Mediagazer: Guardian staffs up planned U.S. website as ‘major’ digital ‘transformation’ begins (Joe Pompeo/Yahoo! News)

1:50 AM ET, June 17, 2011

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Michael Kinsley / New York Times:

A Hyperactive Fly on a Newsroom Wall — “Page One: Inside The New York Times” is a documentary about this newspaper and the people who put it out. All of these people know far more than I do about The Times and are better positioned to judge the movie. But what might strike nonjournalists …

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Guardian:

Guardian News & Media to be a digital-first organisation — Guardian News & Media (GNM), publisher of the Guardian, has revealed plans to become a digital-first organisation, placing open journalism on the web at the heart of its strategy. — Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of GNM …

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Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
Guardian staffs up planned U.S. website as ‘major’ digital ‘transformation’ begins

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Philip Bump / Mediaite:

Where Does Local News Fit If National And Social Media Take Up All Your Time? — Most cities don't have politicians who send pictures of their genitalia to porn stars. Very few do; at last count, the number totaled one. — Most cities don't have a President who gets into debates on policy …

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Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Who clicks more on local news, New York or Omaha? Surprising data from the FCC on local online news — While one can argue with some of the interpretations, Matthew Hindman's new study on how local online news is consumed gives us interesting data on reader behavior.

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Soo Youn / The Daily:

Dave planning new show - for a paid subscription service — Dave Chappelle is back, bitches! — The beloved comic is planning a new TV show with a paid subscription service like Netflix, Sony's Crackle, or Hulu, which are now competing in the original programming game, a plugged-in source told Flash.

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Nat Ives / AdAge:

Meredith Shutters DIY Darling ReadyMade Magazine, Eliminates 75 Jobs Companywide — Acquired the Brand in 2006 in Bid for Younger Readers — Meredith is closing the hip, DIY darling ReadyMade magazine and eliminating 75 positions from the company as a whole, incurring a $10 million …

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Mike Allen / The Politico:

Norah O'Donnell moves to CBS — Norah O'Donnell, one of NBC's best-known Washington bureau reporters, is moving to CBS News to be chief White House correspondent, CBS announced. — It's a stunning shakeup for both the front row of the White House briefing room and for Washington's intensely competitive network news bureaus.

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David Kaplan / paidContent:

Armstrong @ AOL Analyst Day: Critics Of HuffPo Deal Just Don't Understand — A month after AOL (NYSE: AOL) posted its first growth in display revenue after a more than three-year drought, the company is hosting an “analyst day” in New York's fashionable Soho district to further explain its strategy to Wall St. and the press.

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Jonathan Van Meter / Vogue.com:

Bold Type: Tina Brown — At home in New York with daughter Isabel — There is something deeply old-fashioned about the so-called power-breakfast scene at the Regency Hotel, at Sixty-first Street and Park Avenue in Manhattan. Indeed, it is the very place where the phrase was coined in the mid-seventies …

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Glynnis MacNicol / The Wire:

Arianna Taps Actress Rita Wilson To Head New ‘Boomer’ Vertical Huff/Post 40 — Arianna has not lost her knack for splashy name-dropping. — The AOL Huffington Post Media Group announced today they have tapped actress (and wife of Tom Hanks) Rita Wilson to be editor-at-large of a new Boomer vertical Huff/Post 40.

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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Rebecca Black Pulls Infamous ‘Friday’ Video From YouTube — It's Thursday, Thursday, and Rebecca Black's memetastic “Friday” video is no longer available on YouTube, due to a copyright claim filed by Rebecca Black apparently. It's not clear what exactly happened to the video …

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Yahoo! News:

How Weinergate became a media circus — Anthony Weiner's press conference Thursday afternoon to announce his resignation from the U.S. House of Representatives in the wake of a sexting scandal gave new meaning to the phrase “media circus.” — Though brief, the announcement …