Mediagazer: News Editors Still Don't Want Journalists to Be Human (Mathew Ingram/GigaOM)

1:25 PM ET, May 13, 2011

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Hulu, Networks Close To New Deal — Hulu and its network TV owners are close to a new deal that will keep programs from NBC, Fox and ABC on the Web video site. — An agreement to extend the content licenses that owners News Corp., Disney and NBCUniversal signed two years ago …

Discussion: SAI, WebProNews, Betabeat, GigaOM, C21Media.net and Electronista, more at Techmeme »

thebrowser.com:

Richard Tofel on the Changing Business of Journalism — General manager of the non-profit newsroom ProPublica and former assistant publisher of the Wall Street Journal tells us his predictions for the future of news Am I right to think, from the books you've chosen, that newspapers …

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Lynne Marek / Chicago Business: Chicago Tribune testing premium daily edition

Adweek:

First Mover: Jane Pratt — Adweek: So, are you still sassy? — Jane Pratt: I don't think that ever really goes away. Though my grandma, who is 104, keeps hoping I will get past it. — AW: How would you describe your new website, xoJane.com? — JP: It's very, very personal.

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Associated Press:

White House: No more re-enactments of the president's speeches for news photographers — NEW YORK — The White House said it is ending its long-running practice of having presidents re-enact televised speeches for news photographers following major addresses to the country …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Gawker, Poynter, Gizmodo, Weasel Zippers and The Atlantic Wire

Dan Lyons / The Daily Beast:

The PR Hacks Behind Facebook's Google Smear — THE DAILY BEAST ON: — The two PR hacks who ran Facebook's covert anti-Google smear campaign were new to the company, and will not be fired. Dan Lyons on how their clumsy work exposed them, and Facebook's smug strategy for escaping the controversy.

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Beth Krietsch / PRWeek US:
Burson-Marsteller and Facebook part ways

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Amy Wicks / WWD Media Headlines:

Arianna Huffington v. The Times... L'Oréal's Digital Play... ARIANNA V. THE TIMES: Arianna Huffington tossed another grenade in the direction of The New York Times on Wednesday afternoon, during her luncheon address at a Gilt Groupe conference. “The New York Times pay wall isn't working,” she claimed.

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Nat Ives / AdAge:

Good News for Magazines: Popular Science iPad Subscribers Are 95% New Readers — What Conde Nast and Hearst Can Expect as They Start Selling iPad Subscriptions — What will Conde Nast, and Hearst soon after it, find as people start buying subscriptions to their magazines' iPad editions in Apple's App Store?

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Charles Arthur / Guardian:

Twitter and Facebook publication banned for first time in injunction — High court judge issues order that specifically mentions social media as well as digital, TV, radio and print — A high court judge has issued an injunction which for the first time explicitly bans publication of information on Twitter and Facebook.

Discussion: Telegraph, The (e)Grommet, GigaOM, Wired.co.uk and msnbc.com, more at Techmeme »

Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:

Joe Biden Scouted Multiple Reporters to Be His New Communications Director — Joe Biden has a thing for reporters. Back in December 2008, the vice-president hired former Time Washington bureau chief Jay Carney to be his communications director. When Carney was promoted earlier this year …

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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:

Lime Wire to pay record labels $105 million, ends suit — (Reuters) - The operators of LimeWire agreed to pay record companies $105 million, ending a federal trial over damages after the once-popular file-sharing service had been found liable for copyright infringement.

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Andrea Pitzer / Nieman Storyboard:

What's in a name? Washingtonian renames and resurrects a story — This week's Notable Narrative,"What If Osama Bin Laden Had Been Captured?," recounts the interrogation of Saddam Hussein, taking readers through recent history to a more speculative present.

Rachel Aydt / Publishing Perspectives:

Tweets, Blogs and Books: How Online Writers and Publishers Still Rely on Each Other for a Payday — Tweeters and bloggers are teaching publishers new tricks, and each continues to profit from collaboration with the other. — Blogger. Vlogger. Tweeter. Author. Journalist.

David L. Ulin / Los Angeles Times:

Literary journalism finds new platforms — Byliner, the Atavist and Virginia Quarterly Review take the form into the future. — William T. Vollmann undergoes radiation screening in Japan. — Los Angeles Times Book Critic — When National Book Award-winning novelist William T. Vollmann went …

Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:

Salon's TableTalk shutdown: What we can learn from the story of a pioneering online community — Salon.com Wednesday announced plans to close Table Talk, the online discussion space and community that has operated continuously since Salon's launch on Nov. 20, 1995.

Discussion: Salon Table Talk

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

News Editors Still Don't Want Journalists to Be Human — The American Society of News Editors has come out with an overview of social-media policies at news organizations across the U.S. — including Bloomberg, which we wrote about recently as an example of a company that still …

Discussion: News for Digital Journalists, Thanks:mathewi

Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:
‘Break news on your website, not on Twitter’

Discussion: Poynter, rjionline.org, The Buttry Diary, Editors Weblog, Journalism.co.uk and Future of Journalism

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

TED's Gone Global: Videos Now in 88 Languages via Open Translation Project — It's been two years since TED Talks enlisted fans around the globe to translate its videos into many languages through its Open Translation Project powered by dotSub, a crowd-sourced translation platform.

(Re)Structuring Journalism:

Good 'Nuff — I was talking to a veteran photographer at the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Hong Kong not long ago; we were discussing how once well-paid photo gigs (and contracts) were falling by the wayside. More precisely, he was lamenting the days and talking about the unappreciated …

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

Jim Lehrer On Leaving ‘PBS NewsHour’: ‘I may not be here physically, but I will always be here’ — Earlier today Jim Lehrer announced his retirement from the anchor chair at “PBS NewsHour.” Lehrer has been a journalist for 52 years, 36 of them for the “NewsHour” and its earlier incarnations …

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