Mediagazer: Confessions Of A Patch Editor: “The Model Isn't Sustainable” (Nicholas Carlson/The Wire)

11:50 AM ET, June 10, 2011

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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Huffpo Tops NY Times in Traffic, But With a Huge Asterisk — Unique visitors, in millions, to AOL and the Huffington Post, as well as the unduplicated total — Arianna Huffington has The New York Times in her crosshairs, and she's packing some major artillery: Her site now has more traffic than the Times.

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Julie Moos / Poynter:

Top news sites lose unique visitors in May, while traffic peaks for many — Early reports Thursday about Huffington Post surpassing The New York Times website in traffic illustrate a critical misunderstanding: unique visitors do not equal page views. — In fact, during the month …

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The Atlantic Wire:
The Huffington Post Passes The New York Times in Traffic

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Nicholas Carlson / The Wire:

Confessions Of A Patch Editor: “The Model Isn't Sustainable” — AOL's network of local news sites, Patch, has about 830 editors. — Over the past couple days - after we published Confessions Of Patch Salesperson: “It's Been A Disaster” - several of them have emailed us to complain about their jobs.

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Alex Salkever / Street Fight:

Patch's Main Problem? Paltry Pay — When I was working at AOL a few years back, the recruiter for Patch.com came through the West Coast offices and I spoke to her a bit about building out the fast-growing hyperlocal news blog company that is something of a bet-the-future venture …

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Which will save AOL: Huffington Post or Patch?

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Sara Jerome / Hillicon Valley:

FCC says news outlets could make money from online ad tracking — A Federal Communications Commission (FCC) report released Thursday encourages policymakers to see the benefits in behavioral advertising as a debate rages in Washington on how to regulate online tracking to protect the personal data of consumers.

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Maureen Farrell / Scaling Up:

Former Time Warner CEO on “delicious ironies” of AOL-HuffPo Merger — Don't expect former Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin to call up Tim Armstrong with advice on AOL's buyout of the Huffington Post. “I've made it a practice recalling the time when I was CEO and calls that I would get not to talk …

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Derek Willis / The Caucus:

Help Us Review the Sarah Palin E-Mail Records — On Friday, the State of Alaska will release more than 24,000 of Sarah Palin's e-mails covering much of her tenure as governor of Alaska. Times reporters will be in Juneau, the state capital, to begin the process of reviewing the e-mails …

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Ryan Kellett / Washington Post:
Help analyze the Palin e-mails

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Jxpaton / Digital First:

WAN IFRA International Newsroom Summit: How The Crowd Saved Our Company — Good morning. — As career journalists and managers we have entered a new era where what we know and what we traditionally do has finally found its value in the marketplace and that value is about zero.

Bloomberg:

YouTube in Network Deal Talks With Operators, Manufacturers — Google Inc. (GOOG)'s YouTube division said it is in talks with all major mobile operators on an agreement to pool efforts to reduce the impact of video content on telecommunications networks. — YouTube, the world's …

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Google Acquires AdMeld For $400 Million — AdMeld, an advertising optimization platform for publishers, has been acquired by Google for around $400 million according to multiple sources. The company, which launched in 2007, has raised just $30 million in venture capital from Foundry Group …

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Keach Hagey / On Media's Blog:

The editorial dilemma of Huma's pregnancy — The news that Anthony Weiner's wife, Huma Abedin, is pregnant had been known and agonized over in newsrooms, including this one, for more than 24 hours before it was reported on Wednesday night. — It presented one of the toughest editorial dilemmas in recent memory.

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Rob Gurwitt / Stateline.org:

Only four years old, the nonprofit online news site MinnPost has yet to match its cross-town rival, the venerable Minneapolis Star Tribune, for size, budget or readership. But it sure can bring out big names for a party. — At MinnPost's April 1 “MinnRoast” fundraiser …

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Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of defense and offense — Editor's Note: Each week, Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of news for the Lab. — Walter Hussman deserves a good laugh. Hussman, publisher …

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Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:

Meredith Expands, Adds to Leadership — Meredith National Media Group has promoted and added to its leadership team. The four promotions include Gayle Butler to Executive Vice President & Group Creative Content Leader and Editor-in-Chief of Better Homes and Gardens, Jim Carr …

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