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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
EXCLUSIVE: Media Pioneer Jim Romenesko To ‘Semi-Retire’ — NEW YORK — When Jim Romenesko attended an annual Poynter Institute board meeting in 2002, a few years after bringing his pioneering brand of media blogging and aggregation to the journalism school's site, some of the country's top editors complained …
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Bill Mitchell / Poynter:
How the Romenesko Years have changed journalism and Poynter — It was the summer of 1999, still early days on the Web, and former Poynter president Jim Naughton and I were scheming ways of creating a site that journalists would find useful to the point of habit-forming.
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Journalists freed from Rixos hotel in Tripoli — After being held at the Rixos hotel in what increasingly seemed like a hostage situation, about three dozen people, including journalists and foreign diplomats, were released Wednesday. CNN Senior International Correspondent Matthew Chance …
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James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
On the Media: A front-row seat to Libyan rebellion — Alex Crawford of Britain's Sky News and CNN's Sara Sidner and Matthew Chance provide cable TV viewers with riveting reports from Tripoli. — Too bad a little shaky ground on the East Coast seized the better part of the news cycle Tuesday …
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
CNN's Sara Sidner Gets Grazed By Bullet Casings During Live Report In Tripoli
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Time Warner to Subsidize Subscribers' TV Device — Time Warner Cable, one of the nation's top cable and Internet providers, said on Tuesday that it would subsidize some purchases of a set-top box called Slingbox that allows users to watch their home television programming from anywhere, like a vacation home or a mobile phone.
Lauren A. E. Schuker / Wall Street Journal:
Hollywood News Machine Getting a New TV Entrant — PMC, the digital-media company owned by entrepreneur Jay Penske whose properties include Nikki Finke's Deadline.com, is making a push into entertainment television by teaming up with ION Television to produce short news segments on Hollywood.
Gina Lovett / New Media Age:
Specific Media to launch video creative testing tool — Specific Media is to launch a video version of its creative campaign testing technology that uses eye-tracking. — The tool for display advertising analyses the impact of advertising creative by tracking user eye movement.
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Future of Journalism and Medacity
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Online Video Platform Company Brightcove Files For $50 Million IPO — Online video platform company Brightcove this morning announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the SEC in connection with a proposed IPO of its common stock. The company is looking to raise up to $50 million through the offering.
D.M. Levine / Adweek:
Hulu Buyer May Be Getting a Network, Not a Video Platform — Hulu's network partners—ABC, NBC and Fox—have had a famously ambivalent relationship with the video venture since its launch in 2008. Now, as Hulu readies itself for a sale with initial bids due on Wednesday …
Amber Jamieson / Crikey:
The quality journalism project: investigating Wendy Bacon — Shining a light on injustice and corruption isn't an easy, but it's a critical aspect of journalism and democracy. Walkley award-winning journalist Wendy Bacon has done just that, examining official corruption in NSW …
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
MediaNews Group Consolidates Eleven Bay Area Papers Into Two — California's Bay Area residents are a couple months away from losing many of their local newspapers, as the Bay Area News Group—a division of MediaNews Group—consolidates eleven newspapers, including the Oakland Tribune, into just two: The Times and the East Bay Tribune.
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NetNewsCheck Latest, LA Observed and Future of Journalism
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Jim Romenesko / Poynter:
About 120 lose jobs in Bay Area News Group rebranding, streamlining
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Dublin Patch
Leslie Horn / PC Magazine:
Report: As Tablets Market Grows, Paper Media Will Have Steep Decline — As print goes increasingly digital, many wonder if the growth of the tablet and e-reader space mean the death of traditional paper media. A new report from RISI, a company that monitors the paper industry, says it doesn't look good for print.
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Future of Journalism, Publishing Executive News, Noted and BtoB Magazine
Erik Sherman / Wired In Blog| BNET:
MarketBrief Shows Media's Future: More Automation, Fewer People — The future of news is increasingly automated. Just look at a company called MarketBrief, which translates SEC documents into template-driven reports. The company makes them available on its site and also hopes to syndicate them to other publishers.
David Higgerson:
How the NCTJ proved that asking the wrong question is one of the most basic fact-finding failings — “Asking the right question, that's the key to journalism.” It's one of the many pieces of advice I received from the experienced and wise old hands who mentored me during my first job …
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Erik Wemple:
Washington, D.C., earthquake: The coverage, assessed — A frenzied roundup of D.C. earthquake coverage, featuring no particular order or logic: — Huffington Post, as per usual, masters the great teaser: QUAKE! Media goes nuts. The coverage, delivered in SEO splendor (Washington …
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Washington Post, WJLA-TV and Housing Complex
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Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:
East Coasters Turn to Twitter During Virginia Earthquake
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Future of Journalism
Hannah Vinter / WAN-IFRA:
Scott Klein: news apps don't just tell a story, they tell your story — Scott Klein is Editor of News Applications at ProPublica, the New York-based non-profit organization dedicated to investigative journalism. He tells WAN-IFRA how 'a whole new ocean of investigation has become possible …
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