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Jxpaton / Digital First:
Digital First: The Next Step — Today marks another important step for Digital First. — As announced earlier this morning, we have formed a new company - Digital First Media Inc. It will manage both the Journal Register Company and Media News Group and its mission will be to accelerate …
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
A wave of consolidation? Some context on MediaNews, Journal Register, and Alden Global Capital — The big newspaper news this morning is that two of the nation's largest remaining chains, Journal Register Co. and MediaNews Group, are executing something like a merger-without-merging.
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News for Digital Journalists, Gannett Blog and News after Newspapers
Steve Myers / Poynter:
MediaNews and Journal Register Co. brought under one roof with John Paton at helm — Journal Register Co. announced Wednesday that it is creating a company called Digital First Media Inc. to manage it and MediaNewsGroup. John Paton will be CEO of Digital First and will act as CEO of MediaNews …
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The newsonomics of ComboCo — Editor's Note: Each week …
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C.W. Anderson / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Information's triumph? Three ways TechCrunch challenges ideas of journalism … In the spirit of doing what one does best and linking to the rest, I'll dispense with a lengthy overview of the controversy that erupted when AOL CEO Tim Armstrong and Silicon Valley power-broker …
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GigaOM, BetaNews, TheMediaBriefing, Betabeat, VentureBeat, Portfolio, Felix, One Man & His Blog and Business Insider
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Chadwick Matlin / Fortune:
The “end of TechCrunch”? It might not be such a bad thing — What would the startup scene be like without the blog that currently animates it? A whole lot better, actually. — FORTUNE — At TechCrunch's Disrupt conference earlier this year, Michael Arrington brought Arianna Huffington …
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American Journalism Review, Fox News, Business Insider, Guardian and Editors Weblog, more at Techmeme »
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: Carol Bartz Out at Yahoo; CFO Tim Morse Named Interim CEO — According to sources at the company, Yahoo's Carol Bartz is no longer CEO of Yahoo. CFO Tim Morse has been named interim CEO. — The situation around what is clearly an ouster is uncertain, but Bartz has had a very rocky tenure in her 32 months at the company.
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TechCrunch, Business Wire, GigaOM, Media Week, Between the Lines Blog, CNNMoney.com, PC Magazine, Glassdoor.com Blog, CNET News, rbr.com, Adweek, The Wrap, New York Times, Forbes, @snoopdogg, Business Insider, paidContent, Don Dodge on The Next …, Digits, Geek News Central, AppleInsider, ConversionRater, SocialTimes.com, Search Engine Land, VatorNews, Softpedia News, CBS News, Techland, Wall Street Journal, mediabistro.com, Mashable!, The Next Web, ZDNet, WebProNews, 9to5Mac, The First Post, Beyond Search, L.A. Times Tech Blog, AdExchanger.com, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, AdAge, DealBook, Yahoo! News, Techi.com, BetaNews, MediaPost, MediaNama, Tech Daily Dose, CNET News, Gawker, OzTechNews.com, msnbc.com, Computerworld, ReadWriteWeb, Mixed Media, SplatF, Shelly Palmer Digital Living, Digital Media Wire, Felix Salmon, Electronista, Broadcasting & Cable, Seattle Times, GeekWire, Medacity and Fast Company, more at Techmeme »
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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
How Andy Carvin keeps his sanity while live-tweeting world news — NPR senior strategist Andy Carvin has become famous for his prolific tweeting of popular uprisings around the world. On Wednesday he talked about why he does it and how he keeps some balance in his life.
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Andrew Adam Newman / New York Times:
Bloggers Don't Follow the Script, to ConAgra's Chagrin — IN August, food bloggers and mom bloggers in New York were invited to dine at an underground restaurant in a West Village brownstone run, apparently, by George Duran, the chef who hosts the “Ultimate Cake Off” on TLC.
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Forbes, NYConvergence.com, The New York Observer and Gawker
Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
Murdoch And The Vicious Circle — As the phone-hacking scandal threatens Rupert Murdoch's empire, people are opening up about the fear he instilled in British society. And while denial is still rife inside News Corp., the author hears how its supposedly hands-off chairman spawned a culture of coarseness and brutality.
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Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:
Phone hacking: Evidence to MPs gives James Murdoch room for manoeuvre
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PC Magazine, The Wrap, Press Gazette, Media Matters for America, The Independent, Crikey, Adweek and BBC
Guardian:
Guardian journalist questioned over alleged phone-hacking leaks — Case raises concerns about attempts to criminalise contact between journalists and off-the-record sources — A Guardian journalist has been questioned by police officers investigating alleged leaks of information from Operation Weeting …
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Press Gazette, The National Union …, FleetStreetBlues, Telegraph, Business Insider and Jon Slattery
Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
Media Analysts Begin To Slash Ad Spending Forecasts As Economy Craters... When the economy weakens, one of the first expenses that companies cut is advertising spending. — Especially advertising spending on old, dying media in which performance is unmeasurable—e.g., newspapers.
Adobe:
Adobe Digital Publishing Suite To Support iOS 5 Newsstand — For immediate release — Publishers To Create Newsstand-enabled Applications with Full Support for Subscriptions — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that publishers will be able to use Adobe® Digital …
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ReadWriteWeb, 9to5Mac, App Advice, MacStories, Startup Meme, Electronista and The Next Web
Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
The summer of our discontent: How web TV has changed — The unofficial end of summer has passed with the Labor Day weekend, and with it goes a three-month stretch of bad news for online video viewers: — Netflix announced and implemented a new pricing plan that increases the cost of DVD and streaming by as much as 60 percent
Matthew Shanahan / eMedia Vitals:
Click-through rates: the metric for missed expectations — Click-through rate (CTR) is often used to describe the advertising performance on a publisher's site. CTR for an ad is defined as the number of clicks on an ad divided by the number of times the ad is shown (impressions), expressed as a percentage.
Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:
Ticker Taped: The 9/11 News Crawl — At 10:49 a.m. on Sept. 11, 21 minutes after the North Tower of the World Trade Center began to collapse, Fox News launched a news ticker—a ribbon of all-caps text along the bottom of the screen made up of headlines from scenes occurring off camera …
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