Mediagazer: PR Firm's Attempt To Plant Anti-Google Privacy Story Backfires (Joe Mullin/paidContent)

7:50 AM ET, May 11, 2011

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Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism:

The Story So Far: What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism — A new report by Bill Grueskin, Ava Seave and Lucas Graves — A recording of this event will be posted soon. — Can digital journalism be profitable? What's making money, what isn't, and why?

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Emily Bell / Guardian:

Why integration can be a barrier to innovation in the digital world — Although some integrated news rooms and sales forces are effective, progress is often quicker where digital is kept apart — “Here's the problem,” says Randall Rothenberg, head of the US Interactive Advertising Bureau.

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Felix Salmon:
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USA Today:

Google deflects PR firm's attack of Gmail privacy — It's not as if Google lacks privacy controversies to quell. — Yet Burson-Marsteller, a top-five public relations firm, is attempting to pile more on. — Burson last week stepped up a whisper campaign to get top-tier media outlets …

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Joe Mullin / paidContent:

PR Firm's Attempt To Plant Anti-Google Privacy Story Backfires — Almost every technology company these days is starting to take some heat over privacy issues, and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is certainly no exception. (Just this morning, its head of public policy was being interrogated by a Senate subcommittee.)

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Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:

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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

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Steve Buttry / The Buttry Diary:

5 big problems with ‘Navigating News Online’ study — You might find some valid research in the Navigating News Online study published Monday by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a project of the Pew Foundation. — But the study needed lots of context that an organization committed to excellence in journalism should provide.

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Helen Pidd / Guardian:

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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

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The Atlantic Wire:

The Associated Press's Case for Releasing the Bin Laden Photo — President Obama's decision to withhold the visual evidence of Osama bin Laden's death has created a fundamental disagreement between the White House and one of the largest journalism organizations in the world.

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Joseph Alexiou / The Wire:

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David Kaplan / paidContent:

About Group CEO Irvine Out; NYTCo's Nisenholtz Will Run Unit — After three years in the position—and three straight quarters of decline, Cella Irvine is no longer CEO of the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Co.'s About Group. She is being replaced by Martin Nisenholtz, the company's SVP of digital operations.