Mediagazer: Apple signs cloud deal with Warner Music (Greg Sandoval/Media Maverick)

3:05 AM ET, April 23, 2011

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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 …

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Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:

Apple signs cloud deal with Warner Music — Apple has reached an agreement with Warner Music Group to offer the record label's tracks on iTunes' upcoming cloud-music service, music industry sources said. — In the race to the cloud, Apple is apparently stepping on the gas.

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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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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 …

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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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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Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:

More on ethics, criticism and paying the bills, adding the FTC this time — By Robert Niles: Rhonda Shearer of StinkyJournalism.org called earlier this week in response to my previous post on who pays for things reviewed by critics to remind me of the Federal Trade Commission's rules on the subject.

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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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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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 …

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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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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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