last day; ten days later, I will join Google's New York office as a member of its fledgling Trends & Insights team.  I'll be doing a lot of writing, editing …
Gillian Shaw / Digital Life:
Canadians vow to break election day Twitter ban  —  Canadians are already casting votes on Elections Canada's social media ban.  —  So far the online world has given the ban — a blackout on the transmission of any electoral results to an area where the polls are still open that would extend …
Discussion: Globe and Mail and CBC News
Adam Sternbergh / The 6th Floor:
How James Salter Wrote an Eleven-Page Biography of A.J. Liebling  —  Great books are easy to track down — there are plenty of people pointing you toward them — but great introductions to books are, almost by definition, difficult to discover.  You pretty much have to stumble on one by happenstance.
Julie Moos / Poynter:
The top 5 news sites in the United States are...  Earlier this week, we posted comScore data that showed the UK's Mail Online overtaking Huffington Post as the second most visited newspaper website in the world for March 2011.  An astute reader wondered: If you merge comScore's data …
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Mike Henry / AdAge:
Where the New ‘TV’ Shows Are Being Born  —  Multiplatform Production Strategies Are Driving a New Breed of Creator  —  The online video story has so far been taking place on two separate playing fields: one dominated by Hulu and the content and ad dollars that started out in your living room …
 
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John Eggerton / Multichannel:
RTDNA Hands Out Regional Murrow Awards
Discussion: LA Observed, rbr.com and FishbowlNY
Steve Myers / Poynter:
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Discussion: On Media's Blog, Weigel and Mediaite
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
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Michael Schneider / TVGuide.com:
New to Your TV Screen: Twitter Hashtags
Discussion: Lost Remote
Tara Conlan / Guardian:
BBC considers ‘slimmed-down’ news channel
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Damon Kiesow / Poynter:
News.me launches iPad aggregator with AP, New York Times, AOL as media partners
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Sherry Ricchiardi / American Journalism Review:
The Al Jazeera Effect
Simon Dumenco / AdAge:
‘We Were Definitely Tweeting Before Twitter’
Steven Zeitchik / Los Angeles Times:
Product placement guru explains how it's done
Discussion: indieWIRE News
Jonathan Stray:
Measuring and increasing accuracy in journalism
Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
Interview: Michael Wolff On The Irrelevance Of Media Reporters
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Tina Brown's ‘Newsweek’ a Hit on Newsstands Magazine still has to deal with sluggish ad sales
Discussion: Poynter and @editorialiste