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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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TVWeek.com, Adweek, Mediaite, Guardian, TV Squad and Hollywood Life
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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, The Atlantic Wire, Gothamist and The 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 …
Reinventing the Newsroom:
Where Papers' Linking Problems Begin — Why aren't news organizations better about linking? That question reverberates in digital-journalism circles periodically, and since the link is one of the more fundamental tenets of the web, if not the fundamental tenet, a failure to link …
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Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The newsonomics of the missing link — Picture Pre-Tablet Man (or Woman). Let's go back to the time before Palm Pilots, at the dawn of consumer digital civilization itself, a time of AOL, Prodigy, and Compuserve. Hunched heavily by the analog world on his shoulders …
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eMedia Vitals
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Breaking: Liberty Media Offers Nearly $1 Billion For Barnes & Noble — Bankrupt Borders needs a sale the most but Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), which put itself in play last August, is the book retailer with a serious suitor—and they don't come much more serious than John Malone.
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Shira Ovide / Deal Journal:
Insane! John Malone Offers to Buy Barnes & Noble
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bookforum.com and GalleyCat
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 …
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
Twitter sued for ‘breaking’ UK super injunction. Oh yes. — We've been watching the British legal system turn itself into knots for the last couple of weeks, largely due to the ability of Twitter users to break just about any legal ‘super injunction’ a ‘celebrity’ (usually footballers) …
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Guardian and The Next Web, more at Techmeme »
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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Talking Biz News
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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PC World, PC Magazine, Digital Trends, A VC and RIAA
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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FishbowlNY and @iwantmedia
The Atlantic Online:
South African Journalist Anton Hammerl Killed in Libya — Long thought to be alive in government captivity, the freelance photographer was shot by forces loyal to Qaddafi over six weeks ago — Freelance photographer Anton Lazarus Hammerl, a South African who also held Austrian citizenship …
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Yahoo! News, Lens, FishbowlNY and Adweek
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
NY Times CEO: We Jumped Onto the Horse of Change — If Twitter makes you stupid, as New York Times executive editor Bill Keller believes, then the Times is extinguishing more brain cells than any other newspaper — and CEO Janet Robinson is darn happy about that.
Todd Haselton / BGR:
Internet and telco TV eat away at cable TV market share — According to new data from ABI Research, internet TV and and television services run by telecoms - such as Verizon or AT&T— are slowly eating away at cable TV's market share. Cable TV subscriptions dropped from 72% in 2009 to 69% in 2010 …
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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Journalism.org
Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:
The CW to reward viewers for watching commercials — At its upfront presentation today, the CW network announced an unique partnership with the shopping app Shopkick. The app serves up shopping deals and special rewards for users who visit top retailers like Target and Home Depot.
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MediaPost, Broadcasting & Cable, GigaOM and rbr.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 …
Discussion:
Media Week
Ryan Chittum / CJR:
A HuffPost Scoop, Overlooked By the Mainstream Press — HUD finds big banks defrauded taxpayers, but few follow the story — Shahien Nasiripour scored a foreclosure-fraud scandal scoop for The Huffington Post on Monday, reporting that audits of the mortgage industry conducted …
Steve Green / VEGAS INC:
Denver judge stays all Righthaven cases in Colorado — A federal judge in Colorado today said there are serious questions about the validity of the Righthaven LLC/Denver Post copyright infringement lawsuits there, and he put them all on hold. — Senior U.S. District Judge John Kane in Denver …
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paidContent, NetNewsCheck Latest and Righthaven Victims
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