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3:05 PM ET, May 9, 2011

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Journalism.org:
Navigating News Online  —  WHERE PEOPLE GO, HOW THEY GET THERE AND WHAT LURES THEM AWAY  —  Whatever the future of journalism much of it depends on understanding the ways that people navigate the digital news environment—the behavior of what might be called the new news consumer.
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Lauren Dugan / AllTwitter:
Twitter “Barely Registers As A Referring Source” For News Websites
Discussion: @zseward
Journalism.org:   Google: Parasite or Provider?
Journalism.org:
Drudge Report: Small Operation, Large Influence
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Apple Brings Conde Nast Aboard the Subscription Bandwagon, Starting With the New Yorker  —  Apple is winning over the big publishers.  Last week, Hearst Corp. said it planned to start selling its magazines using Apple's new iTunes subscription service.  Now rival Conde Nast is actually doing it, via the publisher's New Yorker title.
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Mark McClusky / @markmcc:   So excited that we'll have subscriptions for the @wired iPad edition, starting with June issue. And May is still available for free!
David Carr / New York Times:
Now to Sell Advertisers on Tablets
Discussion: Poynter, Noted and Future of Journalism
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Matt Lauer Confirms Talks With Katie Couric About New Show  —  Matt Lauer has confirmed that he and Katie Couric discussed hosting a talk show together, but insists that he is staying put at the “Today” show.  —  At a press conference on Monday about the personnel changes at the show …
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Keach Hagey / On Media's Blog:
Meredith Vieira leaving “Today”  —  The long-awaited shakeup of the “Today” show, expected last week but apparently delayed amidst the news of Osama bin Laden's death, is now official: Meredith Vieira is leaving the show next month, and Ann Curry is replacing her as co-anchor.
Joann S. Lublin / Wall Street Journal:
CEO Pay in 2010 Jumped 11%  —  Chief executives at the biggest U.S. companies saw their pay jump sharply in 2010, as boards rewarded them for strong profit and share-price growth with bigger bonuses and stock grants.  —  The median value of salaries, bonuses and long-term incentive awards …
Wall Street Journal:
A Changed Tune on Netflix  —  Some Media Firms Shift Stance on Video Service, Seeing a Potential to Help TV  —  Media chiefs are shifting their public stance toward Netflix Inc. and are now trying to convince investors that the video streaming service will expand their business rather than destroy it.
Discussion: Adweek and Tech Trader Daily
Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:
Dateline NBC takes Facebook engagement to new level  —  While Dateline NBC's correspondents have interacted with viewers on Facebook while the news magazine is on the air, Sunday night the subject of a segment answered viewers' questions.  David Goldman, who regained custody of his son …
Discussion: rbr.com
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Why Fortune's Apple Story is AWOL from the Web-And Why You Can Buy It on Amazon  —  Last week, Fortune published a deep dive into Apple, then made sure that many people who would care about it couldn't read it: The story was available in the magazine's print and iPad editions, but not on the Web.
Tom Evslin / Fractals of Change:
Hey NYTimes, Where's the Link?  —  It's no longer acceptable online to make a naked assertion on a controversial subject without at least a link to back it up, at least not for anyone practicing serious journalism and writing a news story.  But here's what appeared in the New York Times online today …
Discussion: Rebooting The News
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo Keeps Up Hiring-Rob Barrett Named as Head of News and Finance  —  Yahoo is on a bit of a hiring spree, picking up longtime Internet exec Robertson Barrett (pictured here), to run its critical and powerful Yahoo News and Finance sites.  —  Barrett has held top positions at Tribune Interactive …
New York Post:
Hobbling gasbag  —  Gasbag Keith Olbermann can't seem to wrangle staff for his Current TV show, “Countdown.”  Still in need of an executive producer and other staff, famously difficult Olbermann has crawled back to his contacts at MSNBC, many of whom he offended while there, to beg for staff.
Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
European Ventures Seek to Fill a Void in World News  —  PARIS — As news organizations around the world close down foreign bureaus, journalists, entrepreneurs and even government bodies in Europe are creating news ventures to try to fill the void.  —  As a result, readers seeking international news …
Discussion: Noted
Sam Schechner / Speakeasy:
TV's Future Looks Incredible If You Ask TV Executives … Television's advertising market is seeing big inflation—in how media executives describe the market's strength.  —  With just a couple weeks left before they start to wrangle with Madison Avenue over ad prices for the fall TV season …
Adweek:
First Mover Interview: David Westin  —  Adweek: What will this new News Licensing Group you're running do?  —  David Westin: We have technology that will allow us to track news reports as they get posted on the Internet and appear on mobile, so news providers know who's getting exposure to their material and how they're coming to it.
 
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