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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
CrunchFund? Unethical Ventures? Pig Pile Partners? No Matter What You Call It, It's Business as Usual in Silicon Valley. — Of course I have something to say about the news yesterday that AOL would be a key investor in a new early-stage venture fund being started by TechCrunch's …
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
But is it journalism? (Damnit) — Four incidents of late challenge the very notion of journalism. Michael Arrington, Henry Blodget, Wikileaks, and TV's Irene coverage each in their own way raise the question: What is journalism? And does it matter? — When Michael Arrington announced …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Is journalism as we know it becoming obsolete? — There have been plenty of obituaries written for the newspaper business, most of which have a kernel of truth to them — but is journalism as we know it at risk as well? Dave Winer, a programming guru and visiting scholar at the New York University school of journalism, says it is.
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Arrington is the future of what we used to call journalism
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AllThingsD, The Business Insider, Future of Journalism, @eldon, MediaPost, VatorNews, Anil Dash and Fortune
The Atlantic Online:
Social Media's Slow Slog Into the Ivory Towers of Academia — Underpinning a disdain for social media in higher education is the assumption that incoming students have an inherent aptitude for new technologies — “If you took a soldier from a thousand years ago and put them on a battlefield …
Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:
Dish Said to Plan Blockbuster Rival to Netflix — Dish Network Corp. (DISH), the second largest U.S. satellite-TV provider, will introduce a Blockbuster streaming-movie service to compete with Netflix Inc. (NFLX) next month, according to a person with direct knowledge of the plans.
Discussion:
Future of Journalism, GigaOM, Electronista, The Wrap, CNET News, Deadline.com and Engadget
Peter Preston / Guardian:
Newspaper magazines still matter; they deliver women readers — As the Observer magazine reaches 45, there's life - and money - in supplements in the digital age — The actual birthday - 45 years of the Observer Magazine - falls on Tuesday (though a “Not to be Sold Separately” exhibition celebrated it weeks ago).
Erik Wemple:
Jack Shafer on ‘reproducible’ journalism — On this “web extra” of Howard Kurtz's CNN show, “Reliable Sources,” Jack Shafer calls the host “a slow-moving target that bleeds profusely when hit.” — That was a joke, of course, but the session yields a couple of quotable moments.
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FishbowlDC
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Introducing Journo Ipsum, for all your nonsense-about-the-future-of- news textual needs — Anyone who's spent much time hanging around the publishing or design worlds knows about lorem ipsum, the classic Latin placeholder text used to dummy up prose filler in a layout.
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10,000 Words and Future of Journalism
James Ball / Guardian:
Why I felt I had to turn my back on WikiLeaks — Former staffer tells how dismay mounted during his three months with the whistleblowing group — I joined WikiLeaks last November as a staffer for a three-month stint. Culture shock came just a few days in, when Julian Assange gathered core staff …
Discussion:
McClatchy Washington Bureau, Tom Watson, Future of Journalism and Adweek
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Social media editor role expands to include fighting misinformation during breaking news — The buzzwords for social media editors at news outlets are conversation, curation and collaboration. But when using Twitter and its ilk to collect and disseminate news in real-time, another word is becoming just as important: corroboration.
Discussion:
Future of Journalism
Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:
Phone hacking: 34-year-old man arrested — Unnamed man arrested by officers from the Met police's Operation Weeting team in connection with phone hacking and perverting the course of justice — Today's arrest is the 15th by the Met police's Operation Weeting phone hacking investigation
Discussion:
Guardian and Press Gazette
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Online video finally chipping away at broadcast TV — A quarter of people in countries with access to high-speed broadband are streaming video to their TV, although more than 80 percent still watch broadcast television as well. But that's slowly beginning to change: According to survey data …
Discussion:
Future of Journalism
Amy Chozick / Wall Street Journal:
Hollywood's TV Factory — A surprising number of TV's most popular shows, from CBS's ‘The Big Bang Theory’ to NBC's ‘The Voice,’ come from one source. Backstage at the busiest studio in America. — “Casablanca” was shot at the Warner Bros. studio lot here, as were “Rebel Without a Cause” and “Million Dollar Baby.”
Discussion:
Company Town and Stop Big Media News
Tim Carmody / Epicenter:
How the Starz-Netflix Divorce Will Remake Video — Illustration photoshopped by Tim Carmody — The dissolution of the Netflix-Starz relationship is a meaningful loss to both companies as well as their customers. Without Starz's participation as an early partner and its access to popular brand …
Discussion:
The Next Web and Between the Lines Blog, Thanks:tcarmody
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Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
Who gets Starz digital rights now? Probably no one
Discussion:
Company Town, Future of Journalism, Techland and Digits
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