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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
News Corp. Revenue, Earnings Miss; MySpace Still Burning Money — A first look at News Corp.'s March quarter earnings: Revenues of $8.26 billion and adjusted earnings of $0.26 per share. Analysts were looking for revenue of $8.42 billion and earnings of $0.27 per share.
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paidContent, Adweek and Mogulite, more at Techmeme »
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Nat Ives / AdAge:
Why Rush for an iPad App? Fortune's New Web App Starts With Your Browser — Web Apps Are on the Rise, but Will Consumers Adopt Them? — Instead of limiting its next app to one device like the iPad, Fortune magazine has built a new app to run inside web browsers on a variety of platforms.
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Bloggasm, Talking Biz News and FishbowlNY
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
NY Daily News Got Tip of Bin Laden Death Hours Early Tabloid heard from FDNY source, editor says — Most of the world learned about Osama bin Laden's death when President Obama announced it late Sunday evening. But the New York Daily News says it was leaked the biggest story of the year …
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New York Times, Runnin' Scared, Gawker, FishbowlNY, The AfPak Channel, NPR and The Politico
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Operation Geronimo, Part 2: Targeting the Media
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Poynter, The AfPak Channel, ABCNEWS and News Desk
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism:
Al Jazeera English to be honored with Columbia Journalism Award — Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism will bestow its highest honor, the Columbia Journalism Award, to Al Jazeera English. The award is given annually during the school's commencement ceremony to recognize …
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Poynter, @niemanlab and @jayrosen_nyu
Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
New York Times scouts for Arango's replacement as media desk doc generates buzz — The just-released trailer for Andrew Rossi's forthcoming documentary about New York Times media reporters has been a hot topic among media gossips this week. — In the footage (see above) …
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The Huffington Post and FishbowlNY
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
MIT management professor Tom Malone on collective intelligence and the “genetic” structure of groups — Do groups have genetic structures? If so, can they be modified? — Those are two central questions for Thomas Malone, a professor of management and an expert in organizational structure …
Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:
Hearst Strikes Deal with Apple on iPad Subscriptions — In a big win for Apple Inc., magazine publisher Hearst Corp. has agreed to sell subscriptions to the iPad editions of a range of its publications through iTunes, beginning with three of its popular magazines, the publisher said.
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paidContent, CrunchGear, Electronista, The Next Web and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Tim Armstrong Finally Gets To Boast: AOL Ad Sales Moving Up — It's taken Tim Armstrong a couple years, but he finally has some good news to share about AOL's ad business: It actually grew last quarter. — Or at least part of it did: Display ads were up four percent for the first quarter …
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paidContent, CNET News, mediabistro.com, FishbowlNY and VentureBeat, more at Techmeme »
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
Hearst Adopts AOL ‘Large Format’ Ads
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Wall Street Journal, MediaPost, Epicenter and FishbowlNY
David Kaplan / paidContent:
WSJ Creates Web-Based Subscription Service For CFOs — The Wall Street Journal is drilling down on niche audiences and is now selling subscriptions to a web-based news service aimed at chief financial officers and similar executives. CFO Journal is the latest in a series …
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MediaPost and Talking Biz News
Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Google TV Aims to Turn the Channel With New Release Later This Year — Google TV may not have won over many critics or fans with its first season, but Google still thinks it could be a long-term hit. — Before renewing the product for another season, though, Google is making a number of changes to the script.
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SlashGear and Electronista, more at Techmeme »
Oliver Reichenstein / Information Architects:
Business Class: Freemium for News? — I had a perspective changing talk on the subject of pay walls with the chief executive of a big publishing company (no, I can't tell you who). He asked me what I think about pay walls. I told him what I always say: The main currency of news sites …
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GigaOM
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Reuters Bringing Live Video News to Publishers Big and Small — Reuters, a leading provider of live news video to television broadcasters around the globe, is now making a rich offering of live video feeds available to digital publishers, says Chris Ahearn, president of media for Thomson Reuters, in this interview with Beet.TV
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paidContent and Talking Biz News
Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:
Meet the first network TV journalist on Twitter — His name is @newmediajim. Or to be precise, Jim Long, a photojournalist for NBC News who joined Twitter on October 24, 2006. Today, he has over 42,000 followers — more than many on-air correspondents. — “I would wager that I was the …
Henry Jenkins / Confessions of an Aca/Fan:
What can Journalists Learn from The Daily Show: An Interview with Amber Day (Part One) — In case anyone was wondering, I'm not dead...yet. I seem to have spent the past few weeks AWOL on this blog, having gotten my rhythm thrown off over a particular intense period of activity on my part.
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Splitsider
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Howcast Co-Founder Jumps to Daily Beast — Daniel Blackman, a Google vet who co-founded how-to video startup Howcast four years ago, has left the company and is now chief digital officer at Newsweek/Daily Beast Co., the print/Web mashup now run by Tina Brown.
Andy Boyle:
Thoughts on Remembering the Storm's design and implementation: Part One — At 1:07 p.m. on April 29, I launched a news application faster than I dreamed possible: In almost 24 hours. Now that I have a few days to look back at the process of designing it, I thought it would be beneficial …
John Hudson / The Atlantic Wire:
Adam Moss: What I Read — How do other people deal with the torrent of information that pours down on us all? Do they have some secret? Perhaps. We are asking various people who seem well-informed to describe their media diets. Adam Moss, editor-in-chief of New York magazine …
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FishbowlNY
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
NYT's Nisenholtz Calls Reported 300,000 Digital Sub Goal ‘Inaccurate’ — Courtesy of my colleague Robert Andrews, I tuned into a replay of a BBC interview with New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) digital head Martin Nisenholtz—only to hear a jaw dropper when interviewer Steve Hewlett mentioned …
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