Mediagazer: What Warner Music Sale Means for the Music Business (Julia Boorstin/Media Money …)

4:25 PM ET, May 7, 2011

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The Google News “Osama Death” Sample Highlights Some News Coverage Woes — Today, Google News did a post about the death of Osama bin Laden. Disappointingly, it offered no statistics on what was most read, shared, topics most covered. The post did share a “sample” of 100 links to coverage …

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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Krishna Bharat on the evolution of Google News and the many virtues of “trusting in the algorithm” — In a blog entry just posted to the Google News blog, Google News' founder, Krishna Bharat, offers a fascinating comparison between Google's “coverage” of 9/11 and the news it provided of Osama bin Laden's death earlier this week.

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Ethan / ...My heart's in Accra:

Media Cloud, relaunched — Today, the Berkman Center is relaunching Media Cloud, a platform designed to let scholars, journalists and anyone interested in the world of media ask and answer quantitative questions about media attention. For more than a year, we've been collecting roughly 50 …

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Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

PCC seeks to regulate press Twitter feeds — Watchdog to consult on how tweets can be brought under its remit, asking each newspaper to draw up a ‘Twitter policy’ — Reporter and newspaper Twitter feeds are expected to brought under the regulation of the Press Complaints Commission later this year …

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Julia Boorstin / Media Money with Julia Boorstin:

What Warner Music Sale Means for the Music Business — After three months of bidding, Warner Music was finally sold to Access Industries' Len Blavatnik for $3.3 billion. Blavatnik, a Russian billionaire with a taste for deal-making is paying a premium of about a third over WMG's average share price …

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Kelefa Sanneh / New Yorker:

The rise and rise of reality television. — On January 6, 1973, the anthropologist Margaret Mead published a startling little essay in TV Guide. Her contribution, which wasn't mentioned on the cover, appeared in the back of the magazine, after the listings, tucked between an advertisement …

Emma Barnett / Telegraph:

Why is social media still news? — It should no longer be surprising that social media plays a major part of every breaking news story, writes Emma Barnett. — During the last seven days, two huge events have dominated the media, both traditional and social alike: the royal wedding and the death of Osama bin Laden.

Edmund Lee / AdAge:

Demand Media CEO Rosenblatt: We're Giving Writers a Raise — Things Are Getting Better Down On the Content Farm as Journalists Get Offered as Much as $0.41 a Word — In the wake of Demand Media's second public earnings reveal, in which it said Google's recent changes had lowered search traffic …