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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Big Media Hands Over Its Locks and Keys to Facebook — Facebook's overhaul we're about to see is meant, in part, to bring the media world even further into the social network's play space. — But one of the most important elements of today's news will take place outside of Facebook's walls.
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Mike Isaac / Epicenter:
A First Look at Social Reader, WaPo's New Facebook App — Facebook and the Washington Post Company introduced a new social news reading application at Facebook's f8 developer conference on Thursday, aiming to change the way users interact with online news content. Wired.com had a chance to use the app before its wide release.
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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Those ‘Facebook Editions’ Will Be Unveiled at F8 — I'm not even gonna bother with a caption here. You obviously know who this guy is. Image by Getty Images via @daylife — Most of the buzz around F8, Facebook's annual developer conference, centers on innovations in music and video sharing …
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Joe Mandese / MediaPost:
Nielsen Discloses Major TV Ratings Glitch, Could Impact Millions In TV Ad Buys — A week after unveiling an aggressive plan to convince the ad industry to use its new Facebook panel as the “GRP” for online advertising and media buys, Nielsen Wednesday began informing clients about a major snafu …
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rbr.com, TVbytheNumbers and Inside Cable News
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Tom Grubisich / Street Fight:
Nielsen's Undercount of News: Why the Numbers Don't Add Up
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
News teams forced to give riot footage to police — Scotland Yard gains hours of unbroadcast material of August riots after serving court orders — The BBC, ITN and Sky News have handed hundreds of hours of unbroadcast footage of the August riots to police after being served with court orders by Scotland Yard.
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Journalism.co.uk, New York Magazine, Jon Slattery and Editors Weblog
Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
A Huge Thank-You To IVP And RRE For Giving Us A Boatload Of Money — We're pleased to announce that some great investors just gave us a bunch more money. — This means two things: — First, that we'll be able to do a ton more cool stuff over the next couple of years …
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Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Hulu has more than 1 million paying subscribers: CEO — (Reuters) - Hulu, the popular online video service which has been put up for sale by its joint owners, now has more than 1 million paying subscribers, Chief Executive Jason Kilar said on Wednesday. — Earlier this year Kilar forecast …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Online Video Measurement Platform Visible Measures Raises $13M — Exclusive: Visible Measures, a third-party online media measurement solution for advertisers and publishers, is announcing $13 million round of funding, led by DAGVentures with participation from new strategic partner Advance Publications …
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AdAge, Multichannel and VideoNuze
Steve Myers / Poynter:
To be sure, blog highlighting unnecessary journalism phrases is absolutely necessary — Freelance writer Josh Sternberg has introduced a new Tumblr, “Unnecessary Journalism Phrases,” a very unique blog that is in the process of calling out the filler phrases in news stories.
Farida Zeynalova / Press Gazette:
Survey shows five per cent of Britons trust tabloid journalists post hacking scandal — Trust in newspaper journalists has dropped over the last year in the wake of the hacking scandal according to a survey carried out by YouGov for the University of Nottingham.
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Murdoch paper hacked minister's voice mail: sources — (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's News of the World hacked extensively into the voice mail of a minister in Britain's former Labour government, according to three people familiar with the matter. — The unauthorized access to voice mails left …
Derek Willis / Poynter:
What newsrooms can do now to start preparing for 2012 election coverage online — The abundance of ideas that elections tend to generate can tempt newsrooms to think big. Very big. — We should think big, but we should also start small. Former House Speaker Tip O'Neill said that …
Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
AOL Patch Ad Sales Leaders Are Suddenly Gone — Patch, AOL's very expensive bet on local news blogs, lost its director of sales today - a month after AOL's SVP of local ad sales also bolted. — Scott Colontonio quit today for a job at Google's New York office, where he'll …
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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
TV Everywhere is coming to Google TV — Get ready to look up your cable subscription credentials when Google TV launches a new version later this year: Turner will be launching new apps for TBS and TNT that will offer access to full-length episodes of TBS and TNT shows …
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Betabeat, Softpedia News, CNET News, SlashGear, The Next Web, NetNewsCheck Latest and Electronista
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Yahoo! Taps Top Hollywood Talent for Web Original Series — LOS ANGELES, Calif — Yahoo! has green-lighted eight new, short-form Web orginal video programs, producing them both in-house and with leading Hollywood shops including Electus, Principato-Young, FishBowl Media and Warrior Poets …
Patrick Gavin / The Politico:
Another Walter Cronkite at CBS — People who've called CBS News' DC bureau lately may have been shocked to hear this: “CBS News, this is Walt Cronkite.” — The legendary newsman passed away in 2009, of course, but a new generation of Cronkites now hangs his hat at the news organization: Walter Cronkite IV, a grandson.
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The newsonomics of WSJ Live — Editor's Note: Each week, Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of news for the Lab. — It's news. It's video. It's a streaming tablet product that's this week's #1 free news app in Apple's App Store.
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Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:
Burberry's Evolving Role as a Media Company — A detail shot from Burberry's Spring/Summer 2012 runway show on Monday. — Burberry staged a “Tweetwalk” earlier this week during which the London-based fashion house premiered every look on Twitter moments before the models hit the runway.