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Dawn Chmielewski / Company Town:
Katie Couric is closing in on a deal with ABC for an afternoon talk show — One of the most high-profile media courtships may soon be consummated: Katie Couric is closing in on a deal with Walt Disney Co.'s ABC to host an afternoon talk show. — Couric, who anchored the CBS Evening News …
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Alessandra Stanley / New York Times:
Quiet Departure Is Stark Contrast to Heralded Arrival — “CBS Evening News” bade farewell to its anchor, Katie Couric, on Thursday with a five-minute highlights reel and a rendition of the Beatles ballad “In My Life,” but there wasn't much sadness on the set.
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NY Daily News, Gothamist and The Atlantic Wire
Carly Carioli / Phlog:
Google abandons master-plan to archive the world's newspapers — In an email today to publishers including the Boston Phoenix, Google told partners in its News Archive project that it would cease accepting, scanning, and indexing microfilm and other archival material from newspapers …
Jim Rainey / The Big Picture:
Schwarzenegger child: How Gawker named wrong ‘baby mama’ — The story of Arnold Schwarzenegger and the household worker who bore his child more than a decade ago has created something like the Fog of War, I suggested the other day. When fact, fiction and journalistic standards blur …
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On Media's Blog, L.A. NOW and Capital New York
Adam Tinworth / One Man & His Blog:
bbcsms - Technology and Innovation — Nic Newman — Social media is your friend, not your competitor. Visits to news sites is growing at about the same rate as social media visits. — So who is losing? — Search is starting to fall as a source of information - being replaced by social discovery.
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Journalism.co.uk
Kat Stoeffel / New York Observer:
The Barbarian Group at the Gate! How Long Will ‘The Daily’ Stay Top Secret? — Since its launch three months ago, the goings-on at tablet newspaper The Daily have been kept tightly under wraps by News Corp's—not to mention Apple's—trademark wall of secrecy and non-disclosure agreements.
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mediabistro.com
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Tablets Tip Future To First Digital Profit — Future says tablet magazine sales of over £100,000 ($161863.16) per month pushed its digital activities in to their first ever profit during the first half of this year. — Although publishers often cite growing digital revenue …
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Press Gazette, Future of Journalism and Media Week
Mark Little / Storyful:
The Human Algorithm — When I became a reporter, almost 20 years ago, my job was to dig up scarce, precious facts and deliver them to a passive audience. Today, scarcity has been replaced by an unimaginable surplus and that audience is actively building its own newsroom.
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GigaOM
New York Post:
Battle over Condé Nast office space at 1 WTC — When Condé Nast finally moves into its new downtown digs at 1 WTC, many of the denizens of the city's glitziest publishing house will be in a for a rude surprise: the new office plan calls for open floor seating in the 1 million square feet of office space.
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MinOnline, FishbowlNY, New York Magazine and Gothamist
Noah Davis / The Wire:
ELIZABETH SPIERS: 'New York Observer Was Sluggish When I Got Here And Now It's Back On Track' — The visual metaphor is obvious. — Last week, Elizabeth Spiers — Gawker founder, Breaking Media founder, and currently editor-in-chief of the New York Observer — posted a picture …
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New York Magazine, Runnin' Scared, @iwantmedia and FishbowlNY
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
From Schoolhouse Rock to ‘The Fracking Song,’ explainers as ‘acts of empathy’ — In all the years he's been playing the guitar and keyboard, David Holmes never pictured himself recording a song about hydraulic fractured drilling. — But Holmes, a journalism student in New York University's …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Big Content rips into Google, the “corporate imperialist” — The knives are out for Google Chairman Eric Schmidt. Within hours of making comments to UK media during a press conference, major US rightsholders attempted to brand Google as an arrogant, out-of-control company bent …
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MPAA Blog, Future of Journalism, Techdirt, GigaOM, PC World, PC Magazine, Digital Trends, RIAA and Softpedia News, more at Techmeme »
Gena Chung / American Journalism Review:
Continuing the Struggle — Her husband, editor of a newspaper in Sri Lanka, was gunned down. Now in exile in New York City, Sonali Samarasinghe presses forward with their fight for press freedom and justice in their native country. Posted: Friday, May 20 2011
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
The Evolution of TechCrunchTV: A Slick NY Studio and the Power of Videoblogging — Launched just over a year ago, now with 1700 videos and millions of streams, TechCrunchTV is expanding with new programming, a state-of-the-art studio at the Aol headquarters in Manhattan and a focus on videoblogging.
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
After Layoffs, ‘Pink Slip’ Virus Hits Dow Jones — Dow Jones has been battling the nasty “pink slip” computer virus all week. And its arrival just days after two dozen or so techs were laid off has led to speculation that the company was a victim of sabotage.
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Yahoo! News and Talking Biz News
Gregory Ferenstein / Fast Company:
Meet Facebook's Journalist Ambassador (Yes, We Said Ambassador) — A 25-year-old Columbia Professor of Journalism, Vadim Lavrusik, is Mark Zuckerberg's media macher. — Facebook now accounts for more than 5% of traffic for many major news outlets. As the Internet floods users with options …
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