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Wall Street Journal:
Investors Await News Corp. Meeting — News Corp. executives will try to use an important board meeting and full-year earnings this week to steer attention away from the scandal at the media giant's U.K. newspapers unit and refocus investors on the company's core operations, people familiar with the matter said.
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Poynter, Guardian, Betabeat and Deadline.com
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David Carr / New York Times:
News Corp.'s Soft Power in the U.S.
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Free Press, New York Magazine and On Media's Blog
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Why Huffpo Would Be Better Off Without ‘Zombie’ AOL — Tim Armstrong. Image by AOL via CrunchBase — Back in February, Arianna Huffington said that selling her company to AOL was like “stepping off a fast-moving train and onto a supersonic jet.” In terms of creating value for shareholders …
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Austin Carr / Fast Company:
AOL iPad Mag “Editions” Missed The Memo About The AOL Way — The iPad magazine looks gorgeous and works about as well as Zite, Flipboard, et. al. It even understands if you're not into AOL content. And it's cool with that. Why? Its creators, David Temkin and Sol Lipman explain.
Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
After Much Ado, a Google Book Deal in France — PARIS — France has caused plenty of headaches for Google. Its politicians have denounced the U.S. Internet giant as a cultural imperialist; its publishers have called it a copyright cheat. — Yet France is suddenly the only country …
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ZDNet, Plagiarism Today, VentureBeat and Softpedia News
Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
Apple's rumored ‘Replay’ service a ways off — Warner Bros. is one of at least four top film studios from which Apple has yet to obtain streaming-movie licenses, sources say. — The rumors from last week about Apple being “on the edge” of launching a cloud movie service …
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MediaPost, VentureBeat, TUAW, TechCrunch, Computerworld, ReadWriteWeb, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, MacRumors, WebProNews, The Business Insider and Electronista, more at Techmeme »
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Current TV Taps David Bohrman as President — Former CNN Washington bureau chief David Bohrman has been named president of Current TV, the cable TV channel founded by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt. Current has switched its focus in recent months from non-fiction and user-generated content towards news …
Zeke Turner / WWD Media Headlines:
The New Yorker Under the Microscope — Last week, The New Yorker ran a play-by-play about the Navy SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. It was quickly accepted as one of the most impressive pieces of magazine journalism so far this year — ASME bait and bound to be a major motion picture screenplay.
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Adweek, FishbowlNY, The New Yorker Blog and Poynter
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
What journalists need to know about libelous tweets — Rumors that CNN had suspended Piers Morgan due to the News of the World phone hacking scandal spread on Twitter earlier this month, sparking an important discussion about whether journalists need to verify information before tweeting.
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Another Cool New Yorker App. And This One's Free. — Like the New Yorker's iPad app, but don't want to pay for it? Here's a sort-of alternative: The magazine's new entertainment listings app. — It's not the New Yorker, but it's built using the magazine's intellectual DNA.
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The New York Observer, The New Yorker Blog, VentureBeat and MacRumors
Nat Ives / AdAge:
New York Times Introduces Beta620, a Public Site for its Experimental Projects — Consumers Can Test Smarter Search Bar, New Crossword App and Other Ideas — The New York Times has introduced its long-delayed Beta620, a public beta testing site where web surfers can experiment with new products …
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Nieman Journalism Lab, Poynter, Betabeat, beta620, ReadWriteWeb, eMedia Vitals, Techland, the Econsultancy blog, Fast Company, VatorNews, Chrisgillbard.com, paidContent and Future of Journalism, more at Techmeme », Thanks:steverubel
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Interview: Digital's Second Age Begins Now, FT CEO Says — Financial Times chief executive John Ridding tells paidContent that data and mobile will fuel digital publishing in to a 2.0 phase. But he may need to score a victory against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to get there.
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NetNewsCheck Latest and Future of Journalism
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Hawaiian punch! A paywall showdown in Honolulu — It looks like Honolulu just turned into a two-paywall town. Last week, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser began charging for online content. And it's a hard wall, too: no monthly allowance for stories like, say, The New York Times offers …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Curation Tool Storify Partners With MSNBC's Breaking News For Sourced News Content — As you may know, content curation platform Storify, which launched at TechCrunch Disrupt last fall, brings together Tweets, Facebook Status Updates, videos and more from social networking sites to create a realtime view into a story or issue.
Adweek:
First Mover: Frank Rich — How is it being back with New York editor Adam Moss? — It's great. Our editorial relationship dates back to when he was essentially a kid at Esquire in 1987, when he called me up out of the blue. I didn't want to do the assignment; he convinced me to do it.
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