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AOL Said to Discuss Deal With Yahoo Advisers — AOL Inc. (AOL) Chief Executive Officer Tim Armstrong is talking with advisers to Yahoo! Inc. to gauge its interest in combining the companies after the ouster of CEO Carol Bartz, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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Wall Street Journal:
AOL Fate Unsure Amid Feuds — The current clash between Arianna Huffington and Michael Arrington over management of the TechCrunch blog is a public flashpoint in the ongoing drama over the fate of AOL Inc. — But it belies a deeper problem the company is grappling with …
Steve Green / VEGAS INC:
Righthaven says it might have to file for bankruptcy — Despite its backing by the billionaire Warren Stephens family, Las Vegas copyright lawsuit filer Righthaven LLC warned today it may have to file for bankruptcy because of a series of setbacks in its litigation campaign.
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The Huffington Post, paidContent and WebProNews
Nikki Finke / Deadline.com:
The Truth Hurts The Hollywood Reporter... Today my parent company boss received a letter from lawyers for Prometheus Global Media, the owner of The Hollywood Reporter, claiming “it has come to our client's attention that your employee, Nikki Finke of Deadline.com, is now engaged in conduct …
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The Wrap, The New York Observer and Medacity
Media & Entertainment:
Newsmax nabs NY office — Glenn Beck may be moving to Dallas from Manhattan, but another player in conservative media has just planted a flag in New York: Newsmax Media, based in West Palm Beach, Fla., has opened a bureau in midtown. — The publisher of the monthly Newsmax magazine has leased an entire …
Eve Batey / SF Appeal:
Departing Bay Citizen Editor In Chief Jonathan Weber To Be Reuters West Coast Bureau Chief — Previously: Jonathan Weber To Leave Post As Editor In Chief Of The Bay Citizen Next Week — As reported yesterday by both the Appeal and SF Weekly, editor in chief of local journalism nonprofit …
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FishbowlNY, Poynter, IJNet Blog and On Media's Blog
Yinka Adegoke / MediaFile:
News Corp's new independent director Breyer not so, says investor — We don't know what quite to make of this but CtW Investment Group, a union-affiliated shareholder lobbyist, is raising a stink about News Corp's new independent director appointment, Accel Partners' Jim Breyer.
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Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:
The news entrepreneur's dilemma: Which comes first, the money or the audience? — By Robert Niles: Reporters who would like to escape the annual threat of newsroom layoffs often ask me how they can get started running their own news websites. — They're not so much worried about the technical steps in starting a website business.
Economist:
The books business: Great digital expectations — UK Only Article: standard article Issue: The new special relationship Fly Title: The books business Rubric: Digitisation may have came late to book publishing, but it is transforming the business in short order Main image …
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Ken Wheaton / AdAge:
Please Don't Let Huffington Post See This Business Model — Company Would Like to Charge You for Posting the Content They Stole — Sure, Huffington Post may have set the gold standard on the sort of aggregation by which a site lifts so much of a story that the reader has no need to bother with clicking through to the original.
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
The New York Times Launches First Country-Specific Site — The New York Times has launched its first country-specific site, India Ink. The site will boast coverage from 21 writers based in India, and cover “the Ram Lila grounds in Delhi to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley …
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Kevin Bakhurst / BBC:
How has social media changed the way newsrooms work? — Earlier today I gave a talk at the International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam about how social media has changed the way newsrooms work. The full transcript of the speech is below. — BBC News, like all major news providers …
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