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Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:
The kingdom and the power of David Carr — New York Times media reporter David Carr had a bad feeling during a photo shoot he was doing for Interview magazine early last month. — The photographer for the notoriously fashiony celebrity-on-celebrity Q-and-A magazine had taken a number …
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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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Mixed Media, AdAge, LA Observed, Poynter, Rolling Stone, Company Town, gary-weiss.com, Future of Journalism, FishbowlNY and On Media's Blog
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Spotify, Gearing Up for U.S. Launch, Closes Its $1 Billion Round — More momentum for Spotify: The streaming music service has finalized a huge funding round that gives it a valuation of about $1 billion. — The European company has raised around $100 million from DST, Kleiner Perkins and Accel.
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paidContent, Guardian, Betabeat, App Advice, MacRumors, SAI, Softpedia News, ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM, The Next Web, PC Magazine and hypebot, more at Techmeme »
John Cook / Gawker:
Gov. Chris Christie Claims Fox News Chief as Confidential Adviser — The office of Republican Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey is claiming that Fox News chairman Roger Ailes is a confidential adviser whose interactions with the governor should remain secret under New Jersey's executive privilege.
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Mediaite, The Wire, TVNewser, The Atlantic Wire and New York Magazine
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Olbermann Wants to Make Current a 24-Hour News Network — With three days to go before the debut of his new show on Current TV, Keith Olbermann is simultaneously trying to lower and raise expectations. In the short term, he'd like to lower them, particularly when it comes to ratings.
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The Wire, TVNewser and On Media's Blog
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Keach Hagey / The Politico:
Cable after Glenn Beck and Keith Olbermann
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Poynter, On Media's Blog and TVNewser
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Following Departure, Murdoch's iPad Paper Makes A Big Hire — The Daily made a big hire Friday, scooping up Varietyâs Tom Lowry as the tablet publicationâs new business editor. — Daily editor-in-chief Jesse Angelo announced the hire Friday in a memo to staff obtained by The Huffington Post.
Kevin / Strange Attractor:
The Guardian needs an intervention — The Guardian and its Sunday title, The Observer have just announced a “digital-first” strategy. However, this is not a triumphant announcement. This is a burning platform admission. — Guardian News & Media, the parent company for both newspapers …
Alex Ben Block / Hollywood Reporter:
Senate Committee Votes to Make Illegal Streaming of Movies, TV a Felony … Moving to close a possible loophole in the laws against the pirating of movies, TV shows and other intellectual property, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved making illegal streaming of video over the Internet a felony in most cases.
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GeekWire, Fast Company, The Wrap, The Next Web, Bloomberg and Electronista, more at Techmeme »
Stefanie Botelho / Folio:
Financial Times Sees 100,000 Downloads In Week After HTML Launch — With digital subs up 50 percent in 2010, FT enters app world through the Web. — Financial Times has decided to go another way for their digital subscription offering, opting out of the Apple sub model and creating an app through HTML 5 …
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eMedia Vitals and Future of Journalism
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Devil Made Me Do It. AOL's Regrouped Advertising.com Is A $500 Million Business — AOL's advertising platforms, which are grouped under the Advertising.com business, is now a $500 million business, the company revealed today at its Investor Day in New York City.
Discussion:
Future of Journalism and Nieman Journalism Lab
Shane Richmond / Telegraph:
Why Twitter's media critics are missing the point — Media commentators have called Twitter 'smug, ‘intolerant’ and suggested that it's pointless but that's like saying the telephone is smug, writes Shane Richmond. — Twitter: scaring people in the media since 2006.
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Future of Journalism and Editors Weblog
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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Inside TV, Essence, Kotaku, From Inside the Box, PopEater, WebProNews, Company Town and The Wire
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Thrillist Brings Discount Lap Dances to ‘Deals’ Party — Building a New Kind of Media Company With Less Media, More Commerce, Deals and Advertising — How's this for a daily deal: half off a steak dinner at Roberts', the steak house inside the Scores gentlemen's club on Manhattan's West Side …
Noah Davis / The Wire:
Meet Hearst's Secret Weapon Who's Making Magazine iPad Apps Pay — If Hearst Corporation figures out how to make magazine subscriptions pay on the iPad and other tablets, Jim Meigs will deserve plenty of the credit. — The editor-in-chief of Popular Mechanics is one of the leaders …
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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The Wire, Speakeasy, Mediaite, TMZ.com, Gawker, PlagiarismToday, SocialTimes.com, Gadget Lab, VentureBeat, Techdirt, WebProNews and Mashable!, more at Techmeme »
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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Future of Journalism
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