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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
ABC News and Yahoo News Announce Deal to Share Content — Yahoo News, which has more unique visitors than any other news Web site, is partnering with ABC News to share stories and feature Web video series. — The partnership, announced Monday on ABC's “Good Morning America,” …
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Julie Moos / Poynter:
Yahoo-ABC News partnership: the more things change... ABC reaches further: … It's a whole new day.
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ReadWriteWeb and Company Town
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
HuffPost at One Biiiilllliiion Monthly Page Views: More Buying, More Launching, More Hiring — The Huffington Post Media Group, which says it has topped one billion page views for the month of August, has bought an online grassroots platform called Localocracy.
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Forbes, The Wrap, Poynter, MediaPost, Epicenter, VatorNews, VentureBeat, NYConvergence.com, The Next Web, Adweek, FishbowlNY, Beyond Search, Betabeat, Future of Journalism and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
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Jennifer Preston / New York Times:
Mashable, Once a One-Man Blog, Gains Clout in Social Media — Pete Cashmore acknowledged he was nervous. Only a few years ago, he was living with his parents in a small town in northeast Scotland, trying to start a technology blog. Now, at 26, he was about to interview Elie Wiesel …
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@rafat, @lavrusik, eMedia Vitals and Poynter, more at Techmeme », Thanks:beet_tv
Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat:
‘Arrested Development’ Movie, and New TV Episodes, Are in the Works — Captain Ahab had Moby-Dick; Linus van Pelt had the Great Pumpkin; and, in the five years since “Arrested Development” has gone off the air, fans of that underdog Fox comedy series have spent their lives pining …
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Inside TV, Washington Post, Speakeasy, Guardian, VatorNews, The Daily Caller, FishbowlLA, Adweek, NY Daily News, BLOGGING via TYPEWRITER, /Film, LAist, All and Forbes
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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Netflix is bidding for Arrested Development comeback
Netflix is bidding for Arrested Development comeback
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Mediaite, Gizmodo, Home Media Magazine, TVLine, Deadline.com and AintItCool
D.M. Levine / Adweek:
The Fox News Revolution — Fifteen years ago this month, Rupert Murdoch launched Fox News. At the time, cable industry executives were skeptical of the idea—News Corp. had to buy its way on to cable, paying system operators an estimated $300 million just to get them to carry the new network.
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rbr.com, Mediaite, The Wrap, TVNewser and Inside Cable News
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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Murdoch's Tablet Newspaper Experiment Shows Some Promise — IPad-only Pub Has 120,000 Active Weekly Readers and Is Getting a Boost From Burgeoning Device Market, But Is Still a Long Way From Viable Biz — Can you build a general-news publication exclusively for tablets and gain an audience of paying subscribers?
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VentureBeat, PSFK, Noted, @amadeus3000, @julianprucha, Future of Journalism and Business Insider, more at Techmeme »
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Daily Claims 80,000 Paying Subscribers; Majority Opt For Annual Plan
Daily Claims 80,000 Paying Subscribers; Majority Opt For Annual Plan
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@mathewi and eMedia Vitals
Brian Womack / Bloomberg:
Google Takes Page From Sunday Newspaper With New ‘Circulars’ Ads — Google Inc. (GOOG) is on a quest to make Internet advertising look more like the Sunday paper. — The online-search giant is working with advertisers such as Best Buy Co. and Macy's Inc. (M) to create Web-based circulars …
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The Official Google Blog, eMedia Vitals, Softpedia News, MediaPost, Mashable!, TechCrunch, Adweek and Fast Company, more at Techmeme »
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
‘Daily Mail’ Jumps The Gun On Knox Verdict With Embarrassing Results — The internet makes it possible to broadcast breaking news at a pace unlike anything we've ever experienced. Unfortunately, that includes the ability to rapidly transmit reports that never should have been written, much less published.
Drew Grant / The New York Observer:
Exclusive: Occupy Wall Street Activist Slams Fox News Producer In Un-Aired Interview [Video] — Protester Jesse LaGreca schools Fox producer — Even if Geraldo Rivera was at the Zuccotti Park yesterday, Fox News has generally been a tad dismissive of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
‘Diggnation,’ Popular Web Talk Show, to End in December — Together, Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht are akin to Oprah for a certain class of tech enthusiasts. — The weekly beta-testing and beer-guzzling show they have hosted for six years, “Diggnation,” adapted the television talk show format …
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@kevinrose, more at Techmeme »
Stefanie Botelho / Folio:
In 2011, Magazine Launches Outpace Closures — Food and regional interest titles lead launch categories. — In its quarterly survey, Mediafinder.com reports 200 magazines launched in the first nine months of 2011. This number is an upshot from the same period in 2010, in which 176 magazines debuted.
David Hirschman / Street Fight:
Hyperlocal Publishers Form a Trade Group — A new trade association aims to unite independent hyperlocal publishers around common business interests and offer services that small publishers may not have access to on their own, such as health insurance. — At the Block by Block conference …
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Nieman Journalism Lab, Vouchification and Poynter
Jim Romenesko / Poynter:
Grant money is available to independent investigative journalists — Romenesko+ Misc. — Need money for travel and other reporting expenses? The Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) has grants averaging $5,000 for independent journalists who are investigating issues in the United States …
Jim Romenesko / Poynter:
Hearst Magazines boss: We've made giant strides toward becoming ‘the magazine company of the future’ — Romenesko+ Misc. — In a letter sent this morning to all Hearst Magazines employees, president David Carey says tomorrow's HGTV Magazine tryout “is a testament to our conviction that every sector …
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FishbowlNY and Media Life Magazine
John F. Burns / New York Times:
Reporter Threatens to Name Names in Phone Hacking Scandal — LONDON — A reporter who is among the 16 people arrested and then freed on bail in the phone hacking case that has shaken Rupert Murdoch's media empire in Britain warned his former bosses on Friday that he planned to break his silence on the scandal in a civil court case.
Electronista:
YouTube's $100m TV content deals said near finished — YouTube paying top cash for Tony Hawk video, more — Google's plans for professional, live YouTube channels are near completion, insiders claimed Monday. Deals were billed by the WSJ as near-final for pro skater Tony Hawk …
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Wall Street Journal
Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
Yahoo May Finally Launch Digital Newsreader Livestand As Soon As This Week — Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has been no stranger to the apps rush that has swept through the mobile world, and now there are signs that it is looking to redouble its tablet efforts with a new HTML5 product.
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eMedia Vitals and PSFK
Evelyn Messinger / MediaShift:
Attack of the Attack Ads: Citizens United and the 2012 Elections — In 2012, two tidal waves will reconfigure the American electoral system and the news media that cover it. A tsunami made of money will buoy up the structure of entrenched political power, while a huge wave of personal technology will disrupt it.
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The Huffington Post
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Magazines to Marketers: We'll Prove It — Following Meredith's ROI Promise on Campaigns, Time Inc. to Gauge Ads' Sales Results — Can magazines prove that their ads make cash registers ring? In its latest attempt to prove its worth to marketers, Time Inc. will regularly gauge …
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Folio, Adweek and eMedia Vitals